I agree entirely with Hazzat. I cannot stand these kind of threads any more than I can stand ageing pretentious film critics saying "THE OLD FILMS WERE BETTER THAN THIS MODERN CRAP!!"

This is not 'The Golden Age of Brickfilms' any-more. Sorry about that - but its not coming back. Take a leaf out of every single medium and Post-Modernise! Just Kidden, Darkman, FancyPants, Kinzcove, KG - these Brickfilmers are all part of a new wave. Follow their example, and INNOVATE! RE-IMAGINE! POST-MODERNISE! Don't try to recreate 'The Golden Age of Brickfilms' - make an entirely new Age!!

Oh, and before you call me hypocritical for saying this: I recently made a Brickfilm entirely in a selection of UN-subtitled foreign languages. INNOVATE! RE-IMAGINE! POST-MODERNISE!

(And not all Star Wars/Indiana Jones/Batman Brickfilms are bad. Its just there are very few good ones. There is still potential...)

Some wise man once said "History is the worlds greatest spam blocker". For example, everyone says "In the 70's we had Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. Today we have Justin Bieber" - when in reality there were probably many Bieber-equivalents back in the 70's, and the fact I cannot name any proves how History buries mediocrity. Has no-one here watched Amadeus?

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Max Butcher, you are the radicalest person on this earth.

Has Brickfilming ever been at the top of the hill to begin with? I haven't been a Brickfilmer for long (1 year perhaps) but I do know this is a relatively new art form. It began roughly 27 years ago, are we really worried that its already reached its peak?

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Looking over this, wouldn't the best way to resolve this issue be, make more good films? Something I do feel that hurts us a bit, is the fact that good brickfilms don't get the hype, views, and fame that they should. It pains me to see a film such as Smeagol's Cashman 3 below 10,000 views, while other terrible videos recieve a ton of views. I think, as though some good brickfilmers feel like since they don't get any attention when they work hard, why try at all? Just "liking", and commenting on a video, can make the film maker's day. Encouragment works.

A bit of rambling, but I hope I got my point across.

I think the fact that a lot of the good animations have so few of views is because the creators do not upload content regularly (weekly or bi-monthly). I'm not putting down on them or anything, because hey, we all have lives. School is time consuming. Sure, having people watch and enjoy my videos is a wonderful experience, especially when they let me know about it. But, I too enjoy what I make. I'll sit on my computer watching my animations over and over and over again just because I enjoy my work. Having these two put together is great. I would hope, for myself at least, that having people comment and watch my videos would be icing on the already-delicious cake. I'm not saying that is always true about myself, but its a great attitude to strive for I think.

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Good point

Doesn't the cliche state that the following generation of brickfilmers will replace them? So far, this generation is lacking quality. But where did all great animators start? After getting inspired by Keshen8, xxxfancypantsxxx, filmyguy, 0ldScratch or NathanWells they make their terrible first film with a shaky camera on a mis-functional tripod they bought from China! (Well, I can't speak for everybody.) So, even though at present the current youth demographic of brickfilmers lack skill in the art doesn't mean we won't improve. The only thing we can hope for is that more experienced brickfilmers will assist younger and less skilled filmmakers.

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I've wrote half a dozen reasons on why Brickfilming has gone downhill, how creativity and ideas have been seeping away, now that people can just copy other people, in pretty much every respect, and nobody says otherwise. Then I thought that this has been happening for 100s of years. How many people have invented amazing things, for other people to just come along and take the credit? No matter how much people try to stop this sort of plagiarism.

And that's just it. Plagiarism.

But seeing as we're all amateurs, our only solution is to keep trying, ourselves, to make original stories, sets, and films. Quit looking at those who show us brickfilmers in bad light, and just keep striving for originality within our own small community. And that's all you can do.