Because China doesnt like the woke stuff, and they can just make their own movies. When you look at what Hollywood stuff did well in China, what do you find? Bay-Formers. Pirates of the Caribbean. Fast and Furious. Avengers. Are you noticing a pattern here? Its even more stark when you look at the domestic stuff, where if you just switched some flags around it wouldnt look out of place in a lineup of 80's movies. Dont believe me? Here is the trailer for the best selling movie in China.(by the way: Yes, that is the US as the bad guys. Just in case you thought they were going to be subtle about that sort of stuff.)
You want to know whats funny? That same sort of actiony shit sells well in the US for the same reason: People want movies that are FUN! The occasional arthouse, thinking piece sure. But 9/10, most people want a movie where people shoot at each other with impossibly large magazines, as another guy gets roundhouse kicked in the face so hard he explodes.
But Hollywood got high on their own farts and thought that they knew better what people wanted. And now they are starting to lose their old as people take up new hobbies and medium. Because I assure you, it is absolutely no coincidence that Anime exploded in popularity around the same time that Hollywood started huffing a little too hard.
And whw many flops and bombs does will it take for hollywood to realize their 'main' audience doesn't like the crap they shit out. As your example of a chinese movie shows. they have enough usa bad content to enjoy.
Bit of a rant. But I remember when Pacific Rim was in cinemas, it got it's ass kicked in the us by a shitty sandler movie. It took china to give it a massive boost in international sales. Point being china likes giant robots/sci fi shit. And currently there hasn't been a good sci fi film that isnt a marvel flick that's come out of hollywood recently.
It’s already starting to happen. Movies take a while to make so things can be far out at times but a lot of stuff in the pipeline’s toning it down. There’s still push to woke things but to an extent that won’t piss people off as much. Main lingering problem is that everyone is at least somewhat connected to at least one woke person, usually going woke in college, and when you pit people that don’t care so much against people that violently care, the crazies tend to have a disproportionate impact on the outcome.
Disney’s been doing okay somewhat with things like Loki. You can see the obvious intentions there in some ways but Loki was still pretty damn great. Falcon and Winter Solder had some dumb shit but ended up being about in the middle. You know they wanted to do more with all of them in the wokeness department but couldn’t.
With regards to the Disney+ wokeness, if some of the Doomcock rumors can be believed and there really is a massive dropoff and cancel rate in watch numbers every time it comes up, then it's likely to die off SOON™.
Because China doesnt like the woke stuff, and they can just make their own movies. When you look at what Hollywood stuff did well in China, what do you find? Bay-Formers. Pirates of the Caribbean. Fast and Furious. Avengers. Are you noticing a pattern here? Its even more stark when you look at the domestic stuff, where if you just switched some flags around it wouldnt look out of place in a lineup of 80's movies. Dont believe me? Here is the trailer for the best selling movie in China.(by the way: Yes, that is the US as the bad guys. Just in case you thought they were going to be subtle about that sort of stuff.)
You want to know whats funny? That same sort of actiony shit sells well in the US for the same reason: People want movies that are FUN! The occasional arthouse, thinking piece sure. But 9/10, most people want a movie where people shoot at each other with impossibly large magazines, as another guy gets roundhouse kicked in the face so hard he explodes.
But Hollywood got high on their own farts and thought that they knew better what people wanted. And now they are starting to lose their old as people take up new hobbies and medium. Because I assure you, it is absolutely no coincidence that Anime exploded in popularity around the same time that Hollywood started huffing a little too hard.
And whw many flops and bombs does will it take for hollywood to realize their 'main' audience doesn't like the crap they shit out. As your example of a chinese movie shows. they have enough usa bad content to enjoy.
Bit of a rant. But I remember when Pacific Rim was in cinemas, it got it's ass kicked in the us by a shitty sandler movie. It took china to give it a massive boost in international sales. Point being china likes giant robots/sci fi shit. And currently there hasn't been a good sci fi film that isnt a marvel flick that's come out of hollywood recently.
It’s already starting to happen. Movies take a while to make so things can be far out at times but a lot of stuff in the pipeline’s toning it down. There’s still push to woke things but to an extent that won’t piss people off as much. Main lingering problem is that everyone is at least somewhat connected to at least one woke person, usually going woke in college, and when you pit people that don’t care so much against people that violently care, the crazies tend to have a disproportionate impact on the outcome.
Disney’s been doing okay somewhat with things like Loki. You can see the obvious intentions there in some ways but Loki was still pretty damn great. Falcon and Winter Solder had some dumb shit but ended up being about in the middle. You know they wanted to do more with all of them in the wokeness department but couldn’t.
With regards to the Disney+ wokeness, if some of the Doomcock rumors can be believed and there really is a massive dropoff and cancel rate in watch numbers every time it comes up, then it's likely to die off SOON™.
LOOOOLLL, they can't. As much as I want him to be right he never is.