Subj : Re: Video rental store to shut its doors after 40 years in business
To : Arelor
From : fusion
Date : Mon Apr 01 2024 09:54 pm
On 01 Apr 2024, Arelor said the following...
Ar> I am so glad I can keep watching old movies forever.
someday your TV will include AI to automatically correct the "wrong think" in old movies too! they do already run software on many of those TVs to "watch" what you watch and report it somewhere.
seriously though.. i think they just hate money. we're at a point where you could ask a kid about modern movies and they'd say "they keep remaking old stuff." worse yet they don't have any sort of nostalgia connection to it, so the whole thing is wasted on them anyways. they basically made direct-to-video style movies their main attraction.
remakes can work but they want to geneder/race swap everyone and turn old characters into buffoons. there goes the nostalgia part. indiana jones is a loser now. imagine taking a franchise that was so incredibly strong a flaming piece of trash like the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull makes you $790 million on a 185mil budget (so ~605 mil "profit").. and turning it into a $384mil movie
that made $89mil profit.
i duno. plenty people still make cool stuff here and there.. just not huge awesome cool stuff.. heh
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