Good thing Mel Gipson hasn't passed on yet, he'd be rolling over in his grave otherwise with this CG prequel/sequel monstrosity Hollywood now has created.
Although I generally stay clear of trailers and I'm not watching the above video, I can say that I was fully expecting Fury Road to suck, but it turned out to be great, in a crazy sort of way like a lunatic's unrestrained fantasy. Surely the sequel curse will strike again though and ensure that they eff Furiosa up.
Hollywood has become a joke. No creativity at all, just crappy sequels. Mayer & John Ford would be appalled at the state of modern Hollywood. I'm surprised the idiots who run modern Hollywood don't start remaking Gone With The Wind or The Wizard of Oz.
There are two key considerations (from my perspective as an ex-video game dev because the following also started applying to games): 1) Hollywood happily reuses brands because consumers are far more likely to buy into it than a new unknown title. Sad but true. Arguably the consumers are to blame at heart, they are lazy and stick with what they recognize. "Oh it's Lord of the Rings, I must buy that!" 2) "Everything has been done" by now. Well, not entirely, but chances are whatever you can think of there is a movie that does it. It's similar to the even more crowded music industry. And the video game industry is gradually going into the same situation. Doesn't mean that creative people are suddenly stupid, just that they didn't get there first.
I read the cause of this phenomenon was streaming services. Before there was a theatrical release, rental income, and then the buy to own. a movie had a year of potential income streams for it to gestate with the public. Now a movie has only the theatrical release which is shortened by streaming. In this very short profit period the safest movies are remakes of what worked before.
Good addition, the competitive business climate most certainly contributes and it is ultimately business risk management at play. However, the idea of Hollywood losing its creativity is something that at least has been around since the mid-90s [when I became old enough to note it]. In comparison, back then video games were fertile ground for easily imagined never before seen ideas, whereas today you will find few new ideas in the gaming top lists. I guess my core argument is that there's a finite set of easy to grasp ideas (such as movie plots/stories) and that these get exhausted over time. Making video games in 100 years (if humans are around by then or even making games at all w.r.t. to AI) is going to be so dull.
I think this is a generational thing. Like I am with music these days. there were a lot of great original movies from the 90s onward. there will be blood Dark city Austin powers Last action hero Snakes on a plane (not great but certainly original) The mad max that this sequel is based off
Absolutely, it's still possible to do entirely new things even in movies, just saying it's much much harder work nowadays compared to 50 years earlier. And I'm just trying to explain why I don't think the sentiment "Hollywood has no ideas anymore" is fair towards the people working in Hollywood.
there are fewer ideas just by the fact some ideas have been played. But there are new things that can be done as a result of technology. however, there are a certain set of stories that resonate with humanity. I agree with you.
It was not bad but it helped not to watch Thunder Road recently as some details like the fate of the green place are better not remembered. Furiosa was mostly a fully covered back story character in the first movie. Women liked the new movie a lot.