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@BloatMcQueen Video games for one. But the thing is, its not a "just one thing" issue but many things fracturing the market

My issue (or optimistic thought?) is that I just don't know if there is anything that can realistically replace movies in the market though? Podcasts might be popular, stand up might be making a resurgence... but do any of those truly replace movies? I get why Opera or Ballet could get replaced by Movies. It feels like a progression, and advancement that renders certain forms of entertainment semi-obsolete and forces them into a niche market. And I'm sure it's correct that eventually movies will get replaced by something, I just don't think that thing is here yet. I'm not aware of anything that demands your attention and makes movies look boring in comparison.

The economics of Hollywood blockbusters are unsustainable. All the studios will die. We'll be left with the cinematic equivalent of local dinner theater; people trying to make movies with friends and family over a weekend.

@proteinwisdom Poe's law

The number of people who cannot recognize irony has me more concerned than the number that can’t read entirely.

@InWyoVeritas Yes I think the coming era for filmmakers will be a good thing, not a bad thing.

Some of the best filmmakers started just like that, making small movies with friends. They experimented and learned by doing. Maybe getting back to basics will help people learn to make good movies again. I watch movies today and there's something missing, something that doesn't hit, that sense of satisfaction watching an old movie does. You watch and there's spectacle and even some good stories, but getting the whole package is so rare these days. Maybe kids will mess around in the backyard and discover that magic again, we'll see.

@Mt2Aguy Make no mistake though, they're trying to build that already - "Hey AI, give me a movie like "There's Something About Mary" on Netflix and Amazon and stuff, but no one wants to watch that shit

@FilmLadd Yes, that's what I meant I guess I didn't articulate that very well.

@McclayStu Yeah but if that were the case on the swipe-culture thing, you wouldn't have the podcast format being so dominant. The issue though, is that podcast / vlog stuff with like one or two people talking doesn't support industrial-scale filmmaking.

@FilmLadd Swipe culture and 15 second attention spans are incompatible with the feature film form factor. Perhaps the short film format might have a future. It’s a wonderful art form that is popular outside the US. No money in it though.

@Mt2Aguy I don't think we'll have the artistic decisions made by AI though. What I think will happen is you'll have filmmakers sitting at their computers making films with AI, like novelists use word processors.

@FilmLadd From what I've been seeing we're likely going to be watching totally A.I. generated movies and TV shows in the near future.

@ManWithPlant2 @SydSteyerhart The thing is, if the kids are too rotten to 'deserve" it, that's the parent's fault

@FilmLadd @SydSteyerhart I deal with this routinely. Trust me… meet the kids. In several cases they don’t deserve it. There’s another side of the coin. They didn’t “earn” shit

The point of wealth is to leave it to your children. That is its only value, it has no other value, but it has many forms of anti-value, like leaving it to a charity. Lynch was a good man. He understood the assignment.

@Nikk1066 Studios. Industrial-style filmmaking with big expensive salaries for actors and hundreds of crew members. Gone.

@FilmLadd Is it the studios that will die or the theaters? Because I don’t think people will stop watching movies. And technology now makes it possible to replicate the theater experience at home pretty closely.

@davrola It sounds horrible to some folks, of course, but I think it'll be great. We're already seeing it on youTube and so on. Also: AI will allow filmmakers to make big spectacle films from their computers at home without investors screwing things up. So it won't be all that bad.

@FilmLadd I kind of like the "local dinner theater" production scenario. Local being the ground floor for the arts since the beginning. Cave paintings...

I do not think this would be properly classified as surrealistic, but it does have a hint of dadaism

FIRE ALL 8 BATTERIES AT THAT KITE!

What a bald faced lie to say that a US Patriot battery had to be told not to fire 8 interceptors at a single target or at cheap drones. Utterly ridiculous. I get that Ukraine wants to feel needed but give me a f'cking break.

As the Brits say, this whole "report" is bullocks.

@GlennAndTonic I mean really though, this is farce

@FilmLadd This is just a Ukrainian “give me more money” op. I know they’re feeling neglected.

@JonAlden1620 @0hour1 Yes - but unfortunately for him, he made a lot of promises for the donation money he had no intention of ever fulfilling. I do believe there's some wire fraud and other crimes that went on... now that his name is out there, it might catch up to him finally.

@FilmLadd @0hour1 OMG, he registered that domain name? That's really sick 'Instead of doing any work, he made a one page website with copied and pasted info that other people had already gathered." Well he might not be moral, but that's clever.

Candace Owens Ian Carroll Collin Campbell Will all be getting cease and desist letters from Erika Kirk I helped with Collin Campbell Fun is over losers.

I gotchya that you're joking, but to clarify: at the time he bought the domain CharliesMurderers and vowed to make a database of all these liberals cheering about Charlie getting killed, and wanted to expose them. Instead of doing any work, he made a one page website with copied and pasted info that other people had already gathered. Then threw up a crypto donation page. Claimed that Trump and "certain members of Congress" were helping them, and that they were hiring "Fortune 500 It and Engineering professionals." Then rug pulled all of it.

@FilmLadd @0hour1 so could it be that WE ALL killed Charlie Kirk? Is that what he was arguing? (I'm joking, I realize he is a nut job)

@swiftyloo Aktion T4 is alive and well in Nationalsozialistische Canadiene Abertpartei en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

@FilmLadd They don't take no for an answer. 😅 x.com/DailyMail/stat…

With what? Their hockey team?