Re:Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let ...
by cm2187 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:46AM
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Exactly. Bad commercial movies designed by a committee aren’t a new thing, I remember the likes of Independence Day and Speed from the 1990s. What is new is the rarefaction of the sort of movies you mention.
I recommend Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast. What he says is that it is the combination of two things.
First people don’t go to the theatre anymore, they stream, so the economics have become really hard for smaller independent movies.
He also argues that Marvel movies are so plain that they don’t really produce new movie stars with a strong personality, it’s all CGI, most of the audience probably doesn’t even know the names of the lead actors. And the model for smaller movies was for the a producer to secure a movie star (popularised by big blockbusters), then get the financing on the back of that star, then the movie could be made. And that model is now dead.
I recommend Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast. What he says is that it is the combination of two things.
First people don’t go to the theatre anymore, they stream, so the economics have become really hard for smaller independent movies.
He also argues that Marvel movies are so plain that they don’t really produce new movie stars with a strong personality, it’s all CGI, most of the audience probably doesn’t even know the names of the lead actors. And the model for smaller movies was for the a producer to secure a movie star (popularised by big blockbusters), then get the financing on the back of that star, then the movie could be made. And that model is now dead.