You aren't imagining things

I felt like I was going crazy because I have not truly been enjoying current movies, but I still am in love with old/older movies! It’s just a money making scheme now, not art.

Lazy and not creative at all

It’s called the hero’s journey. It’s before the cat formula. I used to write scripts that big production companies and agents would read.

Even the book tells you that you always don’t have to follow it.

So sad that a guide for beginner writers is now being used for big budget films.

Can confirm a lot of those books were used as references or things we had to read in film classes at college. But this sounds like the industry has fractured the implementation so now the story is in service of the method rather than in service of the story.

In film school they did NOT have us read that. My professors told us it would hinder our creativity

They are so boring and cheap.

Every story is based upon the outline of a Greek epic.

Commodifying an artform will kill it. I'm fine with not being commercially successful artist as I like to do things my own way and enjoy the journey of creating things.

And the People Who Know Better will take every opportunity to "educate" us on the evils of "A.I. Slop." Hollywood specializes in "Human Slop." The upside of using A.I. to create movies is that, while some "Save The Cat" owners will use the book to craft their movie, others will instead create content that resembles nothing that came before it. And those creators, free from the constraints of cowardly producers, will distribute their films via YT, Rumble and perhaps platforms that haven't even been established. Many of those who grouse about "slop" do so merely to protect and defend their own planned route to Hollywood riches, unaware that their brand of slop will be extinct as will the factories that sanctioned it.

It's all written by AI

But yes i agree i think it’s okay for marketing a project but not coming up with an original idea it has to come from the soul

The jews aren't very creative.

And they all look the same. The lighting, camera movement, the blurry background, etc.

Hope they read the book "Keep this shit 90 minutes long" next.

@rikirikiroo Blake died in 2009. It’s almost like the book’s influence took on a life of its own. The life of a zombie.

Noticed while ago.. that's why I got so stuck watching anime!!

This is crazy. I was literally just thinking about this. Saved the Cat is a great guide for learning, but people treat it like rigid law. Older movies have scenes that don’t necessarily “advance the plot”, and we’re allowed to just hangout with the characters and stuff.

Burn the cat... Figuratively not literally

Wait... The creator of one of the worst most cocaine movies of our childhood is responsible for all this!?!

Wow! I didn't even know about the existence of that book. But you're right. It is depressing, but it does explain a lot.

LOL. I started watching The Wolf of Snow Hollow today and it opens exactly like Scream 7 with the same actor opening the door of a rental property with his girlfriend.

All garbage mcu movies

@F1sT if you rely solely on a checklist to create a movie, then you've quite literally run out of ideas

Save the Cat has been around for decades. Studios follow capital interest. Nothing more than pleasing stock holders. That's why. Saved you 3 mins

Adding onto this as a film student, Blake Snyder (the author) is a fucking idiot. He states a rule that he calls “Double Mumbo Jumbo,” meaning there can’t be more than one supernatural element in a movie. His first example is Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, where he’s confused that

when people say 'all movies have the same' of smthn they're either exaggerating about how many movies it is or boiling down the thing to its most basic form, til they're just saying "all these movies have a protagonist who has to overcome some kinda obstacle"

Oh it's also because writers can't write anymore

Its also due to globalization and hollywood now seeking to appeal to as many people as possible. Real art comes from a passionate message the artist is drawn to convey, not effort to appeal to anyone but God and/or the artist himself alone.

One of multiple things, but AI is thankfully putting production companies on watch, especially if pre-eminent AI companies/tech flee the US and US IP laws in the coming years

It's been like this since marvel became a thing. Everyone plays it safe

Hollywood is run by the CIA and Mossad. Disney has a CIA liaison office.

All these annoying videos feel the same too

TLDR - What is familiar rakes in money, what's even slightly risky/unfamiliar is discouraging to produce.