Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:44:29 AM No.212653486
somewhere around the 2010s the last bits of soul were surgically extracted from the Hollywood machine and replaced with cold, corporate algorithm sludge. a council of mega-producers, tech billionaires, and retired child actors forced the homogenization of storytelling. why every movie feels like it’s the same now? Because it is. 'They' have templates run through AI and market-tested on a thousand TikTok users before even a single frame is shot.
Movies are products now (the same that happened with games btw) and products are made for customers who have a need they want covered. if they just make a movie with trope 1, trope 2 and trope 3 then demographic 1 will watch the movie with a little overlap from demographic 2.
the second death knell is streaming. here the operation is more content = better regardless of quality. its the literal cause of the resurgence of the word slop. netflix slop that is so indistinguishable from other slop you dont even remember seeing the movie.
focus groups have become the new gods. Every joke, every twist, every costume gets run through a corporate gauntlet of 'demographic approval' You like surprises in your movies? Fuck you pedro. audiences hate surprises, says the data. So now every plot twist is telegraphed from orbit and every character speaks like they’re a virtue signaling tweeting twat.
Even the actors aren’t real anymore. Ever noticed how they all kind of blend together now? ryan gosling, ryan reynolds, jack ryan, which agents pick from the same five drama school factories and slap them into franchise molds. soon, they won’t even need real people. Just deepfakes, digital doubles, and AI voices whispering dialogue written by a committee of SEO experts.
Movies are products now (the same that happened with games btw) and products are made for customers who have a need they want covered. if they just make a movie with trope 1, trope 2 and trope 3 then demographic 1 will watch the movie with a little overlap from demographic 2.
the second death knell is streaming. here the operation is more content = better regardless of quality. its the literal cause of the resurgence of the word slop. netflix slop that is so indistinguishable from other slop you dont even remember seeing the movie.
focus groups have become the new gods. Every joke, every twist, every costume gets run through a corporate gauntlet of 'demographic approval' You like surprises in your movies? Fuck you pedro. audiences hate surprises, says the data. So now every plot twist is telegraphed from orbit and every character speaks like they’re a virtue signaling tweeting twat.
Even the actors aren’t real anymore. Ever noticed how they all kind of blend together now? ryan gosling, ryan reynolds, jack ryan, which agents pick from the same five drama school factories and slap them into franchise molds. soon, they won’t even need real people. Just deepfakes, digital doubles, and AI voices whispering dialogue written by a committee of SEO experts.
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