#918 - Critical Drinker - Why Do Modern Movies Suck So Much?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Critical Drinker is a movie critic, an analyst of modern entertainment media and a YouTuber. What happened to Hollywood? Despite bigger budgets than ever, shows and films are struggling to thrive. Thankfully, Critical Drinker points to some pretty obvious and some not-so-obvious key reasons for why there is such a disconnect. Expect to learn all about what is happening with the new James Bond shows, if the woke message is really dead in Hollywood, Critical Drinker’s thoughts on the Oscars, if Star Wars is redeemable or if it is completely left in the past, if audiences hate strong female characters or if its bad writing, what the fuck George R.R. Martin is doing instead of writing the last book, and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM10) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is happening with James Bond? Give me the updates.
0:03.8	It's a bit of a mess at the moment.
0:05.9	So in a nutshell, it is now been corporatized.
0:10.1	The Broccoli family who have been running James Bond on screen
0:14.3	ever since the 1960s, and I can't believe I'm saying the word broccoli in relation to James Bond,
0:18.8	but there it is.
0:20.6	It was originally Albert
0:22.8	Broccoli and then his daughter Barbara took over. And they have, in a way, safeguarded it to
0:28.3	some degree. It's debatable how good of a job they did in the Daniel Craig era, but, you know,
0:33.0	they kept it from becoming too exploited. I think they got a little bit frustrated with dealing with
0:39.4	Amazon who had bought over MGM, which ultimately owns the rights to Bond. And so the most
0:46.0	recent development is that they have tapped out essentially. And now Amazon have got full
0:50.5	creative control over the Bond franchise. and they are already talking about turning
0:55.0	it into the next Marvel Cinematic Universe. Essentially, you're going to have the Bond Cinematic Universe,
1:00.5	so what they want to do is spin-offs of Moneypenny, and can she shuffle files quickly enough
1:07.1	to meet her deadlines, and, you know, Bond the early years when he was a kid.
1:11.4	And, you know, we're probably going to have TV shows with all the other double O agents, you know,
1:16.1	with all them getting like their own little spinoffs and then having big team up events.
1:20.6	That's what they want to do.
1:21.7	It's about exploitation of the IP.
1:24.3	So that's where we're at now.
1:25.7	And it's not a good place to be, sadly. There's a reason
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