🚽<p>This is a beautiful bit of prose talking a bit about the state of Western cinematic art.</p><p>(from the description of Best of The Worst: Plinketto #12 by Red Letter Media (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGki5Lr_ISw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGki5Lr_ISw</a>).)</p><blockquote><p>As the age of movies draws to a close, the boys at RLM are happy to have a very large collection of trash films that have been produced and released in the decades past. Films made by weird independent studios, cheapskate con-artists, and legit insane people. Exploitation films, movies with confusing plots, weird filmmaker visions that make no sense, embarrassing performances, terrible films made for the sole purpose so a perverted old man can open-mouth kiss an uncomfortable and disgusted young woman, awful discount and often reused visual FX, and some of the world’s ugliest people. Needless to say, unless you’re Donald Farmer, they don’t make them like they used to. Films today are made by Studios, Netflix, Amazon, etc and undergo a rigorous procedural vetting process. Algorithm compliance, plot beats calculated by computers to maximum engagement statistical sever product farming, actors and actresses that are “comfortable” and “safe” on set (if there is a set). Committees of lawyers, writers, producers and input content analytical engineers who have MBA and degrees from MIT to computer calculate the ultimate streaming product that will provide maximum efficiency for the data and number crunchers to release and stream said products to shareholder satisfaction.</p><p>Thankfully, time has not eroded away our VHS and DVDs that showcase a magical time when artists took risks. Made a movie based on a singular weird idea that wasn’t tested before a focus group. These movies are real, raw, and disturbing, but often magical. When we pop a tape in or a DVD we never really know what’s going to happen. I’m glad you are all here to join us on this seemingly never-ending adventure into 1s and 0s and magnetic tape stock to discover what humans have created before the dark times. Before the Empire.</p><p>Also Rich Evans is now wearing a toupee. Now THAT’S embarrassing.</p></blockquote><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/artisdead" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artisdead</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/baldies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#baldies</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/consolidation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consolidation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/corpos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corpos</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/designbycommittee" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#designbycommittee</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/groan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#groan</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/hrisintheroom" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hrisintheroom</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/movies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/murikanpuritans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#murikanpuritans</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/pearlclutching" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pearlclutching</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/prigs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prigs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/puritans" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#puritans</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/redlettermedia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#redlettermedia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/rlm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rlm</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/sigh" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sigh</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/suits" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#suits</a></p>