Matt Damon REVEALS Why Movies Suck Today | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
2022 ж. 24 Там.
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Krystal and Saagar give their thoughts on Matt Damon's explanation for why movies today are worse than they used to be
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Krystal and Saagar, I’m 36, and I even know what Hot Ones is. Sean is one of the best interviewers out there, super thoughtful and thorough.
The fact that Saagar just discovered Hot Ones is both baffling and hilarious.
It's really very difficult to make a lush, thought-provoking film today when half the movie-going audience have the attention span of a 3rd grader.
Matt Damon is one the only famous actors that appears to not have let the stardom get to his head. He seems like a pretty genuine guy.
Krystal is spot on. In movies, in music and even in advertising. Remember when ads used to make you laugh? Creativity is not something we see much of anymore.
Most movies these days feel like they are random ideas of corporations to check off all the boxes. But they don’t tell a story anymore. They know comic book movies cause they make money.
I LOVE Matt Damon. He was the best actor in "Team America."
Not gonna lie, I really like hearing them talk about lighter stuff like pop culture just as much as the "real news" - would love to see more segments like this!
Saagar crawls out from under a rock. "Oh look! I found Hot Ones!"
Hot Ones routinely gets surprisingly good answers from their interview questions. It seems like struggling with the spice really seems to short-circuit the surface level preprogrammed pr responses. Also helps that they routinely do well formulating interesting questions, far more so than typical celeb interview shows.
I think part of the problem is the corporate takeover of Hollywood. Too many people who aren't artists and have no appreciation of art and artists being put in charge of things. And I think the next thing is, because all content is available 24/7 from so many outlets, it not only cheapens the experience, but also it's immediately obvious how much content is not for them. When you can endlessly scroll through channels and movies and see just how much content you have no interest in whatsoever, it's a big turnoff.
I like when you two break down pop culture. You're both smart and insightful and offer valuable commentary. Art is such a critical piece of who we are and it's a shame when the market prohibits great art from being made.
I get Damon's point about making 'arthouse' movies, but the issue was born before streaming services really took off. Hollywood was taking less and less risks when movies studios were bought by large corporations, and when streaming came along, a lot of the best writers especially went there, because there was more room (literally, spinning a story over many episodes) to have their ideas produced. Hollywood was partly responsible for the situation it is in, and it digs in even deeper with regurgitation, while the audience hungers for a much more varied diet.
I really really really miss the video industry, and the video shops! we used to spend hours discussing movie selections with other humans in video shops, both other shoppers and employees. The films were arranged by genres and novelties, and the selection was all the theatre selection, and more.
The advertising for The Last Duel was abysmal -- essentially non-existent. I'm a huge history buff, and a lover of Ridley Scott's films, especially Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, and his premier film from 1977, similarly called The Duellists, yet I only heard about The Last Duel about a day before its release. I'm all over the internet every day, and not once before it came out had I heard anything or anyone talking about it. The marketing department of that film has much to answer for.
Most movies assume some kind of activism; they cant help but put in the "The Message" into the film. People are sick of it. Characters don't struggle and overcome, instead they are born with skills and excellence. Over reliance on CGI over actuakl character development - its a shallow, politicised hot mess.
I went to see the Last Duel in theaters in the middle of the pandemic. We were the only people in the theater. It truly was a great movie.
Sagaar: "A lot of old people don't listen to new music anymore." New 'music' is corporate manufactured disposable crap lacking in artistic quality. Two of the top five best selling albums of all time belong to Pink Floyd. Neither Elvis nor the Beatles could accomplish it. Nonetheless, they were all talented artists.
I think we’re actually seeing a resurgence in new, original voices in film atm. The Safdie brothers, Daniels, Ari Aster, Sean Baker, Jordan Peele…
A must see; HBO’s “Six Feet Under” which began in the early 2000s. It’s set the standard for the series that we see so often on all the platforms.