Last week we talked about how eliminating the box office cost Hollywood one of its best sources of data on what kinds of movies their audience actually wants to see.
Your Excellency has described basic economics. Understanding economics is understanding human action. The more moral and freer the transaction the more predictable the outcome. And everyone wins. Yay.
A beautiful explanation. As an academic I was appalled to find how many of my colleagues (and students) simply refuse to believe that human nature exists, despite having their faces rubbed in it constantly. Their belief in "unique individuals," who nevertheless belong to intersectional groups and are programmed by society, and have no inherent nature is unshakeable.
I don't watch any streamers. My wife subscribes to one, I think, but she rarely watches anything. We both prefer books on paper. There, at least, there is some chance to find some gold among the dross with minimal effort.
I did, however, have to train myslef to refuse to continue reading anything that wasn't worth reading after the first 20 pages or so.
In some 50 years of going to movies I don't think I ever left one before the end. Now I no longer see movies (to the extent that I watch them at all) because I'd probably walk out of most of them and feel like I wasted my money.
There are many things wrong with the current (well, 7-10 years ago for me, and I don't hear that it has improved) theater 'experience', but really good movies would make up for that. Now, alas . . .
Sounds like Hollywood is getting the equity they have preached for and wanted for so long.
Indeed…🤣
…and we’re getting immense loads of absolute garbage.
Like a firehose, shot straight into your face
Your Excellency has described basic economics. Understanding economics is understanding human action. The more moral and freer the transaction the more predictable the outcome. And everyone wins. Yay.
A beautiful explanation. As an academic I was appalled to find how many of my colleagues (and students) simply refuse to believe that human nature exists, despite having their faces rubbed in it constantly. Their belief in "unique individuals," who nevertheless belong to intersectional groups and are programmed by society, and have no inherent nature is unshakeable.
Sounds like Hollywood is worse.
Yeah, a lot of misery has resulted over the last hundred years because people deluded themselves into thinking humans had overcome basic human nature.
I don't watch any streamers. My wife subscribes to one, I think, but she rarely watches anything. We both prefer books on paper. There, at least, there is some chance to find some gold among the dross with minimal effort.
I did, however, have to train myslef to refuse to continue reading anything that wasn't worth reading after the first 20 pages or so.
In some 50 years of going to movies I don't think I ever left one before the end. Now I no longer see movies (to the extent that I watch them at all) because I'd probably walk out of most of them and feel like I wasted my money.
There are many things wrong with the current (well, 7-10 years ago for me, and I don't hear that it has improved) theater 'experience', but really good movies would make up for that. Now, alas . . .