Jub wrote: ↑2019-05-18 01:28am
Nope, none of those are full replacements in the TV sphere.
Why not? Netflix is now producing full seasons worth of documentaries.
You're blaming people for not being interested in the same kind of movie you like? That's not their problem.
Look at the home release sales of a movie like Dredd, it made back its money and then some after a rough theatrical run, no sequel even though the home release had garnered excellent word of mouth and key people involved actively wanted to make a second movie. It's not even that something has to make money, its that it has to make all of the money and thus everything is made to appeal a little to everybody and offend nobody. Is this a style of film making that you feel produces art?
Films can make back their money on DVD sales, but investors tend to dislike the idea of relying on DVD sales because it takes too long to earn back their investments.
Films are art, but major blockbusters primary purpose is to entertain the masses like a roller-coaster ride. Is a roller-coaster ride "art"?
Then I question why they keep making them instead of taking risks on say, four smaller productions with more focused niches and a better chance to make an actual return.
Because risk cost money. People don't want to risk their money on a risky project that might only cater to a niche audience.
Hardly, if you read what I'm actually saying rather than projecting your own carebear attitudes on everything I'm against media trying less to be something to someone and becoming a medium that strives simply to offend nobody and make a quick buck. Something which you seem to support only because the current style plays to your own braindead tastes in flashy hyper-active scenes.
There is smaller and medium size budget movies that are often there to aim a shot at best picture every year. The big Hollywood blockbusters aren't interested in doing that, because the audiences are different.
There's two very different audiences in regards to movies. There's an audience that likes to watch all the drama and "art" films that have a shot at best picture every year, and there is an audience that will only be interested in watching the big action-blockbusters.
Is being all style no substance and in your own words good 'as a summer popcorn flick' actually worth a damn in anything besides the financial sense? Are you telling me that if there wasn't a blockbuster movie that appealed to your tastes that you wouldn't turn around and see something else instead?
Yes. Because summer( even though more and more of them are released outside of the summer) popcorn flicks are relaxing fun, and I get to shut down my brain for 2 hours and just enjoy the visual experience. If I am watching a slowly drama movie like The Shape of Water, I walk into the cinema with a very different attitude.
I categorise the two types of films differently and I have different sets of expectations.
That would be true if there was only this discussion to go by. You've called yourself Chinese on these forums multiple times, which I remembered, in spite of living in Singapore, the part I forgot. Your not, in the western sense of the term, Chinese you're a Singaporean of Chinese descent the same way I'm a Canadian of Dutch descent but go on and tell me about how somehow you're still Chinese in spite of that and how I'm racists for saying that you're actually Singaporean.
Singapore has a dominant Chinese majority population, with Chinese being one of the major official language in the country. The Chinese ethnic population in Singapore can speak and understand Mandarin. I have described myself as an ethnic Chinese, but I have never said anything about being from China.
And for fuck sake, the video of the Wushu competition said it took place in Singapore.
The "western sense of the term" is a shit approach to use because the "western sense of term" is rooted heavily in racist thoughts. Only of the big reason why European ancestry plays less of a role in North America is in part due to the creation of a "white" ethnic group that distinguish North European population against population from rest of the world. Being of Dutch descent in N. America is not a problem because you are all seen as "white" in North America.
To apply a "western" approach towards other culture is problematic because the "western" world has spent centuries colonising the world and setting up "western" enclaves in the past. You said you are from Canada, and are you unaware of the history of racism in Canada?
Canada itself have a horrible history when it comes to exclusion of "non-White" population, especially Chinese population. The Canadian government had specifically excluded Chinese migrants to Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_I ... _Act,_1923
The Canadian government apologised for such this act...in 2014.
Considering your tangent of thought went from "I dislike Chinese style of action" to "I dislike Chinese audiences for what they have done to my Hollywood movies", to "Chinese population must do more to integrate" and finally to "you are not Chinese"... you are coming off as a massive racist.
If you had left your argument merely as a case of "sorry, Chinese style of action isn't for me", no one would have said you are a racist. It's only when you feel you need to degrade and call a entire country as being culturally inferior to you as a White North American, then it really looks like you have a problem with another culture for being too different to yours.