I’m looking forward to the coming superhero universe reboot - now with fun CGI animal.
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The Phoenician Scheme was fairly original.
Wes Anderson movies are both original and not at all original. The stories are original, but the style is always the same. That said, I love his style, but recently his movies have almost parodies of themselves. I haven’t enjoyed his latest stuff.
A grenade, in this thread? Thank you, you’re very kind.
And it is setting up to be a box office flop. Wes Anderson is apparently the only one who is allowed to make original scripts and even that seems to be wearing thin.
Judging movies by how much money they made some executive is the most uninteresting and capitalist way of thinking about films and stories.
The conversation is literally why these movies don’t get made. And it’s because the average movie viewer is uncultured swine who wants to turn their brain off for two hours.
I honestly don’t see any AES countries spending big money on art pieces either.
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If talking animals was actually a common thing, I would be seeing a lot more movies.
We’ve been getting into more robots lately at our place. They have done a great job at creating memeraboe personalities with animated droids.
Are the talking animals sexy?
I’m down for Zootopia 2. And Avatar 3
Also another Shyamalan mindfuck
So… Yes.
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Eukaryotes should be seen and not heard.
Best thing is that internet and technology development has brought us masterpieces like this:
This is a lazy meme, I’ve seen dozens of original movies both foreign and domestic in the last few months, people don’t want to go to the theatre for anything other than IP blockbusters and then complain that IP blockbusters keep getting made, change your habits first
The best stuff at a cinema is rarely plastered all over the front, that’s just advertising for people who don’t really care about movies.
Also if your area is like mine, look for the smaller cinemas that screen the new oddities and forgotten classics
I’m not a big movie theater guy, but I do enjoy heading to the local Alamo Drafthouse occasionally because they have terror Tuesday and weird Wednesday. Then near Halloween it’s like a full day of horror.
Exactly, support your independent theatre’s, they are usually run by people who care about cinema and they have more shows for older classics and modern indies and foreign movies
Get down to 6 Bags Cinema in Victorville. The aircon isn’t great but shows nothing but popcorn classics.
Depends on your town. I live in a small tourist town with one cinema and they only play the biggest hits, focusing on the lowest common denominator. I mean, I’m not even sure they screened Sinners, but they definitely played The Minecraft Movie in 4 (out of 14) theaters for months. If I want to go to a different cinema, I have to drive 45 minutes to get to the next town (where the selection still sucks, but at least they’ve got more screens) or 75 min to get to the closest independent theater.
This is just so inaccurate. Sometimes it’s 90’s reboots and remakes with talking animals, too.
And now, Disneys latest innovation: Live action(ish) reboots with talking animals!
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Why spend time and money making new things when tried and true stuff sells just as well?
Welcome to capitalism, where art goes to die.
But someone said capitalism fostered innovation!?
it can, but requires strong regulation to do so. We don’t have that these days.
nah, only if some rich guy can use it to extract money from as many people as possible.
sinners
Also, 20 minute “trailers” before the actual movie.
I remember when trailer were a big deal. People went to see a movie they didn’t care for just for the trailer. I haven’t watched a trailer for like 15 years and it’s nice when they don’t tell you the whole movie before you saw it.
They’re doing 90s and post 2000s remakes now . See Lilo and Stitch and How to Train your Dragon remakes with 3d and live action incorporated that nobody asked for. I think originality in film and tv is also disappearing, along with many other things heading towards extinction these days
Originality is uncertainty, and shareholders don’t like uncertainty. Better to spend the money on certain failures instead.
In an ideal world, investors (and big shareholders) would be interviewed to see if they’re committed to the thing they’re investing on. “Have millions make me billions” or being a nepo baby shouldn’t be valid reasons. This is why every thing they touch converges to enshittification.
It’s like when games fail and people complain there is no originality
Dude you ain’t buying the original games, you are buying the tried and trusted versions
Dune messiah a franchise exploit? How?
It’s based on the next book in the series. There is a reason for it to exist beyond making money.
anyone who was in for the love of the art already read the books.
Meaning what, that movie adaptations are not necessary? I know that.
The posted list put Dune in with movies that were made based purely on the success of their predecessor, which is not the case for Dune.
Now, while the sequel wouldn’t have been made if its predecessor hadn’t been successful, the books are the driver behind making the movies.
Yeah, e.g. I stopped paying attention to spider man movies for a few years, but the other day I was doing a recap and found that there is a movie with actors/characters from 3 different versions/reboots with the multiverse excuse…this is some dystopian shit.
I know that comics always had heavy intertext and “guest characters”, but having the scriptwriting be driven by stupid circumstantial corporate decisions to buy IP rights to a specific character and then have to restart it multiple times to keep the rights going feels…dystopian?
(but I’ll be thankful if you have any better words than dystopian to describe this bullshit, gpt suggests “soulless” 🙃).
