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Just to push that thought a bit further, it's fine if you don't like stranger things but a mashup of 80s ideas is "original" for more than half the US populatio
by belval 4y ago
Just to push that thought a bit further, it's fine if you don't like stranger things but a mashup of 80s ideas is "original" for more than half the US population (median age is 38 y/o).
I'm in my twenties, my parents watched movies in the 80s, and even then they were young. Discounting a TV show because it rips off ideas from things that are 40 years old seems like a harsh stance to take.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoYeah, maybe watch something original and not totally derived from something else, like the Marvel movies, or Sonic the Hedgehog 2, or Fantastic Beasts...
- bil7 4y agopretty hard when about 80% of new films these days are a sequel, remake, or tie into an existing universe[1]. Yes, just watch old films you say, but they're not on the front page of netflix and disney+, where the average person goes for entertainment recommendations. [1] https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/pop-culture-has-become-an-oligopoly?s=r https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/pop-culture-has-b...
- Der_Einzige 4y agoAren't there only like 7 actual stories? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
- bil7 4y agoDoesn't really matter, directors and screenwriters keep finding new implementations of old interfaces that feel fresh and are thoroughly enjoyable. The problem comes when implementations are near identical.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoThat was rather the point I was making...
- kelnos 4y agoArguably everything these days must be derived from something else, at least to some extent. Not sure there are really that many viable story ideas out there, and I wouldn't be surprised if the last several thousand years of stories have covered most of them.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoThere are only something like a dozen basic story plots, but for the love of all that is sprocket-holey just stop remaking and remaking and remaking the same film over and over again. Or, if you do, stop whining about pirates stealing your content.
- tinco 4y agoFantastic Beasts is a great movie. It's an original plot and not a sequel to anything so I don't get why you throw it in with those other movies. With as much bland repetitiveness there is in the average Hollywood movie Fantastic Beasts definitely is the wrong one to rip on.
- mavhc 4y agoIt's not that it's ripping off the ideas, it's that that's what it's supposed to be doing. I watched the entire first season waiting for the bit when it got good, nothing happened. If you want to take reference to old films and do something original with them, like Everything Everywhere All At Once, great.