How to Fix the Film Industry
Use Shame(TM)!
Lobbing attention and awards at a handful of movies obscures how awful the studio movies really are. I propose that the Oscars are revamped into what amounts to an annual performance review for the studios.
What you do is a get a standard measure of goodness for movies - such as the Metacritic number or Tomatometer number or just some convenient figure to use for every movie. Then you do the following 3 measures:
1. Equal weighted average review. This will reward the few decent films that come out that no one actually watches.
2. Box office take weighted average review. This will punish those who pump out crappy popcorn movies.
3. Production cost weighted average review. This is the most important, I think, since it is more of a performance figure - studios can control the money they put into each movie. If they pour tons of money into shitty movies, then their number will suck.
And this is, of course, all done on a studio by studio basis. The award show then becomes a useful exercise in revealing how awful the movies that a particular studio is making, rather than the useless circle jerk that it currently is.
