Any change we can get this Barbie movie done?
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More Marvel on the way:
Maybe this time will be the charm for the Fantastic Four. You’d have to think that they’d be able to clear the ridiculously low bar that the rest of the FF films have set, but one never knows these days.
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Fourth time is the charm (unless you include the unreleased version, then the fifth time is the charm–but whose counting?).
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Hey, more Marvel movies…
Yawwwn…
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The only thing that will get my heart racing with the excitement again is when I see a new Bond has been cast for the 26th film in one of the longest running film series in history.
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I find the MCU to be a masterclass in showing that you can have too much of a good thing. I enjoyed the Tobey McGuire Spider-Man and the first Iron Man, but as all the different strands were released I soon became overfaced and turned away from the whole genre. It is now an inaccessible mass to me. The increasingly large gaps between Bond flics are more of an extreme opposite than I would like, but I’d take that over the alternative any day.
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From a purely pragmatic standpoint this makes a lot of sense. We’re heading towards a content drought so this is the perfect project to get things rolling again after the strikes. Scream is one of the biggest horror franchises, the last 2 made decent money on low budgets and they have a pretty short production time (6 was in cinemas just over a year after 5).
And honestly, I’m up for it. I enjoyed the last 2 (i.e. the 2 post-Craven ones) so I think there’s still life in the concept. Christopher Landon is a solid choice for director as he’s best know for putting alternatives spins on the slasher movie.
I can’t see any creative reason why his formula could sustain more sequels.
Make original horror films again.
Stop the sequelization of everything.
Horror is one of the few genres that is reliably putting out original films. There’s a relatively small number of horror franchises running right now (Scream, Saw and Insidious while Evil Dead has just made a comeback) and even the remakes have slowed down. On the other hand I tend to see quite a few original horror films each year. M3gan was one of the big horror hits in January and Talk To Me is still playing and has been a pretty big deal.
Scream in particular is a franchise that I feel has longevity as it functions as a meta-commentary on the genre. Scream VI even expanded it’s target beyond horror to comment on the state of franchise film-making in general. Bond was even name dropped as an example of how the main character is no longer safe.
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I see, and I respect your enjoyment.
But I think the meta-commentary of „Scream“ was already the usp of its first movie. Yes, they are at a point where they comment on themselves or other pop culture developments. But just like the first movie, they are basically teen-slashers, repeating the formula ad nauseam.
And yes, the industry is built on formula, but doesn’t it at least appear to have run its course, this constant sequelitis? The box office would suggest so. But the studios, even in the face of the biggest crisis ever, one made by themselves, are only thinking: hey, part 7 sounds like a better idea than a truly new idea.
Although it certainly will get sequels and spin-offs, at least „Barbie“ has none set yet, and I applaud Gerwig for not even including it in her contract.
One-offs are concentrating on their ideas, and the impact can be much bigger therefore.
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Barbie’s ending doesn’t really leave it open for one, and Gerwig already has another job, but given the response both critically and financially, the latter of which it’s holding so well that it’s set to be comfortably the most successful film since 2019 by the time it’s done, it is definitely getting a sequel pushed.
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It will happen - but I hope Gerwig/Baumbach will not be part of it, and the sequel will fall short, financially and artistically. Unless there is one great idea that has not been explored in this film, it can only be a repeat.
But hey, if the sequel will be the biggest flop ever, it would make the first one even more glorious.
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Historical note: SAF also hoped Coppola would not have anything to do with THE GODFATHER, PART II, and Nolan had stopped with BATMAN BEGINS. (feeling mischievous today since it has finally cooled off in NYC)
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It really depends if Gerwig knows where she’s going, Coppola and Nolan wrote it on their sleeves, but (@MrKiddWint you’ve seen it, you know how it ends) it will only work if there’s a specific thing they know to explore
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Weird Barbie and Alan
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And why, really, was there „From Russia with Love“ when „Dr. No“ already did everything it could with this slim formula?
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I want to make a sarcastic reply, but i agree too much. Weird Barbie and Alan have room that I think could be explored but the film ends…
When can I spoil what anyone who is a woman or has a wife already knows?
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I came out of Barbie thinking the opposite, that it’s completely set up for a sequel and at least one spin off:
Summary
Barbie living in the “real world” and Ken finding himself in Barbieland.
Coming soon to a screen (possibly in a theater) near you:
But can they write a Bond movie better than Purvis and Wade?
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Short answer: no. Simply because AI needs to be fed previous stories and will make a hodgepodge of everything.
Obvious joke nobody needs AI to think of: What’s the difference between the human and the AI hodgepodge?
Serious answer: If you treat AI like just another writer, then there is no difference.
But if you realize that AI can only create a mixtape, then the difference is: the other hodgepodge was created by human beings who experienced life on their own.
Let’s be clear: AI is just another toy, and it would help studios to get rid of human beings (writers) who argue and need to get paid.
But writing is art. And art is an expression of human beings experiencing life. Why would it serve any laudable purpose to take the human factor out of this?
Technology is great if it helps human beings. If it makes our life poorer and frankly sad and pointless it should be stopped.
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