Posted on 05/03/2018 7:03:16 PM PDT by Simon Green
Genre popularity shifts over time. Wikipedia lists 376 westerns that were released from 1950 to 1959.
Fantasy is coming to the real world faster than the movies can make. AI, CRISPR, quantum computing, Transhumanism, VR, etc.
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Respectfully disagree.
I would say there is too few INSPIRATIONAL fantasy out today. Consider the original Star Wars. If went on to inspire generations to consider STEM. Many of the radical ideas in those movies are fact today, the concept of honor, good and evil made that trilogy stand out. Now the crap that followed was, well, ... crap. But there is a place for good fantasy. The sad part is that it is rare, and with SJW’s out there, there is less and less.
Sign o’ the times. People don’t have or want merely human superheroes anymore. They’re too disillusioned to believe in them. Everyone seems to be into manifesting their darkest, most depraved side. Movies aren’t telling human stories because humanity is in the toilet. Superhero movies are pure escapism. Bread and circuses for a world gone mad.
“How about Larry Nivens “World of Ptavvs”? Or Ringworld?”
Protecter, Legacy of Herot,..Niven has some good ones alright. Just need to win the lottery so that I can get a movie made that follows one of his books.
Read 'em all. Legacy of Heorot is a particular favorite of mine.
Just need to win the lottery so that I can get a movie made that follows one of his books.
You make Ringworld, and in the meantime I'll make "Inferno"...just to watch people's heads explode.
I am.
How about revamp of The Green Hornet—done right? Or maybe Kolchack the Nightstalker, or Perry Mason 2020. Or go far back and do some Comic Books half forgotten—like Flash Gordon or Brick Bradford and his Time Top. Maybe revisit the Time Tunnel? Or Comander Cody or Rocket Men from the Moon.
Just an observation: most of the comments here start off with a declaration that the writer hasn’t gone to a movie in decades. And then they state they would like to see more movies that address wholesome values.
There have been plenty of serious movies, addressing all sorts of wholesome values. And no one went to them.
So, why would any producer make a movie that won’t be profitable. The Hallmark channel is full of that crap.
You got it.
Why do they make lots of superhero movies? Because lots of people go to them. They are currently wildly popular with paying customers.
Super-bore!
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Hollywood was losing audiences to vidya games so Hollywood made movies look more like vidya games.
What’s more people love going to these movies but still deride those who’ve ever read a comic book yet the plots of these films are much much dumber and simpler than actual comic book storylines.
Giant sky-beams. Magic brain controls that disappear when the big baddy is killed off. Hero on hero fights every 15 minutes. NO portrayal of their working life in their alter egos, etc.
The movies are made by people raised on a generation of music videos with plots to match.
And comic books are poorly drawn fan-art these days.
People in costumes sell well around the world, more action, less talk.
Hollywood doesn’t make movies FOR the American market anymore. That was obvious with the derisive tone of several “hero” films of the 21st century.
(Captain ‘merica) The First Avenger
Superman saying “truth justice and that other stuff” (American way? REALLY?)
America is a key market but not the major market. Hollywood is much more sensitive to the Chinese government’s calls for censoring content than US concerns about plot elements.
The Super Hero movies are because Hollywierd forgot how to make a good-guy-wins movie. They make everything but feel-goods.
Good point.
Not thrilled that they are doing a Venom movie by removing spiderman from the story and making Venom into some kind of hero.
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