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spinyfur t1_jaemr6s wrote

I feel like they need to do what the comics used to do, back in the 80’s.

They’d have a huge crossover event, usually during the summer when kids have tons of free time. Then the event would end and every comic would go back to their own characters doing their own thing for a while. Telling smaller, but more personal stories, some of which were good.

I think we’re in that “smaller stories” phase, but it’ll go more slowly because movies take much longer to make.

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Intelligent-Age2786 t1_jaempze wrote

I don’t think it’s the genre fatigue as I saw someone mention. I think it’s the mediocre to blatant bad writing that’s making people not attracted to it. Although some people may feel fatigue I think it’s dependent on the person. With Marvel it’s just like they’re trying to do too much super quickly and making bad hiring decisions, and Star Wars has a major issues of not staying true to source material, at least the previous trilogy cuz the shows are thriving. With Marvel, phase 4 was passable, and feel like people exaggerate how bad it was, but Quantumania is definitely something that can’t be avoided. Fiege stated he has a course correction plan and hopefully that includes numerous delays, and better hiring when it comes to directing and writing personnel. Can’t keep hiring inexperienced people/television/Rick and morty writers for your stories. Hopefully it’s more than just tampering with the release schedule. Some of the upcoming projects sound pretty promising, but whether they are actually given enough time to give the best script possible is unknown. And Star Wars, they’ve talked about so many movies that are being written and produced and nothing has happened with any of them. Just shows that Kathleen Kennedy isn’t entirely capable of handling that franchise.

I do however agree with the statement of needing to create more original stuff. However I feel like a lot of studios are guilty of that

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bookwormaesthetic t1_jaemj94 wrote

I guess "calculated risks" would be a better term. They should have planned the plot of the trilogy before starting filming. Not a popcorn style assignment of 'Person A writes one paragraph, Person B writes the second, and Person A writes the conclusion.'

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