Oscars 2022 and the Death of Cinema

The sound of metal was like the only good movie I have seen non the last 15 years

Screw you for putting footage from Loki and Gardians 2 behind Martin’s quote. Loki is a character driven television drama with incredibly creative philosophical ideas. Gardians 2 is a personal emotional journey about choosing your family in those you care about instead of settling for a terrible biological one. I thought this video was good, but I think these clips were severely misplaced.

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I am probably missing something, but I don't think we are seeing the death of cinema, what we are seeing is the death of Hollywood.

Also, the fact that CODA was a remake of a french film with slight adjustments to the story and somehow it won the oscar is baffling to me...

No one makes films about real people. One's you can relate to in a sense of reality. A character you can feel for or situation you can believe in.
Besides, who wants to go to the movie theater. I don't to have to pay extra for a seat in the middle of theater. So, I can be physically attacked by some lunatic. Or shot, stabbed or robbed. Yes, it happens in my area. And no, I don't live in a bad neighborhood.

When everything becomes a guilty pleasure, what sins will media invent next?

-richard nixon

Just stop watching USA-made movies from 2015 onwards to today, USA has never (probably forever) been the same since the insane PC/Woke/SJW-revolution during 2015. It's just shockingly to watching a USA-made movie (or even TV-shows) from 70's, 80's, 90's, or 00's and compare them with USA-made movies since 2015, it's like if they came from a different universe. Modern USA-made movies and TV-shows has a terrible stench on them, just politics and nothing else.

Actors have gained more power and agency which means as they age they still control an unhealthy amount of casting power. The viewers maintain youth but are forced to watch more and more aging actors who grasp onto relevancy through loyalty, blackmail, and power agents. Imagine being a new filmaker and not putting harrison ford in it, and just using newbies...you will be blacklisted in the industry. I knew the industry was going through a down cycle when I watched a superhero movie and it had 60 year old woman playing active super heroes. Like WTF

The Oscars were created as a union-busting tactic, clearly labeling filmmakers as artists who get awards instead of laborers who have monetary value. Add that to the modern product-based production line you describe, and we have a no-value labour system pumping out as much garbage as the studios can produce. , This is as you say, the etymological definition of entertainment. On the other side of all that, is the belief that film is in fact art, and that artform is sort of all on its own valuable. For people who believe that, you just have to be digging a little deeper, but its all there, and there's still plenty of filmmakers making art. Interesting to watch this after the 2023 Oscars, where Everything Everywhere All at Once pretty much swept, and the technical marvel All Quiet On the Western Front did so well. Those two movies fly directly in the face of every other release in the last, let's say, 5 years. Spielberg's Fabelmans is a modern masterpiece of his, extremely vulnerable filmmaking with blockbuster level production value, and such a love letter to cinema itself, I weirdly feel like it went unnoticed. It too lost to an action movie, when I think about it.

It's interesting that you identify 2022 as a turning point for the Oscars ceremony because 2023 ended up being one of the worst classes of winners we've ever had.

Do u hv letterboxed?

the batman was great tho

The Sound of Metal did get kinda boring likr 65% of the way in.

Damn hearing someone call the sound of metal “boring” is so frustrating, these people lack any cognitive abilities

It's kind of starting to feel like we are always in a state of economic upheaval.

Well Hollywood is a pro-rich propaganda machine now so

Death of cinema happened around 2010 or a little after. Every executive says this, and there is a reason why. They lost a large portion of their income when DVDs quit selling and then they pretty much had to stick to franchises and blockbuster. Matt Damon has a video on here where he breaks it down.

Lamb, Pearl, The Greasy strangler and a bunch of A24 movies are great movies. There's plenty out there, you just have to do a little homework to find them nowadays.

“it’s so boring” i think that guys just very very simple minded.

Hollywood recycling films shows just how uncreative and greedy the industry is.
Independent films are taking over with new stories and new heroes. The conservatives and propagandists in Hollywood don’t like the new films because they’re not representing the traditional patriotic, religious and white patriarchal narratives that have run Hollywood for over a century.
Remember,
Hollywood has never been a bastion of liberal films and stories about the marginalized Americans. Hollywood got its beginning as a tool for the military defense industry propaganda, racism, sexism and a horrible hierarchy of invisible executives that were insanely powerful.
Hollywood has never been about equality or morality.
These juveniles commenting on films are little boys needing to be wowed, aghast and angry to be happy because they’re spoiled brats. Spoiled because to them, film isn’t about entertainment. It’s about getting fed your daily dose of violence, sex and the victimization of the “other”.

What the hell are you talking about !, American cinema has been dead for decades.

I think we really need start updating the terms modernism and post-modern. Sure Spiderman No way Home is Post-Modern if you consider both to be literal period of time. But the intent behind post-modernism is to break down the established norms, which it did not do, meta collaboratieve superhero pieces where as mainstream as it could get.

An EXCELLENT presentation, Broey! Precise. Concise. Surgical. And with some dry (dehydrated) - scathing humour. I love it. Thank you. *(Cut 'em off at the knees)*.

Your argument is seriously flawed. First, American studios produced some of the greatest films in history during the studio era; Casablanca and Singin' in the Rain are just two examples. During the 1970s, which is generally not considered dominated by studios, many great films were made by studios and independents; Star Wars and Annie Hall are just two examples. I could do this all night, but the point is movies in the 21st century are doing just fine, studio-produced and independents alike. Just because someone doesn't like big budget studio films in the superhero genre, doesn't mean that The Dark Knight is not a great studio-produced film. And independent films are doing just fine, thank you. I believe Moonlight, an independent film, won the Oscar for best picture in 2017, and La La Land, another great independent film, almost won.

Great video, great content. But just as a kind feecback, your voice has too much vocal fry. I mean no offense at all, just commenting that this is a bit annoying, but maybe this is just a voice and I am just being an a**. Anyway, thanks for the video.

One of my idols is Pauline Kael.. As a movie fan since my high school years in the early 1970's

Spot on! Films are made with the mentality by studios & investors only to rinse money and quality be damned.

I can see where you were going with this and your heart was in the right place but a lot of the information contained here is questionable. I'm 58 years old and I started going to the cinema in the mid to late 70's. I've seen over 3,000 films in my life and I do agree that cinema has suffered setbacks but to imply that cinema is dead is simply not true. It may seem that way but it's only because it's harder to find good cinema now. If you know where to look, the indie scene is always vibrant and I still see a large handful really good pictures per year,, including Oscar bait and honestly, that's all you need.

For me, the Oscars died when Natalie Portman’s delicate portrayal of Jackie Kennedy lost to Emma Stone in LaLa Land, a role in which she was playing an actor. Not to mention the fact that voters aren’t required to watch all the films in their category, resulting in things like the Disney-only best animated film every year.

I was very interested in what you had to say, but I couldn't watch the whole thing because of your vocal fry.

"WE GAT SPESHUL EFFEKTS UP DA WAZOO, WHY WE WATCHIN A GUY GO DEAf, THATS BOOOOOREEEN" who is this man

When you talked about alien and how it made people feel something, made me feel hopeful when I watched good time and uncut gems. Those movies filled me with so much anxiety and dread, but we’re SOOOO artisticly satisfying

I'm curious how much Scorsese's comments about Marvel hurt the Flower Moon box office success, cause it got hurt.

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To act like the films of the studio system weren’t just as good as what came out in the 1970s is insane. The good directors knew exactly how to skirt around censorship and make the art they wanted. The studio heads did gamble on people. Why make this video when you have no idea what you’re talking about? Every filmmaker that came around in the 70s was a film fan and for good reason.

who are the dweebs in the opening? the one with audio saying he wanted Sound of Metal guy to fly?

i dont really mind if 90% of movoes are trash, becausevas long as every year someone can do a top 10 movies of the year and they are all worth watching... im ok with that. as long as i can cull the positive from the ocean of ass

Why does everything with you revolve around race? When you state, 'A bunch of rich white people muse about a bunch of films nobody cares to see,' do you genuinely believe that this group consists solely of white individuals? Your videos boast high quality, yet your frame of reference sometimes seems detached from reality.

What's the source of the first audio?

The death of the romantic comedy hurts the worst. Because even the smaller studios that create and buy really interesting films like A24 avoid the genre.

@Oscars died for me when the slumdog millionaire won best picture.

It's crazy how things have shifted in the past two years with Oscars 2023

Even pornography has deteriorated.

RIP FREDDIE J

It's hard to suspend disbelief when everything is so real.

What’s your Letterboxd?

"The winner is... Midnight Cowboy."
"Hey! I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here! Up yours, you son of a bitch! You don't talk to me that way! Get outta here!"