Get ready for films to have over-the-top villains show their villainy by being gay again.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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And nostalgia for Liquor Prohibition. Alcohol is bad you know.
Ooooh and tradwife heroines! Stay home, modest God-fearing womenfolks.
Hollywood strapped for cash
Have they tried making good movies again?
Have they tried hiring actors that aren’t 50mil? Lots of people will work for less. Much less.
Me thinks the problem is that very few people go to the movies unless there's some kind of hook, e.g. their favorite actor or a known franchise.
Direct to streaming movies seldom make Hollywood money.
Well the real problem is that what you're saying does exist to some extent, and it's a very easily controlled variable
So when execs and investors look at marvel, they learn the wrong lesson. Endgame threw in an insane number of expensive actors and made an insane amount of money
Instead of looking at the years of setup and buildup of characters in this grand artistic vision, they're working with spreadsheets to try to min-max the actor to box office numbers
It's why everything just keeping getting worse. The finance brained people are running the world, and you can always count on them to learn the wrong lesson
I think though that theater tickets being expensive and nice TVs getting cheaper is probably also a reason.
I think that's a true statement, but again a little metric that does not accurately capture what makes a movie good or bad
I just feel there is an entire history of movies to prove you fantastically wrong.
How fucking dare you try to get in the way of millionaires making millions?
If we didn't pay them that much, then we literally wouldn't have movies or art.
They are literally looking at follower numbers now instead of anything close to talent.
They tried remaking everything and have run out of ideas.
Yes, but the remakes of the good movies rarely as good as the original and now we're on like the 3rd and 4th reboot
Oh my god, so many possibilities!
A slapstick comedy about accidentally killing a journalist in an embassy and desperately trying to get rid of the body by dismembering it and taking it out in suitcases.
Alien invasion movie, it turns out the only thing that kills the aliens is crude oil.
Historical drama about prophet Mohammad: first ever movie where the main character is always just out of frame.
Best I can do is live-action based on a video game.
For some reason I'm reminded of the new Top Gun's absolute refusal to name their enemy. The studios's pathetic cowardice took me right out of the movie.
No more cowardly than the original Top Gun which likewise didn’t name the enemy.
You simply cannot call the country controlling your president as "enemy".
I thought it was funny how it was some magical conglomerate of Iran and Russia, and how the plot literally included the exact nuclear refinery target that was bombed earlier this year.
Ignoring all the insane air fight stupidity, the only thing I could think about during the whole movie was the WKUK Nerf Nuke spoof.
yah for pro-saudi propaganda!
weeee.
pro-islamic propaganda.
Ok, so Hollywood will do what they did with China when trying to sell their movies there, Saudi's will suddenly for some random reason be cool, popular and kind completely out of the blue.
china even have some Westerners parroting for them, john xina and THE ROCK.
Fuck hollywood.