#hollywood is fucked

[angstymilfy]

Those were the days. The Hollywood pickin’s have been pretty slim since the 90s.

Was just telling someone this the other day. So many good movies coming out back then, that epic movies like “Legends of the Fall” missed out on oscars only because the slightly more amazing “Braveheart” was also out. And a movie as great as “Tombstone” missed out when “Schindler’s List” blew everything away; there were just so many awesome movies coming out.

I can remember going to the video store and having a hard time narrowing all the great selections down to the few we had time to watch.

Now, I struggle to even remember the last truly great movie I’ve seen come out of Hollywood.

We’ve gone from feast to famine. :(

[jupitermelichios]

i see this take so often, i have genuinely lost any ability to tell if people are joking, or if they just really have never spent even 5 minutes researching how and where vfx actually gets made

yes, vfx artists in the USA should unionise. basically every profession should unionise. but that would not stop the use of vfx in movies. it probably wouldn't impact it at all, in fact

because 90%+ of it isn't done in the USA

cgi is the one aspect of film-making that can be very easily exported to another country without any impact on the film-making process. cgi artists don't need to be in the same country as the filming location, they don't need to work collaboratively with the other film-makers the way most jobs in the industry do. yes there is collaboration, but it's with the other vfx artists, or it's weekly meetings with the director, art director or studio to check what they're making is in line with the concept art. that can be done over zoom, or by phone with very little difficulty.

the bulk of vfx art isn't being done in the USA, even for the big US based houses, it's done in malaysia, korea, china, india

there's also a lot of freelancers, and non-contract employees, in the industry which makes labor organising harder, even if forming a union would uncomplicatedly fix the problem, rather than just pushing even more of the work overseas

again, I am not saying they shouldn't unionise, they should, (and so should vfx artists around the world, and so should the games industry which has a lot of crossover with movie vfx) but it's not the panacea y'all seem to think it is

(also, do not believe the internet when it tells you how much of modern movies are cgi, it's usually wildly wrong. I saw people on this hellsite angry that black panther 2 got a best costumes oscar nomination because 'all the costumes are cgi anyway'. literally none of the costumes in that movie were cgi, they were incredible works of art that very skilled craftsmen spent hundreds of hours of work on so that they'd move correctly both on land and underwater, and it fully deserved the nomination. there absolutely is an over realiance on cgi, but it's nothing like as bad as weirdos who refuse to use google want to tell you it is)

(also also the mcu has the symptoms of a lot of the big problems in hollywood right now, but it is the cause of none of them. that's not how creating art works. the problem is late stage capitalism and the studio system, and the mcu ending tomorrow would have 0 impact on either.)

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

[thenameisgul]

[urdreamgirls-dreamgirl]

scream 7 fires their highly successful female lead who revitalized their franchise & made them millions of dollars all because of her pro palestinian stance but not a single word from netflix on their side characters in an ensemble cast who are literally saying shit like “zionism is sexy” and advocating for absolutely no ceasefire under any circumstances. this is a hell world.

[spending-life-pretending]

conservatives really wanna act like the “woke left” is winning the culture war or whatever when people are out here making basil and dorian brothers and casting white men to play heathcliff in 2024

[garbagequeer]

jughead's toxic little polycule ending explained

[captaingenocideevans]

Captain Genocide

[lizzygrant17]

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[prettyflyforarad-gyn]

No but actually I hate how they made her be like 97 lbs for Jennifer’s Body then she had to gain all her weight back for Transformers bc Micheal Bay “doesn’t like skinny girls” and all while that was happening she had a literal mental breakdown bc the media was constantly hypersexualizing and vilifying her when Jennifer’s Body released to the point where she didn’t want to leave her house and had severe depression - like seriously no wonder this poor women ended up this way she was a sex symbol at age 15 (literally look at her in Bad Boys II) and felt like she had no one in her corner

@radblr can we talk about megan fox for a minute ? what she's become really breaks my heart tbh.

[black-swan-ldr]

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[sophsun1]

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia – 9.04: Mac And Dennis Buy A Timeshare

[deputyrook]

David Dastmalchian -> The Most Iconic Horror Movie Monsters | Roundtable Discussion

[thestripiestshirts]

Between Quiet on Set and I'm Glad my Mom Died (which I know has already been out for over a year but is rightfully still making an impact), I am encouraging you all to listen to Alyson Stoner's podcast Dear Hollywood, which I've not seen get nearly as much attention on Tumblr as it deserves. It is the deepest dive you can imagine into the shitshow that is the child acting world. Quiet on Set focuses only on stuff that happened in the studio and the actions of people working on set (fuck Brian Peck), and I'm Glad my Mom Died is obviously only Jennette McCurdy's personal experiences, but Dear Hollywood explores pretty much every single detail of the fucked up situation child actors find themselves in, from the studios, to parents, to us, the fans.

Listen with caution, because they share quite a few harrowing experiences, but it's an incredibly important listen if you want to understand more about this topic. Especially since there seems to be a new generation of child actors becoming popular on Tumblr, what with the Percy Jackson TV show and the live action Avatar.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price during dress rehearsal for Victoria Regina (1935)

[divineandmajesticinone]

TOP GUN (1986) dir. Tony Scott

Wolfman & Hollywood