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Soundwave on 27 May 2018
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Azuren said:
Soundwave said:

I've worked in the film business, it doesn't work how you think it does. If it did, James Cameron would never work again after The Abyss, Steven Spielberg wouldn't have worked again after Always, M.Night Shyamalan wouldn't have worked after like 5 bombs in a row. 

One hit movie in Hollywood alone buys you a lot of leeway, two hits and you will working for a long ass time, a track record of multiple billion+ pictures means you get to do what you want, it doesn't matter what some kid on the internet thinks. 

I don't like Michael Bay, the last Transformers movie underperformed, but Michael Bay is going to be able to make whatever he wants for the next 20 years. And if you think you're better/smarter, then great go write your own movie and get it made, otherwise lets pipe down on pretending to be experts when I doubt most of the people complaining have even ever worked 1 day on a movie set. 

I'm gonna just come out and say you're a liar, because if it did you would have already said something to the effect of "but if she turns it around, everything will be fine". Since you haven't, I'm sorry; I just don't believe you, and you're about as credible at this point as InfoWars. And the issue I take with your comparisons is Kennedy isn't Cameron. She's not Spielberg. Shyamalan was about to be laughed out of everything until Split released. Kennedy is the person who took the single most prominent franchise in film history and made it a joke. Quit pretending that people can rest on their laurels forever and understand that Disney don't care about your pedigree if you aren't delivering.

In producing terms she absolutely is the Cameron/Spielberg of the business, she is one of the most powerful people in the industry. You're being naive if you want to argue against that. 

No one gives a fuck either that some kids on the internet laughed at M. Night Shymalan, bottom line is more studio heads would be more comfortable giving him $50+ million a picture because he made The Sixth Sense over someone new or unproven. That's just how it works. 

3/4 Star Wars films making a billion+ is not resting on laurels. The main thing Disney has to realize is they can't make tons of Star Wars movies. People don't give a crap about Solo: Teenage Years, Obi-Wan: My Life On A Shitty Desert Rock, Boba Fett: That Dude That Nerds Like In a Western ... that stuff that Disney was thinking of doing they're going to have to tone down. 

Marvel is unique and different because it's a universe that isn't bound by one genre, as such you can have radically different movies ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to urban crime to even horror, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter you can't do all this stuff.