The surprise success of this surreal duo proves cinema remains a powerful cultural force and suggests audiences want more than franchises
The surprise success of this surreal duo proves cinema remains a powerful cultural force and suggests audiences want more than franchises
Not to downplay the quality of the movies, but one is a biopic and one is a toy adaptation; one could easily throw in “finally an original movie that’s not a superhero, sequel, biopic, or toy adaptation.” They’re good movies. Good movies can come in any form, superheroes, sequels, and remakes included.
I think what people are asking for right now is for studios to take risks and be creative. They want to experience something different. Superheroes and remakes have been done to death to the point that some (myself included) are just saturated.
Marvel did a great job till Endgame.
But between that, the sequel trilogy, the hobbit trilogy and whatever the hell the Harry Potter sequels were, plus the disaster that is the DC universe, we need a decade off to clear our palates of all this recycled bs.
Then we can start again slowly like iron man did in 2008, but we are still way hungover from endgame.
Look at the 1991 Oscar best picture nominees and ask yourself if any movie in the last decade is even comparable.
Not hard at all. I can already tell you I liked Everything Everywhere All at Once (this year’s BP winner) way more than Dances with Wolves.
1991 is a uniquely weak year for the Academy though. You might have had a stronger argument with 1994 or 1995, but I can still think of plenty of movies released in the last decade that I would rank up there with Schindler’s List or Pulp Fiction.
Bickering about dumb movie stuff really makes me feel like the internet is healing after reddit. 🌞 It’s good to be back.
Go ahead and make that list if you’re so inclined. On par with Pulp Fiction? Come on. This has got to be good.
Some random personal favorites of the last 10 years off the top of my head, in no particular order
I’d say Sicario is up there on my list
Fuck, that was good! The ending leaves you feeling so empty.
John Wick. The first one.
Can’t comment on Oscars, but 1999 was a wild ride.
Can’t even copy/paste all this:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1999&title_type=feature&
The studio system broke down in the late 2000s, between China becoming a market and the massive, MASSIVE flood of money from lotr, HP, marvel and other similar copypasta franchishes the pressure for sequels and the like exploded, and independent directors lost a lot of their room to experiment.
Streaming is the second half, everybody wants something with a long tail, ie you can recognize it from the Netflix catalog, which pushes harder for sequels and franchises
That’s a pretty low bar:
1991 -
Winner - DANCES WITH WOLVES
AWAKENINGS
GHOST
THE GODFATHER, PART III
GOOD FELLAS
Godfather III was largely disliked at the time, nominated because it’s a Godfather film. Even now it’s 66% on RottenTomatoes.
Ghost and Dances with Wolves were pretty trash.
Better movies in the last decade? Don’t even have to really think too hard about it, Everything Everwhere All At Once. Both Spider-Verse movies.