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Yesterday I posted a video by Patrick (H) Willems (really, is the “H” silent or something?) going over why he believes cinema and the movie theater experience is on the way out. He pointed to numerous suspects, and I wanted to break down each of those suspects. Since my article will be nearly as long as his video, relatively speaking anyway, my full thoughts are in this article…or so I thought before I went over 4000 words.
For those of you who missed the video and don’t want to backtrack, Willems set up numerous reasons why he thinks cinema is dying. I question his observation of SOME of the elements involved, but let’s get a few caveats in here. I’m not saying he’s wrong and I’m right. It’s theorizing for both of us. He’s more into the movie experience specifically while I look at storytelling in general, movies being one of the media formats I examine. I’m not as in love with Hollywood as he is, so my perspective comes a bit further back, as any form of storytelling interests me. The running gag is I’ll review two kids playing in a sandbox, which I actually did on Tumblr once. Really wish I kept the link to that but finding articles on Tumblr is not an easy task, even going through my own.
My deal is my point of view comes from a different place than Willems does in how he observes the topic. We also had different tastes in movies, but that doesn’t mean I look down on the movies he enjoys; it’s just rare that we’ll be interested in the same type of movie. There are points where we agree and point where we don’t. I’ll go over his list of suspects in the same order, in case you want to look at the two side by side. That’s why I linked to it at the start of this article. It opens in a new window so don’t worry about losing your place. With that, here are my thoughts on his thoughts.
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So what’s with part three? Well, there are a few others to blame that I thought needed recognition. I’m apparently not alone in this as Willems himself posted a follow-up of other suspects…on his Nebula stream, which I’m not subscribed to because I have no money, and thus have not seen it. The follow-up he posted to YouTube was responding to YouTube and Discord comments. You can watch it if you want but I don’t feel I need to post it here.
Instead I want to list those few others from my point of view, and both of us alluded to some of them in our various entries. This should be a bit more detailed and should end this series on my end because I do want to talk about other things before the Christmas break, with next week being a review of the original A Christmas Carol book. So in addition to Willem’s suspects, which I’ve already commented on, who else is killing movies? Well, I think, regardless of his conclusions, that I KNOW who the REAL killer is! Yes, the guy who can’t solve a Scooby-Doo mystery has the answer, and if Ken Jeong can get three guesses right in a row in this season’s Masked Singer, any miracle is possible! However, before revealing that killer, what drove them to kill cinema?
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 13, 2023 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Hollywood, movies.
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