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This analysis of why most movies suck now cracked me up:

“The era of Woke was defined by passionate identity politics but dispassionate creativity and regard for source material.

In the wake of Woke, we are now in the era of Slop, which is just dispassionate entirely.

Slop content is colorful, shiny, and new, but feels like a copy of a copy of a copy. Slop is low effort content that makes and leaves no impression, has no meaning or cultural impact, is basically watchable but has no rewatchability, and no one involves cares.

It is high energy but without intensity. It has a huge budget and vast resources, and squanders them. Slop is about producing content for the sake of having something for sale. It supposes that mainstream viewers are comfortable with tired tropes and cliches and that much of the audience is young and dumb enough to not register them as tropes and cliches.

Slop happens because studios don’t understand why a certain IP works or why it got popular, and don’t properly understand the audience or when to call it quits or who to put in charge.

Slop is a result of second-screen (phone) engagement becoming a typical part of media consumption. Instead of fighting it, companies are now designing content around the assumption that audiences won’t be fully paying attention.”

https://youtu.be/HvO6YYkQakI
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Marc · 50w
This slop argument makes sense.
5atoshiNakamoto | ₿ 2014 · 50w
I know this is not what you're directly talking about here, but I just want to emphasize it's not bad to be woke. Who let the Right redefine what it means to be informed about the accurate history of systemic oppression in the US? The Dems failure to embrace woke is where they dropped the ball. But ...
Shooter McGavin · 50w
They were better in the 90s
someone · 50w
at least you believe in possibility of enjoyment from movies. thanks to bitcoiners and truthers it is hard to engage with some movies. like I see the programmings all the time. which ruins the movie :)
Kevin's Bacon · 50w
Yep. Fiat film.
b0b0 · 50w
What about never ending precuela?, it seems that capitalists are afraid of trying out new ideas, so let make the reboot of the reboot of the reboot of anlaread5movie that was a reboot.
Nelson Inno · 50w
I truly can’t grasp why people watch their phones while “watching” a movie or series in the TV.
Charlie · 50w
The suggestion that Slop is the sequel to “the era of Woke” is backward. Slop isn’t a result of ‘woke culture,’ but a product for the very audiences who complain about ‘wokeness’—it’s safe, soulless content designed to avoid anything remotely political, to say nothing and take zero...
Tim · 50w
lol just had this conversation with my family yesterday
m00ninite · 50w
Calling it, slop is the word of the year.
roll_the_dice · 50w
The slop is the transition to full ai gen movies
Hoshi · 50w
culture is easier destroyed than created. Woke didn’t just produce slop, it replaced the capable with the incapable and failed to inspire prospective artists
Clarkian · 50w
No lies detected. My family gets annoyed that I don't like or care about most new stuff because it all seems like slop to me.
Felipe Fenton · 50w
Like in everything, 80% of movies are not going to be good. It’s been like that always and will probably remain like that in the future.
cadayton · 50w
I think the talent has left Hollywood a long time ago and replaced by the corporate knee bending crowd. Sad.
Common Sense · 50w
“a copy of a copy of copy” is so true. mainstream movies these days are just remakes of remakes which fits their nostalgic (only) customer base left.
₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 · 50w
Worse and worse 🤷‍♂️
Zoltán · 50w
That sums up modern mainstream entertainment perfectly. 🎯