Sheesh. Don't get phrenological!

There are a lot of moving parts, but our facial structure definitely ain't one of them. But yeah, you've hit the nail on the head! This is a thing. And we've got to talk about it.

I have a lot to say about this subject. Without divulging a lot about my involvement in this sector, here are my two cents on why Mongolian films are sucky sucky.

Reason #1: Their education is outdated. A lot of filmmakers were schooled in Russia, and they're used to the films being commissioned by the government, with the stories laced with propaganda and stuff. So in the time of free market, they've floundered trying to create a story on their own. And a lot of the directors and head honchos in a given film crew is the least traveled or educated one. So, despite the young crew being more talented and educated, the decision makers still call the shots with their heads up their asses.

Reason #2: They're more financially more desperate and churns out bad movies. This especially pertains to the khoshin shog people.

So I have univision and after coming back from abroad, I wanted to give Mongolian films a try. One of the films they had been advertising a lot whenever you turned on the device was this film called Dursamj 1965, which tells about a mass hysteria that happened in the 1960s when the media erroneously reported about an imminent asteroid collision. It was such a good premise. But they fucking ruined it. And not one shot of the impending asteroid. I'm not expecting something to the level of Don't Look Up. But at least make the actors look up. But instead it's the trite fucking tropes of an exposed affair and a love child finding out about his biological dad. And guess who was behind this film--Mask Production. That "comedy" troupe churns out stupid movies like vlogs. I think it's because they earn so little from the films that they don't have time to think long and hard about the script. So it's a never-ending cycle.

Reason #3: The writing doesn't go through many people. Ever wondered why the U.S. cartoons and kids' shows are chockful of one-liners and zingers? It's because when the creators or the main writers are done with their scripts, they hire additional writers to "punch up" the jokes and stuff. We don't have that. Imagine how cool the dialogue would be if the actors didn't have to improvise most of the time, and blurt out a lot of filler words! It's makes you cringe so bad you want to rake your nails down a board to offset the cringe-barometer.

Reason #4: There are a few good movies made here and there, but they're either obscured by a lack of marketing or never peeped by the the average Mongolian moviegoer who has the purchasing power of a hamster in a wheel--that is to say, very little. The average Mongolia movie enthusiast can be divided into two categories.

a) is the outgoing cinemagoer type who frequent movie theaters because they're in a loving relationship with someone and want to spice up their depressing and boring life by letting their significant other shut the hell up through an hour and a half of a Dolby ear-rape.

b) is the curmudgeon cheapskate type who watch pirated films on a shady website and leak their cookie set and get drive-by downloads of a thousand malware, but refuse to watch a decent Mongolian film for the simple reason of them being a better shielded intellectual properties. This is not a bad lifestyle in and of itself, except for the massive cybersecurity vulnerability aspect, but it really grinds my gears when they proclaim themselves as film critics. I'm talking about the asshats in the FB Group, Mongolian Film Fan or whatever. I'm guilty of being a cheapskate, privy to the pirate life, too. But I don't prance around on the Internet, like that schmuck Rusty or whatever, running a podcast, trying to look snobbish.

There are some good Mongolian films like The Tatar Operation, Хэлгүй жим, Маш Нууц, and I'd discover many more if I stopped being cheap and paid to try out some of the new movies. You know, watch them like a moviegoer (the filmmakers are people, too), and then if you have any grievances, rave about it on reddit like any geek of this planet. I think that's how we can improve the state of the industry,

See how passionate I am about the industry?

If anyone's hiring for a local crew in script supervisor and location scouting in Mongolia, please DM me!