I feel like after Memento, the bar was now make a movie as good as Memento or better, otherwise it won’t be able to compete with everyone else’s movies. If you’re the slavemaster, that means contributing in some amount to where the AI says you can actually take credit for some of the work. Maybe after Memento, they didn’t know where to go, so basically they pretended movies like that never came out and continued on as usual.
I’m so surprised at the amount of garbage that gets approved to produce. Sure, there are good music, movies, and TV shows now, and your favorites are more likely from now or more recently than the 80s or 90s. But at the same time, we can all agree that 99% of what comes out now is not gonna end up being one of your favorites of all time. You’re probably not even interested in most things because of some disqualifying factor—it’s not the type of show or music you like anyway, it’s annoying, etc. And yet the networks complain that no one watches anything anymore and that’s why everything keeps getting canceled. In the 80s and 90s, new stuff seemed to at least build on each other—the stuff that was seen as good at that time followed a certain formula or had a certain amount of whatever in it, so if you tweak the formula a bit, it should be better than before. We know now with AI training and social media that everything basically comes down to an algorithm anyway, and if you were being really scientific about it and not judgmental, you could break down and analyze every little thing and find out why some things work and some things don’t.
I feel like the best of the best were doing that…in the 80s and 90s. And now, nothing evolves. A new genre is just picked or a new fad or actor or whatever. Nothing builds on the old algorithms or invents anything new.
And I think people are starting to notice.
