pretty sure Elemental, even if it’s a good movie, will go down as a bad swing and a miss for Pixar at this point
So, basically Hollywood needs to make good movies to make money?
Can we just collectively say we’re done with superhero movies that are all basically the same movie? Can we maybe tell new and unique stories instead of relying on the same tired tropes from 50 years ago?
the flash is literally every other super hero movie, and elemental is just inside out. Do something new ffs
I sometimes wonder if all ideas have just been done now, like if there is nothing new left to say?
I mean, even now the overwhelming majority of movies are about white men. Maybe there are other cultures, ethnicities, minority groups, etc with vastly different stories to tell? Give me a romcom about a T4T couple, or about a historical fiction about Thai mythology, or the Australian aboriginal origin stories. IMO there are lots of stories from around the world waiting to be told…
But we wont get those, we have the 653rd marvel movie coming out instead.
Great point, there is much to tell from elsewhere in the world. However Hollywood tends to take that and make it pretty much the same film again.
Maybe the issue is that Hollywood has run out of ideas and the solution is we need to be getting our films from the other ~woods instead
It’s more that so much IP is locked up behind very risk-averse megacorps, set the copyright term to 30 years (enough to profit from the initial hype and a nostalgia cycle) and it’s in the public domain without exception then we’ll suddenly see a much richer popular culture. People like to think Disney and other huge firms are creators but I’d liken them more to hoarders or the sort of people who buy restorable classic cars only to carelessly let them rot away into a puddle of rust.
If I was a dictator of a country IP reform would be quite near the top of my agenda, only an arrant philistine would argue for corporate control of Shakespeare or the Iliad in my opinion yet we think so lowly of our modern culture such greedy and disrespectful hands are allowed to monopolise it. By all means let creators profit from their creations for a while after they’re invented but what we’ve got today is an obscenity.
A less extreme version of this would be a ‘shit or get off the pot’ law that either forces an auction or better yet returns IP to the public domain that’s not been used over the last x years in a meaningful way.
Read more. There are more things to say than there are people to watch them. The problem is that film is art and investment bankers are the world’s worst artists. Going to movies to watch investment bankers is always terrible. They are just too dumb to realize they are always in front of the screen every time they get any control whatsoever. Investors are always conservative, and this makes copycat crap with overpaid management and cast for a formula that is anything but what people want to watch now.
Check out Austin McConnell’s Bargain Bin Cinematic Universe! Besides the animated spider mans its the only superhero movies I’ve been looking forward to for a while.
It seems like the old “opposites attract” story, but where fire falls in love with water. But each element is an over-the-top stereotype of what we think about them, fire-y hot headed and aggressive, vs cool and flowy water.
IDK feels just like inside out to me, where emotions are over-the-top stereotypes of what we think of them
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m really interested in seeing it. From what I’ve heard, the writer/ director Peter Sohn, said that his grandma’s dying words to him were, “marry Korean”. He then falls in love with a non-Korean girl and struggles with how he can still honor his grandma. This becomes the inspiration for the movie. It seems like this is Pixar’s take on trying to address immigration and interracial relationships. Again, I haven’t seen it yet, so I’m not sure how successful they were, but I find the director himself interesting so I will give the movie a shot.
Glad The Flash is struggling. Ezra is terrible and man the propaganda campaign for this movie was so annoying. I swear it was out months ago how people have been raving about it.
Agreed. I want to see Supergirl and Michael Keaton’s Batman, but I refuse to buy a ticket because of Ezra. I’ll wait for it on Max.
Yeah this is a good choice. They did not give enough screen time to “supergirl”.
Does she even call herself that in the movie? That’s how IMDB credits her when I looked up the cast to check, but it doesn’t sound right. I was expecting Superwoman or something.
I don’t know if that’s a controversial opinion and I know DC doesn’t usually mix the tv show universes and the cinematic universe, but I really wish they would’ve cast Melissa Benoist as Supergirl. She’s just so charismatic that I just cannot see anyone else playing the role…
