I don't know what else to say, beyond fucking amazing.
What the hell. I never made the connection that he was the Wrestling Isn't Wrestling guy.
Actually gained a bit of respect for Max after seeing this. Glad he had the balls to talk and clarify things.
Everything he said about the "system" was really interesting, too.
I guess I will never know how much of a miracle ghostbusters 1 is.
I was really worried about this but it turned out great.
I love mike's maybedrunk/maybenotdrunk ramblings.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;49183245]I was really worried about this but it turned out great.
I love mike's maybedrunk/maybenotdrunk ramblings.[/QUOTE]
If you haven't been keeping up with with pre rec stream and other posts, there's most likely one more video coming along the way with him in it. I wonder what it will be.... maybe it will have the name of a sandwhich from KFC by a person who has the same last name as a star trek race.
I saw the video name and said 'no way'. I'd rate it as one of RLM's best videos, based purely on how interesting the conversation is to someone completely disconnected to film production
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;49183638]I saw the video name and said 'no way'. I'd rate it as one of RLM's best videos, based purely on how interesting the conversation is to someone completely disconnected to film production[/QUOTE]
i wouldn't take max landis' word for it, of all people. i'm sure there would be a lot of different ways things work. like he even said, it's not one big connected thing. it's a lot of different studios. and he's just worked for the one most likely.
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follow the AV club on facebook. they have interviews with screenwriters almost daily
I like what he said about how the "guarantees" of what makes movies successful are starting to become more and more mysterious. Maybe that means we'll start to see more of a resurgence of riskier original ideas being produced with bigger budgets. That's being optimistic though, it could also mean, making movies that are more and more blatantly produced to be fan service to reduce the investment risk. It sounds like such a cluster-fuck to work with.
[QUOTE=ThePanther;49186499]I like what he said about how the "guarantees" of what makes movies successful are starting to become more and more mysterious. Maybe that means we'll start to see more of a resurgence of riskier original ideas being produced with bigger budgets. That's being optimistic though, it could also mean, making movies that are more and more blatantly produced to be fan service to reduce the investment risk. It sounds like such a cluster-fuck to work with.[/QUOTE]
yea this is honestly the best part of the video for me
let the insanity of the 80s roam free again.
I don't even know what to think anymore about big budget hollywood.
The guarantees dont work anymore because the people in charge have become so comfortable for the past 15 years or so and now they don't know how to adapt to societal changes in taste and shit.
I am not saying that the general population is "waking up" so to speak either, we are all still fucking stupid and have easily manipulated opinions and tastes on media. It's just going to take some young hotshot businessman "in the know" to take the garbage in a new direction of shit.
The movie industry is such a big cash cow that no old guy exec is willing to go "I don't know, fuck it lets give it a chance I don't know what the kids will see anymore."
Instead they are just going to keep on playing it safe and stupid until a young guy gets hired and starts manipulating output in a different concentrated way.
[QUOTE=usaokay;49192046]Won't the cycle continue if they change it up again?[/QUOTE]
The cycle will always continue as long as everyone keeps on buying tickets and digital/physical copies of asinine crap. To me they are just looking for new "things" that they can stay with to make money. And the only way these "things" work is by impressing the population with it one or two times, kind of nudging them to accept it through subliminal advertising like through social media, and then repetition. I truly believe a company has the power to try and psychologically change a populations tastes over time into what adheres to their easier to make product.
It's not a matter of will they keep on exploiting peoples apathy and stupidity, it's a matter of what hole can they get through that opens us up for a different avenue of exploitation? Those holes are these "things". I don't know what to call them. Trends? Memes? Something.
The engines will only stop when it runs out of fuel, and the fuel is money and attention.
The only way for an environment like the 70s and 80s or whatever that so many people loved is for it to collapse and be completely rebuilt from the ground up I feel like.
Maybe I am just crazy person.
Oh and to add to that, another thing that has to change is the fucking effort of artists and creators in the film industry. Hell, ANY creative industry. The shit that is loved from the past was good mainly because the amount of focus and effort that was put in to everything. It only comes from hard work. I watch a lot of these "indie" movies that try to be free and creative or whatever, but a lot of them lack the same effort of the films they are inspired by. Making movies should NEVER be easy. It should be something you put your fucking blood sweat and tears for, it should be something that tears your life a new ass in order to create. It's like how Tarkosvky said movies shouldn't be giving something to you, you should be giving yourself to movies.
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