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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3503463" data-attributes="member: 32740">But that is Hollywood in a nutshell.  Honestly, I sincerely believe that making money is clearly secondary to ego gratification when it comes to making movies in Hollywood.  AFAIK PG-rated movies still routinely rake in more money than R-rated movies, but there are far more R-rated features made, showing to naturally smaller audiences and earning less money.  What could explain that except that money is NOT the primary interest of the typical Hollywood filmmaker?  The primary interest (and this is supported by the otherwise inexplicable focus upon the Oscars) is stroking your own ego, largely by earning the praise of your peers rather than the general public.Now that sounds harsh but it's meant somewhat less as a criticism than just as an observation.  It's literally visible in the contracts that movie stars sign.  When they become bankable stars their contracts will hold them to 2 or 3 studio films and then they are given the chance to make "their movie" which is inevitably a spendy, self-indulgent, pretentious, boring film, targetted to earn "respect" for their artistic dedication and skills, but that you can't get people to see with free beer and a subpoena.Really, we're just fortunate that out of all that Hollywood crap we still get movies worth seeing at ALL on anything like a regular basis.</blockquote>