Live Poll: Best Vine Star

You aren't alone, I didn't even know that this platform existed.

Most of what I even know about Vine or TikTok is based of whichever of its contents wound up duplicated onto YouTube, often years after premiering on the site or app of origin.

Thank you, @dan_dassow!

I've updated the thread.

TikTok will be next, I guess.

:P

@cinephile IMDb just uses "Movie" in a wider meaning which is short for moving picture and is synonymous with what is now often called audiovisual media. Movies were and still are first and foremost types of such media, but I will always defend IMDb's decision on expanding to things such as music videos and even commercials. As with any type of media, there are multitudes of failed endeavours of these two kinds, but then there are also genine works of art by celebrated filmmakers. Same with anything, really, audiovisual masterpieces are already found on YouTube and Instagram, at times. Vine, I guess, was just too restricted not to be short-lived and fade out in a few years. 

Also, some people noted that if "Movie" changes to "Media" abbreviation IMDb will be the same, btw. :)

 Same with anything, really, audiovisual masterpieces are already found on YouTube and Instagram, at times.

I disagree, I'm gonna call a YouTube video a masterpiece when it is gonna be as good as Touch of Evil. I have begun to watch YouTube in 2012, 3 years before being interested in films, I never found any masterpieces on it. 

If I would dare to generalize, then I would suggest that YouTubers are too poor or too greedy to not only produce a movie having the qualities of Touch of Evil but also upload it to the site as a video entry for normal anonymous viewing like most YouTube content. The hardest challenge to overcome really is finding skillful actors to bring a decent script to life, and editing all of what was recorded, since the matters of cinematography can relatively easily be dealt with via drones and sophisticated open source algorithms.

Of curiosity, I should ask you, cinephile, to identify a movie with no violence and no sex in it that you consider to be a masterpiece. This is actually kind of important, by the way. Do you have an answer?

Of curiosity, I should ask you, cinephile, to identify a movie with no violence and no sex in it that you consider to be a masterpiece. This is actually kind of important, by the way. Do you have an answer?

So far, the ones I can think of are In the Mood for Love, Babette's Feast, The Age of Innocence, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Awakenings. I found your post while researching on the forum for a poll I'm creating on the subject. Sorry for replying so late.

In general, films revolve around conflicts. Therefore, they tend to include violence and sex. Most films and TV series without violence and sex are destined for children.

Well, those are good examples. I've seen The Day the Earth Stood Still and Awakenings, but not Mood for Love, Babette's Feast or Age of Innocence. I can see the challenges that a small independent studio might face in creating something bearing the same high quality as those two films. I understand that typical films revolve around conflicts, but there are limits to how graphic they can be if they are expected to be freely viewed through broadcast television or websites like YouTube. In theory, ad-supported content marked as restricted (meaning that viewing requires registration) cannot make as much revenue as ad-supported content that can be viewed anonymously. Perhaps, even if that is not the case, then for similar reasons, the cinematic works of third party content creators for websites like YouTube would rarely raise above the quality of made-for-television movies, in a situation whereby a disparity of technical impressiveness has always existed between the silver screen and television, especially concerning feature-length movies rather than short movies. All in all, in another way of looking at it, big-time studios simply won't, as a third party, commission projects intended for original publication through a website or similar platform, and likewise skilled filmmakers won't assemble the proper crew to make a major movie for the same avenue, because of the apparent lacks of profitability and exposure.