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mostlybuckystuff Matt Damon explains why they don't make movies like they used to. Pls watch. 0:31 / 1:39 luna-rainbow This is actually a really good perspective and explains why the MCU is the way it is. It is essentially one-off entertainment without the backup of DVD sales (of course Disney being Disney it is still backed up by massive merchandise and spin off sales). The movie is designed to be "disposable". The rewatch value is low because it's not intended to be sold on DVD for people to treasure and rewatch every year at Christmas (or whenever) with family. The idea is to generate hype, through manufacturing controversy or teases or gossip. Keeping spoilers under wrap is integral because the rewatch value is negligible. It hinges on surprise or shock (or w-- value) to entice audiences to give up their money to see it in theatres. It is about spectacle, about being loud and colourful and busy, so that for the first 30 minutes after you walk out your senses are still buzzing and you feel like that was worth your $30 or however much. It takes a while for your brain to come back online after the sensory overload to then try to pick apart the plot, and by that stage it doesn't matter, you've already hyped it up to your friends. And the story or characterisation doesn't matter because no one is watching that again to care. kradeiz Kelly Turnbull @Coelas... 2022-08-22 I think CONSTANTLY about cult classic media that "failed" by the box office measure but was foundational in the modern media landscape and how every year it gets harder make that. Highlander was a mid-budget box office flop that inspired like half of nerd media these days 13,524 194 28.9K Kelly Turnbull @Coelas... 2022-08-22 NO ONE wants to give a shot to anything as risky and esoteric as Highlander, but they're chomping at the bit to make "literally Highlander, again" because Highlander was allowed to be a weird flop that spent 35 years finding its audience 4,241 ↑ 9 228 Kelly Turnbull @Coelas... 2022-08-22 Johnny Mnemonic is constantly mocked for being a failure, but if you actually watch Johnny Mnemonic you can tell that this movie inspired basically everyone whose made a cyberpunk/dystopian video game for like 30 years Kelly Turnbull @Coelas... 2022-08-22 And even the people who didn't KNOW they were being inspired by Johnny Mnemonic were probably inspired by other people who were inspired by Johnny Mnemonic. The first time I watched it there were so many moments where I was like "oh s---! That came from this!" 13 90 2,888 Kelly Turnbull @Coelas... 2022-08-22 The most uncomfortable, dystopian part of Ready Player One for me was how media creation had basically stagnated in their hypothetical future in favour of everyone wanking on about this one dude's favourite legacy IP, that feel like exactly the direction we're headed. 16 475 4,431 : ↑ Kelly Turnbull @Coelas... 2022-08-22 Like, no one is allowed to make the new original cherished mid-budget cult classic media for the next generation because executives will only listen to your pitch if it's a rehash of their favourite four or five movies that came out 40 years ago

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Kommando_Kaijin

Nov 06, 2022 at 06:13PM EST

Even the recent mid-budget once-and-done movies that are the closest thing we have to the cult classics feel more like ripoffs of more successful mega-IPs. Take Nobody for example, it just feels like they wanted to create their own John Wick. The closest movie I've seen to one of these cult classics in recent memory was Willy's Wonderland, and I'm not sure if it so bad it's good or just a meh-tier FNAF ripoff that's easy to meme on because it has a mute Nicholas Cage strangle a possessed animatronic to death with his thighs and super-cringy lines left, right and center.

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