Damn, I can’t believe spending two decades pushing people into STEM and business school at the expense of the humanities has left our society creativly bankrupt. Who could have possibly forseen that cutting arts education would lead to this?
It’s more likely over saturation, GOOD movies used to mostly come out of Hollywood alone. Now ever streaming service is buying shit up to keep on the back burner until needed. More stories but owned by a much larger crowd may be thinning out the quality. But Hollywood does love to rehash old shit, even before streaming so what do I know.
I don’t think it’s that. Still plenty of good ideas they just get bought and shelved.
If we look at the history of Hollywood in recent decades, periods of remakes/“existing viewer franchise” properties always come at times of economic retrenching.
It’s risk aversion from investors. They’d rather a smaller but predictable level of return on everything than having studios take some creative chances.
Which is where @MNByChoice’s point comes in, the fewer parent companies the more this becomes normalized.
Christ alive, take a chance on a new story. There’s got to be something more entertaining than rehashing all these already told stories.
Damn, I can’t believe spending two decades pushing people into STEM and business school at the expense of the humanities has left our society creativly bankrupt. Who could have possibly forseen that cutting arts education would lead to this?
I disagree.
I suspect the issue is wealth concentration. Too few people able to fund films.
It’s more likely over saturation, GOOD movies used to mostly come out of Hollywood alone. Now ever streaming service is buying shit up to keep on the back burner until needed. More stories but owned by a much larger crowd may be thinning out the quality. But Hollywood does love to rehash old shit, even before streaming so what do I know.
There are STEAM schools that include art. And art exists at most schools still.
I don’t think it’s that. Still plenty of good ideas they just get bought and shelved.
If we look at the history of Hollywood in recent decades, periods of remakes/“existing viewer franchise” properties always come at times of economic retrenching.
It’s risk aversion from investors. They’d rather a smaller but predictable level of return on everything than having studios take some creative chances.
Which is where @MNByChoice’s point comes in, the fewer parent companies the more this becomes normalized.