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Essay Subject Halp / Marathon Reminder! (Patreon)

Published:
2021-04-12 18:53:51
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2023-04

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First off! 

A reminder that this Friday we have the movie marathon on twitch (link here! https://www.twitch.tv/filmcrithulk )  starting at 4pm where we are gonna be watching gentle protagonist movies Babe / Kiki's Delivery Service / Paddington 2 / and Secret Feature (which I'm soooooo excited about for people who have never seen). 

Second off! 

So I'm always working on a bunch of little essays at once. Like right now it's the ani-me series / a piece on a Hidden Life, religious upbringings, and the way a soul affects morality / a bunch of old video game pieces / plus I'm finally gonna watch Nomadland this week. But these things tend to move around a bit in the grander process of just going with "what's burning my brain at the moment." But I also always like having "a big large scale essay" on a general film topic in the back of my mind.

The thing is that I've been writing for a ding dang decade now and it feels like those grander topics are harder to come by. The fun wrinkle with that a lot of what I wrote a decade ago is crap I don't really agree with anymore. I mean, just yesterday someone tagged me into a conversation quoting a piece I wrote and using it as defense and I had to be like "actually, I don't agree with that anymore! sorry! I actually wholly agree with the person you're arguing with!" Honestly, it's just a part of how I'm really not precious about anything I've ever written. I genuinely, truly believe that everything I've said I could say much better now. And I'll say the same thing five years from now with whatever I'm writing now. It's kinda the process, I guess? 

Whatever it is, it more just reminds me that I always like covering things no matter what they are. And thus I'm curious about the general topics that YOU want to read about. What functional questions really deeply exist? What thing do I say all the time that still doesn't make sense? What's a topic you never really see get covered? Or simply, what are you most interested in? 

Sound off below! Endless thanks!

<3HULK

Comments

Anonymous

late to the party, but I would love to see more essays about comedy, as that's something you mention here and there, but haven't explored as much (at least recently)

Brandon Sodhi

I dunno if you're still reading this/taking thoughts, but I've had one recently that I keep coming back to and I'm surprised I didn't suggest it before: is mainstream Hollywood film getting worse? it feels like the ever-increasing dominance of Disney, mixed with algorithms and streaming, has created this bizarre machine that churns out "almost-good" films/shows/content/whatever. stuff that knows how to strike a tone, looks polished, good performances, but really suffers when you start breaking down the decisions made in the editing or cinematography or writing. and an ever-growing chunk of it is based on existing IP that was originally for children? like, apparently HBO Max is making an "adult" cartoon series about Velma from Scooby Doo? the CW is making a gritty sequel series where the Powerpuff Girls are edgy 20 year olds that hate their childhoods?? I understand that not everything needs to be Cool with a capital C, but it feels bizarre that so much mainstream entertainment for the 20-40 year old demo is literally based on stuff that was originally made for children. and all of this while filmmakers like Fincher and Scorsese have no choice but to go to streaming services to get their projects funded. regardless of what you think of them, they have done nothing but make critically acclaimed films that make money. it feels like previously, there was a struggle between creatives and capitalists in the film industry that played out. sometimes the studio won, sometimes the creatives won. everyone had to pick and choose their battles. now it feels like the creatives are an afterthought, like there's been a shift. A friend of mine recently had us watch movies over discord, and he picked two: the Super Mario Bros movie from the 90s, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from around the same time. I was not excited going in, as I don't really get into "hate-watching," but I was genuinely surprised. It's not that these films were good, but it's almost like they were the inverse of modern Hollywood. they were not sleek or polished, the acting was awkward, it all looked and felt very cheap, but (especially in the TMNT movie) there were moments that felt way more human and interesting than most of what I've seen in the current pantheon of Marvel/DC/Star Wars/Big Shared Universe films. Patient cinematography with beautiful lighting. Inspired editing choices. Characters I cared about beyond just the iconography of whatever symbol is on their costumes. But then, sometimes I wonder if I'm just 28 and slowly becoming the guy who thinks that nothing is good anymore. I don't know.