The original post: /r/movies by /u/gearwest11 on 2024-12-30 03:06:42.

From the death of the video rental stores (especially with Blockbuster), to the Sony Pictures hack, to the rise of streaming and the misguided push from the major studios by creating their own or rebranding one, to the Harvey Weinstein scandal which leads to the #Metoo movement, and the big blow of it all was the Disney/Fox merger resulting one less major studio to make movies and less variety now.

And honestly those factors feel like the reasons why this decade so far as far as mainstream movies goes has been less than stellar.

It’s sad too because there was a time a studio would greenlight a quirky comedy like Zombieland or Hot Tub Time Machine or the Oscar bait but crowd pleasing drama like Argo or The Martian. Now those kinds of movies are so far in between and mostly become Netflix filler even if the film is good it’s buried by a cluttered algorithm.