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I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Related question: why does it feel like hollywood is intent on completely destroying all of our beloved franchises? It's not like the place isn't overflowing with incredibly talented artists, writers, actors, producers, etc. I just don't understand why it's so hard for them to make something that isn't garbage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This video explains it well: Basically, its greed and the fact that franchises are safer bets. And of course many people still watch them. https://youtu.be/p4GERuvdhYI

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Personally I feel like the Mario movie was one of the best movies like that to come out. Sure it's nothing too amazing, but for a video game adaptation it's definitely up there. It does seem like everything has to be remade to be almost deliberately awful though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean they're not... There's been some amazing films recently.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not what, destroying our beloved franchises? You're telling me star wars, star trek, and lord of the rings are in a good place right now? The ghostbusters remake, the insultingly bad fourth matrix movie, that attempt to revive the X files a few years back, the list goes on.

I'm not saying NOTHING good is coming out at all, but I AM saying just about everything coming out "related to franchises you used to love" is total crap with rare exception.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because they know it will sell.

They don't need to make a good Star Wars movie because they don't need to onboard new fans. They make them only to squeeze out existing fans who will pay regardless of quality.

The new Matrix movie was actually a masterpiece. The Wachowski's didn't want to revive the franchise since they considered it complete - but the studio insisted that if they didn't make it, the studio would get it done itself. So they accepted the offer, and made a movie so bad that it killed any attempts at reviving the franchise for good. The Matrix is now dead, and it will stay that way (hopefully).

I guess Star Wars is too strong to kill even with multiple shit movies.

Besides that, for how long can you squeeze the same universe? I'd rather have something new.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

LOTR ROP is pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Everything marvel is now multiverse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

But spiderverse did it right unlike how terribly the idea was handled in the MCU

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Welcome to comics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Spiderverse is goated and is very different from MCU.