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"You don't remake Ghostbusters, which is a perfect comedy film, with all-time great comedic actors doing career-defining performances. That's not the movie you want to remake. You remake the movie that you CAN do better. You don't remake something that's utterly perfect." ~ Rich Evans, star of The Ellen Show and Never Been Kissed

I seriously would pay to see a good treatment of the Highlander lore

And why do they make the most money? Because people love to go see them. It’s always Hollywood this and Hollywood that, never audiences this and audiences that.

“Sinners” did pretty well.

We are continuing the same trends that have always existed.

Well said. Heck, for most Western countries, theater begins with the Greeks and even they were doing that with their gods and heros. The Bible has four different books about Jesus and sometimes even the same story is slightly different between the authors. The stories of English legends like King Arthur and Robbin Hood have been told and retold so many times that we can figure out when certain characters or traits that are common today were introduced.

Yep. There was a "The Mark of Zorro" in 1920 with Douglas Fairbanks AND in 1940 with Tyrone Power.

There were versions of "The Count of Monte Cristo" in 1908, 1913, 1918, 1922, 1929, 1934, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1975, 1982, 1986, 1986, 1986 (yes, three versions in 86), 2002, and 2024... not counting the TV versions.

There's gonna be a period when artists will make good AI films, creating original movies. Artists who can't get their project greenlit via normal means because studios only want maximum returns with sequels and reboots.

Getting those movies seen by people will be the hard part because of all the crap that will also be made with AI by non-artists. Hopefully, the cream will rise to the top.

Just watched Jurassic World Rebirth today. It has pretty decent action, a bit different in tone from recent ones, predictable in some ways, but overall okay.

To be fair, I watched it because I have an AMC movie pass. I probably would've skipped it if I didn't have that.

I still haven't finished Dominion because that was so awful. I fell asleep twice in that one. Rebirth to me was far better than that.

Sorry ngl you sound like you have shit taste in movies and are the problem when it comes to shit movies still somehow making money lol

One factor that is often overlooked in these discourses is why?

I mean, Hollywood knows how to make good movies. They've been doing it for over a hundred years.

And I have a theory about this.

See, there's an entire branch of food science that companies use to analyze their foods, to make sure that they are tantalizing and appealing, but never satisfying. The reason for this is because if a food is not satisfying, consumers will tend to eat more of it, or will continue to go back to it over and over again, because there's some part of their Brain that's telling them this was tasty food and I want more of it and never seems to get enough.

This results in increased sales of food for the companies that are making these foods. And it has made me aware of the fact that if you get tired of eating a food, that probably means that it's a good food.

I said all of that to say, I now believe they are doing the same thing with movies. People watch movies because they want to be entertained, they want to be told stories and shown sights and have an experience that is above and beyond the mundane, right?

And I think they realized that if they told slightly unsatisfying stories, Then the consumer's brain would not be satisfied and would therefore go out and watch another movie, and another movie, and a TV show, and another movie, trying to get the satisfaction of experiencing a movie for the first time and being satisfied by it.

As long as they keep the tantalization factor high and the satisfaction factor low enough that people don't reject the entire system, then every single person that indulges in watching movies will consume more, meaning they would make more money by serving us movies and TV shows that do not satisfy the way that they should.

Anyway, that's my theory.

The top gun reboot was actually surprisingly alright. Not groundbreaking but fun enough to be worth a watch. I am mostly with you and had not planned to watch it originally

If you curate you can still get great movies. A lot of the A24 movies are excellent for example.

What motivated you to join this community then?

Probably because it's a valid question