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What is your cinema hot take?
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The Disney-churn Marvell/Star Wars slop has ruined the film industry. No one is willing to risk a thing on original IP when remakes/reboots/continuations are taking in the bank.
We will never see another Stranger Than Fiction, or Dead Poets Society or, Eternal Sunshine while the low hanging fruit is such a hot commodity. And it will never not be a hot commodity.
Original movies like that are still being made, much much more than ever before.
Just not in Hollywood. And you won't get a trailer for those movies fed to you by Youtube's algorithm, you have to look for them yourself.
My recent favorites were Flow and The Outrun (both from 2024).
Edit: Using this comment to plug one of my favorite original movies of all time:
The Guard (2011)
(The first 2 minutes set the tone of the movie well)
Yeah people will only consume content that had been marketed to them then turn around and complain that no original stuff is being made :'(
It's funny cause I'm old enough to remember the exact same thing being said during times that are now considered a golden age.
So really we should vote with our wallets and agree to not watch cinema pollution like that then
Waaaay ahead of you. It’s too bad way too many people still watch that shit enough to justify it.
Sadly, I think that slop flicks will remain popular the same way and for the same reasons McDonald's is.
I agree with your point about established ip being safe and attractive to executives.
I disagree with your point about "never see another eternal sunshine" type movie. Everything everywhere all at once. The substance. Sinners. There are gems.
This was a problem before Marvel or the Star Wars reboots. Execs will always go for what seems safer and an established IP with a fanbase is safer than something brand new. A tale as old as time.
And they're right. People are more willing to pay for things they're familiar with. People keep blaming movie studios for doing what People clearly want.
Also cinema is so old that nothing new happens. The same problem occurred in the 30s, 50s, etc... each time needing a "new wave" to break the execs out of their trance.
Who controls which movies make money? The audience does.
Who controls which movies are produced?
They choose based on what will make money. People keep complaining that they have the nerve to produce what people will most likely pay to see. If the majority of the audience really didn't want franchises, they'd stop paying to see them
You’re proving my point without an effort. Thank you.
The same thing happened in the 50s with big budget epic movies trying to appeal to everyone, I think Cleopatra was at the tail end of it.