Such a good comment: “They can’t write characters because they have no character.” Their films reflect their soul-deadening emptiness. They try to make up for the fact that they have no inner life by cramming in political correctness and social justice, which never make up for bad writing and no likeable characters.

Here’s the thing, I went to an art college for almost two years hoping go get an animation degree, and there are creative people out there. I’ve heard such spectacular pitches for shows from people with good stories to tell. The problem is, these people with amazing concepts stories to tell are lower-middle class yahoos from Chicago who are most likely going to give up on those worlds they’ve created because the industry will iron out all semblance of creativity. Creatives are not these wealthy wine moms from Marvel, creatives are the dirty little children who had to daydream to get through the day.

“I was taking a s-t the other day when my thoughts turned to The Last Jedi” - Critical Drinker

“Too Big to Fail” has become “Too Big to Succeed.” All of these large IP holders have become so interconnected with other tech and media holdings and so internally bureaucratized that it is almost impossible to ride herd over all the disparate elements.

CS Lewis explained these people long ago in 'The Abolition of Man': ...And all the time - such is the tragi-comedy of our situation - we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

We truly are just OK making average/mediocre products and it is depressing

When I was a kid (I'm old), we had to use our imaginations. George Lucas lived in his own imagination for most of his youth. Born next was a generation with trillions of hours of content perpetually right in front of them. They have never used their imagination to dream up a new galaxy because they never had to.

It used to be that Hollywood was the place to turn for inspired characters, compelling narratives, world building. Now, I watch more Korean tv than mainstream. Even subtitled, its more interesting.

In addition to the impressive comment of “they have no character, that’s why they can’t make good characters”, it also comes down to who do we reward as a society: think of influencers in tiktok and Instagram, massive amounts of compensation in many spheres for no real talent - THAT has now permeated to other forms of entertainment and sadly I think; will keep on spreading

Ryan Johnson claims to be a star wars fan. But there is no way you can do what he did to LUKE Skywalker and love star wars. 🙄

Drinker already figured this out. First, every generation before Gen X (my generation) had to fight in wars, work crap jobs, etc. or, in other words, lived full lives before becoming writers and directors. But starting with Gen X, filmmakers just went to school then into the business. They didn't experience regular life or hardships. As a result, there's no life experience to draw upon to create art. Instead, they're drawing upon stuff they remember from their childhoods during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Second, making and marketing a movie costs so much that in order to ensure a return on investment, the project must come as close as possible to a sure thing. And the only possible sure things are projects with built-in fan bases or former successes. Until there's an answer to the financial aspect of American movie-making, we won't get past the sequels, reboots and superhero movies.

It’s amazing how something only needs be slightly above average for it to stand out now!

Where's the full open bar?! This is an epic gathering, Nerdrotic, Mauler, the Drinker and Tyrone ULTIMATE Magnus!

Just recently "The Northman", "RRR" and "Everything everywhere all at once" prove we can still make original, interesting things.

It'll be really depressing once they finally decide to start remaking older classics like "Casablanca" and "Twelve Angry Men." 🤮

Shortly after starting work I had a boss who had been a fighter pilot in the battle of britain at the same age that I was at the time, he embarrassed me several times by stating just how different his approach was at the same age, a humbling but learning experience.

Tolkien fought at the fucking Somme. He experienced depths what we can’t imagine. It shows in the quality of his works.

I think as society has gotten softer and more privileged, the things that made stories compelling have been lost. The people writing these things have never failed, been injured, or legitimately feared for their safety. The consequence of this problem manifests in the stories they tell, which appear as absolute nonsense to actual biologically grounded people.

Lots of people in Hollywood seems to forget that when you're in the *entertainment* industry and you don't *entertain* you lose your job.

Key word mentioned during this: Corporate. The art comes 2nd now to the churning process. McDonaldisation has been present in Music industry for many years but the MCU has introduced it to the film industry

4:28 Tolkien didn’t just “live within proximity of a massive world war,” he was a traumatized veteran of WWI. He didn’t like to talk about what he saw in combat, but ones presumes, it includes *some shit.* Although he steadfastly resisted any allegorical or especially autobiographical interpretations of his work, this makes the ending when Frodo goes to a Valhalla-like place because he feels he can no longer live among the normie hobbits a pretty poignant allusion to PTSD. The hobbits are the English gentry, comfortable in their cozy homes and concerned only with food and relaxing with their pipes, and totally unconcerned with the goings on outside their little shire. But then a few of them are drawn by necessity into a, well, world war, and they are so scarred by it that they can never really return, even once the war has ended. Tolkien also maintained that Sauron and his armies were simply an archetypal Big Bad, allegorical of nothing. And I’m willing to take his word on that one, but for the record a WWI veteran writing from ~1938-~1948 about a great evil re-emerging to take another shot at world domination after lying dormant licking his wounds since the last time the whole world came together to foil a similar bid, well, that’s an interesting coincidence. So while I think it adds nothing to LOTR to think of Sauron as Hitler and the orcs as his nazi foot soldiers, and the hobbits, elves, humans et al as the Allies, if you must view high fantasy through the prism of history and extratextual context, that’s the obvious reading. I mention it because one of the most woketarded critiques of LOTR that I’ve now seen several times is that Tolkien invested the orcs with anti-black racism. So aside from the obvious point that if you think any creature that is ugly, dumb, violent, and evil is “black-coded,” *you* might be the racist, and also the fact that there’s simply no reason to suspect this of Tolkien, you’d have to stick your head deeply up your own ass to fail to see the if the orcs are “anything” (they aren’t), they are German.

Back in the day, the things we love - from comics to football - were created and put out by people who made about as much money as we did. Footballers weren't millionaires. Comic book creators made a decent living if they were prolific, but they lived like ordinary folks. When the money men took over and it became a big business, that's when the core fans started to desert them. Because there was a real sense of being patronised. The creators were no longer "one of us".

Writing. Writing. Writing. The current crop of writers all come from perfect lives, in the sense that they've never faced actual danger. War? Famine? Hell, a punch to the face? None of it. They've probably never faced an actual rejection. So when it comes time to write an actual story and characters they can only think of the one time a man gave them a mean look.

I think people were gaslit by TLJ fans into thinking knives out was actually some kind of masterpiece. Just rewatched because of a friend, and I couldn't believe how stupid the plot was. I can't wait for this phenomenon to happen again with glass onion

I just struggle to find passion in Hollywood’s storytelling anymore.

the way i see it, working class writers were a product of a time when you could support yourself more easily. now working class people are poorer and there are probably some great writers among them who have had to abandon writing to make ends meat. which leaves all the writing left up to people who come from more privileged backgrounds.

If you don't have a God, you'll make one. These people have made themselves god. They are going to reshape humanity whether we like it or not.

At risk of sounding old, there is some advantage being part of the generation that came to adulthood during the “bad old times” and was witness to “society getting better”. We can appreciate it more than with the newer generation, having been born during “better” and having no context on appreciating it.

The "I'M A FAN, SO I UNDERSTAND WHAT (FRANCHISE NAME) IS ALL ABOUT" thing is what killed Star Wars. Abrams was one of the bitter Gen X "the prequels ruined my head canon" types and thought remaking A New Hope would "bring back the magic of Star Wars" and in doing so, ironically, assassinated every OT character in the movie.

Drinker I doubt you'll see this, but your answer to why? Is the ESG rating, these companies have to have a good rating to get investments. It's called stake holders my man, those are more important than share holders. Look at the country Sri Lanka, had the highest rating in the world, now the country went bankrupt. That's Merca future

As a writer myself, I understand the need to develop strong characters and a compelling story. I'm a lefty and pretty passionate about sticking up for people who are getting fucked over! However, my writing doesn't reflect my political views, my stories aren't concerned with sexuality or virtue signalling. If a group of people of mixed ethnicity are trapped in a cabin by a monster that wants to fucking eat them and they're trying to fight back, there's no social message, the only point is terror and more terror! That's it! If a story has a Mary-Sue character, fuck with the audience and kill the Mary-Sue halfway! That'll fuck 'em!!

drinker needs to drop a “i have a dream” speech to save the film industry 🤣

There's a huge difference between "I'm a fan!" and actually knowing the source material. I can honestly say that I'm a fan of Wonder Woman... absolutely love her, one of my favorite DC characters... but also, I've never read a single one of her comic books. Ever. I don't know Wonder Woman's full back story or her adventures or anything like that, I love her because of the 70's TV series and Saturday morning cartoons. And let's face it, that just ISN'T the same thing. At. All. Can I still say I'm a fan? Sure, and it's true! But that doesn't mean I know anything about the real source material behind Wonder Woman. And I think that's half the problem, right there. You get these idiot writers who can say anything they want to in order to get a gig as a writer, and then scramble to catch up on whatever source material they can get while desperately under a very strict deadline to create a believable script. That's how you get this garbage being rolled out of Hollywood... writers who say "I'm a Star Wars fan!" or "I'm a Tolkien fan!" and likely being 100% honest... and not remotely close to understanding the source material. They probably saw Star Wars once and enjoyed it, or the Lord of the Rings movies once or twice, and they figure "Whelp... I'm an expert! I can take it from here!" And good God... no, they can not. And worse, we have the political pundits sobbing and screaming at the top of their lungs about diversity and equality (while having very little actual understanding of what those terms mean), and those pundits are in charge over in Hollywood. And if you expect to survive in show biz, you toe the line, because you won't go anywhere if you don't. Thus, we have this dime-store trash rolling out of Hollywood, spending too damn much money on CGI and brand-of-the-week stars and not enough on quality entertainment. They'll never learn...

It used to start with a writer shopping a script around, they'd managed to get a director to help them shop it around, and then they'd get the buy from a studio to go and make it happen. So it started with a passion for a story. Now it's the other way around; studios greenlit stories and then shop for a director and multiple writers, so you end up with people just glad to have job making it, not people who are passionate about the story.

I think the term "emotional sadist" might be a good term to describe people that are brought on to write and produce adaptations of these stories and then take malicious glee in destroying the fandom of that property.

God I wish 1984 and Idiocrasy were fiction again.

Currently I am watching an anime masterpiece called Made in Abyss (the 2nd season) Thank God that Asians exist and especially Japanese to remind us what is a good story with truly complex characters, you know like Europeans and Americans used to do till 20-15 years before.

Just watched the first Rambo movie and it's still so good, you really feel for the character the neglected soldier coming home from a heavily protested war. Todays writers are like the police chief bored in a dull town harrassing Rambo the brave guy that actually did acts of heroism. It's a great point that good storytelling actually comes from not just imagination but real life experience!

I think that good movies have become harder to make now because writers can't just sit down and write the story that's in their heart anymore. These days they have to worry about any part of their story hurting someone's feelings. I mean, after finishing his/her story, they have to think: It's my book, my vision. Do I have to make it diverse? Am I allowed to write my women that sexy? I changed my white hero character to black to be more inclusive, but I had my white hero ordering fried chicken at the restaurant. Do I have to change what he ordered now? Writers never had to worry about all this crap before. Now they are either forced to, or feel like they have to make modern-day alterations in fear of reviewer/customer backlash or poor sales.

I know one thing. Everyone owes George Lucas an apology.

Do you guys remember in Captain America: Winter Soldier, when Steve is talking over the intercom to S.H.I.E.L.D.? That's what listening to you and people like you feels like. Now, if only the people at Disney would react the same way.

I think part of the problem is that even if a genuinely creative person with worthy ideas does present to a studio with clout, those studios don't see film media as art or entertainment anymore; it's all product, meant to fill up numbers for investors and tick fashionable boxes for activists. Creating intelligent, polished, compelling new stories is difficult, time-consuming work that carries financial risk, and it's easier for studios to make shallow, quick content with token connections to established material. There simply isn't room for good writing in their model; it slows down the relentless content conveyor belt and doesn't guarantee at least some predictable return.

When your society goes authoritarian, creativity is the first casualty.

I have basically stopped watching most of the new shows and films now, if you don’t watch, it never happened.

Little platoon is a great addition to the discussion, love his content.

There used to be “writers” in Hollywood who had a personal burning need to tell a story. Now, there are “teams” of young people who have no life experiences that have a deadline to release a film. Films used to be a restaurant experience where you got personal memorable meals made with unique recipes; now films are a McDonalds experience where you get bland comfort food films.

I don't entirely buy this notion that you can't be a good writer unless you've lived through hardship. True, most excellent writers have lived through tough times in one way or another, but isn't part of the purpose of stories to learn from another's experience? You'd think that people who are truly devoted to the art would care enough to learn these lessons at least by absorbing it through art, regardless if they're from a privileged background or not. I'm more convinced that the problem lies in the modern culture surrounding media, where it's looked at in a more cynical way as a commodity to be used and discarded as soon as the next thing comes along. There is no sincerity or depth to the way people interact with it, so each new film, show, game or work of literature is experienced as little more than a temporary high. Add on top of that the universality of modern political discourse and all the bureaucracy surrounding that, it's no wonder our media sucks ass.

It's weird that people seem so resistant to call out modern movies and TV and get mad at anyone being "overly critical" of trash things but you don't see that in other mediums. I see big youtubers like stockman desperately pretending like rings of power isn't complete trash or refusing to say anything scathing about star wars like it deserves but I don't see that in say the music industry. If you posted a video about how trash modern music is you would get almost no pushback. Everyone would agree and if you played old music for someone who has grown up on modern pop they would instantly see its way better, in fact there is an entire side of youtube of people doing this. The same goes for modern art or video games or anything else creative. But when it comes to film or TV there is still a huge swath of people that seem incapable or unwilling to acknowledge how trash it is. Dogshit writing, incoherent plots, unlikeable characters, nine of it bothers them. They are just fine with whatever slop gets force fed to them. If you make a video saying modern gaming is trash and it was better 15 years ago, nobody will make a response arguing the opposite, but you say modern movies are trash and you will get plenty of people accusing you of being a fake outrage reviewer. Why is it that film is the one art form where we are apparently not allowed to demand quality?

Nerdrotic hit it out of the park. As an indie writer, my goal is to craft stories from as real of experiences as I can. Hiking down a mountain, bushcraft, fishing, sparring, shooting... I take these from real life and translate to page in a sci-fi or fantasy tale.

Most productions simply are that, productions. The artistic spark that is required for really good movies and series is as elusive as ever and simply cannot be mass produced with lots of money and comittees.

We have reached the age of unoriginality and lack of passion. Nothing good can be made.

I’ve stumbled into Little Platoon’s channel the other day and I’m glad I did: the guy is solid.

When a one bedroom apartment in a shit part of town or 50 miles one way from your work is $1200 a month plus first and last months rent and they want you to buy a streaming service that automatically hates and insuls you for simply existing? No thanks

The issue is the 3rd-generation grandchildren of college graduates have no exposure to the working-class lifestyle. This is why every 80 years things begin to go to shit. They believe the world runs on nepotism and classism because that’s how they got to their position in life. Creativity requires facing actual struggles in life other than getting into an Ivy League university.

The one thing we had more of - and we still have a few out there - are writers with talent who write from their imagination. What has proliferated throughout the writing industry are people who have gone to school to be a writer: they have the degree they bought for $50k that says they completed classwork that says they are a writer. They may be familiar with the "theory" of writing, but they lack any real talent for it; but since they've also been groomed to know what the industry values these days, they are more qualified than anyone with natural talent alone.

It's very depressing. The days when an amazingly creative, original film that seemingly came out of nowhere are longgggg gone..... why? There is amazing technology available now so it couldn't be easier to create content, but the main ingredient is GLARINGLY missing..... creative genius.... Where have all the geniuses gone?

It's astonishing how bad the last Jedi is. All the sequels are bad but last Jedi definitely is ridiculous. It's just so bad that you can't believe someone wrote this and thought it was good. You kind of have to watch it once just to see how far down the spiral Star wars has gone.

They made a good point that the goal of these tools is to ruin things for the fans... petty, evil nihilists.

Sad thing is that there ARE great stories out there written every day that will never see the light of day- since the writers/creators aren’t anywhere near the good graces of getting in the club to show it off. Thankfully the internet has allowed some independent talent to seep through without needing a big production company to make it, but even so it’s the big companies that have the cash to push it through to something even better. I can only hope there will be a massive renaissance; people just want to be entertained. The king needs to kick out this court jester and get a new one, because he sucks right now.

It's the corporatization of everything. It's reaching critical mass and has even infiltrated deeply into our personal lives. Rollerball is trending to be the most accurate movie about the future.

This is my take on it. Do you remember how there would be a popular movie and then there would be a bunch of crap knock-off movies by smaller movie studios. The type of people that made the crap knock-offs are now the ones working for the big studios and are getting to make an official Stars Wars, Star Trek, Terminator, Predator, etc.

These Hollywood film makers today are like Salieri in "Amadeus"...He knew he could never create anything as good as Mozart, so he set out to destroy the man completely.

Drinker, I'd love to hear your thoughts on something you might find interesting. Nerdrotic brought up a point that really rings a bell for me. His notion of the writer's inability to relate to the subject matter because they are so isolated really reminds me of a Netflix show that has a similar issue, but it's uniquely NOT a true problem on that show. "Friends from College" is arguably a great show; it is quite well written and moderately well acted(ish), though not extraordinary by any means. The thing that made me stop watching it was the realization that this was a show written specifically for viewers who grew up wealthy and privileged (which is diametrically opposed to my own experience). The show caters to privileged viewers on a deep level of unspoken understanding, the kind of stuff you can't always isolate to a particular line or scene, but can recognize it played out in full motion. And that's not at all to criticize the show, it just made me very quickly disinterested on a personal level. I would love to hear your analysis on that show, specifically how it relates to the isolated mindset of Disney's showrunners. Sort of a "Here's how to properly write from a narrow mindset, and here's what Disney did instead."

I'm always baffled when they remake/reboot stuff that has very little brand recognition among Gen Y or Z. The Netflix series Ratched was an origin story for the nurse from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. That's a great film, but it's not as though the world is overflowing with Cuckoo's Nest stans. How much brand recognition is even there?

Movies haven't been reduced to just Superhero stuff. There's a lot of great films that are still being made. It's just that they never get the hype and publicity that they need.

I remember hearing MauLer shout out Little Platoon recently so i subscribed. Glad to see him added to the panel.

Top Gun: Maverick is a beacon of hope

Hey Drinker, you should review Genndy Tartakovskys "Primal". One of the best animations I've seen last decade. Old school animation with samurai jack vibe, good story and visuals and with none dialogue. It shows how brutal the world might be. The series deserves more recognition and reach.

I watched Dick Tracy last night. It was by far the most fun I had watching a movie and it still managed to be compelling and serious the whole way through

The core problem is the idea of the franchise itself. With a few exceptions the most you can hope is two perfect films. Jackson's Lord of The Rings pulled off a perfect trilogy, but even he stumbled with The Hobbit. The first two Terminator movies were excellent, and could not regain the magic after that. Alien was the same scenario, ditto Predator. Even the Star Wars Original Trilogy (non-special editions) was two great films and a really good one. Perhaps one could argue that James Bond and Mission Impossible show that long term francishes can work....but the odds finally caught OO7 and can anyone match the bloody minded focus of Tom Cruise once he's gone? Films are not hamburger restaurants maybe they just aren't meant to be replicated into infinity.

I know that Drinker is a Star Trek fan, well pre-JJ Abrams star Trek, and so am I, and it's painful to me what's been done to that franchise. I think of an episode from Deep Space Nine: In The Pale Moonlight, (and there are many others to choose from), but in that one single episode with a runtime of 40-45 minutes you have a master class in story telling and cogent narrative, that is simply beyond the grasp of anything in the post JJ Abrams et al Star Trek universe of complete mediocrity. That episode has tension, drama, an ethical dilemma that leaves the viewer wondering: what would I have done in Sisko's position and great acting. Andrew Robinson's (Garak), great speech to Sisko: "That's why you came to me, isn't it Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing. Well, it worked. And you'll get what you wanted: a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant, and all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal… and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain." They don't do it like that any more.

When you understand that in many cases competence is sacrificed for ideologically possessed priorities, you start to understand what's really going on.

Tyrone made me giggle a few seconds in. Already know I'm in for a good one.

As a minority actor these days, how is it possible to know for sure that you weren't hired as an insurance policy? Just get the [insert token here] out front in the marketing, then label legit criticism as racism/sexism/homophobia to avoid facing the truth.

I get the impression that most movies and tv shows are filled in by AI. It seems as though the plots and character interactions don't quite understand human nature.

I blame focus groups and movies by committee. Everything is written by a half dozen people, wrung through a few screenings or focus groups. Producers, directors and so on all put their two sense in. All made for the widest audience possible so no one is happy. This is why every movie has to hit half a dozen categories like comedy, drama, action etc while also being normal higher than pg 13. Oh and suitable for international audiences like china while also doing European and American audiences.

Does Gary know that if you still vape, you didn't quit smoking?

I think something I keep at the back of my mind is that is it never seems like people do their research, like read source material, do your homework. I do understand lots of the greats of story telling have passed and you can't get those stories but people need to put in the work! Band of brothers is my favorite series ever and having tom hanks and Spielberg reach out to the actual vets who's stories they want to tell. Now that's how you get real stories and real experience. Have actors go through boot camp and shot a real gun so they can act when it come time to do those things! It's not even that much extra work!

You are right about the life experience part. My father was a teenager when WW2 broke out and he and all of his friends had all kinds of interesting stories about their experiences in the war and the countries they ended up in during the 50s and 60s.

I feel like Little Platoons point about the writer's life experience having an effect on the story they create and its quality is only somewhat accurate but not entirely, particularly when he references the life experiences of writers today who didnt grow up in tougher times like the writers of old. Personally, i feel like a writer who grew up in the modern day could easily make a very well done, well written well rounded story, BUT they have to have an understanding of the true brutality of the real world and how it would work in the show or movie that they are making. They have to put in the work, and trudge through the figurative mud and blood to get the feel for how the story should really be. VS how the story should reflect the social/political issues of the current day. You can be a new writer and make a freaking top-tier story, but you have to work at it and for it and the issue is NO ONE wants to do the hard work, or has the will to, its all lazy and bare minimum, because of that we will RARELY get a fantastic story.

"We" are not dumb, the people they hand pick are dumb and not interested in storytelling, they're interested in pushing propaganda. They gatekeep good writers.

7:20 MauLer is spot on. In the punk rock scene back in the day we called those people "posers". You could smell them from a mile away. They latch on to a particular bandwagon, pretend they've always been a part of it, make vapid shit and move on to the next trend. ROP is GREEN DAY. 👎

This will probably be buried in the comments, but I think a very relevant classic movie on what Platoon said about how hollywood moviemakers are largely out of touch with modern life nowadays, is a movie from the 1940s called 'Sullivan's Travels'. It stars Joel McCrea as a Hollywood movie director who directs popular comedy films, but is tired of it and wants to make an adaptation of Brother Where Art Thou, to give a 'poignant social critique' of the Great Depression and society's ills at the time. In order to film it, he goes undercover as a bum across the US and a whole lot of misadventures. Eventually, he ends up realizing that, if he really wants to help the poor, a moody drama isn't what they need, but rather much-needed escapism in the form of the comedy movies he earlier disavowed. I think that is a very relevant lesson that Hollywood seems to have forgotten today Anyways, great stuff as ever. Cheers!

Try stuff Jonathan Tropper's been making. Banshee (Antony Starr) See (Jason Momoa) or Warrior are all really fun action storytelling.

This was an amazing panel; keep it up Drinker.

To Mauler's point about life experience, Gene Roddenberry was a WWII bomber pilot who flew 87 missions in B17s in the Pacific Theater and survived two crashes flying commercial airliners in the late 1940's before taking a job as an LA motorcycle cop while writing screenplays. His scripts writing for Have Gun, Will Travel and Star Trek had an adventurous feel because he understood adventure because he had lived it.

Well said Little Platoon! BTW, I wonder if the thing that the Drinker says around 9:00 is the root here. That some people have this inner hate to just destroy? Its that same mentality like that kid in school who just has this seething hate that just keeps growing, but in this case its adults who never grew out of it. Like the world is populated by characters out of the movie american psycho.

Daredevil and Everything Everywhere All at Once still shows me that good things can still be made. Hell even Spiderman no Way home. lol

It’s hilarious how nerdotic looks like he has two arms doing different things lol

Critical Drinker made a great point in one of his videos that in the 20th century, film writers and directors had experienced real hardship in life. They had grown up in the depression, they had been to war, they had had to work ferociously to build homes and create a stable society. And so they understood and knew how to create characters that had had to deal with those struggles. Now - we have a generation of writers and directors who genuinely think they've got PTSD because they saw a Trump tweet.

Absolutely great conversation all around

Screenwriters were always readers. You can see the literary references in old films and the reading habits of screenwriters show in the films. By and large millenials don't read. They watch screens and have no other references.

MCU used tobe great because they abided by the rule “ Less is more “. The overall plotline used tobe simple so the audience can wrap their mind around what was going on and world threatning event was not much in the MCU so whenever something big happened it feel like a grand event and make the audience went wild. Every solo movie with their character made their action, every little event that happened feel like it had an impact on the overall world and the audience love it and curious what will happen next. For example : The Battle of New York and its impact was coherently showed throughout the MCU Phase 1 -2 -3 so we feel like we can relate to that. Now with the Multiverse broke loose and too much character showing up that it look like Feige and his goons doesn’t know what to do and just start throwing whatever it’s that “ sound good “ out there. There so much plotline for the audience to care that it feel like a chore to watch these shows and movies. *Quality over Quantity*

I've got another 6 years and change before I can retire from the Army. Then I'll push hard into being a writer. I've been building to this for about a decade so far. Hopefully all this experience out in the world will keep me from talking out my ass.

I agreed with the comment that "20-year-olds aren't like the 20-year-olds of the 1950s" This is because they grew up in a time of hardship when our nation and the world dealt with the worst war in history, where men and women worked hard to Help each other their country deal with hardship and conflict that was in their lives. In today's culture, the younger generations are struggling due to a culture that is so confusing that they can't figure out what is best for their lives, and our culture rejects the importance of having discipline. People in the 50s knew to teach their children to be more disciplined since they knew that the best way to deal with hardships is to have more discipline, which led many movie makers to make great movies since they knew ew how to deal with struggles and relay to the film they are making that connects with struggles. Knowing our culture is more about finding a more comfortable life than dealing with hardship, which, sadly. At the same time, it is nice to find comfort, making it one whole isn't a good model since it leads to people that aren't the kind of people that don't understand how to deal with hardship since finding a comfortable life means no discipline.

Historically during times when people feel oppressed their art and forms of expression have exploded. its extremely sad to see everyone's art go through the filter of corporate capitalism during these last few years.

Tyrone looks exactly how I would imagine a Tyrone looking like.

I liked Drinker's reference to the innocent purity of old fandom. We used to say we could "lose ourselves" in a work. That's what never happens now. Writers and filmmakers don't lose themselves - their selves are all that they have, and they strangle everything else in a frenzy to make sure that their starved, empty selves are left standing alone on a field of dead wreckage.

It'll get here! I swear that week of autumn in Missouri is the best.

Environment Social Governence(ESG), Marketing Corps, and Governments pay for their failures. They need not make anything good as long as they check criteria boxes.