Yes, a lot of stuff that has been produced recently is garbage. As with all art time is the greatest filter. If you watch movies on just a 10 year delay you can totally ignore a lot of crap that is just straight up forgotten. Some people treat movies & shows like live sports where you have to watch things so you can participate in social media discussions about them. If you don't care about that then there is no reason to watch these movies. There is probably more incredible art released in just the past 40 years than you can reasonably appreciate in an entire lifetime, even sticking to only the great stuff.
For myself I stick to books & single-player games. I don't know, movies and shows are just not a convenient format. I feel like I have to watch a movie in a single sitting. Two hours is my entire evening's worth of free time pretty much.
Adaptations and remakes aren’t anything new to pop culture. The golden age of cinema is full of novel adaptations and remakes of prior films. Folklore comes from generations of people retelling the same stories. But those were people with limited scope and no media to record their tales. Now we have the sort of global culture where nearly countless tales can be adapted.
But they don’t. The problem isn’t that Marvel and DC and Star Wars get adapted or have new iterations, it’s that those are the only goddamn things that get adapted. It’s not because there’s stories there that someone feels passionate about or that enough time has passed since the last version that the new standards of film making can give it a fresh spin. It’s because they know those are the franchises that have a built-in baseline of boys and young men that will sit their asses in seats. And because there’s so many being made at any time, when one of them happens to be good it doesn’t feel like a result of strong artistic vision, it feels like the monkeys at the typewriters got one right for once.
And even when something actually novel breaks through, oh god do they rush to pump out derivative copies. All those middling GoT-esque shows that got rushed through production to cash in.
Imo not everything is for everybody and thats ok.
If marvel movies arent your thing just dont watch them, theres too much good media out there for this to be a problem.
And i think trends are moving away from the marvel style movies anyways. Has there even been one in theatres this year? That studio that made everything everywhere all at once has been putting out great stuff.
Have you tried Arcane? Its a video game adaptation executed extremely well.
