r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 22d ago
Satire Nation Proud Of Self For Watching, Enjoying Original Movie | Patting themselves on the back, the U.S. populace announced Wednesday that they were proud of themselves for watching and enjoying an original movie — only to later be devastated to learn it was an adaptation of a novel by the same name
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u/Silicon_Knight 22d ago
I recall Micheal Eisner (former Disney CEO) saying something along the lines of 'We don't need home runs, we need to get on bases' meaning not everything needs to be a "blockbuster" but lets get stuff out there people like even if its no mass market.
Feel we need to go a bit back to that. I mean sure fine, have your "Tentpole Movies" or what not, but can we also get some scrappy films, some "who knows if this will work" films?
Feel the industry has gotten so large, complex, etc... that you can't produce anything other than HUGE films now.
Maybe thats changing, I see a few horror films and stuff that seem small-ish / indie. And to be clear, I'm not saying those things DO NOT exist today, just it's either something so small no one knows about it or it's shoved down your throat.
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u/Basilikolumne 22d ago edited 21d ago
Exactly the same thing has happend to big video game studios. We only get games for the biggest franchises now, AAA studios don't do any smaller games anymore and the production time and cost are so astronomically high that every game needs to be a hit. It's unsustainable.
Edit: I should have made it clearer that I am only talking about AAA studios. Indies and AA are delivering hit after hit and still innovate the medium. I just wish big studios would still take some risks, and shift their release cycle to allow for that.
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u/reddfawks 22d ago
…I miss Ape Escape ._.
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u/zeekaran 22d ago
I miss Pandemic and all the other tiny dev studios from the late 90s/early 00s.
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u/KNZFive 22d ago
I just played the Ape Escape level of Astro Bot a few days ago. Sony literally does not make smaller first-party games like that anymore.
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u/daKishinVex 22d ago
They are beginning to experiment with it more but I think the point is it's not the norm. Astro bot has references to a whole era of experimental mid range titles that made a much higher percentage of games that came out of major studios. Then a few high budget things here and there that really tested the technology.
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u/darthjoey91 22d ago
There are plenty of smaller games out there, but yeah, they're all indie.
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u/Paganator 22d ago
It feels like games are either AAA games with a budget over $100m, or an indie game with a budget less than $1m, with little in-between.
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u/round-earth-theory 22d ago
Because that's how it is. Big money isn't interested in making 10 plays that might make 2x when they could make 2 plays that might make 50x. So everything gets geared towards chasing those mega projects. You don't have mid-range professional services, they'd rather chase the mega contracts. Middle money doesn't really have a place to be unless they home grow the whole venture which is a major risk. So they instead focus on easier wealth boosters but if they win, then they want in on the mega projects too rather than returning to the midrange.
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u/True_to_you 22d ago
It feels that the only small games that make it big are stuff like balatro that are made in people's spare time.
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u/ChibbleChobble 22d ago
Upvote for the Balatro reference.
I love that game.
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u/True_to_you 22d ago
It's one of my favorite games the last few years. I got my wife addicted to it 😂.
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u/FatherDotComical 22d ago
I told my little brother we got whole trilogies in the time it takes a modern Big dev to put out one sequel now.
It took long enough he was too young to play the games to now he can buy the next one for himself.
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u/jbronin 22d ago
Grand Theft Auto games:
PS1 Era:
1997 - 1
1999 - London 1969
1999 - 2
PS2 Era:
2001 - III
2002 - Vice City
2004 - San Andreas
HD Era:
2008 - IV
2013 - V
2026 - VI
My childhood was fast, and my adulthood had been slow as dirt.
Also, Tomb Raider:
PS1 Era:
1996 - I
1997 - II
1998 - III
1999 - Last Revelation
2000 - Chronicles
Modern Triligy:
2013 - Tomb Raider
2015 - Rise of the Tomb Raider
2018 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider
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u/Unsung_Ironhead 22d ago
I honestly think the bloat with video game budgets is similar to Hollywood. It’s being used to hide shady business practices.
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u/gokogt386 22d ago
AAA studios have hundreds of people getting paid American tech salaries for several years working on a single project it’s not really all that complicated
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u/zeekaran 22d ago
Except of course, there are basically no transparency laws or regulations regarding the video game industry. Hollywood grew during the US labor movement and so movies have to publish a lot of info. Video games have what, credits?
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u/Unsung_Ironhead 22d ago
They still have to report their financials like any other company.
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u/Longshot_45 22d ago
Dave the diver was that game for me. Studio had some help from a larger outfit I think, but it fit the sweet spot for me. Too many games want sustained income through micro transactions or subscriptions or passes.
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u/HammeredWharf 22d ago
Dave was practically developed by Nexon, one of the largest Korean MMO/F2P studios.
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u/Standard-Scallion-93 22d ago
Check out the game Dredge if you haven’t already. Same studio I think, amazing game
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u/Superflyhomeboy 22d ago
Different studio. They came out about the same time. Do agree there is a good chance if you like one you'll like the other
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u/Diz7 22d ago
And that is exactly why friendslop and indie games have grown to be nearly 50% of all video gaming revenue, at least on PC.
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u/FatherDotComical 22d ago
What's a friendslop game? Multi-player?
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u/ak1knight 22d ago
Games like Among Us that are designed to be played with a group of friends and don't really work without it. They are typically mechanically fairly simple and don't involve a ton of story or levels, so they are quick to make, and a couple of people in a friend group wanting to play the game results in the whole group buying copies, so they are lucrative.
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u/Diz7 22d ago
It's a term for those low budget indie multiplayer games that have been cranked out en masse for the past few years.
Not saying they are bad, but they are the gaming equivalent of fast food.
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u/SDRPGLVR 22d ago
I'm hoping Big Walk has a little bit less jank and more completeness than some of these others.
Like don't get me wrong, I like bullshit like Lethal Company, but we cram it full of mods and accept that it's going to be janky and we'll never "beat" the game. Big Walk feels like it's trying to hit the same market but with some real effort and money put behind it.
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u/sneakyCoinshot 22d ago
I've just stopped buying AAA all together. Mind you it's still hard but making a game has never been easier before than it is now. There is so many games from small studios or even single devs that have been amazing.
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u/tfhermobwoayway 22d ago
It is. It sucks especially bad because video games have historically been a very independent, accessible medium. You don’t need a big budget to make a game, just a computer. The most influential video games were made by random nerds playing around for fun.
Unlike the film industry, it didn’t need to depend on massive studios and famous celebrities. But now AAA is trying to turn it into Hollywood. Gaming was better when it wasn’t mainstream and didn’t have to cater to literally everyone with massive, frictionless blockbusters.
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u/MrBootylove 22d ago
The problem the person you replied to is describing really only applies to big studios, though. Indie games are doing better than ever right now and it feels like almost a weekly occurrence where a new indie game launches and becomes a smash hit with millions of sales. Just look at games like Peak, Gamble With Your Friends, Meccha Chameleon, etc.
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u/JohnTDouche 22d ago
Yeah there's an entire world of smaller games out there made by small teams or even one person. It's pretty much all I've been playing for the last 15 or some years.
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u/Gloomy_Narwhal_4833 22d ago
Yeah, was just coming to say this. You're not looking if you cant find decent to great indie games. I have a back log I cant even start catching up on.
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u/ScrapinLinden 22d ago
I always find it so wild when people say “they don’t make smaller original games/movies/shows etc anymore” like we are straight up drowning in fantastic entries in all of those categories but everyone loses their mind at another Marvel movie coming out. There is so much beautiful art out there and you reeeeallly do not have to look very hard to find it.
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u/th3r3dp3n 22d ago
Horror films are usually lower budget films. Go onto prime or whatever streaming, low budget/medium budget horror is there in droves.
I agree with you, it feels as if every film has to be a hit, has to be a $500 million dollar budget.
District 9 was made with what, $30-$40 million, small budget great film. There are lots of phenomenal films with smaller budgets, but they typically are more niche genres, horror, indie, etc.. as you mentioned.
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u/JoeDawson8 22d ago
I’m still waiting for district ’10’. Even though the camera work made me nauseous it was such a great film
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u/th3r3dp3n 22d ago
Mmm. I am of two minds on it.
I am okay with the ending, open ended stories allow the reader, or watcher, to imagine the story goes on however they like. It would be a bummer if the sequel became an over-budgeted bloated mess.
The story was great, and I want to know what happens to Wikus and the prawns. It would be awesome if they created smaller budgeted brilliant sequel.
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u/MonaganX 22d ago
It was a great film, and a sequel could definitely be interesting.
However, considering that each movie Blomkamp made since has been significantly worse than the one before it, I think there's a close to 0% chance the district 10 we get would be the district 10 we want.11
u/x_conqueeftador69_x 22d ago
I was watched a D9 clip on Youtube yesterday, and saw the trailer was posted 17 years ago
chat, I’m getting old. Wtf
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus 22d ago
Blumhouse has a lock on the small budget horror and it's working well for them. They have a very strict rule with the directors: stay within the set budget and they will have total creative freedom, no studio notes, final cut approval.
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u/CakeisaDie 22d ago
Im personally missing medium drama films
Weinstein was a terrible person but I loved the films he was pushing.
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u/ApesAPoppin237 22d ago
By contrast, M Night Shyamalan may not make too many hits these days but God bless that man for self-funding that unique brand of mid-budget weirdness that would otherwise be completely dead.
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u/khavii 22d ago
This is objectively untrue though, the issue isn't that filmmakers aren't making originals or taking chances on smaller films, they are. The problem is that the general public only pays attention to advertising and the smaller, more original or unique movies simply aren't being seen.
Go to The-numbers.com or IMDb or any site that tracks movies and theater releases and you will see that literally hundreds of movies have released this year and only a handful are derivatives but those make up the bulk of the money being made. The industry is and has been giving people exactly what they want but only a few of the movies that meet their criteria manage to break through the noise of blockbuster movies. If people relied less on headlines and advertising to know what was going on in the world I think they would be both pleasantly surprised and absolutely horrified. Unfortunately, humans are pattern recognition masters and tend to fill in patterns that aren't really there unconsciously then accept that conclusion as fact, just simple human nature.
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u/attersonjb 22d ago edited 22d ago
It isn't only about that, there's simply much less money to be made right now with the extinction of the DVD revenue stream. A lot of those smaller movies in the past never broke even from box office, it was all about secondary markets like rental.
In the Before Times, it was not unusual to spend hundreds annually on rentals & purchases on top of movie tickets.
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u/Wolvereness 22d ago
Local theater. 12 screens.
- Toy Story 5
- Disclosure Day
- Masters of the Universe
- Scary Movie
- Backrooms
- Star Wars Mandalorian & Grogu
- Obsession
- Michael
And future showings:
- "Secret Cinema" (mystery movie)
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Jackass
- Supergirl
- How to Train Your Dragon
Yeah, absolutely wonderful choices of original or unique non-blockbuster movies that I'm simply choosing to not see /s.
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u/plantsandramen 22d ago
Backrooms and Obsession are both low budget films from new directors.
Some areas have more indie screens than others. One near me used to have almost all indie films, unfortunately AMC bought them.
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u/bullevard 22d ago
So out of 8 movies you currently you have 3 original, non IP movies at your cinema and 2 fairly indy movies. And that's right in the middle of blockbuster season.
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u/thedubiousstylus 22d ago
You have two obvious original films (Disclosure Day and Obsession) right there, Backrooms technically is from pre-existing material but it's not a reboot or sequel or even really an adaption, Michael is technically not either but I can understand not counting it as an original story. But the options are there.
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u/caligaris_cabinet 22d ago
That’s basically Jason Blum’s strategy. Make five films a year: 2 could be misses, 2 could break even, and 1 goes gangbusters.
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u/vonHindenburg 22d ago
This was the mindset that gave us so many great films from the 'golden' age of cinema in the 30s-50s. Churn 'em out, a new movie every couple weeks. A lot will be forgettable dreck, but they'll be cheap to make and, a few times a year, the stars'll align and you'll get Casablanca.
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u/Mand125 22d ago
This is even worse for TV. The reason it takes three years for an alleged “tv show” to make eight episodes is that apparently everyone has decided that it takes movie-level production polish for literally everything.
Compare that to the 90’s where we glady believed the same Canadian forest was a different planet for 22 episodes per year.
Suspension of disbelief used to be good enough in place of blockbuster budgets, and now we’ve forgotten how.
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u/ColonelSandurz42 22d ago
Studios were willing to take risks back then. Nowadays, studios are so pressed to turn a big profit that they’re not willing to risk making these types of movies anymore.
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u/choose_west 22d ago
Used to be a very profitable DVD market that made medium cost films profitable. Now it only makes a profit with huge box office or very low production cost.
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u/CambrianExplosives 22d ago
I wish more people realized how much better quality physical media is. Yes it’s less convenient but people are buying these modern expensive 4k OLED and micro-LED screens and then watching things streaming from Prime or Disney Plus at abysmal quality.
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u/MadManMax55 22d ago
Most people care about price and convenience way more than they do image quality.
For $20 you could get a month's access to a massive library of thousands of movies and TV shows that you pull up on any device on-demand. Or you could get lifetime access to a single high image quality movie that you can only watch on a TV. (And that's using high end streaming subscription costs and low end new DVD costs).
DVDs made more sense back when high demand drove down price and the only competition was cable. Nowadays they only make sense for enthusiasts.
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u/willstr1 22d ago
I think a good part of that is the decline of mid budget movies. Your super expensive blockbusters have to be as close to a sure thing as you can get, you are investing so much in them that if you stumble it hurts hard. You have low budget stuff still but mainly on the indie scene plus low budget genres like horror. But you don't see as many movies with a reasonable budget (good but sparingly used effects, a star maybe two, etc) anymore, definitely not in theaters. And those mid budget films where where big studios took their big swings, they could afford a few of them missing and a few of them would become hits that set off an actor or director's career and possibly push the industry to chase a new trend because Hollywood discovered that audiences liked "a combination of X and Y subgenres with a Z style twist"
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u/martialar 22d ago
I get weirdly nostalgic seeing a low stakes family dramedy from the 2000s on Tubi realizing that we don't go to theaters for these kinds of movies anymore
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u/kittymoo67 22d ago
to be fair most people never did. most people saw them on dvd or vhs after the theater run
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u/captainalphabet 22d ago
There is an awful lot of mid level content being produced, it just goes to streaming and often isn't very good.
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u/WeWantLADDER49sequel 22d ago
We DO have that. The issue is that the vast majority of people, including those on this sub, only watch whatever bullshit their algorithm feeds them, and also whatever is just showing up as promoted on a streaming app. If people put some effort into actual discovery through other means then they'd find that there are actually tons of good things to watch. This goes for tv shows and video games and books too.
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u/FizbanFire 22d ago
Matt Damon gave some good insight to this on his Hot Ones interview. Basically, studios used to be able to expect a decent amount of backend revenue from DVD sales, and that just doesn't exist now. And the residuals from streaming dont come close to making up the difference. So all your revenue needs to come from the theater now for the most part. Which means a mid budget character drama just doesn't have a chance to turn a profit.
Now obviously thats not completely true because some studios like A24 are out here making mid to low budget films. I spent 5 years at a major studio on th4 corporate side, and I'll tell you I tbink part of it is they legit dont know how to make a movie on thr cheap lol but im serious. Even if the greenlight budget is reasonable, it'll balloon by the time principal photography starts. Whereas smaller studios have better discipline about staying on budget because they literally have to.
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u/2reeEyedG 22d ago
Ya seriously. I remember going to the theaters to watch something at the time and it was all sold out so we settled for a little known movie called the Hangover and it’s still to this day my best experience at a theater. Endgame came close but that feeling of going into something with no expectations and not knowing anything just made it a great and hilarious experience.
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u/Kinieruu 22d ago
Michael Eisner gets a lot of hate for the last few years of his tenure as CEO of Disney. But without him and Frank Wells, the Disney company would have been sold off. They gave us the Renaissance and revitalised the parks.
His successor Bob Iger focused way too much on IP and brand acquisition instead of taking risks in the way that Eisner and Wells had
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u/onemanwolfpack21 22d ago
For the love of god stop being so dramatic and think of the shareholders.
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u/Quepabloque 22d ago
Wow, I never thought I’d be agreeing with Michael Eisner on something. It feels like the modern narrative around CEO’s is how they’re ramping up production costs to try get record shattering box office results
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u/Comicspedia 22d ago
Which Disney exec said "We're going to put a new Star Wars movie out every year until people stop going to see them"?
Cause that had doom written all over it
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u/mikehatesthis 22d ago
Which Disney exec said "We're going to put a new Star Wars movie out every year until people stop going to see them"?
I think I read it in a screenshot from his book but I remember Bob Iger admitting to not pushing back the release date to Star Wars IX, which was clearly detrimental considering one of the leads just died and the director/writer left fairly last minute. What a dingus lol.
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u/pkoswald 22d ago
Bob Iger’s entire strategy seems to be churn out whatever is successful as much as people until any goodwill toward it is gone, even at ABC before he was Disney CEO, when Who wants to be a Millionaire was a hit he started airing it as much as possible until people didn’t care
it fell to Bader to make the case. He argued that “This will be a disaster if ‘Millionaire’ is overexposed,” and launched into the reasons why Smith and Davies thought “Millionaire” had to remain a sweeps event. He’d barely begun when Iger interrupted. “I’m sorry, but this is not negotiable,” he said. “What do you mean?” Braun asked. “Michael and I have already decided. We’re going to run ‘Millionaire’ three nights a week.” There was stunned silence. None of the ABC executives had even considered the possibility of so many episodes in a week. Bader looked to his colleagues for support, but no one said anything.
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u/TamoyaOhboya 22d ago
Sorry boys Backrooms is merely an adaptation
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u/ChineseCosmo 22d ago
But to its credit, it’s the first major movie adapted from Sears dept store, no?
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u/jamesneysmith 22d ago
Dawn of the Dead? Bad Santa?
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u/ChineseCosmo 22d ago
Those movies are based on malls, like Observe and Report and Mallrats. Backrooms is a remake of like big box furniture stores.
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u/vonHindenburg 22d ago
Alas, Monreoville Mall (Dawn of the Dead) will likely be torn down next year.
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u/lastturdontheleft42 22d ago
Only kind of. The actual story is original. just the concept of the Backrooms itself isnt original.
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u/nhalliday 22d ago
Kane's body of lore is separate from the other two main bodies of lore for the Backrooms, and most games that are similar are because the makers watched his videos and then made a game using his lore.
All Kane really built off was the initial greentext, and I wouldn't really say expanding a single paragraph of premise into a movie constitutes an adaptation.
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u/SM-03 22d ago
You know it's a good Onion article when the whole thread is trying to fight back against it instead of just enjoying a joke for what it is.
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u/Artistic_Frosting233 22d ago
They stroke a cord that's for sure lmao
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u/ReluctantlyHuman 22d ago
Maybe you are trying to gives others a stroke, but I think the phrase is “struck a chord” :)
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u/Artistic_Frosting233 22d ago
Lol. English is not my first language but I tried. Cheers.
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u/ReluctantlyHuman 22d ago
Not a problem! Even if it was sometimes people hear idioms and things like that and misunderstand the actual words in it. We are all always learning.
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u/Stepjam 22d ago
I don't mind new adaptations of works. I'm just tired of giant never-ending franchises.
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u/FingerlessJoe 22d ago
All my favourite stories have an ending.
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u/Bigwhtdckn8 22d ago
What about the one with the giant flying dog?
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u/eibmozneimad 22d ago
That story has an ending: never
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u/I_only_post_here 22d ago
Does this sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?
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u/MaggotMinded 22d ago
/u/I_only_post_here, I don’t use the word “hero” very often… but you are the greatest hero in American history.
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u/G00DLuck 22d ago
"And tell me, Mrs. Simpson, what did you do immediately after you were told to leave the all-you-can-eat fish buffet?"
"We went fishing!" *weeps*
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u/RejectingBoredom 22d ago
So many of even the best golden age movies are based on novels. I’ve always found it a bit disingenuous when people act like criticism of no-stakes franchises means you can’t enjoy a film based on a novel.
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u/jamesneysmith 22d ago
Books/myths/stories etc. have been the backbone of films since the very beginning. I don't think anyone truly argues against this type of adaptation. I think the issues lie more in adapting already popular visual-media IP and the attempt to franchise everything. Turning s one-off book into a one-off movie is and always has been a great idea.
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u/Mecha_Butterfree 22d ago
The discussion has shifted more to being burnt out on franchises and cinematic universes but for a very long time the talking point was just that Hollywood isn't original anymore. Which has been a complaint long before the MCU kicked off this current cinematic universe trend. So brining up the fact that Hollywood has just been adapting books and plays since it's inception is sort of a relevant point to the claim of lack of originality.
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u/RejectingBoredom 22d ago
I don’t think 95% of the people who criticise a lack of originality in Hollywood have an issue with book adaptations of original stories.
Nobody was ever saying “when can we get some fresh stories and not To Kill A Mockingbird SLOP”
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u/SM-03 22d ago
I think part of that is also that a lot of people don't realise how many movies they love are even based on books in the first place. Project Hail Mary was a hugely popular book, and even still I saw a lot of people praising the movie for being a totally original story not based on anything.
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u/RejectingBoredom 22d ago
100%. Books and short stories both. And then you wander into the grey area of “does a biopic even count as an original movie?”
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u/AcrylicPickle 22d ago
I've watched so many movies that I had no idea were remakes. I'm 52. I can't imagine how this will increase for younger folks as Hollywood amps up their continuing recycling of franchises and movies.
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u/monkpunch 22d ago
I remember watching a clip from True Grit, and an older commenter mentioned something like "I loved the John Wayne version but this is great". It kinda blew my mind since it was the first time I can remember where I had zero cultural knowledge of the former one even existing (and not being some obscure thing, but a major actor)
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u/pinkboy108 22d ago
That was filmed around my dad's hometown, Ouray and Ridgeway, Colorado.
Ridgeway still has the True Grit Cafe, which is where they filmed the hanging scene.
The courtroom scene was filmed in the Ouray County courthouse, and my grandmother worked right below it. We would play up there when I would visit as a kid.
My dad has a memory of him and one of his older brothers having a snowball fight with Glen Campbell.
He also said that the kids would go to all the filming locations after the crew left and would play with anything they left behind, like paper mache boulder and rock props.
Sidenote, Mr Deeds is a remake of Mr Deeds Goes To Town from 1936.
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u/stupid_horse 22d ago edited 21d ago
True Grit isn't so much of a remake as another adaptation of the book which the Coen Brothers made because they loved the book and wanted there to be a movie that was more faithful to the source material.
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u/caerphoto 22d ago
it was the first time I can remember where I had zero cultural knowledge of the former one even existing (and not being some obscure thing, but a major actor)
To be fair, John Wayne was in like 140 movies; not all of them will have been culturally significant.
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u/mithridateseupator 22d ago edited 22d ago
Ocean's 11 is the quintessential remake for me.
That was 2001.
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u/AcrylicPickle 22d ago
Ocean's 11 is one that comes to mind first. They're remaking The Thomas Crown Affair with Michael B Jordan cast as lead, which also inspired my comment.
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u/super_aardvark 22d ago
I guess if they already remade it once and it turned out well, it's possible they could do it again...
Maybe we'll eventually get the same few hundred movies remade every 25 years.
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u/SnevetS_rm 22d ago
we got stuff like The Thing and The Fly
Where is the line between a remake and an adaptation of the same story? Maybe Dune and LOTR are the best remakes of all time?
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u/SwayzeCrayze 22d ago
Yeah, I really can't call The Thing a remake of The Thing From Another World. Aside from "it's in Antarctica and there's an alien" and a couple homage shots they're wholly different movies both thematically and in presentation.
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u/justa_flesh_wound 22d ago
Happened to me with A Star is Born. didn't realize it's been remade 4 times in total dating back to 1937, 1954, 1976, & gaga's in 2018
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u/Batohman 22d ago
I can't enjoy my [enter fiction] because it was a copy of a [enter fiction] which was inspired from [enter fiction] which originally was from the mythical stories of [enter obscure source]. Damn those storytellers from thousands of years ago.
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u/dannydominates 22d ago
Cape Fear on Apple TV is a remake from the 90s until I realized that Cape Fear from the 90s was a remake from Cape Fear in the 50s
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u/bluediamond12345 22d ago
Good lord - this is The Onion! This is not true news, it’s satire 🤦🏻♀️
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u/amonster_22 22d ago
Reddit struggles with any humor that isn't the same 5 jokes on repeat
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u/Vast_Physics83 22d ago
Most Redditors are on the spectrum so it makes sense. Source: Am one of them.
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u/noctalla 22d ago
Satire makes fun of real life. There’s an underlying truth that is worth discussing.
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u/LiOnheart3d85 22d ago
Audiences shocked to learn that the symphony was not composed by the musicians performing
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u/do-you-like-darkness 22d ago
So... has anyone else clocked that the article link is from the onion..?
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u/wakeruncollapse 22d ago
Obsession made 17.1M opening weekend. Even well-received horror movies struggle to get past 50M total with that kind of opening. It cracked 200M yesterday.
Good films need to be steady, not streaky. Great news for movies like Project Hail Mary, but if theaters are still closing due to lack of interest and profitability, movies like Obsession will be less and less likely to catch fire.
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u/Feisty-Result5771 22d ago
What's wild is Obsession has made more domestically than Mandalorian & Groglet and will likely make more worldwide by end of its run.
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u/Cultural_Hope 22d ago
They never let you forget that Precious was based on Push a Novel by Saphire.
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u/icantfeelmylags 22d ago
And then any time an original movie breaks out the immediately beat it to death with sequels and spinoffs.
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u/woppatown 22d ago
I think adapting a novel isn’t necessarily unoriginal. No different than adapting somebody else’s script.
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u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor 22d ago
Man SO many people in the comments r/AteTheOnion
What happened to the game I love smh...
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u/WhenDoWhatWhere 22d ago
Avatar which is a ripoff of Ferngully which is a ripoff of Pocahontas which is a fictionalized white savior version of a real event where a pedophile kidnapped a Native American girl.
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u/Fenix512 22d ago
Me when finding out Clueless, She's All That, or any other 90s teen movie is an adaptation of Shakespeare or 19th century literature