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Your comments on your own blog are not evidence, just your opinion. as for your one-sentence argument:

Because the means of production are still locked down.

Garbage. It has never been cheaper or easier to make a movie. It's what I do for a living, and I find your complaint laughably ignorant.




If you want to distribute online, sure. "Movie" is loosely defined: To get a showing in full-size theatre screens across America, for whatever that's worth, most indie/Youtube/Vimeo filmmakers don't have access, even for content that is vastly more popular than the bottm 25% of what does hit the cineplex.


Yup. And there is a great deal of interesting indie motion-picture making- YouTube and Vimeo have essentially torn down the barriers to distribution. Granted, very little of it is 90-120 minutes long, but so what?




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