Well, a newfangled streaming service, that'd be Netflix, has an offer to buy an old school

Hollywood movie studio, that'd be Warner Brothers, and a lot of people are saying this is the

beginning of the end of movies as we understand it, and they may be right, but not for the

reasons that they think they are.

Hi, everybody, I'm Bill Little, here with Steve Green and Scott Ott.

And gentlemen, I'm sure both of you have heard of the Critical Drinker, who basically was just a YouTuber with an angle who is also a screenwriter.

And through really astute and incredibly funny series of reviews, I think has become the most important film reviewer in the country today.

Absolutely.

By far.

Well, Critical Drinker took a look at this, and his initial take on it was, is that movies

are dying because of the inconvenience of going to the movies.

And I've heard this argument made before.

He added some refinements that reflect kind of modern audiences, teens being on their cell phones or watching TikTok videos during the film and so on and so on and so on.

Basically making the case that the reason this is happening is that going to the movies is just so much trouble and it's just so much easier to watch them at home on your big screen TV.

But I don't think that's the problem at all.

I think the problem is, is that every movie that has been out for theatrical release, I think,

maybe with two exceptions I can think of, just plain suck. The movies that are available to go

to see at a movie theater are just awful. And I think the reason that they're just awful is because the

population has changed in such a way that we no longer have the tools to make a good movie.

And so let's get into that. Scott, let's start with you. Let's look at the financial

aspect of this. The studios decision-making metrics for producing good movies.

There was a time, especially back in the early 70s, when these network executives were coming from the ranks of artists and writers and producers.

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