VonMagnum
Sr Member
Well, if they want to get their costs down so they make actual profit instead of losing money, my point is maybe they should be studying how they did it so "unpolished" back then because most of those movies are WAY better despite any supposed flaws. I'd take Smokey and the Bandit over Fast X any day of the week and I liked the original The Fast & The Furious movie, but Fast X is so far gone compared to where they started they just don't know when to stop and that reason is sadly, once again, money (and in Vin Diesel's case, he can't seem to accel at any other role except perhaps Riddick, which really hasn't done that great since Pitch Black was a sleeper hit (once again, because they raise the bar so high it becomes a superhero movie instead of an extremely well done B-Grade horror flick).I think a lot of the cost is just the overall perfection. You look at a modern movie and everything* has a level of polish that wasn't there 30-40 years ago.
Look at Star Wars ANH. Never mind the space battle shots, today they wouldn't have released it with a stormtropper hitting his head on a door. The Obi-Wan/Vader swordfight scene would have been deemed unusable and re-shot. Etc.
Hollywood has been doing car chases for decades but they are going through A LOT more cars than they used to. The 1977 'Smokey and the Bandit' was filmed with 3 Firebirds. The Steve McQueen 'Bullitt' movie was done with 2 Mustangs and 2 Chargers. Today they would build about 10 copies of those cars to get the same scenes done.
*everything, that is, except bad CGI. For some ridiculous reason that gets a pass. They would never let a scene get by with bad hair/makeup or a boom mic showing in the frame, but they have no problem with phony CGI blood spatters and cartoon physics. I don't get it.
I could easily imagine Transformers which a much better story and lower costs if they toned down the CGI and blurry constant action and got better actors and another director. Oh wait. That was Bumblebee....
Agreed. While there is a tendency to blame storytelling for being bad for being “woke,” thats because its the predominant ideology in Hollywood. Its not like non-woke conservative movies arnt also terrible.
But even in the base definition of woke used as their criteria is pretty stupid. Dune is not “woke” despite being a story with a strong matriarchy? Again with MI DR with Grace (hell you can even criticize the earlier entires as “woke” for having a black female spy in Ghost and Isla being a very capable female in Fallout and RN). They also conveniently leave out Barbie despite being a recent movie, super “woke,” and being a huge success.
There's a blur point between progressive and "woke" just like there's a difference between conservative and caveman. Sadly, they often get parked together because they look a little bit alike.