Why Does Hollywood Keep Making Movies No One Asked For?

They don't make movies for the actual audience anymore, they make movies for investors who want to play it safe betting on bland, politically correct, therefore safe products.

The industry changed once producers and directors changed their views from pleasing the audience to pleasing the investors.

It’s insane that movies like Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Godfather, etc wouldn’t exist in today’s Hollywood.

Since American filmmaking has gotten so stale, I've started to look into foreign films more and have been extremely pleased with how many interesting stories there are out there in other languages

The issue with Barbie doing so well is that the studios have totally misunderstood why it did so well. The announcement of a string of Mattel based movies proves this.

Quentin Tarantino said it best. Movies used to be about imagination and ideas. Now they're all about agendas.

As a child: "I hope they will make movie adaptations of my favorite shows, toys and franchises!" As an adult: "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed..."

Everything sucks now. Music, movies, people. Wtf happened.

Evil doesn't know how to be creative. They can only take what exists and twist it into something else.

One thing I recently learned really put things in perspective when it comes to Hollywood. When adjusted for inflation, 2001: A Space Odyssey would cost roughly $100 million. It is one of the greatest films of all time, directed by one of the greatest directors of all time, and needed completely new filmmaking and special effects techniques to be realized. All that for $100 million, which I assume was one of the most expensive films ever made at the time. Nowadays, Hollywood can't even sneeze without spending $100 million. It costs Disney at least $250 million to excrete cookie cutter MCU trash with terrible CGI

In my opinion, the Hunger Games movie makes perfect sense. Collins authored the prequel just a few years ago, it’s a great book for the universe (I’ve read them all and they are all good young adult books). I agree with your point, but I think Hunger Games makes sense to me, as the author wrote the prequel material years later. What might suck about this movie is Hollywood trying to connect Katniss to this prequel, which she has virtually zero connection to. But yes, creativity is at an all time low in my mind (agree with you). I will say, marketing has a lot to do with it too - the truly new movies are not marketed the same as the reboots, remakes, etc

When you said that there aren't movies like The Truman Show, that stung me. Films from the 80's, 90's and 00's had a big impact on me. They were films that I could watch again and again. Not because I needed more endless sequels of them, but because they were just that good. Some of my favourite films are Perfect Blue, The Truman Show, Batman 89, Ju-On, Metropolis (The Animated Movie), Coming To America, Shawshank Redemption, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Dark Knight and Yume. They didn't feel mainstream, they just felt interesting and that they weren't following the trend that many modern films take. One film that I have to say caught my eye and I enjoyed it greatly was Pearl. It was innovative and proves what you said in the video. Studios are not creatively bankrupt, but are playing it safe, but film is still art. I can understand that they need to generate a profit, but surely a well made original film can do just that.

Disney: "no one likes original animated films any more" Studio Ghibli: "are you high? 😒"

A major factor for these reboots and remakes is an attempt at not letting copywrites expire. That’s why Disney is remaking their animated movies one by one.

The hunger games movie was actually good and not made for no reason. The book came out 3 years ago and it was faithfully adapted. It wasnt hollywood revisiting the universe, they gave the author, the original creator, time to continue the world building. It was a very good prequel that set the stage for how the future films would play out.

Ballad of song birds was a great prequel that actually added a lot to to the og trilogy and made Snow a lot more interesting reading and watching them in retrospective.

Their job isn’t to release movies. Their job to to shape public thought, policy and opinion in an effort to sow chaos, anxiety and hatred. To bastardize and destroy all that was once held dear. It is not incompetence if it is deliberate. There are forces at work that feed off of our pain, our anger and negativity. People are rotting inside as they fail to acknowledge the reality of our world.

To be fair, The Hunger Games prequel is an actual book. Considering how successful the Hunger Games was, it understandable that they would make a movie about the prequel book

Growing up in the 80/90's having access to movies not only coming out at that time but oldies. Seeing the movies being produced these days genuinely depresses me😢 These kids will never know what a mind blowing movie even is.

if you took youre time and looked into the hunger games franchise you would understand why they made another movie, Suzanne Collins wrote another book a few years ago and a lot of people wanted a movie adaptation, if it only was a cashgrab they would have created a whole spinoff series about much earlier.