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Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking::Inspired by the success of Netflix, Hollywood studios pursued Silicon Valley-style hypergrowth with tactics borrowed from the likes of Uber and Lyft.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Would we even miss something if Hollywood is gone?

[–] residue2173@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the committee-made cookie cutter blockbusters we're all sick of hearing about will be gone.

All the indie movies with genuine heart and passion in them that no one has ever heard of because they don't have the marketing budget will be fine.

I hope so, but I'll believe it when I see it. Can't say I'm very optimistic given the history of copycatting in Hollywood (and basically every other creative industry)

[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the genuinely well-crafted big budget films? Are we ready to toss those out as well? Movies like The Dark Knight, Avengers: Infinity War, John Wick 4, and now Barbie and Oppenheimer are as much a product of the Hollywood blockbuster system as the cookie-cutters. I don't think Hollywood and passion are mutually exclusive.

[–] _bac@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Your examples are meh...

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 1 year ago

You'll get a new one, with blackjack and hookers.

[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we pretending the majority of the population doesn't derive massive enjoyment from Hollywood productions? Is that the play here?

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We are rather observing we're poorly representative of the majority of the population. And that's a good thing.

[–] dub@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I mean yea kinda... They provide virtually all the mass entertainment for people all over the world.

[–] TheHighRoad@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Send it all to GA.

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing of value will be lost if Hollywood disappears.

[–] graphite@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Disagree. But it should remain dead as long as these shenanigans remain