I used to say "if you're gonna remake a movie, you should remake a bad movie but do it better."

Then they remade The Crow. "Dude I said do it better. 🤦‍♂️"

The Wild Robot in theaters. Not a sequel or a remake. It is based off of a novel though.

2024 was apparently the first year where all the top-10 highest grossing movies were sequels. List doesn't include Moana 2 and Gladiator 2 which are expected to make a lot of money as well.

Y2K. It was better than I expected!

Also, I remember walking out of Everything Everywhere All At Once and being angry because it probably wouldn’t do well in theaters or win any awards, despite being one of the best original movies I had ever seen.

I was happy to be wrong on that one.

I'm not against sequels/prequels, just need some more than "it's the sequel to that one you liked".

OK, but why does it need a sequel? Can you make me interested in it aside from the fact it's a sequel? Is it any good....?

Not a movie or fully original, but I watched Arcane and I loved it. It was good without knowing about the game, and those who know the game say it's better if you do. That's what a sequel/remake/adaptation should strive for.

It's to the point right now that a young person 20 years of age could spend a decade just watching all the old classics from the past 80 years to enjoy great films. If they stopped making movies tomorrow, there's more than enough content now for people to watch.

My wife wants to keep watching the latest stuff but if it were up to me, I'd just take the time to watch at least all of the AFI top 100 films.... last I checked I think I've only seen about 30 of them and I thought I watched a lot of films. My last rough count of watched films that I could list was over 1,500 films. And I still have a waiting list of hundreds more I want to see.

I'm a Trek fan and I thought I watched lots but I've only seen about half of all the TV series and most of the films.

That's also not counting all the other TV series I'd like to see from the past ... MASH, All In The Family, Adam's Family, The original Batman series, The Munsters, X Files, Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Office ...... and on and on

If my spouse wasn't so stuck in watching the latest stuff I'd probably be happy just spending my time catching up on everything I wasn't able to see for the past 30-40 years.

People want original without taking the risk of watching an unknown movie that might be bad

The Banshees of Inisherin

i watched it in a theater, because i've heard the movie was good. Didn't read up much on it beforehand and enjoyed watching it, albeit not fully getting it i guess.

It felt worth going to a theater for. Contrary to the last 3 or so Marvel movies i've seen in theater because friends dragged me and i ended up falling asleep every time.

~~Millions~~ Hundreds of beavers.

On a projector at home.

A silent film. From 2022.

Bizarre. Stupid. Funny. Silly. Stupid. Cute. Bizarre. And stupid.

★★★★

The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

1. movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
2. in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
3. due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
4. assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
5. sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
6. that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those

Movies and shows that I have watched this year in no particular order and not all released this year:

The Beekeeper

Iron Claw

Say Nothing

Altered States

The Substance

Oppenheimer

Peaky Blinders (rewatch)

Kneecap

In The Name of the Father

The Batman

Lord of the Rings (rewatch)

The Departed (rewatch)

Deep Space Nine (haven't finished)

The Devil's Own

Sicario

Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

I stopped watching almost all franchise and remakes. Horror seems be the only genre worth watching. I had the highest hopes for the creator so much wasted potential.

Poor marketing and limited theater releases is why and studios can blame themselves.

Bullshit. The box office speaks for itself. Maybe YOU want to see new movies. Regular people want the newest superhero shit movie and remakes

Just get Nick Cage to be in your movie, that seems to be the secret ingredient

How original we talking?

I have seen The Substance (good) in theaters and I saw the TV glow (hated it). I also watched Megalopolis (weird) in theaters and if we want something really original I even last year watched the Onyx the Fortuitous movie in theaters (enjoyed the heck out of it)

I will likely watch Nosferatu in theaters and any smaller movie that puts the effort in and deserves my money.

But I am not paying for the movies that they make just to make money. I don't reward that kind of bad behavior and that afront to art and story telling.

The price of movies is too damn high to go out and watch them. My system at home is far more comfortable and costs barely anything.

Does Barbenheimer count?

The Substance was a wild ride

There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).

I have nothing to confirm this and don't remember the source I have that from except "the internet"

What makes money is recognition.

Sequels are one way to do that. Another is a big name actor. Another is a big name director. What was the last thing you watched that fulfilled none of those?

Mine is probably Oddity, and I watched it on Jellyfin. It's honestly tricky to find things like that that aren't £2 DVD bargain bin trash from the depths of Netflix.

Hundreds of Beavers.

And I watched it by just sort of holding my eyes open while the video file played on my computer screen.

Wild Robot - Piracy

Hundreds of Beavers - Piracy

Chocolate - Tubi

Don’t remember the last sequel I watched but movies are too long to watch in one sitting

The last one I saw, by release date, was Late Night with the Devil, and I pirated it. I'm glad I pirated it, because I didn't know it had AI slop in it. If I did, I wouldn't have watched it. It's a shame, too, cause otherwise, it wasn't bad.

In theaters: Heretic, and before that The Substance

Recently at home:

Saturday Night

Man on the Moon

I saw the TV Glow

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Edge of Tomorrow. It was fun. Drag didn't give any money to Tom Cruise, though.

People want to watch good movies. With remakes people want to see the original but with different actors and usually studios fuck them up by trying to fix what wasn’t broke.

Wild robot at home, My last theater movie? Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse.

The theaters used to pack everybody in for every show. And they just crank the prices up and up. I'm sure that they think home streaming and piracy is what killed them. But you can buy a TV the price of taking a family afford to the movies.

Beau is afraid. I found a stream of it online (yar matey). It was strange but good.

Sure, it's the customers who decide the market. That's how it works.

I watched A League of Their Own last week. Very watchable, not at all flashy, and refreshingly earnest. I hate that so many modern movies are so wised up and meta, and I find myself watching older movies more and more.

Recently it's been Ghost, Bull Durham, Forrest Gump, and Field of Dreams. (I don't even like baseball, no idea why so many of these are baseball movies!)

The adjective "good" needs to proceed "movies".

The Substance on Netflix

I saw Megalopolis in theatres

• Boondock Saints
• The Wiz
• Corpse Bride
• Joe's Apartment.

I have a bad movie night with family every week, and these were the recent ones. We watched via streaming services.

The last Marvel movie I watched was the end game one. Haven't bothered with another Marvel TV series or movie since. The last star wars movie I watched was the one where Luke projects his appearance and the bad guys shoot it a lot without doing anything. I haven't bothered with any of the other tv series or movies for star wars either.

I'm not the usual customer though. The last movies I saw in theaters was wicked and inside out 2.