Denis Villeneuve: ‘Movies Have Been Corrupted By Television’ and a ‘Danger in Hollywood’ Is Thinking About ‘Release Dates, Not Quality’
by chrisdh79
Denis Villeneuve: ‘Movies Have Been Corrupted By Television’ and a ‘Danger in Hollywood’ Is Thinking About ‘Release Dates, Not Quality’
by chrisdh79
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So literally no change from at least the 50s.
He’s right about the second part but off his head with the first part.
This dude lives in doomer fiction and hates Television. What a unique auteur. I’ve never heard that.
Can we please stop interviewing directors?
The auteur theory pretty much falls apart every time one of these idiots opens their mouths.
(illmatic_static cares so much about my opinions, he left a reply and then blocked me. What an enormous tool! He will never read this!)
Another thing that has corrupted movies are dumb movies.
So we’re back to hating tv lol.
Yeesh….make a quality movie and people will come.
Make a quality tv show and people will come.
Work with what you can and stop blaming other mediums. Comics didn’t contribute to the delinquency of minors. TV doesn’t contribute to the stupidity of movies…Make crap, expect people to call it crap and not go.
I don’t think his stuff is crap and will go to it…I am avoiding bilge like Madam Web like the plague.
Every time he opens his mouth I’m more annoyed by him. I still remember all the crying he was doing over the magic of cinema when COVID started while people were dying.
if you can’t adapt, others will
This is the culture we have now – content, content, content. Is the content good? I SAID, MORE CONTENT.
The elitist mindset from people who do movies when it comes to television is so boring and outdated. Most people in the industry have gotten over it but there are still some holdouts that look down on television.
God please bring back Hollywood blockbuster comedies. The world has sucked the last few years, we need a good collective laugh.
Christ he’s insufferable. Now he has an issue with TV wtf.
I understand and really respect his point, but for me personally I think **streaming** in general is the reason I don’t watch movies as much as I used to, and most importantly almost never *re-watch* movies.
Like many I had a decent DVD/Blue-Ray collection, and it was very common for me to revisit my favorite titles. A movie like Clockwork Orange for example would probably be something I watch every 2-3 years, but now? I haven’t seen it since Netflix was a thing, and my DVD collection is long gone (a big mistake in retrospect, but having kids forces you to make space).
If I wanted to watch Clockwork Orange tonight, well it might not be on one of my subscription (it might be, it’s not the point), and maybe not even on a pay-per-view service. And if I buy it digitally, the last few years showed it is not a guarantee I’ll always have it.
Anyway, the importance of physical media has been thoroughly discussed, my point was just that it hurt movies more than TV did IMO. And that doesn’t even take into account the crap movies Hollywood has been putting out recently, at least those big budget movies.
And don’t get me started on the “algorithm” they use to decide what is greenlit and/or cancelled. [Barry had a great scene about that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAbh39aoU8&ab_channel=HBO).
Just make good movies and people will be fine going
I mean he’s partially right.