r/FilmTalk

It's me again, a weirdo☺😁
I don't watch a movie without a purpose, and neither like every movie. Some days ago [before yesterday], I was so confused in my own life or not confused, but depressed(Not depressed, but a feeling and condition for which i don't have any word) so I watched Ranbir Kapoor's movies, but the old ones, and honestly, they were like therapy.
Can you please suggest some movies like therapy, hero heroin lovestory wali waghera nahi i don't like them, aisi movie jo cinema mein jaan daalny wali ho, jis mein insaan khud ko imagine karein.

I just watched DRIB after Sick of Myself came out. The fake energy drink promo made me go, “oh, he’s been at this for years.” Then I caught myself. That’s an easy way to make a career look planned.

In my opinion, Sick of Myself is a nasty little spiral. Dream Scenario turns an awkward guy into a public event. The Drama squeezes it all into one couple. They don’t feel like the same movie to me. The characters do keep getting stuck on how others see them, though.

For a while Kristoffer Borgli was just “the Dream Scenario guy” in my head. Now people talk like there’s a clear master plan. I’m not sure how much of that is hindsight.

When did he become someone you'd watch just for his name? And what ties the movies together?

I was looking through the top box office releases from the late 90s and 2000s, and the variety is staggering. Back then, a major American studio would happily greenlight a smart adult thriller, an original romantic drama, or a high-concept sci-fi without it needing to be part of a pre-existing multi-film franchise universe. Today, the industry has become completely polarized. A movie is either a $200 million franchise blockbuster greenlit by a corporate committee or a micro-budget indie darling fighting for a single week in a local arthouse theater. By erasing the middle tier, we are starving out our best mid-career writers and directors who need that exact playground to hone their craft. Accountants are running Hollywood instead of creatives, and it shows. What mid-budget classic from the last few decades could never get made in today’s studio system?