Right now TikTok is winning over Movies & TV

[@mightycaine8254]

When I started watching I was like, who's this fella? why is Marcus showing someone's reaction video? And then you spoke and it was marcus😂 crazy what your brain pictures when you only have a voice to go on. Keep up the great work dude, it's awesome to have a channel that understands both the language of martial arts but also a deep appreciation of the art of film and film making. You are unique . Brilliant!

[@MarcusFlemmings]

HUGEEEEEE love for this comment! I'll be giving you a shout out in the next video I make!

[@gamervet4760]

17:03 Marcus. Growing up, we watched Jerry Springer. Just to make fun of him and the trash he had on his show. There were 2 women competing for sleeping with 100 men in 24 hours. There's nothing new here. The internet makes this stuff more visible now. No more, no less. Humanity has always had it's shit side. Always. It never went anywhere. Sometimes, it spilled over into daily lives, but most of the time, it was done in secret or behind closed doors.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Jerry the legend!!

[@gamervet4760]

@MarcusFlemmings He tried to become governor of either one of Cincinnati. He ended up trying to pay a prostitute with a check and ended up dropping out because of it. Then he tried his hand at becoming a country singer. There wasn't an ounce of country in that man. He was locally advertised on billboards in my home state. I know far too much about the legend.

[@Robert-ju6ub]

"what's the first meal you would feed me?" "SALAD." I'm dead 😂

[@MarcusFlemmings]

PAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

[@t-7777]

I'm Gen Z and watching movies and shows are my hobby

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Love this! I am hoping there is more of you!

[@loosemeatsamich3689]

We are indeed living in the darkest timeline. It shows that films like Idiocracy are documentaries, not comedies. Most music is shite as well.

[@b0zz1380y]

Modern day music. There is some great music out there, it’s just hidden away behind the tidal wave of garbage that music producers peddle that makes them money

[@deodane4065]

really appreciate your thoughts and your views. Thank you!!!

[@evanwoodward6376]

Yeah, I don’t think film or TV has much to worry about, yet.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Movies do :(

[@evanwoodward6376]

@@MarcusFlemmings You’re right, it’s the “I’ll wait for it to come out on streaming.” mentality. Films are art, not disposable slop to have on in the background as you doomscroll social media. The power of cinema has been diluted and it’s tragic to witness.

[@DJBastarder]

To be honest this is a huge problem for me personally. I feel scrolling and years of watching critical reviews instead of actual film or series has ruined my ability to commit to stories. Lifes so busy and depressing I don't want to invest time in a book or cilm that makes me think. Its something I want to change because I love film and stories and hate what social medias done to me.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Life is VERY fast paced right now AND also, to be honest, the quality of film is pretty poor right now - I can't waste 2 hours on a bad film. I'd rather waste 45 mins on an episode of a good TV show. You're NOT alone!

[@DJBastarder]

@@MarcusFlemmings Thank you for the reply Marcus :)

[@ishyameru6232]

I'd much rather watch TV/Anime over movies. I prefer the fleshed out characters and universe expansion

[@jamesabernethy7896]

There are so many elements to what you are talking about. I'm a massive Sci-fi fan so that's where all these are coming from but it's not an exclusive structure. X-files and Star Trek. 22-26 episodes a season. They were in an episode-of-the-week format with a larger story arc woven through it. It was released on TV weekly and you had to be invested to stick with it for half a year. Overall, they were so well-written to keep you invested, make that story arcs clear for season after Season. I love this format because there was the anticipation for next week. The Expanse. Shorter but much more intimate seasons. AMAZING quality. I will admit to binge-watching some of it but I also did it when it was released weekly. It's not merely consumption. Outland. Not one of my top top movies but still one that I love. Storytelling that uses the archetypes of a western but setting it in space. Those established archetypes make the storytelling efficient. Music. I do listen to music but it's not as important to me as movies, while I can name actors and quote lines i struggle to remember the names of songs, bands or artists. I like individual songs rather than listening to whole albums. Older music is better. A few years ago we redid the house and at the time it was Tony Blackburn celebrating 50 years on the radio and picking one from each year. it was amazing how many of those songs I recognised. Although not total guarantee of enjoyment or, for the vast majority of movies you can tell within the first 15-20 minutes if you will like it. The only form of social media that I use is KZbin comments, everything else is I avoid like the plague. Generally speaking, I also avoid doomscrolling on the Shorts. It can happen, but it's a rarity. As with the title story. My sympathy can hit also zero, everyone makes mistakes in life but there are some things that you should be able to avoid and be able to see that the consequences vastly outweigh the benefits. While 1 woman signed up for this 100 men did too, it's so easy just to vilify her and that's the end of it. How many men does it take to make OnlyFans a Viable career? Situations like this have been covered but so few want to hold men responsible because they can't put their faces on the mugshots.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

So in terms of sci-fi and the 90s TV - they were self contained episodes with a small arc running through them! TV has changed now, so they are shorter seasons and no real self contained stories. I shan't lie, I prefer this format. And again, purely because I love film. And something like Breaking Bad feels like a long film. Tony Blackburn...what a blast from the past!

[@WhyteNoize859]

Truly a gift to have both Blur and Oasis rolling out hits at the same time. That being said.... I'm team Blur👍🫶 Great video. Big love!!!

[@MarcusFlemmings]

TEAM: BLUR all day long!

[@seanr-m4262]

Film music is just as amazing as ever. I think I’ve listened to the best music and it can’t get any better but composers keep proving me wrong.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Film music is peak and always has been, it feels like an art form removed from the spiral into crap that movies are heading toward!

[@cadian122]

A lot of this video is very true... It's sad that film has lost its way in the 2020s... Given that from the 80s through the 2010s it was a non-stop golden age of utterly amazing movies that have been created ... and I used to go to movies all the time (I'm born in the late 80s) so between the late 90s all the way to the late 2010s whether it was with my parents or friends or girlfriends or wife as I moved through life, movies and the big screen was always a staple of my life .... I agree with Christopher Nolan's take that you can't replace the emotion of the theatre.. the sound, the gravity, the social and cultural impact ... And you know what's interesting... is that a guy like me who is always going to films (at least 6 to 10 times a year in a normal year) plus watching movies at home... that when I was given an AMC gift card for my last birthday (which is a thoughtful gift), I still haven't used the thing when it's been almost a full year... what am I supposed to go see, the movies in the 2020s have been such utter shit .... I think the greatest 2020s movie to come out is Godzilla Minus one ... which has like an 8 million dollar budget yet is 50x better than any American Godzilla lol ... I mean Top Gun Maverick would have been considered a mid to even poor movie in the 2000s or 2010s... but it was one of my top 3 movie experiences in the 2020s just because it wasn't woke lol... Now in that vacuum TV has def come a long way ... especially in the 2010s ... Boardwalk Empire. True Detective Seasons 1& 2, The Expanse ... some really massive and great shows... I feel like in the last few years though it's up to the Koreans with Squid Game and Train to Busan to light the way lol... Listen I'll watch good shows and that's great and all... but nothing will replace the loss of amazing movies ... and I really hope that Cinema rebounds in the coming years .... Covid is NOT what killed the movies ... although Plandemic did hurt for sure... the death of movies was already being plotted from within the industry before the virus with a 99.8 percent survival rate ...

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Superb comment! I think the problem started in the mid-2000's to be honest, we're only now seeing the results. Covid was the nail in the coffin as well as the rise of social media!

[@cadian122]

@MarcusFlemmings thank you.. and btw I love your content on the Raid Redemption movies (which IMO are the pinnacle of Action Movies) I feel like the decline started more in the mid 2010s with woke stuff being forced into film as well as culture in general, of course the re makes and marvelization was really bad for film as well... But what's puzzling is that while we have been dealing with some dogshit woke movies and over saturation of superhero movies for 10 years at this point, there were some real bangers that came out in the 2010s that we just are not seeing as much now... (The Raid movies, The Accountant, Wind River, Hostiles, Fury, 13 hours, Dunkirk, Inception, Looper, Olympus has Fallen, the first Equalizer, Den of Theives, the first 3 John Wicks, The Crazies, Mad Max Fury Road, Dredd, Elysium, Danger Close, The Night Comes for us) I mean some really really good films and I know I left out a metric ton ... And in the 2020s other than Godzilla Minus One and the Extraction Movies (with the first being significantly better than the 2nd) why is it that in the first 5 years of the 2020s the industry has only produced as many quality movies as there used to be in single year whether it's 1995 or 2007 or 2014...

[@Micbemac]

Cinema certainly has changed. It's been 24 years since the year's highest-grossing film might have also been considered the best film made that year (Titanic). Social media, streaming and the sheer amount of available content have saturated the attention of moviegoers. The average gross revenue of movies is decreasing as the market of viewers who want to see them decreases, making movie makers less inclined to take risks on genuine cinema over "bankable" hits. And, 80% of the top-grossing movies every year are sequels, remakes or prequels. Genuine, new ideas rarely get filmed, or viewed. It's a sad state.

[@northwestrex]

Return of the King would have been the last time that happened I'd say. Last year with Oppenheimer got close though, it was the 3rd highest grossing.

[@Micbemac]

@northwestrex 2003 was a particularly weird year. RotK pulled in $1.1 billion the rest of the best made 6 or 7 films that year grossed $500 million combined. I'm not really sure of RofK was really better than any of them either.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Very sad state! The filmmakers aren't devoid of blame though...there is a lot of crap being made!

[@mariafernandaparedes975]

I laughed so hard at your reactions and faces

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Pahahahhahahhahahhaa! Some of these social media videos are just....there are no words.

[@mariafernandaparedes975]

@MarcusFlemmings In reality there are many words, but you can't say them without being cancelled, that's fine, the expressions say it all

[@chrisbackhouse5730]

Yeah, movies and TV are now a wasted resource. The entertainment factor is reduced to the basic emotions, whether it's nostalgia through remakes, horror at what's happened to children, and the over-dramatisation of every word spoken. DEI has killed off the entertainment industry. I only watch shows and movies from before 2010. The music side has narrowed down, where it seems a lot of independent, talented musicians are forcibly kept out of the public ear

[@MarcusFlemmings]

You said it best here "nostalgia through remakes "!

[@roblee1066]

Short story versus novel.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Love this!

[@compelledpluto]

Tv is my favorite especially when you get some banger shows like andor or the clone wars or Ted lasso

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Can't disagree!

[@dariostabletopminatures]

Blur / OASIS.... Blur! I only live in the 80s and 90s. And I ia m bringing some of it back!

[@MarcusFlemmings]

INCREDIBLE TUNES! The good old 90s!

[@jazsebastian]

A lot of crap, my stuffs gonna be real epic with time, the terrible artists that can't write songs get heaps of funding and support and those who are destined for greatness struggle with money to get top quality/competitive post production done for their songs :/

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Can not agree more!

[@christopher.k.kasandajr9979]

I'm in my early 20s and my favorite genre is classical (Vivaldi's storm is chef's kiss). I've grown up despising modern music for some of the reasons you've mentioned and I've found that it's prevented me from relating to a lot of youths my age and making a lot of friends. But I'll gladly take the classics to the edge of infinity if it means my friend group is down to less than a handful. As an aspiring novelist I truly appreciate your work Marcus, and I hope bad car chases vs good car chases makes a comeback.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

I've stopped watching TV and I'm kind of done with it, because yes, there are gems amongst the dross, but the dross is so much more in sheer volume that it's not worth trawling through it to find them. I'd rather get a curated selection and I find that just listening to opinions of people like yourself can winnow the wheat from the chaff. But sometimes I can get surprised too. Like YT has a like of AI-voiced movie recap channels, and they're somehow, even getting current releases Ike Liam Neeson's Absolution (2024). And even in that recap format, you could see Neeson, despite being typecast, acting his socks off, and despite the so-so reviews, I'd want to go and see it for his performance. Discernment only comes with age, experience, and a willingmess to learn from one's mistakes, and effort not to repeat them, which is the message of Absolution, but is also the grace that I hope the Only Fans girls get as they get older. Because people will not be kind to them in the future when their looks and youth fade. And they can carve out some grounded and sustainable sense of self-esteem that's not based on them being used up and discarded when their attractiveness is gone. And the saddest thing is, that girls like this will want to strive to top such stunts, such as these, and the price will be even higher, each and every time. And it's going to get uglier. But Marcus, nobody is born like that. That failure of judgement was curated. Not everybody is lucky enough to have a childhood that nourishes them and sets them up for life. These girls definitely are suffering from their nuturing being deficient. They are somebody's daughter, and the men are the sons of people out there too. Both are screwed up. I hope they get out of the trap and have a really happy life some day.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

It's a spiral into a place of straight to release movies! With very low budget and bad scripts :(

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

I know, and perhaps as a mature industry, it's inevitable because the corporations only find meaning in the bottom line and their stock options. But, you know as an insider the medium isn't always the message. Cinema when done well is art that communicates meaning, and the message that the artist wants to pass on gets through.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

P. S. To close the circle, imagining writing a script for a film about Mme Pelicot, the woman whose husband drugged her and invited at least 50 identified men of all ages and classes to rape her. Mme Pelicot's case pulled the mask off a very ugly seam in our culture. And it would be interesting to do a film or documentary contrasting the Only Fans phenomenon with her lived experience. Art can elevate those stories to explore some uncomfortable truths than need to see daylight.

[@seanr-m4262]

Hans Zimmer still got it for music

[@MarcusFlemmings]

He's a legend!

[@gamervet4760]

5:07 See, I just watch Dexter. Over and over. It's really the only show I legitimately like. I even immensely enjoyed New Blood. Original Sin is just animating a corpse. Not worth watching because I watch Dexter for Michael. Patrick is not Dexter, and he never will be to me. He's doing a piss poor imitation. I do admit I'm kinda excited for Resurrection coming next summer. Not sure what it entails, but if it's bad, I still have 9 seasons of Michael being on fire playing my favorite anti-hero.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

I need to watch it again...loved it first time around!

[@gamervet4760]

@MarcusFlemmings People despise seasons 6 and 8. They are weaker, but the character consistency is there. Which is why I still enjoy them.

[@ChemAndAdrenaline]

Oi, Marcus! Go watch Hi Ren by Ren. I'd love to see your reaction to his video and song.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Ren by Ren...what kind of music?

[@ChemAndAdrenaline]

@@MarcusFlemmings The artist himself has done everything from hip-hop to rock. Specifically this one, It's him rapping, but in sort of the style of a bard, with some singing. It's quite unique, but IMO, quite good. It's a 9 minute tune, but it doesn't feel that long.

[@lorisnb2620]

bruh the music take is pretty bad

[@MarcusFlemmings]

You think? Which modern artists do you like? Would love to hear...

[@lorisnb2620]

@@MarcusFlemmings sorry if the comment came of toxic, didn't mean that, i think you are are pretty open to different opinions, so thank you. First of all i would say, that if you think of older music, you will mostly think of the good, because everything bad doesn't stand the test of time. But there is an argument to be made that modern music is worse, just because of the broader availability to distribute and produce. Which leads to much more "trash" coming out and makes it harder to find something actually good. And of course, depending on the genre, like Jazz for example, less music comes out, leading to fewer good jazz albums. And for the artists, it depends on what you exactly mean. You mean new artists or older artists, which still produce good music? For both there are many that I could name you. For the First: BCNC, Death Grips ofc., Maruja, Little Simz, Mount Eerie etz.. For the second: Swans, The Cure, The Strokes, GYBE, Beth Gibbons, Nas. Just to name a few. What do you think about everything i wrote?

[@MarcusFlemmings]

@lorisnb2620 your music choice is very varied! Similar to mine. Nah I meant, new artists. Not new music, per se. Beth Gibbons most recent album is good. And so on. I think do think that older music is better though - for example, Fantano does reviews - I've barely watched one of them this year as there's been hardly any new music :(

[@lorisnb2620]

@@MarcusFlemmings i know what you mean, it obviously depends on what you're looking for and the same type of music like much of the older does sadly not come out anymore

[@lorisnb2620]

@@MarcusFlemmings maybe you know the site alr but if not rym will surely help you find something you would like

[@diegofernandezmelcon4459]

Sorry, Marcus, but I don't buy your distinction between film and TV based on duration (neither I agree with Tarantino's explanation). I give you an example: The Twilight Zone. Each 25 minute's episode developed a full story, self-contained. Following your definition, "To Serve Man" is more a film than "The Godfather", because in the TV episode you tell a full story in less time. There is something else, a "je ne sais quoi" (it's your area of expertise, man, not mine!). The way a film tells the story is different, the editing, the filming, the kind of shots,... I know that "Pyscho", from Alfred Hitchcock, was done using some techniques Hitchcock developed while he was doing "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", a TV series. There is something else. But it's more than Tarantino telling me that TV series are soap operas because they develop the characters much more than films. It looks like films don't care about character's construction, and that's false. About social media, it's a loudspeaker for anyone at a minimum cost. You need a lot of money and people to make a film, but social media can be done by yourself only. And that's good and bad.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Love this comment, firstly. Secondly, so I did put a counter argument to my point - by saying that when TV is done correctly, it's better and more dense - because it has more room for scope. GREAT TV can be better than film. But for me, there's something beautiful about crafting something that is a one-off piece of work that lasts forever. Nothing can beat that. TV series by their very nature are meant to be episodic and therefore last from 1-10 seasons. It feels like McDonalds. Film feels like the most beautiful one-off meal you could ever have!

[@satyb]

I think you are wasting your time on these social commentary videos, are you trying to be the British Joe Rogan ? Blur v Oasis was Marketing, back in the 70's my friends and I were in Slade or The Sweet camp (deliberate). Porno records Self Marketing, back in 80's Edwina Currie's daughter tried to become a pop star by confessing that she had once been in a threesome, can't even remember her name so her career did not take off. Film, TV, books, paintings, graphic novels, songs all tell a story in their own way and cannot be truly dupilcated by another medium. I am 65, I saw The Clash and The Sweet play live when I was young, in the last year I have seen W H Lung and bdrmm play live and enjoyed both them and a plenty of other new music such as Nabihah Iqbal. Modern music that you will like is out there if you have the interest and patience to look.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

I vaguely remember Edwina Currie's daughter...I think she was around in the 90's as well! I've never heard of The Sweet though...I need to do some research!

[@satyb]

@@MarcusFlemmings The Sweet used in the trailer kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKWoamCla8l1e6s from the streetcar slap onwards Ballroom Blitz

[@joshpinchuk7061]

Not liking it.

[@MarcusFlemmings]

Oh dear!

[@deodane4065]

Park Life! Modern music is trash....