Honestly, I am just tired of superhero movies. What, it has been 10 years of them? People want something different.
That's why I have retreated to #KDrama#CDrama spaces. I also watch Western dramas, but usually one thay doesn't run for seasons. I am also SUPER TIRED of tv shows getting cancelled before there is a proper ending!!
@liztai
I found the same feeling invade my love for Star Wars, to a lesser extent. They only keep making them because people keep watching them. I have started watching some of the classic horror from the 80's and Bollywood.
@liztai is it that people are tired of superhero movies (entirely possible) or is it that they’re tired of studios expecting audiences to put up with poorly written stories?
I mean KDramas have been a thing for decades, right? Where are the articles about people being tired of KDramas?
@Skavau@jlward Actually John, if you want to give superhero with a Kdrama flavour a try, there's Moving (Disney app) and I am Nobody ... er ok that one's harder to access for you guys but here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_QNy5xhkw
@liztai yeah, I’m not advocating for either genre. I was just saying that the Marvel movies have recently had uneven writing and I think that’s a big component for why people are walking away from the genre.
@liztai who knows what goes on behind those closed doors, but it might be worth considering that Disney owns Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar and that none of them are earning like they once did.
@jlward there's this interesting talk about the creativity corporation cycle. Unfortunately it's made by a rather polarising figure - Jordan Peterson - but what he said is pretty good. Basically, creatives start something amazing, get people all interested, the product soars cos it's so different. The corporate people take over ... and the creatives fleee ... and the product goes downhill.
A cycle as old as time.
@liztai I haven’t heard the talk, but I think one big issue that wasn’t mentioned in your summary is that the money people want a guaranteed return so they are only willing to finance things similar to past things that have succeeded. It’s why we have so many remakes and so few original movies.
@jlward it's difficult to be tired of KDramas as there's such a huge variety of shows. But western shows, at least in the US seem to be unadventurous right now. This is due to financial pressures, I believe, and yea studio interference. For me, anyway. I wrote about this recently - https://wp.me/pf6C2d-39
@liztai you with your obsession of getting one more click. 😁 I’m teasing.
I asked because I wasn’t sure if you had addressed that specifically in the post. Glad to know you did. I’ll check it out.
@jlward I kinda did but it may sound as if I said allll of Hollywood is unadventurous. Not true of course, just that money trumps creativity these days 😞
Honestly I only ever watched "Iron Man" and for some bizarre reason "Thor: Ragnarok." Always seemed like way too much of a time sink to actually spend the time warding the films.
It is funny that the MCU has been such a deep part of American culture that even though I have only seen two of them, I probably know the broad contours of the MCU just from the cultural ether.
Give me good stories well done any day. Would rather have that than the biggest spectacle.
@liztai Like everything, it goes in phases. There was a time when musicals and Westerns dominated cinema, too. Both passed. The phase of the superhero movie will as well, and something else will take its place (my money is on video game movies)
@Skavau haha yes. But I am avoiding it precisely because it's a superhero flick. Another one is the Cdrama I am Nobody. That one I watched. Very good!
I guess these shows add some uniqueness to the genre
@Robotron right??? Me too. And when I see something original I am so happy lol. It seems to me that the more interesting and brave shows are on streaming services now
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