Haha, Bob's finally admitting he has full-blown beetus. For a while there, he was trying to imply that he was still in a pre-diabetic state, but I guess he just couldn't stop gorging himself. Either that, or he was lying the whole time. Either's fine, I'm just gonna mock him for eating his way to disability. What a fat dumbass.
You know, I think DC, Disney and Marvel would have more success if they focused less on the heroics and gave us more variety on the stories and characters in their movies.
And by variety I don’t just mean diversity or gender, I mean in terms of genre and character-wise.
The 'Joker' movie made bank because it was basically the comic-book movie equivalent to a Manga. It had a beginning, middle and an end. There was no superfluous shit. You didn't need to understand Batman to get into it. Anyone could just watch it. There was no continuity, no excess baggage and no superheroes. Everything was self-contained. You just watched it and enjoy it. 'Joker' basically broke the superhero genre to its core.
People want these unique stories with no baggage. They want to start at chapter 1 and end at chapter 20 and then get something different.
The problem with Hollywood...
...okay, Hollywood has a
lot of problems, the rampant pedophilia not being the least of these. Let me start over.
One of the problems with Hollywood is their insistence on chasing trends long after they've run out of steam, with no idea why something became popular in the first place. You'll notice that, aside from a couple possible instances like the Star Wars series, the concept of a cinematic universe really didn't take off until The Avengers. Man of Steel was initially just a reboot of the Superman series to keep the rights from reverting back to Siegel and Shuster's estates, and it was only post-Avengers that WB scrambled to create a cinematic universe from DC properties. And that's without getting into other aborted attempts like Universal's Dark Universe.
It's not really a surprise when you think about it. Hollywood is notoriously risk-averse, especially for anything with a substantial budget. If a movie flops, the studio's lost a lot of money, so they focus solely on safe bets, aiming to produce more of whatever's popular. Remember the initial popularity of The Walking Dead and subsequent zombie craze? It seemed like you couldn't go a month without another zombie movie in theaters, to the point that the market was oversaturated and the public burned out, though not before Hollywood kept beating the undead horse for a few more years. Now zombies are pretty rare again. You can insert your own joke here about how TWD keeps coming back to life for another season long after it should've been dead and buried.
To those of us on the outside looking in, it's incredibly short-sighted to always be chasing trends and never trying anything new. Once a concept has been rehashed and rebooted a hundred different ways, usually by untalented hacks, it loses all its luster and fails to entertain. It would be better to come up with something new so that you can
start a trend instead of just chasing after scraps, but like I said, Hollywood is scared of a box office bomb, and there's no way of telling whether something will actually be a hit with audiences, let alone a blockbuster success.
Now, I might be overly optimistic about the habits of consoomers, but I do think the capeshit trend can't really last forever. The MCU has been going for over a decade now, and that's a
lot of material to catch up on, made all the worse by Disney effectively insisting that you
also need to watch all their shitty Disney+ shows as well. The barrier to entry is increasing with every production, and while dedicated consoomers will keep watching until the heat death of the universe, the average moviegoer might just decide to watch something that actually has an ending to it, especially if they never had much of an investment to begin with. A lot of the positive reactions to Phase 4 ring hollow to me, as though people are trying to convince themselves that they still care as much as they did when it was at its peak. Again, maybe I'm optimistic, but audiences are fickle, and what used to be all the rage can quickly become old news.
This was a lot of words, so I'll end by calling Bob a fat dumbass again.