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Originally Posted by Yamer
Woof.
Despite the bemoaning, beautiful and innovative films are made every year, year after year.
Have another scotch, cup your own farts, and sit back and enjoy whatever brings you to a masturbatory climax. The rest of us will be able to find renewed joy in filmmaking.
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Suggest some of them.
From where I’m sat, there haven’t been three movies made in the last ten years that are better than Jackie Brown.
I want to know why that is.
Athletics are getting better as time goes on.
Engineering never stops improving - it took 110 years of innovation for cars to reach the Bugatti Veyron, and less than ten years of mainstream EV development for the Rimac Nevara to render it all null and void.
Movies are getting worse. They don’t resonate with people, and they rarely live up to expectations. They feel empty, they feel pandering, and they don’t take risks.
I think one reason the MCU thrived while the DCU has languished is the original movies were, in their own way, trying something new. They were trying to set up four separate characters in their own movies and bring it all together for a team up event with the Avengers.
They took a risk. People wanted to see how it turned out, it more or less worked, and they kept coming back. Of course it’s collapsing under the weight of its own enormity now, but as a great movie once put it, “die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
Whereas the DC movies try to do things that were just done, only worse.
“Let’s give Superman the Batman Begins treatment, only let’s hire a director who doesn’t have original thoughts.”
“Marvel set up the Avengers in four movies, we’ll do it in two. And hire Joss Whedon to re-shoot the thing. He directed the avengers, you know.”
“Multiverses are in right now. Let’s throw a baby in a microwave and put Nic Cage in a Superman suit and have him fight a Giant Spider and spend $2M bringing an old Kevin Smith youtube clip to life. In our Flash movie.”
GirlySports also correctly points to the death of the VHS/DVD/rental market - that money has been replaced with the Chinese box office, and the only way to access that is by making a movie that doesn’t say anything.