Monday, 3 October 2022

Amazon has its own low bar for movies

If you've heard recently Amazon's become a viable distributor of bad independently made films, it's basically true. Having seen people react to some of these films, it's been killing me they've lowered the bar much like they did for books so they could flood Amazon Prime with absolutely shit content. Granted, Contrapoints failed to get her YouTube series approved, which is professionally made but sadly too full of gay content, it still suggests there is some gatekeeping. But if you have a shitty movie with mild Christian undertones, you may be in luck with Amazon. Provided you've uploaded a movie of reasonable quality in terms of visual/audio presentation, even if it has a terrible plot and appalling acting, it'll likely be approved for distribution. Sure, Amazon withholds the right to remove this (I'd say from poor views but it could be anything) at their discretion, but you can put your godawful God movie on there. Amazon's willingness to make money with publishing anyway possible couldn't stop at books. The only major difference is, most people's shitty books are never taken down unless there's a valid copyright strike, and given I barely had to prove my retention of rights, I'd say most of remained.

On top of that, I've been watching a show they salvaged from good old SyFy called The Magicians. It's been a pretty good show but they actually "stole" some of my ideas.

  1. Girl throws positive pregnancy test in a rage over discovering unwanted child who will be destined to fulfill some prophecy.
  2. Race of not so nice elementals (theirs were evil fairies and mine were indifferent sylphs but their demeanor was similar) conspire to take first born of human couple for own purposes without regard to human couple/child
  3. Malevolent dryad character spurned by humans retaliates and laments being abused.
It's always bizarre to see someone else give a visual representation of an idea you wrote independent of the show. I don't plan on publishing the above, but it's always in my head if I did, I'd be the one accused of thievery. If I were more open, I'd say I'd written these and comment on the strange coincidence, all the while reminded of the collective unconsciousness of humanity and the fact there are no new idea.

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