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> Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter keeps the whole mid-budget movi
by kobalsky 4y ago
> Maybe at that point we'll see a revival of mid-budget mass movies
do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter keeps the whole mid-budget movie industry in deadlock?
could you give a few examples of what you consider good mid-budget movies that would have been affected the current situation?
- geodel 4y ago> do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter This in sense large number of people have only so much time. With Superhero stuff dropping in with high frequency and kids forcing families to watch them, other mass movies do not stand much chance to find audience time.
- afavour 4y agoI'm not saying superhero movies are directly attributable, just that their decline might be a moment for a shakeup. I'm not particularly convinced it will happen because I think streaming and prestige TV have also had a strong effect on what the movie industry does and doesn't do. In terms of the kind of movies I'm thinking of, looking back through past best picture winners I'm thinking of things like A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men, American Beauty. But also "frat pack" type comedies like Knocked Up, Dodgeball etc etc, they were their own mini industry for a time! Obviously it's difficult to say which of those would be affected today (effectively asking which movies do we not know about that haven't been made today) but the mid-budget decline is a well documented thing.