Movies have become so recycled, no new material

[Anonymous]

Superbowl ads for movies were mostly for the same old shit: planet of the apes, wicked, deadpool...Why no new storylines? The entire world is full of History not told, fairy tales not put in movies...Why do they keep revisiting the same shit?

[Anonymous]

Movies cost hundred of millions. Executives think known IP is less likely to bomb.

[Anonymous]

I’m excited to see Wicked. Not everyone has the money to see it live on stage.

But I get what you mean. All the rom coms are the same. Action movies blasting everyone and car crashes.

I liked Barbie because it was so different.

[Anonymous]

Go watch Saltburn on Amazon. I have never seen anything like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go watch Saltburn on Amazon. I have never seen anything like it.

I liked Saltburn a lot, exactly for that reason: it felt sort of exhilarating and refreshing to watch something I hadn't seen before a million times.

[Anonymous]

There are also a lot of very original movies

Just a few recenti-ish ones, off the top of my head:

The Holdovers, Past Lives, Atomic City, Poor Things, The Iron Claw, Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbenheimer, American Fiction, No Hard Feelings, May December

There's more I am not thinking of

Yeah the re-treads can be disspiriting, but there are really good movies - or at least ones that at the least aren't part of a children's franchise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m excited to see Wicked. Not everyone has the money to see it live on stage.

But I get what you mean. All the rom coms are the same. Action movies blasting everyone and car crashes.

I liked Barbie because it was so different.

Wicked was terrible and literally was the last theatre ticket I bought. I was wasted money.

[Anonymous]

Saltburn was something new. !!

[Anonymous]

Too much $. No more indie stuff as its too expensive to make and fund companies want ROI for their investment and dont care to actually make good art.
Kind of like most of DCUM asks about what are the good majors for ROI. If noone goes into the creative fields that pay pittance (they shouldnt of course pay that little) then we wont have original content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much $. No more indie stuff as its too expensive to make and fund companies want ROI for their investment and dont care to actually make good art.
Kind of like most of DCUM asks about what are the good majors for ROI. If noone goes into the creative fields that pay pittance (they shouldnt of course pay that little) then we wont have original content.

I think you're confused on many points here.

[Anonymous]

I agree OP. It's why I hate watching Disney and Marvel movies--it's all the same story, different characters. I get it--I'm not the target audience--but I dread taking my kids to the movies to see the same movie over and over.

And from the trailers, I still don't understand what the movie is about. Its just a bunch of people fighting and things exploding. It's like none of these movies have actual plots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go watch Saltburn on Amazon. I have never seen anything like it.

Saltburn is like The Talented Mr. Ripley. There is rarely anything that is entirely now. Just a fresh spin on something older.

[Anonymous]

I saw that commercial for Twisters and I was like - wow, really nothing new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too much $. No more indie stuff as its too expensive to make and fund companies want ROI for their investment and dont care to actually make good art.
Kind of like most of DCUM asks about what are the good majors for ROI. If noone goes into the creative fields that pay pittance (they shouldnt of course pay that little) then we wont have original content.

I think you're confused on many points here.

I don't think she's confused as much as her expression is unclear.

I think we are becoming a much more STEM oriented world where people are looking for ROI for anything they do. I just read an article regarding China's fertility rate/birth rate issue. And a woman in her 20s, in finance said, Why invest in something for 18 years with little guarantee of return on my investment. This, regarding why she doesn't want children.

But that's an aside. Going into the arts more often than not has a very low ROI. The % of people who make anything in the arts is very small.

[Anonymous]

Agree. Deeply sick of the Marvel universe crap.

I just watched Napoleon Dynamite with my teenager. She’s been asking me for old strange movies. I loved Peter Greenaway and Jean-Pierre Jeunet movies.