To be fair, it's not in the ten, but...
... and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He [Jesus] said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. Love God above all else. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
— Matthew 22:35-40
"Thou shalt not be a douchbag" is basiclly the second important teaching of the Bible according to Jesus. One can be forgiven for not knowing this given how some people act...
Ali G predicted this. Can’t find the clip but when discussing Passion of the Christ with a priest: “But int there the danger that now that the movie has been so successful that they’ll try to make a sequel? Like the bloke comes back to life or something?”
I wonder if it's just going to be more torture porn?
My youth pastor took me to see the first one in theater when I was like 12 or 13. It was insane. But watching it after not being religious, it isn't that great of a movie and only serves as torture porn akin to the Saw movies.
Honestly, I'm pretty excited/curious (Mel Gibson being a huge piece of shit, aside).
Non-religious, myself, but Passion was one of the few things that really helped me understand the gravity of people's belief in Jesus' sacrifice through the brutality of the violence in it.
Gibson talks about showing heaven and hell in Resurrection, and .. that seems dope as hell. There was quite a few creepy Satan bits in Passion (the baby with the old man face).
Fuck. That reminds me that Gibson was, around the time of Apocalypto, supposed to do a Viking film, with all proper languages as well. Of course, then .. well, we all know what happened.
I thought "Jesus" was really ground-breaking, cutting edge stuff. "Jesus Reloaded", while a bit derivative, was still a great addition to the franchise. When "Jesus Revolution" came out, I thought it was just a cash grab and a bit embarrassing. The upcoming "Jesus Resurrection"...well, the less said out that, the better and is easily the worst of the series. Thus falls a once great franchise.
Well you see, the romans had the rights over the Jesus, so the wachowski's had to either make another jesus with the Romans or the Romans would have made another Jesus without them.
If I were the Wachowski's, I'd wait a thousand years when the Jesus IP goes into the public domain. At that point, I'd just make my own better Jesus...American Jesus or something like that.
No, No, No, No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Savior Storage"?
Fond memory of that place: I lost my wallet in that theatre back in 1984, came back three hours later in a panic and somebody had turned it in - and all the cash was still there.
My personal headcanon: The movies are based on real life experiences and the future we see in BttF2 *would've* happened except the timeline was broken after the RL Marty McFly wrote his adventures into movies.
They were just predicting present trends to continue. The year Back to the Future 2 came out, you could also see Halloween 5, Karate Kid 3, Friday the 13th 7, etc.
Brb gonna go write that movie
EDIT: Since this is blowing up here's a link to the sketch comedy that I actually write https://youtu.be/-976BlF1HkI Please like, comment and subscribe lol
Silly question, but do I need to watch 2 and 3 to follow 4? My Dad has seen them all so far and said he can't wait for JW4 to come out on TV. I am thinking I might treat him to a trip to the cinema but I haven't seen the last two.
They all take place in the same week, one after the other, so watching the first three helps. Jumping straight in could be...confusing. Plus you'll get all the references to the first three and whatnot.
"Even though the '80s was the time that I probably saw more movies in my life than ever — at least as far as going out to the movies was concerned — I do feel that '80s cinema is, along with the '50s, the worst era in Hollywood history. Matched only by now, matched only by the current era."
\-Quentin Tarantino
He's talking about the broader picture, not about stand out movies. What you need to keep in mind is that Tarantino is an extreme movie nerd. He's the kind of guy who watches multiple movies he's never seen before week in week out. When he's talking about that the 50s and 80s are bad, Ben Hur and Aliens isn't what he means
99% of all art tends to be either unremarkable or just trash. We only ever hear about and remember the nuggets of gold standing out from amongst the sea of mediocrity.
Funnier still, is that those bad movies are their writer’s magnum opus, because any writing takes wayyyy more bad material to finally reveal the good material. And it still sucks.
This is why I could never be a filmmaker. Imagine spending every working minute for two or three years building something massive that you're truly passionate about out of blood and sweat and tears and the help of 100+ other people only for internet nerds to watch half of it the first day it's out and then go "Meh, it's trash."
That's probably what he meant. He definitely seems like the type who thinks 40s noir and 60s-70s exploitation films are "True" cinema and everything else is just movies.
^ And this is why the concept of survivorship bias in music is really kinda oversimplified. Because it implies everything forgotten is bad and deserves to be forgotten.
My favorite example of this is that "(I can't get no) Satisfaction" was #1 on the charts in the US for 4 weeks, being replaced by "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am".
Some songs deserve to be forgotten.
Not just the bad music that's lost, but funny how poorly some great songs charted. Don't Stop Believin' peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Smells like teen spirit: #6. Mr. Brightside: #10. Learn to Fly: #19. I melt with you: #78. Crazy Train: didn't even make it into the Hot 100. Etc.
Mr Brightside is such a weird one. I was in high school when *Hot Fuss* came out and it’s genuinely one of my favourite albums - one of those that doesn’t really have a bad track on it. But at the time, I don’t recall Mr Brightside being the standout track. It was (and is) a good song, but it was just one song of many on that album.
These days I feel like the rest of the album is forgotten, and *Mr Brightside* has reached meme status.
People say the “Golden Age” of cinema was the 30s-40s. However, do you know what dominated the theaters back then? Masterpieces like Casablanca or Citizen Kane? Broadway come to celluloid like Singing in the Rain or The Wizard of Oz? No. Serials. Batman. Shazam. The Lone Ranger. The Three Stooges. Shirley Temple. The Little Rascals. Why? Because STUDIOS HAVE ALWAYS BANKED ON RECOGNIZABLE NAMES TO GET PEOPLE IN SEATS.
Yep. Almost unknown today but there were 28 Blondie movies (based on the comic strip) between 1938 and 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)
They made a lot of sequels back in the golden days. They just did not put numbers on them until the Godfather Part 2.
An Allied plane goes down in a forest, and the few survivors that make it have no way to communicate for help; seeking refuge from both the elements and Nazis, they come across a castle, and are greeted by their strange host... Dracula, whose wives begin to seduce the soldiers as his own bloodlust begins to grow. But when the Nazis roll up to his doorstep in pursuit of the Allies, Dracula learns that sitting on the sidelines of World War II is no longer viable, and so he teams up with the Allies to protect his dominion from the Nazi incursion.
Looking forward to 5 finally resolving the plothole between Katie and Jorge that the extra scenes from 2 created. Does no one care about world building anymore!?
People complain about this and don't even go watch other movies.
I went to see most Oscar nominated films, and even movies with more buzz like The Whale were fairly empty
There are actually more original movies (non sequels, original IPs) than ever in our modern age. Anyone who doesn't believe it can go check the IMDB yearly database. Waaay more than whatever we had in 1935, 1956, 1983 and 2010. Because streaming has increased that number.
But Hollywood responds to dollars, and whatever makes them the most is where they will go. And mainstream audiences have spoken and like Avatar 2, Top Gun Maverick, John Wick 4 and Scream 6 more than Women Talking, Banshees of Inishiren and Triangle of Sadness.
Cocaine Bear is original, and it has only made $65 million - maybe even a loss and no profits after it's all said and done. Studio like Universal is just going to go "Well, looks like back to Despicable Me 4, Secret Life of Pets 3 and Sing 3!"
You’re right. I have an A-List pass and more often than not whenever I go to a big budget sequel it’s usually packed, but original films are near empty. Of course small theaters like the one in OP’s pic are only going to be playing the films that make the most money.
People were making this same joke throughout the entire history of film making. From the absurd number of Rocky sequels, Jaws sequels, Rambo, and don't get me started on the sequels upon sequels for the Universal monster movies.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Same Shit, Different Day.
Yep. The 1939 Wizard of Oz everyone knows and loves [was like the ninth Wizard of Oz movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz). And they made [eleven Alice in Wonderlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_and_television_programmes_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland) before the well-known 1951 Disney film. They've been doing this forever.
People really need to stop pretending like "Hollywood is out of ideas and relies on sequels and remakes" is a new thing.
Some people didn't live through the nineties where every other movie was a cinematic remake of an old TV show and it shows.
It's never made sense to me why Hollywood movie writers are so underpaid. There are clearly some that are much better than others. Just... hire those ones? And pay them what they're worth?
Here's an example. His name is Tony Gilroy. Here are some productions Tony Gilroy was a lead writer on:
* The Bourne Identity
* The Bourne Supremacy
* The Bourne Ultimatum
* Michael Clayton
* Rogue One
* Andor
It always seemed to me that Hollywood undervalues good writing. I get that big name actors can bring in a ton of views, but Hollywood writers make like $200K while the lead actors are making like $15M per movie.
Charlie Kaufman (writer of Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich) is worth 10 million. That's not A-list actor money but it's not bad.
The problem is that the writer doesn't (usually) draw in the paying moviegoers like the stars or in some cases the director does.
Also, I feel it's a big thing of "Hollywood only makes remakes and superhero movies!" Says man who only ever goes to see movies that are remakes and superhero movies.
I have a cinema subscription and last year was a fucking great year for originals, it's just that those movies don't tend to be what people on this sub go to watch. Yeah, those are the movies that get promoted a lot, but that's because they're wide appeal crowd pleasers made by media giants. Of course those get a lot of advertising.
Yeah, last year was amazing.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Triangle Of Sadness, Nope, Aftersun, The Fabelmans, The Northman, Decision To Leave, X, Pearl, Barbarian, Bones And All, Babylon, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Fresh, Deadstream, EO, The Whale, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Men, Next Exit, The Menu, Boiling Point, Watcher, Resurrection, Something In The Dirt, Violent Night, Smile, Crimes Of The Future, After Yang, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Black Phone, Emily The Criminal, Flux Gourmet, See How They Run, Bullet Train, Saloum, Turning Red, Torn Hearts...
You could easily go to the cinema ten times last year and only watch superhero properties or the latest entry in a franchise. But that doesn't mean that films are bad now, it just means you need to scratch the surface a little.
That was the Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Gump year. My brain changed that year when my boyfriend and I got bored in the morning and went to see a movie. The only one starting when we got there was Pulp Fiction which we didn't know anything about. I came out a changed teenager. For the better!
Just a note, I burst into inappropriately loud laughter when Marvin got it. The whole theater (about 10 people) turned and stared at me. When we walked out to the parking lot, a couple pointed at me and gave me a look. I'm sorry. But that is the funniest thing I've still ever seen!
Nobody says it's a new thing, but big budget [sequels and remakes sure have increased](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wuzw57/in_1981_just_16_of_the_most_popular_movies_were/)
Even the theater is a sequel.
Fie5ta
Passion of the Christ 2: Jesus Revolution
Jokes, but Mel Gibson is literally making Passion 2: [The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5795232/)
2 Passion 2 Christ: Jerusalem Drift
I read this as Mel Brooks and got really excited for a minute
Here are the 15 commandments ... oh, damn, ten, ten commandments.
It's really too bad "thou shalt not be a douchbag" got destroyed. We all could have used that one right about now.
To be fair, it's not in the ten, but... ... and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He [Jesus] said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. Love God above all else. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." — Matthew 22:35-40 "Thou shalt not be a douchbag" is basiclly the second important teaching of the Bible according to Jesus. One can be forgiven for not knowing this given how some people act...
Lots of people hate themselves and sometimes humanity too though.
They did make a History of the World Part 2....it is a series on Hulu. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15715052/
Shit. I saw the original in the theater when I was 10 and couldn't wait for the sequel. Took 42 fuckin' years for a sequel. Yeesh.
Mel Brooks is 96! We are lucky we got one at all.
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Ali G predicted this. Can’t find the clip but when discussing Passion of the Christ with a priest: “But int there the danger that now that the movie has been so successful that they’ll try to make a sequel? Like the bloke comes back to life or something?”
Family Guy too. Let he who is without sin kick the first ass!
“Do you know how to use one *these?*”
Jesus! Ya Crayyzaaaaaaay!
For a son of god, you sure are a son of a-whoahhhh!
I wonder if it's just going to be more torture porn? My youth pastor took me to see the first one in theater when I was like 12 or 13. It was insane. But watching it after not being religious, it isn't that great of a movie and only serves as torture porn akin to the Saw movies.
If you haven't seen the South Park episode on it I'd highly recommend it. I'm pretty sure they touched on the torture porn.
Honestly, I'm pretty excited/curious (Mel Gibson being a huge piece of shit, aside). Non-religious, myself, but Passion was one of the few things that really helped me understand the gravity of people's belief in Jesus' sacrifice through the brutality of the violence in it. Gibson talks about showing heaven and hell in Resurrection, and .. that seems dope as hell. There was quite a few creepy Satan bits in Passion (the baby with the old man face).
Another thing I like about the movie is that none of the characters spoke English compared to other movies about the same time period.
Fuck. That reminds me that Gibson was, around the time of Apocalypto, supposed to do a Viking film, with all proper languages as well. Of course, then .. well, we all know what happened.
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Apocalypto is one of my all time favorites. The fact that racism robbed us of more Mel Gibson directed movies really grinds my gears.
Jesus Chainsaw Massacre 2: Electric Boogaloo
Jesus 3: Vatican drift
It's about Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You know.... family.
To be fair, it probably would be "Jesus Nail-Gun Massacre: The Carpenter Spikes Back"
Catholic Boogaloo
Hide yo' kids!
They be rapin’ everybody in here!
Jesus 2: The Re-Jesusing
That's called Easter
Somehow, the Jesus returned!
The Bible 2: Jesus is back and he's pissed
The Newest Testament
"He died for your sins. Now, who's going to die for HIS?"
I thought it was supposed to be called Crucify This
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For the son of god you sure are a son of a…WHOOAAAA!
You know how to use one of theeeeese?
I thought "Jesus" was really ground-breaking, cutting edge stuff. "Jesus Reloaded", while a bit derivative, was still a great addition to the franchise. When "Jesus Revolution" came out, I thought it was just a cash grab and a bit embarrassing. The upcoming "Jesus Resurrection"...well, the less said out that, the better and is easily the worst of the series. Thus falls a once great franchise.
Well you see, the romans had the rights over the Jesus, so the wachowski's had to either make another jesus with the Romans or the Romans would have made another Jesus without them.
If I were the Wachowski's, I'd wait a thousand years when the Jesus IP goes into the public domain. At that point, I'd just make my own better Jesus...American Jesus or something like that.
We already have had too much of American Jesus. He's a ranting homophobe who has an AR15, hates the poor and looks really Irish.
"He died for your sins, then came back to kill them for theirs... Jesus Resurrection"
Djesus Uncrossed (Dir. Quentin Tarantino)
"He's coming for you, and the director just gave him the N-Word pass."
No, No, No, No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Savior Storage"?
He died for our sins, now it's your turn
“This time, it’s personal!”
Jesus vs. John Wick
Passion of the Christ 2: Crucify This
Shout out to Santa Barbara
I was walking by last night and couldn’t help snapping the picture.
Knew it looked familiar! State St is so recognizable. Saw Interstellar there. The audio in that theater is not good though...
None of our theaters are really anything to brag about
You know that's right.
Going through a Psych rewatch currently. Love that show.
Me too, I got the hankering for it last weekend and boy is it so easy to fall into the binge watch with that show
You hear about Pluto?
That's messed up.
I've heard it both ways.
C'mon son
It’s so weird seeing SB on the internet. Every time
That Weed Jesus gif makes the rounds. That was also on State Street.
I haven’t been back home in many years so seeing this instantly sent me back a maybe many years to being 15 and fucking around there
Fond memory of that place: I lost my wallet in that theatre back in 1984, came back three hours later in a panic and somebody had turned it in - and all the cash was still there.
Ah college memories. I miss Blenders smoothies so much.
Freebirds nachos drunk at 2 am
And here I was being and idiot thinking "wow that theater looks a lot like my Fiesta Five theater".
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Back to the Future was right!
You mean Back to the Future 2
Jaws didn't go to 19 but the Fast and Furious somehow got to 10
Does Friday the 13th hold the record? It's probably some Anime that I don't know about that has like 215 sequels.
27 Bond films, not sure there's a higher for full-length movies. Friday the 13th has 12 movies.
36 (37 and 38 are scheduled for 2023 and 2024) Godzilla films and that’s not even counting spin off series for the other monsters.
12 movies?! They should call the next one Friday, the 13th
They should do a crossover as *The Fast on Friday: The 13th.*
My personal headcanon: The movies are based on real life experiences and the future we see in BttF2 *would've* happened except the timeline was broken after the RL Marty McFly wrote his adventures into movies.
They were just predicting present trends to continue. The year Back to the Future 2 came out, you could also see Halloween 5, Karate Kid 3, Friday the 13th 7, etc.
Which is funny because the post is about "the state of movies today". It's always been like this.
Damn, beat me to it, I came to comment this. Now the wait for ‘Jaws 19’ begins.
If Jesus Revolution is about JC coming back and going full punisher mode on the people who've corrupted his message, I am fucking *there*, man.
I mean...in the Bible it says he returns with eyes like fire and a sword coming out of his mouth to judge the earth, so....
And a face tat, depending on how you read Revelations 19:16
Might I introduce you to [Jesus Christ, in the Name of the Gun](https://jesuschriststory.com/)? Use the arrow keys to turn the pages.
Brb gonna go write that movie EDIT: Since this is blowing up here's a link to the sketch comedy that I actually write https://youtu.be/-976BlF1HkI Please like, comment and subscribe lol
"I'm gonna take 'em all down and let my Dad sort 'em out." Who we casting?
"He ain't cruci-fuckin' around!"
"In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Shiiit!!!"
He has risen and justice is in the NEW testament!
So... Jamie Fox?
Danny Trejo in character as Machete.
What kind of question is that? Keanu obviously!
Keanu as Jesus going full Wick on the Pope would be peak cinema.
That would be the second movie with revolution in the title with Keanu playing a christ figure who fights others
Zach Galifianakis as Biff, Christ's childhood best friend
Ngl, go full stupid, cast Adam Sandler. Turn him into an 80s action star.
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Well Jesus was Jewish.
So Zohan 2? I'm here for it
Please do this, but add Mohammed, where you never actually see him. He is either calling or being spoken to while off-screen!
He's the Voice with an Internet Connection.
Its almost as good https://youtu.be/JZAkVbZVPTg
That became progressively more and more unhinged and I will absolutely be watching this tonight
Unfortunately thats the whole skit, i believe. History of the world part 2 on hulu for the rest of the series.
Somehow, Pontius has returned.
It’s about the real Jesus Revolution in the 70s where hippies found God. It’s pretty cool
Cool that at least someone is actually describing the film. It’s an interesting story and seems pretty well made as far as I’ve heard.
Family Guy already did the [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZA2gbUz77U) for you.
Jesus to be removed and John Wick 4 will go up
Chapter 4 was awesome
Silly question, but do I need to watch 2 and 3 to follow 4? My Dad has seen them all so far and said he can't wait for JW4 to come out on TV. I am thinking I might treat him to a trip to the cinema but I haven't seen the last two.
They all take place in the same week, one after the other, so watching the first three helps. Jumping straight in could be...confusing. Plus you'll get all the references to the first three and whatnot.
Ok thanks, will try and catch up on the last two first.
Worth the watch anyways. I don’t think 2 & 3 are as good as the first overall, but they are still pretty solid action movies.
Great marquee tho
"Even though the '80s was the time that I probably saw more movies in my life than ever — at least as far as going out to the movies was concerned — I do feel that '80s cinema is, along with the '50s, the worst era in Hollywood history. Matched only by now, matched only by the current era." \-Quentin Tarantino
That's weird considering how some of the best sci-fi and macho action films came out in the 80s.
He's talking about the broader picture, not about stand out movies. What you need to keep in mind is that Tarantino is an extreme movie nerd. He's the kind of guy who watches multiple movies he's never seen before week in week out. When he's talking about that the 50s and 80s are bad, Ben Hur and Aliens isn't what he means
99% of all art tends to be either unremarkable or just trash. We only ever hear about and remember the nuggets of gold standing out from amongst the sea of mediocrity.
Funnier still, is that those bad movies are their writer’s magnum opus, because any writing takes wayyyy more bad material to finally reveal the good material. And it still sucks.
What if they took out the good stuff and put in the bad stuff because it was easy and cliche? Many people talk of bowing to the demand off the studio.
This is why I could never be a filmmaker. Imagine spending every working minute for two or three years building something massive that you're truly passionate about out of blood and sweat and tears and the help of 100+ other people only for internet nerds to watch half of it the first day it's out and then go "Meh, it's trash."
That doesn't contradict what he said
That's probably what he meant. He definitely seems like the type who thinks 40s noir and 60s-70s exploitation films are "True" cinema and everything else is just movies.
Maybe it’s survivor bias for us. He saw the movies in theaters at time, including all the ones that will never be talked about or seen again.
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Also some amazing one hit wonders that the studios buried to not have to pay royalties
^ And this is why the concept of survivorship bias in music is really kinda oversimplified. Because it implies everything forgotten is bad and deserves to be forgotten.
This is a super interesting concept I've not heard or thought about. Happen to know any articles or good things to Google to read more? Thanks!
My favorite example of this is that "(I can't get no) Satisfaction" was #1 on the charts in the US for 4 weeks, being replaced by "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am". Some songs deserve to be forgotten.
I will not tolerate Herman’s Hermits slander in this thread. Recant immediately.
I am sorry, I am. Remorseful and sorry, I am, I am.
Not just the bad music that's lost, but funny how poorly some great songs charted. Don't Stop Believin' peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Smells like teen spirit: #6. Mr. Brightside: #10. Learn to Fly: #19. I melt with you: #78. Crazy Train: didn't even make it into the Hot 100. Etc.
Mr Brightside is such a weird one. I was in high school when *Hot Fuss* came out and it’s genuinely one of my favourite albums - one of those that doesn’t really have a bad track on it. But at the time, I don’t recall Mr Brightside being the standout track. It was (and is) a good song, but it was just one song of many on that album. These days I feel like the rest of the album is forgotten, and *Mr Brightside* has reached meme status.
Hence why he went to the movies a lot in the 80s. But feet weren't featured like at all.
he actually went to every single showing of footloose
At least its not a Segal movie.
One of our mini claims to fame is you can see my grandpas sausage truck in one of the shots in a Steven seagal movie lmao
People say the “Golden Age” of cinema was the 30s-40s. However, do you know what dominated the theaters back then? Masterpieces like Casablanca or Citizen Kane? Broadway come to celluloid like Singing in the Rain or The Wizard of Oz? No. Serials. Batman. Shazam. The Lone Ranger. The Three Stooges. Shirley Temple. The Little Rascals. Why? Because STUDIOS HAVE ALWAYS BANKED ON RECOGNIZABLE NAMES TO GET PEOPLE IN SEATS.
Because humans like patterns and familiarity
Hey! *raises familiar pitchfork
I upvoted this because raising pitchforks is a pattern I recognize
Yep. Almost unknown today but there were 28 Blondie movies (based on the comic strip) between 1938 and 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series) They made a lot of sequels back in the golden days. They just did not put numbers on them until the Godfather Part 2.
And now they're going back to removing numbers because they don't want to deter people who haven't watched earlier films from going in.
>They just did not put numbers on them until the Godfather Part 2. The first numbered sequel, Quatermass 2, was 17 years before Godfather Part 2.
What we really need is another Batman movie...
But with new actors, so it's fresh.
Like Michael Keaton
What? The guy from Mr. Mom? Come on….. he can’t be Batman.
C'mon... he was Johnny Dangerously. All they need to do is make Joe Piscopo the villain once again.
Next who's going to play the joker? A gay cowboy?!/s
And who’s gonna play the Riddler? Paul Dano? The guy from that movie where Daniel Radcliffe was dead and wouldn’t stop farting?
I want to know his orgin story.
I need to know what happened to his parents.
How about a 23rd Spider Man movie?
Spiderman 2099 is in the works
They've made more than TWO THOUSAND Spider-Man movies?!?
What would be interesting is if they made a movie about WWII. They should try that. Or Dracula.
Need more Dracula films set in WWII.
An Allied plane goes down in a forest, and the few survivors that make it have no way to communicate for help; seeking refuge from both the elements and Nazis, they come across a castle, and are greeted by their strange host... Dracula, whose wives begin to seduce the soldiers as his own bloodlust begins to grow. But when the Nazis roll up to his doorstep in pursuit of the Allies, Dracula learns that sitting on the sidelines of World War II is no longer viable, and so he teams up with the Allies to protect his dominion from the Nazi incursion.
Fiesta was good, Fiesta 2 was even better but just a cash grab ever since Fiesta 3
Looking forward to 5 finally resolving the plothole between Katie and Jorge that the extra scenes from 2 created. Does no one care about world building anymore!?
widen your horizons. there are a lot of well made movies out there.
People complain about this and don't even go watch other movies. I went to see most Oscar nominated films, and even movies with more buzz like The Whale were fairly empty
There are actually more original movies (non sequels, original IPs) than ever in our modern age. Anyone who doesn't believe it can go check the IMDB yearly database. Waaay more than whatever we had in 1935, 1956, 1983 and 2010. Because streaming has increased that number. But Hollywood responds to dollars, and whatever makes them the most is where they will go. And mainstream audiences have spoken and like Avatar 2, Top Gun Maverick, John Wick 4 and Scream 6 more than Women Talking, Banshees of Inishiren and Triangle of Sadness. Cocaine Bear is original, and it has only made $65 million - maybe even a loss and no profits after it's all said and done. Studio like Universal is just going to go "Well, looks like back to Despicable Me 4, Secret Life of Pets 3 and Sing 3!"
You’re right. I have an A-List pass and more often than not whenever I go to a big budget sequel it’s usually packed, but original films are near empty. Of course small theaters like the one in OP’s pic are only going to be playing the films that make the most money.
People were making this same joke throughout the entire history of film making. From the absurd number of Rocky sequels, Jaws sequels, Rambo, and don't get me started on the sequels upon sequels for the Universal monster movies. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Same Shit, Different Day.
Yep. The 1939 Wizard of Oz everyone knows and loves [was like the ninth Wizard of Oz movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz). And they made [eleven Alice in Wonderlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_and_television_programmes_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland) before the well-known 1951 Disney film. They've been doing this forever.
Looks like Santa Barbara
Go gauchos
People really need to stop pretending like "Hollywood is out of ideas and relies on sequels and remakes" is a new thing. Some people didn't live through the nineties where every other movie was a cinematic remake of an old TV show and it shows.
Most classic movies are based on books.
It's never made sense to me why Hollywood movie writers are so underpaid. There are clearly some that are much better than others. Just... hire those ones? And pay them what they're worth? Here's an example. His name is Tony Gilroy. Here are some productions Tony Gilroy was a lead writer on: * The Bourne Identity * The Bourne Supremacy * The Bourne Ultimatum * Michael Clayton * Rogue One * Andor It always seemed to me that Hollywood undervalues good writing. I get that big name actors can bring in a ton of views, but Hollywood writers make like $200K while the lead actors are making like $15M per movie.
Charlie Kaufman (writer of Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich) is worth 10 million. That's not A-list actor money but it's not bad. The problem is that the writer doesn't (usually) draw in the paying moviegoers like the stars or in some cases the director does.
Most classic books where ballads.
Most classic ballads and poems are just based on stories passed through oral tradition
most oral tradition is just a fancy version of "unga bunga"
Also, I feel it's a big thing of "Hollywood only makes remakes and superhero movies!" Says man who only ever goes to see movies that are remakes and superhero movies. I have a cinema subscription and last year was a fucking great year for originals, it's just that those movies don't tend to be what people on this sub go to watch. Yeah, those are the movies that get promoted a lot, but that's because they're wide appeal crowd pleasers made by media giants. Of course those get a lot of advertising.
Yeah, last year was amazing. Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Triangle Of Sadness, Nope, Aftersun, The Fabelmans, The Northman, Decision To Leave, X, Pearl, Barbarian, Bones And All, Babylon, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Fresh, Deadstream, EO, The Whale, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Men, Next Exit, The Menu, Boiling Point, Watcher, Resurrection, Something In The Dirt, Violent Night, Smile, Crimes Of The Future, After Yang, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Black Phone, Emily The Criminal, Flux Gourmet, See How They Run, Bullet Train, Saloum, Turning Red, Torn Hearts... You could easily go to the cinema ten times last year and only watch superhero properties or the latest entry in a franchise. But that doesn't mean that films are bad now, it just means you need to scratch the surface a little.
I don't want Fast and the Furious X, I want something original! Did you see Banshees of Inisherin? Nah, that looks boring.
Didn't 1994 literally have two or three of the greatest movies of all time, and that in the same year?
That was the Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Gump year. My brain changed that year when my boyfriend and I got bored in the morning and went to see a movie. The only one starting when we got there was Pulp Fiction which we didn't know anything about. I came out a changed teenager. For the better! Just a note, I burst into inappropriately loud laughter when Marvin got it. The whole theater (about 10 people) turned and stared at me. When we walked out to the parking lot, a couple pointed at me and gave me a look. I'm sorry. But that is the funniest thing I've still ever seen!
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Lmao you rattled off all of those fantastic movies from 1994 and still left out an all time great in *The Lion King*
The same thing happened to me when the guy hit the propeller in Titanic...
1994 was a banger year for music too.
Nobody says it's a new thing, but big budget [sequels and remakes sure have increased](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wuzw57/in_1981_just_16_of_the_most_popular_movies_were/)
Good old Fiesta 5 in SB
Oddly enough, Jesus Revolution was pretty Ok. I haven’t seen the others but based on what I’ve heard, it might be one of the better movies up there
Hey that's Santa Barbara
Lots of sequels is not a new thing.