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"A new report from Nielsen and published by Variety reveals that nobody is watching the most recent trio of core Star Wars films" (www.polygon.com)
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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I think people have forgotten how to write good movies since it's been such a long period of remakes and franchise garbage.

Plus corporate greed and algorithms have resulted in cookie cutter scripts that "should please the largest amount of people" or some shit like that.

Everything is made to me inoffensive to anyone and appeal to the widest variety of people.

There's no movies that tailor to a specific audience anymore, where 20-30% of people will think it's amazing, instead 40-60% of people might think "meh, might as well watch it"

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I think people have forgotten how to write good movies

    No, they still write good movies. The problem is that the money-men will not fund good movies because all they want is a big return on their investment. That means that they only fund sequels and spinoffs of previously successful properties. Only on rare occasions does anything new get funded and even then the decision is based on something other than the quality of the story.

    There are lots of good stories out there that will never get turned into movies or shows simple because the people who make the decisions are trying to make money rather than art.

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