Comment on 6 Reasons So Many Movies Are Struggling At The Box Office In 2024
JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 5 months agoI agree to a point, but Mad Max is an example of something original that seems to have come from a place of creativity instead of a committee and yet is still doing poorly.
So I don't think it's just that Hollywood has a tendency to do remakes instead of original stuff.
Mad Max Furiosa is doing badly because Fury Road completely killed the franchise. If they want people to go see it they should have communicate in some way that Furiosa is not a badly written fashion show, and the best way to do that is by not calling it “Mad Max”.
(Honestly, I have no idea what Furiosa is about, and no interest in finding out.)
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The movie from 1979, from 1981, from 1985? Maybe the movie from 2015, or the movie from this year?
JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 5 months ago
Just because it's a sequel doesn't mean it's derivative. All 5 movies are directed by the same guy. I can't speak for the first 3, but if you saw the 2015 movie and couldn't tell that it was a passion project, then I don't know what to tell you. We don't call Sherlock Holmes soulless even though Doyle wrote over 50 short stories starring Holmes.
It's entirely possible for someone to be creatively invested in a world they've built and want to keep exploring it in future works.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 months ago
I absolutely love the Mad Max series, but I’ll be the first to say that yes, it’s derivative, except for the very first one.
All the others follow the same formula: Max Rockatansky wanders into a shitty situation while dealing with Bad Guys™️. Shitty situation escalates and ropes him in. He reluctantly helps and, with a ragtag team of anti-heroes, they save the day at a great cost. Max is left to wander the Outback once more.
It’s a great formula, I love it, but I won’t blame anyone for not wanting to watch more of the same.
dingus182@endlesstalk.org 5 months ago
In '85, they brought on Tina Turner just to cash in on previous releases. Kinda like casting JLo or Beyonce in another Mad Max and expecting it to do better.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
If you’re being that reductive then you’re describing like 10% of all movies.