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Six terminators, Seven transformers, eleven Madea films, and nine aliens films. If the strategy is to waterboard us with progressively more pointless sequels,
by nimbius 8y ago
Six terminators, Seven transformers, eleven Madea films,
and nine aliens films. If the strategy is to waterboard us with progressively more pointless sequels, no ML in the world is going to improve the outcome when the writers have clearly checked out.
- dylan604 8y agoWhy the need for a writer? The ML should be able to produce scripts of equal quality.
- zuck9 8y agoI would love to feed GPT2 with movie scripts when it's completely open source.
- thedoctor79 8y agoWhy the need for actors? The ML could be trained on millions of hours of existing movies and produce fake, convincing personas. Why the need for spectators? The ML could analyse the movies and produce fake, convincing reviews.
- sametmax 8y agoThey'll make money anyway. People will pay to watch those, so they have no incentive to do otherwise. Like with every product that people refuse to go without no matter the quality.
- Phenomenit 8y agoYeah, it feels like a little kick of novelty is way better than not going to the movies at all.
- dudul 8y agoAt least these are "sequels". Reboots are even worse in my book.
- josteink 8y agoIt could be argued that the latest Terminator movie was an attempted reboot, since they created several new timelines, of which many completely invalidated the timeline from the original movies. (And iirc it tanked.)
- Izkata 8y agoDon't forget Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which already established multiple overlapping timelines, with people in the present from different futures.
- vinkelhake 8y agoReboots can work well. Batman Begins, Casino Royale and Dredd come to mind.
- overcast 8y agoI think the issue is when remakes happen in quick succession. When generations go by magic like The Fly, Oceans 11, and the greatest remake of all time, The Thing, happens.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoI... don’t think any of these movies have remakes? If by the thing you mean the 2011 film, that was a prequel. It had few redeeming qualities, but thing it did unreasonably well was faithfully reproduce specific elements that were shown to have occurred previously in the first film.
- slg 8y agoHere [1] are the box office results from 2018. Looking over the top 20 highest grossing movies I count 13 sequels/franchise movies, 3 standalone adaptations of existing IP, 2 remakes, 1 movie based on a well known true story, and only a single completely original movie. A company like 20th Century Fox is trying to make money and not necessarily make art. It is clear the best way to make money is through sequels and existing IP. Blame your fellow moviegoer for the repetition. [1] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2018&p=.htm https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2018&p=.htm
- JetSpiegel 8y agoA Quiet Place outsold Mary Poppins Returns? This can't be right!