im not a movie person at all, but the issue isn't that there aren't any good movies, the issue is that there aren't any good movies with a marketing budget. if you want to watch something you have to go and actively search for it, and with all the bullshit going on in the world it's just easier to not watch anything or debase yourself with slop because somehow that's less tiring.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree with you that there is some actual cinema out there but another problem is that many of the niche movies that get traction are imho (and I maybe be a meathead for saying this) self-congratulatory (what even is the term for dick riding yourself? Is it masturbatory?) European trash. Can't even count the number of times I've watched a supposedly good lesser know film that is a European film and been totally disappointed by how vapid and shallow it is. At this point I can't watch European cinema. I'm totally defeated haha. I swear if Europe could compete with Hollywood they would put out the same trash. But they can't so they just kayfabe about their cinema being cultured lmao.

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

unfortunately most talented filmmakers are bad authors (because most people besides authors are bad authors). these bad authors don't write good stories, they write stories that feel like a good story which comes of as vapid and shallow to other people. the niche movies that get traction without marketing are usually the ones that win awards at festivals. i'm not the type to say "indie=good, corpo=bad" (ignoring litigating the definition of indie) or vise versa, but there's just a ton of crap within the indie awards circles. i don't know why but playing it up to the festival awards doesn't make the ratio of crap to good movies worse, but it makes the crappy ones crappier.

as i said im not a movie person. i can't be bothered to go look for the diamond in the rough, a genuine and heartfelt movie with 1000 views on youtube with 5 comments, i just won't watch movies. even complaining about it just seems silly.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah it really doesn't matter but it's funny to see and funny to point out how capitalism turns everything to absolute dogshit, including culture