> Studios are hopeless, for the reasons you detail. They're just big companies in the end, and they move slowly if at all.
The big Hollywood studios should have really died at the end of the '60s-early '70s. But then the likes of Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola came along and they won themselves another few decades. But unless something similar happens in the next couple of years they're going to go the way of the dodo, simply because, artistically speaking, their movies are shit (pardon my French).
There's no artistic innovation, there's no connection between what they produce and the audience (I want to see a poignant a movie as Rambo I was, damn it!), they're too scared to "indispose" the political administration, they've just turned themselves into a propaganda machine (and they're no Eisensteins, mind you). And for all those that think "Hollywood is too big to fail!", just think about what happened to Cinecittà or to the Japanese big studios like Toei or Nikkatsu.
The big Hollywood studios should have really died at the end of the '60s-early '70s. But then the likes of Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola came along and they won themselves another few decades. But unless something similar happens in the next couple of years they're going to go the way of the dodo, simply because, artistically speaking, their movies are shit (pardon my French).
There's no artistic innovation, there's no connection between what they produce and the audience (I want to see a poignant a movie as Rambo I was, damn it!), they're too scared to "indispose" the political administration, they've just turned themselves into a propaganda machine (and they're no Eisensteins, mind you). And for all those that think "Hollywood is too big to fail!", just think about what happened to Cinecittà or to the Japanese big studios like Toei or Nikkatsu.