• WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    The past few weeks have really made it sink in for me that we’re living through a decade with a worse cultural aura than the one where Shark Tale came out agony-immense

    I’ve used the aughts as a punching bag for so long to feel better about living in this era but the general feeling of malaise has gone on for too long for it to be a fluke of the transitional period from the 10s

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      9 months ago

      Shark tale existed because they didn’t know how to properly design a movie by committee yet. These days they’ve cracked that formula, so there’s no crazy nonsense or bizzaro films anymore, it’s all the same generic middle of the road slop.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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        9 months ago

        cracked that formula

        That reminds of Frank Zappa in 1987 interview where he talked about “cigar-chomping old guys”. The quote is not verbatim and it has some paraphrases. There doesn’t seem to be a verbatim source. There’s only copypasta with editorializing that annoyed me so I edited it.

        "Remember the 60s? That era that a lot of people have these glorious memories of? They really weren’t that great, those years. One thing that did happen in the 60s was some music of an unusual and experimental nature did get recorded, did get released. [The executives of the day were] cigar-chomping old guys who looked at the product and said, ‘I don’t know. Who knows what it is? Record it, stick it out. If it sells, alright!’ "

        “We were better off with those guys. Than we are with the hip, young executives making decisions about what people should hear. The hippies are more conservative than the conservative ‘old guys’ ever were.”

        Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business - YouTube