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>7 Marvel movies will be released in the next 19 months. Disney-Marvel is now the Taco-Bell of entertainment. In fact, most modern Hollywood productions are a

>7 Marvel movies will be released in the next 19 months. Disney-Marvel is now the Taco-Bell of entertainment. In fact, most modern Hollywood productions are absolute trash. Just poor quality remakes, sequels, spin-offs of once popular franchises where they shoe-horn various modern-day identity politics and woke "progressive" topics trying to appeal to Twitter critic mobs, expecting people are NPCs who should just mindlessly consume whatever their corporate machine craps out of their "creative" board-room meetings. Top Gun Maverick was for me the only enjoyable movie worth watching in 2022, which is somewhat sad since it was full of plot holes but everyone enjoys thrilling dogfights and it followed a very simple recipe that has been battle proven all the way till the '90s but for some reason Hollywood decided to actively reject it now in most modern productions thinking that some sliver spoon executive detached from reality knows better than the fans who buy the tickets. Tom Cruise seems to be one of the last few in show-biz who knows how to give fans exactly what they want. These days, I find much better quality stuff is coming out of Korea, Denmark, France, Finland, etc.

korroziya 4y ago
>where they shoe-horn various modern-day identity politics and "progressive" topics trying to appeal to Twitter critic mobs It's refreshung to see this level of objective honesty on HN.
InitialLastName 4y ago
There's an irony in complaining about "progressive" signalling in movies while praising Top Gun: Maverick, a movie so woke that they made the baddies an unidentifiable country just so nobody would get offended.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  How was obfuscating the enemy woke? The plot is way too simplistic for that to have made any difference.
- dagw 4y ago
  Top Gun: Maverick, a movie so woke that they made the baddies an unidentifiable country Was the original Top Gun also woke? Pretty sure they didn't identify the "baddies" in that one either.
- tomjen3 4y ago
  They did that with the original one too, which is why I think it worked. BTW: it was obviously Iran, except they don't have 5th generation fighters.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    >they don't have 5th generation fighters. Neither does Russia ;)
loudmax 4y ago
This is all about the amount of money going into these movies. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake it's much safer to rehash an existing franchise like Top Gun than to give directors and screenwriters the creative freedom they need to come up with interesting new stories. Wokeness is just a symptom of producers putting money where they think ticket-buyers want. If they thought there was more money to be made appealing to MAGA they'd do that instead. The stuff coming out of Korea, Denmark, France, Finland, etc, is made with much lower budgets. They can afford to take risks.

korroziya 4y ago

>where they shoe-horn various modern-day identity politics and "progressive" topics trying to appeal to Twitter critic mobs It's refreshung to see this level of objective honesty on HN.

InitialLastName 4y ago

There's an irony in complaining about "progressive" signalling in movies while praising Top Gun: Maverick, a movie so woke that they made the baddies an unidentifiable country just so nobody would get offended.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
How was obfuscating the enemy woke? The plot is way too simplistic for that to have made any difference.
dagw 4y ago
Top Gun: Maverick, a movie so woke that they made the baddies an unidentifiable country Was the original Top Gun also woke? Pretty sure they didn't identify the "baddies" in that one either.
tomjen3 4y ago
They did that with the original one too, which is why I think it worked. BTW: it was obviously Iran, except they don't have 5th generation fighters.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >they don't have 5th generation fighters. Neither does Russia ;)

loudmax 4y ago

This is all about the amount of money going into these movies. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake it's much safer to rehash an existing franchise like Top Gun than to give directors and screenwriters the creative freedom they need to come up with interesting new stories. Wokeness is just a symptom of producers putting money where they think ticket-buyers want. If they thought there was more money to be made appealing to MAGA they'd do that instead. The stuff coming out of Korea, Denmark, France, Finland, etc, is made with much lower budgets. They can afford to take risks.