"The 80s and 90s are still fresh!" and 10 other jokes to tell your hollywood friends!

[monina]

I've seen this recent trend, ever since 2015 and beyond. There is an ungodly amount of god awful cash grab attempts at franchises people like. It is quite literally just "We heard you liked He-Man when you were 8, dont you want to watch 2 hours of him?". Its so absurdly creative bankrupt. The worst part? THEY STILL MAKE MONEY EVERY TIME! I dont even blame them anymore, they keep making shit tons of money from this. I'm not that big of a film or show nerd, but it gets to a point when you have seen barely any orginal ideas.
Take for example, Scary Movie 6, a long dead franchise that stopped being relevant in the mid 2000s. This movie exists only to just point and say "Remember that, remember when we made a good parody and then spent the rest of the franchise making worse and worse movies?". In particular the whole marketing of the thing being "triggering the libs" is just baffling to me, I guess it appeals to the target audience of people with punisher stickers, but does anybody ACTUALLY get offended by a pronoun joke?

Sorry for the long winded rant, this has been on my mind for a while and I just wanted to vent my frustrations out.

 

[UnDubious]

I've seen this recent trend, ever since 2015 and beyond. There is an ungodly amount of god awful cash grab attempts at franchises people like. It is quite literally just "We heard you liked He-Man when you were 8, dont you want to watch 2 hours of him?". Its so absurdly creative bankrupt. The worst part? THEY STILL MAKE MONEY EVERY TIME! I dont even blame them anymore, they keep making shit tons of money from this. I'm not that big of a film or show nerd, but it gets to a point when you have seen barely any orginal ideas.
Take for example, Scary Movie 6, a long dead franchise that stopped being relevant in the mid 2000s. This movie exists only to just point and say "Remember that, remember when we made a good parody and then spent the rest of the franchise making worse and worse movies?". In particular the whole marketing of the thing being "triggering the libs" is just baffling to me, I guess it appeals to the target audience of people with punisher stickers, but does anybody ACTUALLY get offended by a pronoun joke?

Sorry for the long winded rant, this has been on my mind for a while and I just wanted to vent my frustrations out.

At first I confused Scary Movie 6 with whatever the latest Scream movie was, because that was the main movie Scary Movie was spoofing, and it also lost all quality and relevance a very long time ago as well. Scary Movie didn't need to be a franchise at all, the first one was good at the time and it was already pretty pointless by the second. I didn't even know they kept making them.

 

[DinoRexMax DinoRexMax]

"We heard you liked He-Man when you were 8, dont you want to watch 2 hours of him?"

Yeah, I'd love to watch 2 hours of He-man! In Eternia....
Where he belongs...
Like he's supposed to be...
I don't know what possessed them to look to the Menahem Globan Masters of the Universe for inspiration (which they only filmed in Los Angles to be cheap, because Golan Globus film cheap af). I know in the OG Cartoon, Adam's mom is an astronaut from Earth, but that's fucking stupid, and it's rightfully ignore in later canon (she's just an adventurer most of the time). But like, sure, let's just have Adam sitting around on the couch, like, why the fuck not? That's what I wanted to see, fuck whatever Eternia is.

I've seen this recent trend, ever since 2015 and beyond. There is an ungodly amount of god awful cash grab attempts at franchises people like.

Oh, it's been going on a lot longer than 2015. At least from 2007, when the first Bayformers movie hit, that's when it really started. There's simply this clash between producer and creator. One wants to make money off of a popular IP, the other wants to create something only they really want to see. Sometimes you get synergy, and it comes out okay. Othertimes, the two forces clash and you get a fucking mess, where it's very clear no one had any real interest in working on Ghostbusters, or Transformers, or Gem and the Holograms, they just needed a paycheque and rode your nostalgia for it.

It takes respect for the IP, and passion for a project, that creates a good franhise movie. Both of which are in short supply in an overpoliticized Hollywood.

The worst part? THEY STILL MAKE MONEY EVERY TIME!

No, actually, they don't. I mean, not from the filmgoers at least. But there's slush funds like Blackrock that pour money into this kind of stuff, both as a tax writeoff and as way to get a message across. So, even when these movies and shows bomb, they always fail upwards and keep getting made, which often takes down a lot of talented people with it.

In particular the whole marketing of the thing being "triggering the libs" is just baffling to me, I guess it appeals to the target audience of people with punisher stickers, but does anybody ACTUALLY get offended by a pronoun joke?

Yes, very much so, all the time, Now until forever, or at least until we ban Twitter or something. Problem is, that's a shit way to market your movie. I suppose the intention is that the jokes will hold no quarrel, as if that makes them funnier on principle of not walking on egg shells. But, like, we've been doing film parodies of this shit in casual conversation for the past 20 years without them, and they're infinitely more rauchy then anything Hollywood could produce.

 

[Tsukishima]

There comes a point in ones life where if you want creativity and innovation you need to look back, not forward.

There's a phrase I like these days. It goes: "Millions of years of evolution we create things with rocks, now we let rocks think for us."

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

Tinseltown needs to go home and become a family man.