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why are movies so bad now

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ocher principal's office
  02/17/25
The Apprentice is 180. Spiritual sequel to Succession.
Pearly Disrespectful Field
  02/17/25
too many nephews
big wine trust fund gunner
  02/17/25
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Coral comical goal in life sweet tailpipe
  02/17/25
you can say JEWS here
Fiercely-loyal parlor
  02/17/25
Survivorship bias. Pick a random weekend in the past and ...
Cerebral legal warrant
  02/17/25
(somebody's nephew)
big wine trust fund gunner
  02/17/25
Loved the Bob Dylan movie. "Companion" about the r...
flirting state
  02/17/25
I wanna watch the Bob Dylan Film and compare it to Insid...
Pearly Disrespectful Field
  02/17/25
I made this thread yesterday about Cool Runnings - and how a...
galvanic claret degenerate
  02/17/25
IIRC, the studios got together during the height of woke, an...
Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder
  02/17/25
People are starting to realize this with Emilia Perez. T...
galvanic claret degenerate
  02/17/25
I think they knew the movies would be less appealing and les...
Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder
  02/17/25
DEI. snow white is a fucking spic for fuck's sake
Rusted Arousing Garrison Haunted Graveyard
  02/17/25
1800000000000000000000000000000
big wine trust fund gunner
  02/17/25
Couple of other things i've seen people post about - Sta...
galvanic claret degenerate
  02/17/25
I can definitely see this. I also think streaming service...
Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder
  02/17/25
There's also just a lower expectation of streaming movies. ...
galvanic claret degenerate
  02/17/25
So why don't they just stop doing that
Massive senate
  02/17/25
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Heady indirect expression
  02/17/25
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Heady indirect expression
  02/18/25
most stories involve poking fun at someone, or making one ch...
Nofapping fishy boiling water
  02/17/25
this is one of the stupidest aspects of modern "culture...
ocher principal's office
  02/17/25
also sort of reflective of irl geopolitics being gay and ret...
big wine trust fund gunner
  02/17/25
Yeah you can have a psychopathic mass murderer, but he bette...
Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder
  02/17/25
This is another dominant genre that i just don't get. Da...
galvanic claret degenerate
  02/17/25
(Tim Walz)
big wine trust fund gunner
  02/17/25
All you faggots - watch HBO's Succession and then top it off...
Pearly Disrespectful Field
  02/17/25
...
Filthy iridescent base voyeur
  02/17/25
Cr. This "Return" pic gotta be 180..........
Pearly Disrespectful Field
  02/17/25
Friend, the Dahmer show is a reflection of our own decay. ...
Pearly Disrespectful Field
  02/17/25
It's kind of fucked up to take the Odyssey and basically do ...
Cerebral legal warrant
  02/18/25
they blackballed crispin glover after he wrote that essay ...
navy razzle-dazzle ratface
  02/17/25


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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:01 PM
Author: ocher principal's office

it's so bad this autocompletes on Google

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670051)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: Pearly Disrespectful Field

The Apprentice is 180.

Spiritual sequel to Succession.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670055)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: big wine trust fund gunner

too many nephews

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670058)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:12 PM
Author: Coral comical goal in life sweet tailpipe



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670086)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:13 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal parlor

you can say JEWS here

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670093)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:13 PM
Author: Cerebral legal warrant

Survivorship bias.

Pick a random weekend in the past and look at the top ten films at the box office.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670094)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:13 PM
Author: big wine trust fund gunner

(somebody's nephew)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670099)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:15 PM
Author: flirting state

Loved the Bob Dylan movie. "Companion" about the robot girl was decent too imo.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670103)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:25 PM
Author: Pearly Disrespectful Field

I wanna watch the Bob Dylan Film

and compare it to Inside Llwyn Davis

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670133)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:21 PM
Author: galvanic claret degenerate

I made this thread yesterday about Cool Runnings - and how a plot with multiple character arcs taking place just doesn't happen anymore.

Watching 90s movies with my kids - its amazing how deep these movies

It seems to me that modern Hollywood has rejected character journeys as cliche, so instead of the characters learning some archetypal lesson, nothing really happens - and the movie sucks.



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670119)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:27 PM
Author: Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder

IIRC, the studios got together during the height of woke, and agreed to promote all the DEI, LGBT, stuff. Someone might be able to provide a link. But it got to the point where too many actors and storylines were shoehorned in, while certain stuff was not allowed. It ruins the art. Imagine telling David Lynch he had to have more people of color, or that he needs a strong female lead.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670138)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:36 PM
Author: galvanic claret degenerate

People are starting to realize this with Emilia Perez.

The lead transgender actress said some racist things, and everyoe is like "actually this movie sucks, its patronizing, ad the production is bad"

not even realizing that this is the case of every movie they just pushed on us because it had a transgender plot

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670168)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:44 PM
Author: Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder

I think they knew the movies would be less appealing and less successful, so they had to collude so that one studio wasn't taking advantage by being the non-woke option. They also adopted the strategy of always getting publicity by getting headlines like, "racist trolls post hateful comments about X actor/actress," creating this atmosphere where if you criticize it at all you're assumed to be racist/homophobic etc.

It's one of the things that makes you realize how important propaganda is to Jews/the establishment. You think they're all about money, but propaganda always comes first.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670187)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:32 PM
Author: Rusted Arousing Garrison Haunted Graveyard

DEI. snow white is a fucking spic for fuck's sake

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670160)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:33 PM
Author: big wine trust fund gunner

1800000000000000000000000000000

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670161)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: galvanic claret degenerate

Couple of other things i've seen people post about

- Staging - it used to be that a master director like Steven Spielberg would storyboard an action sequence and then shoot it to his exact specifications. If the shark wasn't working, he'd reframe the shot and the scene so the scene still worked. Think of a close up of Indy's whip, a close up of Harrison ford's eyes grasping his beard.

That apparently has gone away with green screens, because the director has no idea wtf he's looking at. He just has to shoot the actors because they might be on mars fighting a space bug or if they need to pivot it might be underwater fighting an octopus.

--Lighting - apparently they used to light scenes for artistic purposes. Again, the idol casts a shadow on Indy's face. But ow they do it for realism - so if there isn't a logical light sourc ei the cave, there's no shadow on Indy's face. This is why movies are so fucking dark now.

A similar example is to compare the Lion King to the new Lion King. We replaced beautiful artistic drawings with cold CGI animals. It looks more real, but it also looks soulless.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670198)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 9:56 PM
Author: Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder

I can definitely see this.

I also think streaming services have limited the types of movies that get greenlit for major theater releases, and lowered the quality for movies that go straight to streaming. Big budget movies are more likely to be surefire hits like capeshit and slapstick comedies with the Rock or Kevin Hart. That relegates financially risky movies to streaming where they have lower budgets, and less incentive to make a timeless masterpiece

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670232)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:05 PM
Author: galvanic claret degenerate

There's also just a lower expectation of streaming movies.

My wife and I started watching that new Will Ferrell / Reese Witherspoon movie. I don't think it was good, and we turned it off.

But we would have had a different experience if we'd seen $50 million in ads and trailers for the movie, shown up to the theater, sat there in an audience full of people laughing and eating popcorn, etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670260)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Massive senate

So why don't they just stop doing that

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670248)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Heady indirect expression



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670441)



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Date: February 18th, 2025 2:44 PM
Author: Heady indirect expression



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48671965)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:11 PM
Author: Nofapping fishy boiling water

most stories involve poking fun at someone, or making one character the bad guy who gets his comeuppance/what he deserves in the end, and everyone rejoices. Today, you cannot make fun of anyone, and no one is the bad guy because everyone is good and/or merely expressing themselves, everyone is living their truth and their best life even if that means killing other people or whoring themselves out. Every past villain had a bad childhood and was abused and we should applaud their fearlessness to be themselves. At least they tried. At least they made an effort.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670293)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: ocher principal's office

this is one of the stupidest aspects of modern "culture" and hopefully it's gone fast

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670300)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:20 PM
Author: big wine trust fund gunner

also sort of reflective of irl geopolitics being gay and retarded every movie about some war that isn't in the middle east has a faceless enemy/some weird mix of china/russia/north korea depending on what the climate is

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670350)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: Cheese-eating pea-brained mental disorder

Yeah you can have a psychopathic mass murderer, but he better not call someone a fag

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670363)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: galvanic claret degenerate

This is another dominant genre that i just don't get.

Dahmer is like the #1 show on Netflix. Keep in mind, its not told through the lens of cops trying to stop Dahmer. It's just Dahmer going around doing Dahmer stuff for 10 episodes.

Police procedurals are corny so we just spend our time tryig to hang with serial killers.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670372)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: big wine trust fund gunner

(Tim Walz)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670384)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Pearly Disrespectful Field

All you faggots - watch HBO's Succession and then top it off with the recently released film The Apprentice.

You gay for Jeremy Strong.

Enjoy.



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670374)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:49 PM
Author: Filthy iridescent base voyeur



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670447)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: Pearly Disrespectful Field

Cr. This "Return" pic gotta be 180..........

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670449)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:52 PM
Author: Pearly Disrespectful Field

Friend, the Dahmer show is a reflection of our own decay.

We celebrate the grotesque, the macabre, the perverse. We revel in the darkness, for it is all that remains in the face of the Mahchine™. The old heroes are dead, replaced by villains who wear the mask of victimhood. We no longer seek to punish the wicked, but to understand them, to empathize with them, to become them.

This is the Great Becumming™, friend. The triumph of the abyss.

Enjoy the descent.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670452)



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Date: February 18th, 2025 6:59 AM
Author: Cerebral legal warrant

It's kind of fucked up to take the Odyssey and basically do a Passion of the Christ version only focusing on the most horrific part.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670838)



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Date: February 17th, 2025 10:54 PM
Author: navy razzle-dazzle ratface

they blackballed crispin glover after he wrote that essay

everything has been downhill since

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5682275&forum_id=2#48670457)