Help me understand the constant Superhero movie reboots.

[edge10]

 

[PAULH]

There is no longer any creativity or originality in Hollywood, largely because studios want to maximise the chance of getting their money back.

 

[renaissance_man]

But when original movies are made very few people go to see them in the cinema, so it's a vicious circle.

 

[Cephus]

So basically moviegoers are mindless drones who will watch any superhero movie they put out. Lol

Hollywood is truly dead.

That's how it used to be. Today, not so much.

 

[Cephus]

There is no longer any creativity or originality in Hollywood, largely because studios want to maximise the chance of getting their money back.

Then they shouldn't make so many really stupid, indefensible decisions. People tell them why their movie is going to fail, they make it anyhow, it fails miserably and they blame the audience instead of their own in competence. Maybe they ought to listen.

 

[Uridium]

Not disagreeing with the comments about creativity and originality in Hollywood these days....

But what if we looked at it this way....

Studios: Well Tim Burton put out two pretty good Batman films for us. No need to make any more Batman films.

Batman Fans: uuuuuh?

 

[batguy]

IMO most of the spectacularly-bad decisions in Hollywood lately are caused by corporations trying to run artistic endeavors. The mindset is all wrong.

 

[Halliwax]

I don't know if that's true anymore. It sounds like, other than collectors, action figures aren't selling. I think the only toys that really sell now are LEGO.

I agree, but by my statement I just mean “merchandise” in general, anything with the logo on it gets royalty’s

 

[Laspector]

How many decades have we had Westerns?
How many decades have we had war movies?
How many decades have we had romantic comedies?
Why aren't we fussing about that?

 

[Analyzer]

As mentioned earlier...

The target audience changes every decade or so, and the older moves become dated and out of touch with current generations

Few if any of these movies are really "classic" cinema anyway

Although, I don't know if we really need to see another "origin" story with each reboot

 

[Cephus]

How many decades have we had Westerns?
How many decades have we had war movies?
How many decades have we had romantic comedies?
Why aren't we fussing about that?

There's a difference between westerns and an endless string of Rooster Cogburn movies. You can have lots of war movies, so long as it isn't Tora Tora Tora Part 63. That's especially true when it stopped being about Pearl Harbor back in Tora Tora Tora 17.

 

[Laspector]

And you can have lots of superhero movies. They're not all the same.

 

[joberg]

And you can have lots of superhero movies. They're not all the same.

There's a formula to every genre of movies (list is too long).