Some of the best movies/TV I’ve seen have come out in the last 10 years. I’ve watched a lot of movies and TV too. So I always find these takes funny because y’all are ignoring the 80% shit that came out in decades past like they don’t count but the 80% shit that comes out now counts more.
The whole “everything is just sequels and remakes” complaint has been around for so long. The ironic thing is that it’s just as original of a critique as the movies they’re complaining about.
This is fairly easy to disprove as I can think of in say, video games, a company releasing 5-6 remakes of games they made 30 years ago. So… 30 years ago, the games they released that year were the originals. This year, it’s 6 remakes. Someone on reddit analyzed this, though it’s kind of vague as there are no units for the vertical axis. I suppose it does show proportions by year.
Seriously. Plenty of original stories out there. Looking at laaf year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture, there were a ton of interesting new stories being told. This year, Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon are probably gonna get a ton of nominations. And Oppenheimer, which I was generally just OK with, but still doesn’t fit the criticisms in this thread. I’ve heard great things about some of the other likely nominees, but haven’t personally seen them.
And maybe Spiderverse or Barbie are technically established IPs, but they also show that there can be good movies told using existing IPs.
Looking solely at box office, you’ll still see that there’s interesting risk taking going on. A24 obviously deserves credit for making interesting, risky stuff.
