Total agreement. Another perfext example of a movie that couldve crossed that line is Pixels. The premise is fun, none if the violence is "scary," but about 3 minutes of gross gags and language couldve been left out easily, leaving behind a fun Friday night film.
I have a pet theory that because “explicit content” is a binary for music (it either has the little E/parental advisory sticker or it doesn’t), we are psychologically conditioned to expect an “explicit content” binary for other forms of media
I haven't shopped for music for so long. But I think the same paradigm is in play. The explicit content label came in 1985, and the movie ratings system came in 1968.
I think good stories can only emerge from a concrete understanding of the world. This does not mean they have to preach or exist only to serve a message, but they need to be able to assume some shared perspective among its audience. As we fragment more and more, I think storytellers are defaulting to sex or fireworks to fill in the gaps that culture used to occupy.
The degeneracy is the point for most of these movie makers. The 5 minutes of unnecessary crap seems to be a requirement. Even in the project hail Mary book, there's some "adult" bits that could have been cut with literally no difference to the story. It's like they were put in there on purpose.
Total agreement. Another perfext example of a movie that couldve crossed that line is Pixels. The premise is fun, none if the violence is "scary," but about 3 minutes of gross gags and language couldve been left out easily, leaving behind a fun Friday night film.
There are so many movies ruined by just a few seconds of content. The library of good films could have been amazing.
I have a pet theory that because “explicit content” is a binary for music (it either has the little E/parental advisory sticker or it doesn’t), we are psychologically conditioned to expect an “explicit content” binary for other forms of media
I haven't shopped for music for so long. But I think the same paradigm is in play. The explicit content label came in 1985, and the movie ratings system came in 1968.
I think good stories can only emerge from a concrete understanding of the world. This does not mean they have to preach or exist only to serve a message, but they need to be able to assume some shared perspective among its audience. As we fragment more and more, I think storytellers are defaulting to sex or fireworks to fill in the gaps that culture used to occupy.
I think you're on to something.
The degeneracy is the point for most of these movie makers. The 5 minutes of unnecessary crap seems to be a requirement. Even in the project hail Mary book, there's some "adult" bits that could have been cut with literally no difference to the story. It's like they were put in there on purpose.
For many, that's likely true.