Comments by "iorekby" (@iorekby) on "Joe Rogan | Why Did They Stop Making Movies Like in the 70's? w/Edward Norton" video.

  1. In fairness, the Independent film industry churns out a high % of crap too each year. Maybe not as much as Hollywood, but it can still get it wrong a lot of time.
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  2. The problem is genre too. If you look at something like the Joker, it would work without being a comic book movie. It doesn't need the genre, it just happens to fall in to the genre. Same with the very early GOT seasons; it didn't need the fantasy genre, it still worked as a piece of story telling. With genre movies these days, it's often ALL about the genre: The space invaders, the super powers, the laser beams, the explosions, the jump scares.... if you take that out of a movie, does it still work? Would it still be a compelling story with a strong plot and interesting, deep characters? If it's not, chances are it's not going to be that interesting because there's only so many ways we can see CGI dragons and light sabers and super heroes shooting lasers from their hands/eyes... It can become very repetitive very quickly.
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  3. Never understood why people regard certain people as intellectuals simply because they talk a lot. Here Norton speaks much, but says nothing. Maybe the guy was tired, I don't know.
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  4.  @Chungus581  Yup, same people who complained that things like the VVitch and The Badabook sucked because they didn't have crappy CGI jump scares every 4 seconds. That's the modern world I guess :/
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