"2023 destroyed Hollywood forever"

So much hyperbole.

We got plenty of that in 2023, just not so much with blockbuster movies. The "Summer" type movies just aren't as good as they used to be and are getting lazier in many cases, but we still get good stuff like Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

I think 2023 was a great year for movies, just not a good year for sequels or huge budget movies. There are too many sequels anyhow. 

The problem is people don't feel the need to go see smaller movies at the cinema anymore, because they can just watch them at home a month later in many cases. 

I think the length of many movies is causing people to not go to the cinema in some cases as well. Killers of the Flower Moon for example. Unless you are a hardcore Scorsese fan you aren't likely to go see a period piece that is 3.5 hours long at the cinema.

Your audition is complete, Nova. I've reviewed it with the Society of White Men and we've agreed you can sit at the big table. In that little spot between the Uncle Tom and the self hating Mexican right there. Just squeeze in. Congratulations.

Movies can never be as exciting or special as they were when the technology was new (unless it gets into holograms though I don't think that would be enough either) but the main problem today is that artistic works require a certain kind of passionate engagement to do enduring quality and the centralized corporate mentality makes that impossible.

When they were more dependent on actors to promote a film, they required better writers--but these days neither the star nor writer has any importance--they are selling visual noise at best.

Plus--they no longer see North America and Western Europe as the audience--they see the globe. So they try to make things that can translate universally--meaning it has to be devoid of the standard character or plot that was commonplace 40-50 years ago (although the big studios made a lot of incomprehensible box office duds back then--but they had a larger output and a lot more competition in theaters from smaller companies-nowadays those companies would be on streaming).
It's like trying to make a film in the lobby of the UN.

And their disdain for European culture-- ironic--the culture that developed film technology is treated like a pariah--doesn't help because much of the time when people say "I wish film was more like 1960" they mean they wish it was more focused, more homogeneous etc.

There's no hope for the big six media companies changing.
Not unless they sell or break up.

Smaller companies are the only solution but even the ones that claim to be devoid of propaganda are just peddling their own type based on the plot summaries I have seen.

The Daily Wire films are like that. The one with Gina Carano--where they are fighting Confederates (white supremacists) in the Wild West.

They have to get rid of basic impairments to storytelling like "the male protagonist must be weak or fail or require a UN support team to succeed.).
A Fistful Of Dollars could not be made under that rule because the protagonist--while having some help, is still too independent for the corporate philosophy. And the fact that he was fighting to reunite a Mexican family would be seen as a white savior trope now too.
You just cannot win with multicultural tokenism.
Someone is always offended.

Wait I don’t quite understand, so The Force Awakens was crappy, why is he taking it out on other movies? Like I don’t understand what his point is.

2023 was one more successful movie away from being one of the best years for movies this century. It ended up becoming a bit of a Barbenheimer-then-everything-else year, but there were plenty of excellent movies and surprise hits.