Demand better movies and don’t engage with film as product. Find passionate storytellers and not greedy corporate executives looking to milk every last drop of nostalgia for profits.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I listened to a podcast (99 Percent Invisible I think) and it said a big reason why the 90s were so great for movies were the creation of cinaplexes, big movie theaters with tons of screens.

More screens meant that new or different ideas that wouldn't normally make it to the big screen (Forrest Gump, Fight Club, The Matrix etc) were given a chance, and found an audience.

Now everything is played safe. Hollywood doesn't want new franchises because they are deemed too risky, and the names we know and love are running out of ideas and passion and risk ruining the whole thing.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Interesting perspective and makes me think that's why the 18+ screen mega theatre is dying today. Not enough of those kinds of films to keep that many screens going and draw people in.

[–] shartedchocolate@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Quit feeding them

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still haven't watched rings of power, probably not now that I cancelled Prime after the ad fiasco.

Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War were fun - but very non canon.

Anyone who bought Gollum at all should take what you're saying to heart. Zero true fans of the Middle Earth world would put any money down for that game. If anyone bought it because they were a fan they deserved to lose their money, zero of the marketing material looked like it was going to be a quality product or decent addition to the story.

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rings of Power was enjoyable to watch, I treated it as billion-dollar fanfic and didn't worry that everything was out of place

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 10 months ago

I'll have to check it out some time, we'll see. It's on prime though so.....

but yeah, a remake is a real bad idea

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

And if you watched it and don't like it, don't spend all your time shitting on the people that did