Episode 84: Why Do Movies Suck Now? ft. Will Tavlin

March 29th, 2022  |  55 mins 11 secs

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Will Tavlin joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live in. They talk about the insanity of the original multiplex model of screening, why digital is so hard to archive, the deadness of major blockbuster films, the importance of forming aesthetic communities to preserve cultural memory, and more!