Wtf is up with media sucking lately?
South Park sucks now, Alien Earth was garbage, Lots of cartoons getting terrible reboots or simply refusing to die. Movies are no longer talking points among people cause most of them are so unremarkable or unrecognizable to the general public.
James Gunn humor and writing is general faggy and retarded, but peacemaker was way more coherent back then. What happened bruh?
Large mix of factors, though I will be repeating and building off of
@The Wise Shaman
The writers strike back in 07 basically killed entertainment. Tons of legendary writers were dismissed and let go as companies brought in new Millennial talent for cheaper. Consider this a good starting point, though many issues begin way earlier.
Cliques are a large part of the entertainment landscape, both in the past and especially now. Entire sectors have a central group overseeing it that act as a wall blocking any new talent from coming in. A good example of this is animation. Cartoon Network and Disney have been hiring from the same pool of Tumblr friends since FlapJack in 09. By hiring the same pool, you get similar results, and if the original sucked, that means all that comes after sucks. Since companies now rarely scout new talent, they get stuck in a cycle of friend-of-a-friend that keeps the slop coming.
Furthering the above, you have the company takeovers. Using my animation background again, Pixar went to shit because the young animators made allegations to purge the old then filled the ranks with yes men. You can never save current Pixar as everything was designed top-to-bottom to prop up the unskilled lords and keep them in charge.
Going even more into how the above happens, you have the DEI initiatives and nepo-babies. Tons of entertainment employees got into the industry for anything but skill, yet were shot to the top because the company needs a black ceo or the person is well connected. Once these types bullshit their way to victory, that is how you get the cliques and back stabbing of above.
To top off all of this and circle it back around is management. Far too many CEOs are treating companies like replace-able assets, hardly giving a fuck what goes down on the ground level. Many are in it to make quick cash in a 2-3 year time span then gtfo. Disasters like Joss-tice League exist because Warner was going through a merger and all the big wigs wanted a quick payout before fucking off, so they shit out that abomination before it was ready hoping for that big yearly bonus. So many of the problems stem from the current state of absent CEOs. Of course DEI takes over, it’s just quick money (Gov and Black Rock) for a Warner Ceo to grab before leaving the company as it bursts into flames.
Past this, holy fuck there are so many issues, where does one even begin?
- Woke culture - basically kills everything by trying to make it inoffensive and in-line with current liberal values.
- Globalism - Gotta have products appeal to all cultures, we need that China money! Really, if it wasn’t woke culture, comedy died when we decided everything needs to appeal to China-man across the globe with no frame of reference as to why an American comedy is funny.
- High Budgeting, yet Massive Cost Cutting - We are in a weird anomaly where companies are spending more than ever, yet also being as cheap as possible. When you look at projects like the MCU or Invincible, it is pretty clear the budget is going more towards celebrities and likely money-laundering than any meaningful aspect of production.
- No More TV/Movie Distinction - As TV became more Hollywood like with Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, the need for films to be a spectacle became higher, pushing old film types out. You can’t do a Scorsese film as it isn’t impressive anymore now that TV does it.
- Over-Reliance on IP - Following the previous two, with higher costs comes more risk, so established IP becomes the norm. Adding is that new creators suck, so established IP sucker in the gullible.
- Assembly-Line Production - Adding to everything is the fact that films are being made without any actual creator yet selected. Marvel mainstreamed shitting out films where the premise comes first, vision second. Now creatives are basically contractors just there to fine tune the details of Thor Ragnacock since Marvel already announced new Thor. With Marvel & Star Wars, Disney has been egregious about announcing films with no actual script yet just to keep the content mill going.
TLDR - Hollywood is a death by a million cuts. I probably only scratched the surface of the plethora of dipshits, money-laundering, child grooming and other shit weighing the industry down.
@The Wise Shaman is correct about the internet, but even without, this industry is not going to get talented people. The rot is so deep at this point that it seems like creatives were more-so forced to YouTube than just went for more freedom.
