Message:Group punishes the outlier. If everyone says No Go, it doesn't get made. If everyone says sure, why not? then a flop is meaningless, no accountability.
I see problem more as directors having too much control over script. IT SHOULD BE -- If they make a bad movie, they do not get to make another until they personally fund a hit. Directors should be more selective of what they shoot. Why they shoot it. This script stinks should end a project. Not this script stinks, let me see if I can salvage something. Movies died with Speilberg's Jaws. Not because great movies would not be made. But that Hollywood would only try to make blockbusters that must appeal to mass audiences. Genre that isn't horror is dead.
It all starts with a script and too many movies are just a patchwork of scenes that make people remembered better movies. Directors are forcing this by asking for CGI "like film such and such."
Movies are doomed, gone. Streaming will follow. Like radio plays or melodrama theater. The American Musical is another venue that is in the toilet, fading. Will video games be next?
The only art that lasts is concert, but don't expect there to be universal appeal of every artist. Musicians can attract a following if they play the same venue long enough. Ask any Busker.
Yours,
IronRed
19-Nov-2025