Long form movies in a TV format has been the dominant format for how long, now?
What kind of hole was Cage in that he missed Breaking Bad?
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Movie production costs have exploded to a point it's a negligible difference to make a series. The extra time allows for a plot to develop more organically. It also allows for more tension as episodes allow an audience time to recover and process. Series also work better with subscription services.
Plus you can get better back stories for the villains. The shows are usually more interesting with an interesting antagonist .
Years ago I was all about movies, then shows like Vikings, and Black Sails changed my perspective. I would much rather watch a TV series than a movie any day of the week.
A good, tightly written film is still a joy to me. They're rarely tightly written anymore. Out of all new releases I looked at recently, only 3 were under two hours, and only one was at the nearly-perfect-90-minutes.
Not every filmed media needs to be an adaptation of a 15 book set. A movie is more like a short story whereas modern TV series are more like novels.
My personal problem with the ‘near-perfect 90 minutes’ is that the cost to experience them in cinemas (including snacks, drinks, popcorn etc.) is just too damn high for that short of a time.
But it gets easier to justify (amortise?) that cost for a ~2.5hr movie - even if the pacing makes it feel like a slog in comparison.
You don't need to eat or drink during a film. I don't know why this myth comes up every single time someone is complaining about cinema prices, it's so incredibly stupid.
I’m not going to the theatre to strictly watch a movie. I’m going for the entire experience. If I wanted to just watch the movie I’d save $30 and watch it at home.
Say there are 2 movies to be watched.
I would 100% rather go to one movie, and treat myself with all the fixins, and watch the other at home for free, versus watching both in theatre with zero snacks. At the end of the day I’ve spent the same amount of money, but gotten more enjoyment. Tell me again how it’s stupid to spend the same amount of money for more enjoyment?
watch it at home.
Where the screen is in focus, and the volume is not jacked to give us tinnitus, and fewer people are farting around you.
Because it's been made a staple by theaters themselves, for the simple reason that they make a lot of money on concession stands. More than on the movies themselves, IIRC.
Because it makes the experience more enjoyable for people?
Popcorn has literally been a part of the movie-going experience since the invention of the “talkie” nearly a century ago.
The only thing incredibly stupid here is your inability to grasp a relatively simple concept.
How does it make the experience more enjoyable for me to have some fat fuck behind me munching and slurping throughout the entire film? I don't understand why you guys can't go literally 2 hours without CONSOOOOM. Even when (by your own admission) you can't afford it, you still feel the urge to spend waste your money on the overpriced, optional stuff that is only there to milk suckers like you. And then to top it off you get online and type up these little rants about how everything is "so expensive these days". Are you people real?
wow. you seem fun.
Theatres suck because the same people slurping their pail of soda will be walking back and forth across you to use the bathroom in the middle of the film.
But this is Lemmy, people spend money on stupid shit then complain about aFFoRdAbIlIty.
That soda costs $8 because morons will pay $8,and they will pay $9...
I think the movie industry even more than the television industry is averse to new ideas because risk. "I want to make ONE movie, it's going to tell a complete story in 90 minutes and then be completely done. The script is designed for the medium of film, with a lot of visual storytelling and snappy pacing." Nobody wants to hear that because they don't know how to market it if it isn't "Mainline Franchise: The Next One". TV is maybe more interested because if the first episode doesn't work they can twist it into a new direction. Nobody cares about this run of the mill family sitcom, but the wacky nerdy neighbor character is popular, so ditch a third of the cast, this show titled Family Matters is now the Urkel And Carl Show. You can't do that with one movie.
you should try Game of thrones!!
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You'll go back to movies.
When it started all my friends were watching it and I did not have hbo. Then I moved and we had no internet for a while, then when we did it was 5gb/month. By the time we had good internet again it was in its death throes and my wife and I decided to not bother.
My wife and I watched it last year. It really is a great series. My wife is not a fan of fantasy in anyway and even she loved it. The character development is so well done. However the last season really is a travesty, and the last 2 or 3 episodes make it even worse.
Black Sails started good but somewhere they lost me
This is kind of silly. He has done TV for decades. It is where all the DTV trash he makes is shown…
Not really according to his Wikipedia page
I wonder if the juxtaposition between the pilot he was in not being picked up and the relative success of Fast Times at Ridgemont High tainted his view any.
Are you looking at a different page than the one you posted?
Video on demand is TV….
The bulk of his work in 2014, 15,16, 17, 19, 20 and 2025 is TV.
There is also a TV section on that wiki that has him doing TV work back in 2007.
I'd say those are all closer to direct-to-vhs movies than television. Just the distribution system is cloudier
Its tv.. the vast majority of the garbage he makes goes to tv, not in the cinema.