Hey, what's going on? So, I've just been home recovering from this broken leg and looking for a movie to watch. And it seems like I spend more time searching and scrolling than I actually do watching. Man, these movies, especially as of late, terrible. I haven't been to the movie theater in years. Man, what was the last movie I saw? Who knows? I can't even think of one. There's it's atrocious. I don't know what's up with Hollywood. Um remember there was a a writer's strike, there was all kinds of crap going on and nothing seemed to have come out of it cuz the movies are still terrible. The last time I saw a movie was in Vegas. I used to live in Vegas and it was cool cuz they'd go to the all the all the movie theaters were in the casinos and just a cool vibe, kind of different from the the norm. But man, man, I don't even know what the hell movie I saw. It's been so long ago. But it seems like a lot of people agree that Hollywood is just dead. I mean, there's there's nothing good coming out. They keep rehashing these stupid uh comic book hero movies and they're terrible. I mean, if if you can't make a good movie out of that, I don't know what to tell you. Disney bought Star Wars, killed it. And not in a good way, all right? It's dead. That nobody's going to see these movies. They just put out this new one, The Mandalorian and Grogu, and it's just tanking. It's terrible. There's also what all these Marvel Studio movies. Dude, no one's excited to see anything. It's It's absolute joke. And if you can't make a cool movie out of a Marvel comic book hero, dude, you need to find a new gig. You need to find something else to do. It's just terrible. But I've got this Hollywood is dead video queued up. Never saw it. Let's just watch it together and see see what's going on. Maybe we can come to the bottom of what's happening. So, let's watch this. Okay, here we go. >> Not because of streaming, not because of box office numbers, not even because of the pandemic. Hollywood is dying because of Hollywood itself. And if things don't change fast, the very industry that gave us Star Wars, The Godfather, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and The Dark Knight might collapse under its own greed, laziness, and shortsightedness. Think I'm exaggerating? Let's break down exactly how Hollywood is slowly killing its own magic. >> Let's see. >> obsession with reboots to the overuse of CGI to corporate greed to streaming wars and finally, what needs to change if the film industry has any chance at survival. Buckle up because once you see what's happening behind the curtain, you'll never look at Hollywood the same way again. Section one, the reboot and sequel problem, creativity on life support. When was the last >> Yeah, nobody's got any creativity anymore. They're always rebooting something and the sequels and blah blah blah blah blah. Man, come on, guys, get it together. Let's Let's get some creativity going. >> you saw a truly original blockbuster, not a sequel, not a remake, not a reboot, something fresh, something new. Hard to think of one, right? Because Hollywood has gotten addicted to playing it safe. Instead of original ideas, we get endless reboots, remakes, and sequels. Spider-Man has been rebooted three times in just 20 years. >> [music] >> Disney keeps pushing out live-action remakes of classics nobody asked >> Dude, they reboot Spider-Man three times, three different actors. I can't even name them all. I mean, there's that Tobey Maguire guy and I don't even know who the other two are. Um but whatever. Guys, come on, get it together. >> Lion King, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, all basically the same story, [music] just more CGI. And franchises like Jurassic World or Fast and Furious keep pumping out sequels long after the creativity has dried up. Why? Because they make money. Studios know nostalgia sells. If you loved something as a kid, they can resell it to you again and again. But here's the problem. Audiences are burning out. The numbers [music] prove it. Many franchise films are still profitable, but next sequels and reboots are making less with each installment. Look at Fantastic Beasts. Look at The Matrix Resurrections. Look at the box office decline of Fast and >> Dude, have you seen Matrix 4? Ugh. It's awful. They should have left it alone, man. One, two, and three were totally awesome. And I watched them over and over again. Matrix 4 I saw it once and I was just Ugh. It absolute terrible. >> Exactly. When the industry relies only on nostalgia, creativity dies. >> [music] >> And without creativity, the magic of Hollywood disappears. Remember, the films we still call masterpieces, Inception, The Matrix, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, they weren't safe. >> [music] >> They were risks, and Hollywood has forgotten how to take them. Section two, overuse of CGI and franchise fatigue. Now, let's talk visuals. CGI is amazing. It's allowed us to see things we never thought possible. Iron Man flying through the sky, Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet, Pandora in Avatar, but somewhere along the way, Hollywood got lazy. When every movie becomes a green screen spectacle, it starts to lose its soul. Think about it. Jurassic Park 1993 is still remembered today, not just for its dinosaurs, but for how real those >> And you can create all of these CGI visuals with AI tools nowadays with with Sora and a couple of other things I'm not completely up to speed with, but I've seen a lot of fan films that are just as good as what Hollywood is pumping out. >> dinosaurs felt. That's because Steven Spielberg used practical animatronics combined with just enough CGI. The result? Dinosaurs that felt alive. Compare that to something like Jurassic World Dominion. It's bigger, louder, flashier, but somehow emptier. The dinosaurs look like computer graphics, not creatures with weight and presence. And audiences can feel that difference. Now add franchise fatigue. Marvel, Star Wars, Fast and Furious, DC. The output is endless. Instead of two or three massive blockbusters a year, we're getting a new one every month. The result? Audiences are exhausted. Marvel's Phase 4 proved it. After the emotional peak of Avengers: Endgame, fans were burned out by projects like Eternals, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Quantumania. Not because they were the worst movies ever, but because they felt like homework. When every story connects to 10 others, when every post-credit scene sets up another sequel, the magic disappears. It becomes product, not art. And that's where Hollywood is bleeding out. Section three, greed and exploitation. The machine behind the curtain. But here's where things get darker. Hollywood isn't just making bad creative choices, it's making greedy, destructive business choices. The Writers Guild strike, the actors strike, VFX artists protesting impossible working conditions. These aren't random events, >> [clears throat] >> they're the symptom of an industry that values profit over people. Writers are underpaid even though without them, there is no story. Actors, especially smaller ones, struggle for fair pay while studios shell out millions for celebrity cameos. VFX houses are forced to meet insane deadlines creating rushed CGI that looks bad on screen while the artists themselves burn out. The irony? The very people being underpaid and overworked are the ones who make Hollywood magic possible. And when they're gone, when they stop, Hollywood crumbles. Think about it. Game of Thrones season 8, the infamous coffee cup incident, that was a symptom of workers being overworked and underpaid. The CGI issues in Marvel films, that's exhausted VFX teams. Greed is draining the lifeblood out of the industry. And when your workers lose faith in you, your foundation collapses. Section four, streaming wars and the death of theaters. Streaming was supposed to be Hollywood's savior. Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max. It was marketed as the future of cinema. Watch anything, anywhere, any >> You know, streaming >> [clears throat and cough] >> You know, streaming is cool and all, and there's nothing like watching a really cool flick from the comfort of your home, but you can't duplicate the feeling of going to a theater and the experience is just you you can't match that. 100% It's uh it's a totally awesome experience that if they could just make a cool movie, we would go and watch it. If uh you know, if if I owned a movie theater house, whatever it's called, I would replay classics from the past because just because you watched a movie one time doesn't mean you're not going to rewatch that same movie over and over again, especially if you really enjoyed it. So, if you put that experience back in the movie theaters, I think it'd be pretty successful. >> Time. And at first, it felt amazing. But now, it's chaos. Too many platforms. Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Paramount Plus, Apple TV Plus. The list goes on. Rising subscription fees. What started as a cheap alternative to cable has now become even more expensive than cable. And worst of all, movies and shows disappearing from platforms. One day, you're watching your favorite series. The next day, it's gone. Deleted to save money on licensing. So, instead of saving the industry, streaming is suffocating it. And while this is happening, theaters are dying. Not because people don't want to go. Look at Barbie and Oppenheimer. People flooded theaters when they had a reason to. Problem is, studios don't give audiences reasons to go anymore. Mid-budget >> Hollywood isn't giving us movie watchers a reason to go to the movie house and watch these flicks anymore. >> Films, comedies, dramas, thrillers have vanished. Everything is either a $200 million blockbuster or a tiny indie film dumped on streaming. Theaters aren't dying because audiences abandoned them. They're dying because Hollywood abandoned the creativity. Section five, the AI problem, Hollywood's next mistake. And if you thought things couldn't get worse, let's talk AI. Studios are already experimenting with using AI to write scripts, de-age actors, even create entire digital extras. Sounds futuristic, right? But here's the nightmare. Instead of being used as a tool to enhance creativity, Hollywood will use it to cut costs. Why pay a writer when AI can spit out a script? Why hire extras when you can generate them? Why build sets when you can do it all on a computer? >> Yeah, as cool as AI is, and I think a lot of us use it all the time. I I use ChatGPT a lot as far as um it helps you research, it helps you refine ideas, but you have to come up with those organic ideas yourself to make things interesting. AI can't do it all. And like I was saying before, AI is is creating a lot of scenery for us. And you know, Hollywood uh they they shouldn't have to lean on that crutch. That's that's uh that's pretty ridiculous. >> This isn't speculation. This is exactly what the strikes were fighting against. And if Hollywood goes down this road, the art form will collapse into soulless, algorithm-driven content. Stories written by machines, designed to hit formulas without the human soul that makes movies magical. Section six, what needs to change? So, here we are. Hollywood is on life support. Reboots, CGI overload, franchise fatigue, exploitation, streaming chaos, the looming shadow of AI. But, here's the good news. It can still be saved. Here's what has to change. One, take creative risks again. Studios need to fund new stories, not just recycle old ones. Movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once prove audiences are hungry for originality. Two, respect workers. Pay writers, actors, and VFX artists fairly. They're the backbone of the industry. Three, balance spectacle with storytelling. Stop relying only on CGI and explosions. Bring back practical effects and grounded stories. Four, fix streaming. Make it simple. >> Yeah, come up with a good story. Even there's there's a lot of movies that don't have a whole lot of special effects and CGI and all of that good stuff that survived because it had a great story. Like Forrest Gump, for example, you know, just pops pops in there. Not a whole lot of special effects. You could probably screen that all by yourself with your smartphone. No big deal. But the story was pretty cool, man. Really great story and that's what gave it a lot of its That's what gave it its success is it was just a great story. >> Don't enable. Stop deleting content. Make audiences trust that if they love a movie, it won't disappear. Five, use AI wisely as a tool, not a replacement. Let AI handle small tasks, but never let it replace the human imagination. Because at the end of the day, audiences don't just want more movies. They want good movies. So, what do you think? Is Hollywood already dead or can it still save itself? Are you tired of reboots and CGI fests or do you think this is just the natural evolution of movies? Drop your thoughts in the comments. And if you love deep dives into movies, secrets, and hidden truth behind cinema, hit subscribe. Because here at Gravity of Frame, we're not just watching. >> Yeah, I mean, exactly. I I think I think Hollywood is completely dead. It needs a reboot. Somebody needs to buy it and start it over from scratch. I think it's just it's a dead brand. It's been beaten like a dead horse. Party's over, guys. Time for new ownership, new structure, new ideas. New, new, new everything. 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