But instead they're making a new version of The Crow.
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Gen-X here, we do too
Who are you and how long have you been there???
Your generation only speaks when spoken to!! /s
American audiences are no longer the sole demographic for Hollywood. The audience is global, and high budget films are planned with that in mind. The lowest common denominator is the result.
During his Academy Award speech, Cord Jefferson (who won for the American Fiction screenplay) argued for more low-budget films at the cost of a single big-budget mess. More movies means more types of stories, allowing more niches to be filled. It also creates more industry jobs, and deepens the bench with talent development.
The best way to come up with good ideas is to figure out how to have a lot of ideas in the first place.
The movies of the late 90s are great examples of this. Dozens of different types of new stories made on what are now considered very low budgets. The problem is that without the home video and TV markets those sorts of movies don't make any money. So many 90s classics didn't make much at the box office but made bank on home video or with licensing.
Market conditions have changed, and the product needs to change with it. Just like how MTV hasn't been "music television" for a long, long time.
Personally I feel like we must be due for another Batman movie, they feel the need to make a new one of them every five or six years.
And another Hulk and Fantastic 4.
*Looks at Millenials and Gen-Z queuing round the block for the latest mediocre Marvel horseshit*
You can say you want one thing, but you'll cheerfully pay for whatever the adverts in your tiktoks tell you to buy.
I'll have you know I don't queue up for Marvel horseshit. I put it in my Radarr list like a civilized human being.
From what I understand this keeps happening because "Hollywood money" is afraid of untested "formats." Everyone wants easy money, "no one" (read: investors) wants to create art, they want an "easy" jackpot.
This kills the medium. I haven't watched a new movie in I can't even say how many years, possibly a decade.
I watch a lot, and can say there's plenty of stuff out there that's still good, whether it's arty (Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Poor Things) or fun (M3GAN, Barbie).
There's a fuckload of money being squandered on absolute bollocks though. Aquaman 2 cost over $200 million. Expend4bles cost $100 million. Both should have been scrapped before filming.
You'll take your wokespun genderflipped bullshit and you'll like it!
Mad Maxine!
I just want Plankton Farts and Dies
And adaptions that adhere to pre existing lore... Witcher, Halo I am looking at you
Oh come now. If Halo had to stick to pre-existing lore we wouldn't have seen Master Chief's ass.
When you make 9 hours of video, but the only redeeming portion of it is 3 seconds of ass.
With that though, I'm happy with good sequels to old movies, franchises or shows. Not many actually do that, but a few gems IMHO include Rogue One and Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Really though, if they're going to regurgitate old stuff why not take a movie/series that had a good premise and bad execution. It at least stands a chance of being better the second round.
Hell, you could even poke fun at the reasons the original sucked and/or make it a twist in the remake.
The new Bill and Ted was pretty good. I'm kind of curious what movies you think could be rebooted to be made better..
Yeah, some stuff has including Bill and Ted.
Off the top of my head, stuff that had a neat idea but kinda didn't come out or do well:
- Krull
- RIPD
- Hancock
- A good portion of the Justice League movies (but too soon for that)
- Avatar (though I've heard the new series is ok, also: not the 3D one with the giant Smurfs)
- Solaris
Various book or game adaptations that tried and failed or were overshadowed by something else
- Narnia (failed vs Harry Potter and didn't get followed through, but wasn't that bad)
- Percy Jackson
- Eragon
- Dresden Files TV series
- Wing Commander
- Doom (the 3rd game in the series actually did have a plot and it was better)
Really though, if they're going to regurgitate old stuff why not take a movie/series that had a good premise and bad execution.
Sometimes there are movies that have absolutely nothing going for them except the background. And I want a movie about the things going on in the background.
Ad Astra may have been utterly god awful, but I would actually enjoy a movie about the moon base.
Lol, and whatever happened to the space monkeys.
I wouldn't mind remakes of old movies, because personally I'm not going to go watch a movie that was made in the 80s even if it is a classic or was amazing at the time.
I don't care for remakes of movies that are like 8-10 years old.
The 80s is too old? I understand not enjoying the style of the Golden Age of Hollywood, but what about movies like Back to the Future or Full Metal Jacket or The Princess Bride puts you off?
Not sure, I like watching movies but I'm no movie buff. I don't analyze movies critically for art and style, I just like it or I don't. I don't think I've ever seen a movie from earlier than 2000 that I can say I'll rewatch it again sometime because I loved it so much. Tried a few here and there but they just never caught my interest much.
Probably the oldest movie that I can actually say I loved and will rewatch every few years is 28 days later from 2002. I would even struggle to name any movie older than that.
Alf: the musical
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