The surprise success of this surreal duo proves cinema remains a powerful cultural force and suggests audiences want more than franchises
Yeah, finally a couple of movies that aren’t about fucking superheros or sequels/remakes.
Not to downplay the quality of the movies, but one is a biopic and one is a toy adaptation; one could easily throw in “finally an original movie that’s not a superhero, sequel, biopic, or toy adaptation.” They’re good movies. Good movies can come in any form, superheroes, sequels, and remakes included.
I think what people are asking for right now is for studios to take risks and be creative. They want to experience something different. Superheroes and remakes have been done to death to the point that some (myself included) are just saturated.
Look at the 1991 Oscar best picture nominees and ask yourself if any movie in the last decade is even comparable.
Can’t comment on Oscars, but 1999 was a wild ride.
Can’t even copy/paste all this:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1999&title_type=feature&
That’s a pretty low bar:
1991 -
Winner - DANCES WITH WOLVES
AWAKENINGS
GHOST
THE GODFATHER, PART III
GOOD FELLASGodfather III was largely disliked at the time, nominated because it’s a Godfather film. Even now it’s 66% on RottenTomatoes.
Ghost and Dances with Wolves were pretty trash.
Better movies in the last decade? Don’t even have to really think too hard about it, Everything Everwhere All At Once. Both Spider-Verse movies.
Not hard at all. I can already tell you I liked Everything Everywhere All at Once (this year’s BP winner) way more than Dances with Wolves.
1991 is a uniquely weak year for the Academy though. You might have had a stronger argument with 1994 or 1995, but I can still think of plenty of movies released in the last decade that I would rank up there with Schindler’s List or Pulp Fiction.
Go ahead and make that list if you’re so inclined. On par with Pulp Fiction? Come on. This has got to be good.
Some random personal favorites of the last 10 years off the top of my head, in no particular order
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (I know, I already mentioned this one, but it really liked it)
- John Wick
- Zootopia
- Midsommar
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Arrival
- Blade Runner 2049
- Parasite
- Isle of Dogs
- Your Name
- The Green Knight
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
John Wick. The first one.
I’d say Sicario is up there on my list
Like it or not, Avengers Endgame was bigger. But so stoked to see the movies intersect with culture so hard right now, especially after covid. Shame the studios are shooting them selves in the foot with their greed and can’t ride the wave.
It’ll be interesting to see how they process this, because it’s such in-your-face evidence that their whole theory of the the new business model is completely ass-backwards.
People don’t want tons and tons of mediocre crap, they want a few great things. They don’t want endless rehashes and drivel, they want things that are interesting and challenging. They don’t just want small screens to keep them company while they do laundry, they want actual cinema in a communal setting. The value doesn’t come from convenience or volume, or algorithms, it comes from artists.
I know that they’ll do anything to avoid recognizing these truths, but it’ll be odd to watch.
cinema in a communal setting
the fact that i have to do it in a communal setting is literally the worst thing about watching new films
I feel like studios don’t know what to make post Covid, and they are still releasing pre Covid shit. There is this strange space where studios don’t know what to do, then this happened.
A decade eh. I don’t even remember what came out in 2013 that was this popular, 99% of what’s come out in the last few years has been poop
Django Unchained and Pacific Rim.
I have no desire to see either of these, even for free. I’ll say this though, I’ll bet you can hear the dialogue in one of the films. The other was done by Nolan.
Well thanks for sharing that handful of negativity you easily could have scrolled past and kept to yourself, I guess.
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