The idea that you have to have a movie you are "rooting for this summer" shows just how deeply ingrained Hollywood has brainwashed people.
What makes a movie in summer any different from a movie anywhere else? Nothing, other than they attached the name "blockbuster" to it to make it seem much larger and more special for....reasons.
Agreed. I am looking forward to Mission: Impossible because I have been a fan for a long time, and to Oppenheimer because I am a history nerd. But I am not "rooting" for them. Beyond the fact that it would be funny to watch M:I bulldoze over everyone again because Tom Cruise ego makes it so he demands the best movies as free from bullshit as possible.
Humans are social creatures and feel compelled to be part of a tribe.
Can't use family, religion, neighbors, friends, nation, or race (if you're a normal white non-freak) so what does one attach themselves to? Trivialities. Sports team. Summer movie.
Indy shouldn't be a character. Last Crusade worked, but on paper, really shouldn't have.
He doesn't need a family, or pathos, or an arc. They could have just made another adventure, completely ignoring his age, and it might have worked. Definitely, for sure, don't have a sequence where your storied protagonist begs for death, unless you want the audience to do the same.
The problem is that nearly every good piece of literature has a believable and relatable story arc.
So incompetent hack writers with no life experience invoke it as some sort of mantra to try to paper over the fact that they're incompetent hack writers.
The canon of high literature tends to feature arcs, but it's not necessarily a common trait. Picaresque stories, which are episodic and of the "here we go again" variety have been around for thousands of years. Think pulp heroes: Conan, Elric, the Three Musketeers. Things happen to them, there may be continuity between stories, the character may even change significantly over the corpus, but a coherent "arc" is non-existent or something accidental, that you have to squint to see.
Its already got Ryan Gosling creating literal magic meme marketing for it, and will absolutely lead to an unexpectedly large male demo going see it besides those women.
Which almost every bit of info about it only exacerbates. Those mugshot images are everywhere already as a meme template and continues his "literally me" reputation.
Sad what happened to John Wick. The first two were cool enough imo but then whoever was in charge confirmed that they were actually not very cool themselves and just kinda got lucky
It makes you wish we could have dildos fall from the sky without them being able to stop it during a major meeting.
The idea that you have to have a movie you are "rooting for this summer" shows just how deeply ingrained Hollywood has brainwashed people.
What makes a movie in summer any different from a movie anywhere else? Nothing, other than they attached the name "blockbuster" to it to make it seem much larger and more special for....reasons.
Agreed. I am looking forward to Mission: Impossible because I have been a fan for a long time, and to Oppenheimer because I am a history nerd. But I am not "rooting" for them. Beyond the fact that it would be funny to watch M:I bulldoze over everyone again because Tom Cruise ego makes it so he demands the best movies as free from bullshit as possible.
Someone didn't watch Jack Reacher 2 :)))))
I didnt say every was great. Just that his ego makes him want to.
To be fair, I think that was the last time Cruise leaned into woke content. If I recall, that movie didn't perform very well at the box office?
Humans are social creatures and feel compelled to be part of a tribe.
Can't use family, religion, neighbors, friends, nation, or race (if you're a normal white non-freak) so what does one attach themselves to? Trivialities. Sports team. Summer movie.
Just more signs of social decay.
I'm already excited for next product!
As you should be, after consooooming previous product and enjoying your snack of ze bugs.
How about nothing? That's an option, despite people like this thinking that you have to be excited for next movie.
Indy shouldn't be a character. Last Crusade worked, but on paper, really shouldn't have.
He doesn't need a family, or pathos, or an arc. They could have just made another adventure, completely ignoring his age, and it might have worked. Definitely, for sure, don't have a sequence where your storied protagonist begs for death, unless you want the audience to do the same.
The idealization of "character arcs" ruined popular fiction.
The problem is that nearly every good piece of literature has a believable and relatable story arc.
So incompetent hack writers with no life experience invoke it as some sort of mantra to try to paper over the fact that they're incompetent hack writers.
The canon of high literature tends to feature arcs, but it's not necessarily a common trait. Picaresque stories, which are episodic and of the "here we go again" variety have been around for thousands of years. Think pulp heroes: Conan, Elric, the Three Musketeers. Things happen to them, there may be continuity between stories, the character may even change significantly over the corpus, but a coherent "arc" is non-existent or something accidental, that you have to squint to see.
There's a chance of Barbie ending up as one of the top 10 grossing movies this year.
I imagine a healthy chance at that. There's an appeal for women in every generation, and it looks like there will be a huge marketing campaign for it.
Its already got Ryan Gosling creating literal magic meme marketing for it, and will absolutely lead to an unexpectedly large male demo going see it besides those women.
Which almost every bit of info about it only exacerbates. Those mugshot images are everywhere already as a meme template and continues his "literally me" reputation.
do tell, I thought toy commercial movies never did so well.
Kathleen Kennedy, destroyer of beloved franchises.
You misspelled J.J. Abrams.
Aren't they the same person by now? Some kind of The Thing horrific amalgamation?
Sad what happened to John Wick. The first two were cool enough imo but then whoever was in charge confirmed that they were actually not very cool themselves and just kinda got lucky