Friendo: I was watching Quiz Show last night and thinking there will never be movies like this ever again.
HE: Probably not. Not with hefty budgets and top-tier talent. Middle-class movies have been dead for a while now.
Friendo: A whole generational shift. Zoomers, not to mention Alphas…no recollection of movies like this, and they’ll never look for them as a result.
HE: Probably true. Tragic.
Friendo: Minecraft is a movie to them. But even the best ones coming out later this year….none of them are going to be Quiz Show, which wasn’t even the best of the best. It was just a standard good movie in 1994, but it stands out now. Ask anyone outside this racket if they watch movies, and they’ll usually say “ehhh, now and then.” Or more often “no.” The reason is that the last eight to ten years of movies have been instructional…movies with social agendas.
HE: Have you seen Warfare?
Friendo: No — it’s in theatres now, right? The only movie I will pay to see right now is Sinners.
HE: Sinners is allegedly very instructional, I’ve heard. Owen Gleiberman wrote that the vampires “are presented as extensions of racist white culture.” Richard Lawson said it’s about “black entrepreneurs, artists, and revelers versus predacious white fiends.” That’s not instructional?