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Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

I worry too about the state of mid-budget character driven movies, but just because the new Wes Anderson movie or Sofia Coppola movie isn't playing in the same theatre as The Mummy or Guardians of the Galaxy doesn't mean its impossible for audiences to find them. If you live in a major city like Los Angeles or New York there is still a vibrant indie movie culture, and venues to see them. Outside of that fans have Netflix and iTunes and Amazon to find these movies as well. Yes, the indie boom of the 90's isn't as out there in theaters, but its still there, its just up to filmmakers and fans of those films to keep it alive.

funny that you'd mention wes anderson and sofia coppola. they're actually the perfect example of the infantilification i'm talking about

i really like wes anderson, but he's kinda like an overgrown kid. his movies are not really adult movies for adults-- they're all about the gen-xer imaginary childhood, and staying there-- from tenenbaums to zizou to moonrise kingdom to everything like that. wes anderson is a very imaginative kid. he's not a grown-ass man.

as for sofia coppola she's all about the teenager yes? virgin suicides and marie antoinette and the bling ring. the other one which was my favorite was about failed adulthood.

i'd like to see more grownup themes with grownup ideas-- sex/love. power. death. but with a mature approach, not the romantic goobledygook, or the power-as-evil, or the many shit ways movies approach death.

as ilducio said correctly, there are many other countries putting out great stuff. but america still rules the market in many ways, not just on the consumption front but also maybe more importantly for distribution.

dammit. where is the stuff. let me think. mad men. where is the mad men of movies? business. fucking. grownup morally ambiguous conflict instead of goodies vs. baddies. that sort of stuff.

it's on tv