Thread: What do you dislike about the US?

They're not even really making movies to entertain people, just to rake in massive megabucks. Moviemaking is big business now. They don't care at all about artistic integrity or message or anything like that - just hand over fist profits. New ideas aren't profitable, neither is art. No corporation spending tens of millions of dollars on a single project is going to risk long shots like that - they want only the safest bets.

Also, independent moviemaking these days is massively expensive too. Most of the independent film studios are now backed by major studios. What passes for 'independent' these days is what used to be big-budget a decade or two ago. Long gone is the true spirit of independent low-budget filmmaking from the 60's and 70's.

That spirit can still exist, but unfortunately it's mostly only in basement studio productions from people who re totally amateur and can't get professional actors or cinematographers etc.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

They're not even really making movies to entertain people, just to rake in massive megabucks. Moviemaking is big business now. They don't care at all about artistic integrity or message or anything like that - just hand over fist profits. New ideas aren't profitable, neither is art. No corporation spending tens of millions of dollars on a single project is going to risk long shots like that - they want only the safest bets.

Also, independent moviemaking these days is massively expensive too. Most of the independent film studios are now backed by major studios. What passes for 'independent' these days is what used to be big-budget a decade or two ago. Long gone is the true spirit of independent low-budget filmmaking from the 60's and 70's.

That spirit can still exist, but unfortunately it's mostly only in basement studio productions from people who re totally amateur and can't get professional actors or cinematographers etc.

You have to admit though that Indie Film Makers have more creative freedom on the films that they want to write. Where as Hollywood is just focused on money like you said, and even the special effects on Indie Films are getting better ( maybe because their backed by major studios like you said also )

Music and video games are on a whole new level now because of the internet...gone are the days where you need a major record label to produce a album and keep creative control. Gone are the days where you need to thousand dollar studio equipment to make a quality album. GONE are the days where you need a 50 million dollar budget to produce a hit game. Indie games are now approaching mainstream quality. Take a look at this game..this is an Indie game.





Indie is the future. The ability to be creatively free AND make money is here. I'm currently composing music for a small indie game now to be relased for xbox live and windows 7 phone. I'll Post the game here when it's done.

Originally Posted by Majestic

You have to admit though that Indie Film Makers have more creative freedom on the films that they want to write. Where as Hollywood is just focused on money like you said, and even the special effects on Indie Films are getting better ( maybe because their backed by major studios like you said also )

Music and video games are on a whole new level now because of the internet...gone are the days where you need a major record label to produce a album and keep creative control. Gone are the days where you need to thousand dollar studio equipment to make a quality album. GONE are the days where you need a 50 million dollar budget to produce a hit game. Indie games are now approaching mainstream quality. Take a look at this game..this is an Indie game.





Indie is the future. The ability to be creatively free AND make money is here. I'm currently composing music for a small indie game now to be relased for xbox live and windows 7 phone. I'll Post the game here when it's done.

Shut up and take my money!



I've been detached from current gaming for so long that I had no idea how ahead things were. :O