Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’

sirdorius@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It literally is a zero sum game. Studios dump all their money into these types of movies and there’s no money left over for the “story about the deepest darkest recesses of the human mind.”

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  • sirdorius@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are assuming that if Marvel movies didn’t exist everyone would just go see Requiem for a Dream instead, which is just silly. They target different audiences and the same people could choose to see one today and another tomorrow. It’s not like Oppenheimer was made by a bunch of indies scraping money on Kickstarter.

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    • KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not assuming anything like that. That’s you putting your ridiculous dichotomic outlook of any subject into someone else’s mouth. There’s a good chance if Requiem for a Dream required a 2023 movie budget, it wouldn’t have even been made. An unknown director/writer with a 2023 budget with a movie like that? Ha. There would have been no option to see that the next day. Also, are you comparing Requiem for a Dream to Oppenheimer?

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  • SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And yet A24 exists and continues to find success.

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    • KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/…/a24

      A24 has an online cult following, but they struggle at the box office even with wide releases.

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  • anonono@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    disney isn’t the only one funding movies.

    your regular $15m arty pantsy black and white movie isn’t paid for the mouse.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’ve just had the highest grossin opening weekend with Barbenhiemer.

  Yes, we can have both. They need to have both otherwise they are only accomodating part of their audience.

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• pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Barbie movie is a perfect example of the balance of pinache and meaning, and mainstream movies ought to learn from that.

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  • MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And that lead actress, whoever she is, should totally get an Oscar for her performance this year.

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