With the recession strangling the creativity and imagination out of the mainstream film world, more and more movies seem to be retreading familiar ground. Major studios desperately want to give their film some street cred so they setup boutique studios that make smaller films, but really, they’re ultimately under the thumb of the big guys. This results in neither super expensive studio films that can be great popcorn fun, nor a witty subversive imaginative independent film that challenges its audience. Instead, we end up with something caught in the middle, that feels like a studio film pandering to savvy audiences. This video captures that aesthetic brilliantly.