Why Do Movies Suck Now?

Easy, it's because studios only want what sells.

Still from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

I went to see Sinners (amazing film, def go see it) in theaters last week and through the trailers I noticed something. Right after the trailer for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning was another action film called Fight or Flight, starring Josh Hartnett as the main characters, a hit man who ends up on a plane full of assassins as they all are tracking the same target. Now, is that not Bullet Train but in a plane? Basically it is. Which brings me to my point that a lot of movies suck now. Every once in a while you'll get a creative masterpiece like Sinners (again, shout out Sinners) but then film publications start running headlines like "Sure Sinners is good but it's not economical to make good movies." Which paint a very ugly picture about the state of the industry. Valuing the box office of a film above the quality or artistry is killing the industry. If you ask the right kind of person they'll say Avengers Endgame is a good movie because it made a billion dollar in box office, not that Avengers Endgame is a good movie because it made them feel something.

Now for my pitch: Watch an independent film, and i'm not talking pseudo-independent like A24, I'm talking a group of like 20 people who shot between work shifts and worked on this for almost 5 years. I'm talking made by someone from halfway across the globe who you've never heard of before. Stop looking for recognizable names and start looking for good films. Also I'm not saying never watch a studio film again, I'm saying watch more than studio films because that's where the real innovation is.