Most of their output is mediocre, but everyone seems to be sucking their dick these days
All my film major friends are constantly talking about how they're the best studio and everything they release is kino
Every A24 film trailer's top comments are variations of "A24 is my favorite studio right now, so I'll watch anything they do."
Is this the work of aggressive shills or is it just a meme?
Some of the films they released in 2016: >The VVitch >Krisha >Green Room >The Adderall Diaries >The Lobster >Swiss Army Man >De Palma >Equals >Into the Forest >Morris from America >The Sea of Trees >American Honey >Moonlight >20th Century Women
Pro-tip: Only two of those films are actual kino, and they were both 2015 festival premieres.
Levi White
Nowadays films have astronomical budgets and it makes it so that the studios meddle more with the final product.
A24 have been making films with low budgets with varying degrees of quality.
Most film students (myself included) want to see the trend of movies being made for less take off, because it gives more control to the artist.
Lincoln Long
>The VVitch >American Honey >Moonlight >20th Century Women These are all kino.
>The Lobster >Swiss Army Man These have their fans, but I didn't care for them.
>Krisha >Green Room >The Adderall Diaries >De Palma >Equals >Into the Forest >Morris from America >The Sea of Trees Either didn't like or didn't see these.
Josiah Ross
De Palma is literally the most irresponsible documentary I've ever seen. Letting a director ramble on about his films, only allowing him ~5 minutes each to talk about each one, without asking ANY questions does not a movie make. Absolutely zero artistry. Baumbach should be ashamed of himself. It's the equivalent of De Palma just ranting in a YouTube-recoreded Skype chat
Mason Ward
>>Krisha >>Green Room
>>De Palma >>Equals >>Into the Forest >>Morris from America
All of these are kino, especially Krisha, I would love to see it get a nomination for anything.
Julian Ramirez
>Most film students (myself included) want to see the trend of movies being made for less take off, because it gives more control to the artist. Fair enough, but can you explain: > Every A24 film trailer's top comments are variations of "A24 is my favorite studio right now, so I'll watch anything they do." Those are all paid shills and sockpuppet accounts, right?
Charles King
>De Palma >Kino
t. embryo who's only seen Carrie, Scarface, and The Untouchables.
Connor Gonzalez
Sounds like kino to me
Ian Jenkins
>Those are all paid shills and sockpuppet accounts, right? Who knows anymore. Its completely unverifiable.
But can you explain: For such a small studio does it really matter?
Andrew Gray
You said it yourself my friend "kino" Easily impressed plebs flock to what they think is "good" because of how underexposed they are to everything else save for plebeian South Korean movies
Gabriel Reed
He barely talks about those 3 movies except Carrie maybe. I've seen most his stuff even Passion which I found to be a total fucking cocktease, what kinda film advertises itself as a lesbian thriller and has no fucking lesbian shit in it at all? I going off the point here.
They have a really good track record.
Wyatt Gomez
If you've ever read anything about De Palma or seen his filmography, you don't learn ANYTHING new. If Baumbach's strategy was to just have De Palma talk to the camera without any prompts whatsoever, it would have been better to have recorded lengthy conversations on Skype or something for YouTube or Vimeo instead of compiling measly soundbites into a joke of a "film" that he would charge people money to see. And playing up the "Holy Mackerel" line to infantilize him--fucking disgraceful.
David White
>He barely talks about those 3 movies except Carrie maybe. Baumbach lets him spend more time talking about The Untouchables than any other film, just because it's "popular," even though it's utter shit.
Angel Martin
Go watch a nature documentary if you want to learn something. Cinema is for feeling, not learning facts.
Jose Fisher
You're absolutely right--and you don't "feel" anything while watching De Palma because it's a sorry excuse of a "film"; it's a glorified YouTube tribute video.
Colton Allen
YouTube is the last bastion for free expression these days. No wonder Marker spent his last year's uploading his clips there.
Aiden Johnson
>the trend of movies being made for less take off
... yea, the first 80 years of film were completely dominated by massive budgets. Independent and low-budget quality films are something that have ONLY just now started this decade.
Owen Sanders
They take chances on "original" stories and give the directors room to breathe.
Not everything they put out is incredible, but compared to the onslaught of shitty big-budget blockbusters, boilerplate Academy fluff, assembly-line Marvel dreck, turgid overstuffed DC """kino""", and cheap Lowest Common Denominator horror flicks; they're making goddamned masterpieces.
They're trying and that's what matters.
Dylan James
anyone have any budget data on A24's movies? All I can find is in the 5-15 million range, which means it's just another shell studio like fox searchlight, sony pictures classics, paramount vantage, etc, thus exists only to raise the barrier for entry for independent film and undermine the credibility of legitimately independent work by setting genre expectations/requirements.
Kevin Hughes
There's a difference between production companies and distributors you fucking tards
Angel Thomas
They distribute dishonest arthouse flicks for people too dumb to get into European cinema
Blake Price
>dishonest This is the new Sup Forums buzzword, huh? What, did you faggots just now discover Armond White?
Luke Cox
>They distribute dishonest arthouse flicks for people too dumb to get into European cinema This. I miss New Yorker Films :(
Caleb Williams
a24 does both
Jordan Adams
They're based. Can't wait for the gayniggerkino torrent to finally drop.
Julian Wright
Looks like reddit found an ebin new buzzword.
Dominic Reyes
All film is dishonest. What matters is how forgiving you are.
Christian Barnes
The only movies it's produced are Moonlight and that Roman Coppola, Charlie Sheen shitshow
Kevin Morgan
Where did I say that low budget movies had never been done before? This is why the school days need to be longer.
Jack Mitchell
You're acting like anyone here knows anything about how films are made
Adam Richardson
Krisha is immensely great. More people need to see it.
Liam Howard
it was good
Jonathan Martin
A24 released it DVD only for some reason though, if they can't be arsed to do a Blu-Ray I doubt they'll put any effort into an Oscar campaign unfortunately.
Seriously though it's 2017 why is this and The Handmaiden getting DVD only releases? Don't people care about what they watch shit on.
Nathan Parker
Into the Forest was disappointing because it doesn't include the sister-incest scene from the book ;_;
Easton Collins
t. didn't watch the deleted scenes
Wyatt Wilson
It's not low budget though. It seems films today are either made for $3 million or $300 million.
Films with $20 million budgets are pretty rare now.
Levi Nguyen
Half the movies with an A24 logo are in that range.
Juan Sullivan
Wait, really??? I watched a torrented copy that lacked such things.
Gabriel Sanders
Thats my point, thats why people like A24
Nathaniel Price
point being there are a lot of mid-range movies being made, as mid-range is what you're talking about, and mid-range isn't new and it definitely isn't unique to A24 right now.
Julian Nelson
Anyone else like The Monster?
Adam Stewart
Oasis: Supersonic was pretty good
Kayden Wood
>watching a movie on amazon prime >see this logo Every fucking time.
Gavin Robinson
What would you prefer? Gravitas Ventures? Bleh.
Jaxson Cruz
De Palma is pretty great, should be required viewing for Sup Forums.
Lucas Diaz
Every one of those is shit. None will be remembered. Pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap. Not interested. You can't manufacture a renaissance. They're just throwing shit at the wall.
Jack Hughes
Why would you delete something like that when it's the punchline of the entire premise? Why the fuck else would anyone want to watch it?
Luke Roberts
Nah, it's about a failed meme dingus. De Palma's made some interesting films but the aggregate of his work is too crappy to reclaim the entire ouevre.
Gavin Sullivan
They have a well above average track record for a distributor, and have the clout to put some of their films into multiplexes where people can actually see them. Most of the time indie films are relegated to the arthouse ghetto in college cities nothing more, so just being seen regardless of quality is a huge part of their reputation
Bentley Long
Mostly this. A24 is somewhere between indie and blockbuster. The director, actors etc. seem to have a lot of creative control and so get to do things that a Sony producer might find "weird"
Wyatt Gutierrez
It's not a ghetto - it's where you could always expect to see the most serious stuff.
So somewhere between worthwhile and futile, ie., not worthwhile. That's what I think too.
Robert Butler
the only movie from them i've seen is the witch and it was kino
Nicholas Sanders
>ex machina >Room >The Witch >Green Room >swiss army man
For only being a company for four years, thats pretty good