[anticodon]

Well, to me American movie industry is dead. I can't name any good movie after 2010. It's extremely primitive now: no dialogs, just violence, giant explosions, and/or "diversity" that usually is extremely weird because it is unnatural and feels too forced.

E.g. I went to see the last Bond movie and slept the good portion of it. I never actually liked Bond movies, they're too shallow, but the last one was both shallow and dull.

I didn't spend my money to see the remake of Matrix - first comments from friends acknowledged what I suspected: it is a half-baked attempt to squeeze more money from the famous name without trying to make it interesting: why bother, when most of the audience will pay for the ticket anyway just because of the name.

European movies are bad only when they try to emulate Hollywood. Copying something that is already rotten, seldom results in good product. But sometimes there're pretty good European movies, when they don't try to copycat Hollywood.

[paddez]

Watching a movie from the James Bond series, expecting anything other than violence, giant explosions, and the absence of substantially gripping dialog - was probably your first mistake.

The James Bond series have all been popcorn flicks for decades - I'm not sure using this particular example solidifies your point at all.

[anticodon]

> The James Bond series have all been popcorn flicks for decades - I'm not sure using this particular example solidifies your point at all.

Yes, indeed. I went to see the last Bond because I was tired from my job and I wanted to see road races and big explosions. To see something simple that doesn't require brains to process. But it ended up so boring, that I've slept in an uncomfortable (for sleeping) cinema chair.

[creakingstairs]

> no dialogs, just violence, giant explosions, and/or "diversity" that usually is extremely weird because it is unnatural and feels too forced

I mean a lot of them are. But, come on, there have been a lot of great movies and TV series since 2010. Maybe where you are living only imports block busters.

[anticodon]

> Maybe where you are living only imports block busters.

I'm talking mostly about movies that you can see in movie theaters where I live. There are probably good movies, but they are not demonstrated in movie theaters and it's hard to know about them.

[jimbokun]

I think the creative American video content now comes out of "TV". Saying TV in a very loose sense, as most of this serialized long form content is consumed through apps now instead of traditional broadcast or cable television.