How Can Hollywood Make Better Films

In this day and age, Hollywood has hit something of a slump in the creativity department. It’s apparently obvious that the executives of this large paragon of entertainment have done everything to churn out sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots of previous properties that people have gravitated towards and for some reason cannot seem to let go. 

With so many streaming services like Peacock, Max and Netflix showing films and tv shows everywhere, one would think that Hollywood is doing just fine with pushing out media, but it’s more of a quantity over quality problem. 

Studios have adopted the idea that if one project works, it seems only fair to spawn an entire franchise surrounding that one movie that happened to work at that specific time. However, this seems like a never-ending problem that continues to grow bigger and bigger with each passing year. 

Studios focus on making money more than anything, which makes perfect sense because every company’s goal in their unit is to make as much money as possible for their fiscal quarter. The problem is studios decide to drop the tender, love and care that comes with making films and it’s a growing problem as studios have fired multiple artists and replaced them with AI technology. 

This is just a cost-cutting tool that is used for trying to save studios money, which shows you that studios do not care at all about the fucking people that have elevated their films into beautiful frames of light and magic and prove that everyone and anyone is replaceable. 

How do we fix this issue? The answer should be quality over quantity and going back to the traditional roots of Hollywood by making films from the heart rather than from your wallet. Making the 20th Fast and Furious movie solves nothing but giving Hollywood another paycheck. It’s a cardboard cut out of an original and does nothing to better serve cinema. 

Making clones of something will only exhaust your audience and prove fruitless in the long run of movie-making. 

Why did Oppenheimer get such rave reviews and have such success at the box-office? It’s because it escaped the franchise doldrums that have plagued Hollywood for a long time. It rallies all of the elements that Old Hollywood once had in spades. 

Oppenheimer was focused on building characters rather than making fast car chases. The film didn’t dumb itself down for modern audiences. Also, it’s true when I say that modern audiences are dumb. Just look at what they watch. Oppenheimer was successful because it was one, great standalone film that didn’t care about spin-offs and some of the best movies have been standalone movies that were not concerned with spawning a franchise: The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia. 

These films have a certain awe and beauty in their singularity and the idea of a franchise may ruin and dilute the uniqueness of the film. Will we ever see this day in Hollywood again? We might, but Hollywood needs to improve a lot.