Yes, a good rant, but he's only referring to super-hero and/or "franchise" films. Those are the most noticeable or pervasive of modern films, but they are certainly not all modern films. That guy's videos always seem to cover "action/sci-fi/superhero/franchise" movies anyhow. As far back as the late '70s and into the '80s, critics and film-makers were asserting that "sequels", and the early Star Wars franchise were killing film-making. Perhaps those things are a good reason why the industry is where it is now - what Francis Ford Coppola called "factory film-making". In a funny (almost self-destructive) Q&A session with the actor Anthony Mackie (Falcon from the Avengers series), he mentioned that most new films "suck" because mainstream Hollywood is largely "now making movies (only) for 16-year-olds and China." To me, the worst thing is that those films and those industry practices do not leave space - or even consideration - for more creative or "deep" films to get made or released. That seems to be more true now than when the "sequel/re-make/franchise" trends blossomed in the 1970s and '80s.
Yes, The Drinker is primarily into the action-adventure-fantasy genres. If not always right, he is always entertaining.
Yes, a good rant, but he's only referring to super-hero and/or "franchise" films. Those are the most noticeable or pervasive of modern films, but they are certainly not all modern films. That guy's videos always seem to cover "action/sci-fi/superhero/franchise" movies anyhow. As far back as the late '70s and into the '80s, critics and film-makers were asserting that "sequels", and the early Star Wars franchise were killing film-making. Perhaps those things are a good reason why the industry is where it is now - what Francis Ford Coppola called "factory film-making". In a funny (almost self-destructive) Q&A session with the actor Anthony Mackie (Falcon from the Avengers series), he mentioned that most new films "suck" because mainstream Hollywood is largely "now making movies (only) for 16-year-olds and China." To me, the worst thing is that those films and those industry practices do not leave space - or even consideration - for more creative or "deep" films to get made or released. That seems to be more true now than when the "sequel/re-make/franchise" trends blossomed in the 1970s and '80s.
