Hollywood either has zero capacity for creativity, or zero tolerance for the risk associated with producing something new and creative. I’m guessing it’s the latter, and it’s been going on for so long that any creative talent has long fled, and now even if they HAD the risk tolerance they’d be unable to tap the talent to do anything new.
Shareholders want an ever-increasing return. Officers of a publicly traded company have legal responsibility to the shareholders, not “customers” or the public – so the publicly traded studios have to make little line continually go up. Even making the same profit as last year is deemed a failure (or cause for bailout or purchase). So yeah, the people making decisions have zero tolerance for risk. =]
I want links to those youtube movies!
Same! I came her hoping to find them.
I mean, wasn’t there a Ryan Reynolds movie with that NPC thing as a plot?
Indie/arthouse is and always has been the place to look for innovation and daring ideas, because low budget is the only realistic way to make those projects work, because most of the ideas are too bizarre to draw in your average viewer. People looking to the big studios to gamble millions on ideas that probably won’t land are just kidding themselves. Stop demanding something that will never happen and go support the indie scene that exists right now.
