• Stern@lemmy.world
    161·
    11 months ago

    You need to remember that Hollywood is risk averse. They are not making things to make art but to make profit. Thats why there’s like ten Fast and the Furious movies. Because they print money because car go fast boom explosion family.

    When that realization hits home it makes perfect sense why we see remakes and adaptations and sequels. They already have a fanbase who will go see it.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      71·
      11 months ago

      “You need to realize …” … exactly what the meme is calling out? It’s calling them uncreative, not declaring their efforts null and void. No one is saying they fail at money. They fail at meat on bones.

  • Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
    11·
    11 months ago

    It’s there. To paraphrase Anton Ego though, new things need people to stick up for them. So if you see a new story, go see it and tell your friends. Everything Everywhere All At Once is a great example. Amazing movie, and it’s stuck with me.

    • Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’ve heard so many good things about WH40k, but every time i search about it I get overwhelmed. Don’t know where to start. Any tips?

    • llama@midwest.socialEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      I feel like EEAAO was somehow engineered to get people to say they like it for no particular reason, it almost feels like they made a movie that would be a social faux pas to say you didn’t like it. But actually I found it super boring and it remains a mystery to me why top rated movies are what they are.

    • DrQuint@lemm.ee
      16·
      11 months ago

      Yeah yeah, EEAAO mentioned again. Again. How original.

      How many of you motherfuckers here watched RRR and why the fuck haven’t you yet? It’s the best movie of last year. Yes the intro makes it look like a generic action bollyflick with more money, but they actually did quite a fair bit beyond that.

      • Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
        21·
        11 months ago

        I mean I tried to watch RRR. It was … unintentionally funny. But by all means go on hating popular thing.

        • DrQuint@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 months ago

          hating popular thing

          I’m not hating on the movie, learn to read dingleberry.

          I’m hating on people going “we need to support small endeavors” and then going and suggesting the second largest success of the year behind only the most profitable movie of all time. Not that RRR is lagging much behind, but man, at least way less people watched it and at least it isn’t spammed everywhere. Even less watched Inside and literally no one ever says it. Nope, it’s always the same movie.

          The equivalent this year would be someone saying “you guys need to watch Barbie”. Like. We know. Nothing should compel anyone spreading that word some more. Crippling unoriginality trying to put itself on a pedestal deserves being called out.

  • Paul@feddit.de
    91·
    11 months ago

    you should give the new wes anderson movie “the wonderful story of henry sugar” a try, it’s fantastic in terms of creativity and really unique in it’s storytelling.

    i just finished watching it and i love it.

  • mjpc13@lemmy.world
    82·
    11 months ago

    If you want creative movies try to check out some A24 movies.

    Some examples: Ex-Machina, Swiss Army Men, The Lobster, The lighthouse, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Beau is Afraid, The Whale.

  • Mchugho@lemmy.world
    62·
    11 months ago

    I don’t care, inject more Star Wars into my veins please. My childhood dreams are now reality.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 months ago

    Fucks sake even the original projects are just repainted iteration, Moana, Frozen, and Encanto are all Disney Princess stories, MAOI EVEN CRACKS JOKES ABOUT IT!

  • Seraph@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’m convinced they just refuse to read and use books the way they used to. There’s several books and series I’d love to see made instead of the same recycled shit.

    But I guess you can’t predict sales for something brand new and that’s starting to bite us in the ass. We need more studios taking big risks on something new.

    • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      I feel like they have poor track records in choosing books. They seem to only ever choose Young Adult Fiction… which isn’t bad, but if the ones they tend to choose, they’re usually very tropey.

      And we have A24 studios. They seem to be doing a pretty good job lately.

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      11 months ago

      I’m actually glad they don’t really adapt books as much anymore. Their track record on adaptation in recent years have been such that they’ll probably just ignore preestablished lore in favor of whatever bullshit they think will sell more a lá Halo.

      • Seraph@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        They’ve done that a lot, with nearly every series I can think of. But I’d rather them at least attempt to adapt something than say “we can’t execute the source content exactly so we won’t try”