chakkra said:
"I doubt it. That audience has been way overserved to the exclusion of basically everyone else and that's the big problem." Okay... WE are "the audience", and WE keep telling you exactly why we have stopped watching these movies; but hey, I guess we're just a small loud minority, right? I mean, I'm sure that's what Disney thought as well. "These studios need to take some chances on original ideas and ideas aimed at different demographics, not the same shit done over and over and over again. Even if it's done well, it's choking the life out of the business and alienating huge parts of the audience who are just tired of it. It destroyed the regular model of studios taking chances on and making a wide variety of films aimed at different audiences and instead turned the business into a franchise-hellscape with empty calorie movies that have nothing to say and only exist just to indulge fanboy wish fulfilment. It's completely destroyed the traditional Hollywood model that was working just fine from the 1930s-2008 or so. The movie business would be far better off if the comic book movie boom specifically the MCU and DCU craze of 2008-2019 never happened IMO. It would be better off if Star Wars just stayed dead after 2005 (really 1983 since the prequels were shit too). Yeah you would lose some hit movies, but the end result IMO would be a more balanced movie ecosystem today where other ideas would have been allowed to take root and been to the long term betterment of the business." But.. they HAVE been doing that. They have never stopped doing that.. I mean, more than 100 movies are released every single year, and I dont think there's ever been a year where we have had more than 10 SW-Marvel movies; so every single year you must get at least 90 movies that are not "franchise-hellscape with empty calorie movies that have nothing to say and only exist just to indulge fanboy wish fulfilment". For someone who talks that much about the movie business, I'm surprised that you have failed to notice all of those other movies out there. |
They release other movies but the focus is very strictly on finding these same kind of franchise movies aimed at largely the same audience over and over again (young men).
And what's happened? Other demographics have just stopped going to movie theaters period. There are no new movie stars. There's no new real break out huge movie directors in the same way as a the past. There's no new Spielberg or Cameron or Coppola or Scorcese. I guess Chris Nolan stands out as one guy who's built his own brand, but that's few and far between.
The Star Wars + MCU-ization of the movie industry is the worst thing to happen to the business, the business would be far better off if those movies never existed.
You would probably have new kinds of movie stars and new genre types breaking out because studios would have no choice but to try new things and not abandon other types of audiences.
And I say that as someone who likes comic books and Star Wars just fine, but business wise they have been terrible for the overall long term health of the movie business. The last thing theaters need honestly is more comic book movies and Star Wars movies, the best thing that could happen is if those studios were frankly banned from making any of those types of films for the next 10 years and forced to really have to dig deep and focus on new, original content and frankly less spectacle more emotional connection with an audience.
