unfortunately most talented filmmakers are bad authors (because most people besides authors are bad authors). these bad authors don’t write good stories, they write stories that feel like a good story which comes of as vapid and shallow to other people. the niche movies that get traction without marketing are usually the ones that win awards at festivals. i’m not the type to say “indie=good, corpo=bad” (ignoring litigating the definition of indie) or vise versa, but there’s just a ton of crap within the indie awards circles. i don’t know why but playing it up to the festival awards doesn’t make the ratio of crap to good movies worse, but it makes the crappy ones crappier.
as i said im not a movie person. i can’t be bothered to go look for the diamond in the rough, a genuine and heartfelt movie with 1000 views on youtube with 5 comments, i just won’t watch movies. even complaining about it just seems silly.
unfortunately most talented filmmakers are bad authors (because most people besides authors are bad authors). these bad authors don’t write good stories, they write stories that feel like a good story which comes of as vapid and shallow to other people. the niche movies that get traction without marketing are usually the ones that win awards at festivals. i’m not the type to say “indie=good, corpo=bad” (ignoring litigating the definition of indie) or vise versa, but there’s just a ton of crap within the indie awards circles. i don’t know why but playing it up to the festival awards doesn’t make the ratio of crap to good movies worse, but it makes the crappy ones crappier.
as i said im not a movie person. i can’t be bothered to go look for the diamond in the rough, a genuine and heartfelt movie with 1000 views on youtube with 5 comments, i just won’t watch movies. even complaining about it just seems silly.
Yeah it really doesn’t matter but it’s funny to see and funny to point out how capitalism turns everything to absolute dogshit, including culture