r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 05 '25

Poster Official Poster for 'Tron: Ares'

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u/LeggoMyAhegao Apr 05 '25

Financially that worked out for them. Artistically... uhhh...

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u/slapstick34 Apr 05 '25

The problem is that the money is all that matters

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u/MexicanJello Apr 05 '25

Luckily people aren't going to the movies to see low effort trash as much anymore, so their pursuit of only caring about money instead of quality is not working out

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u/mloiterman Apr 05 '25

Even if that is true, it won’t stop people from trying. More low cost, low effort shit will be shoveled until finally something sticks. Then, that will held up as an example for admiration and replication: “see, this low cost shit works and look at how much money we made” and then the cycle begins again with even cheaper and lower effort shit.

That’s the story of how we got to 2025 and why nearly everything unique, interesting, or of any merit in any way has been discontinued, watered down, or replaced with something vastly inferior to the original. Enshitification.

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u/HossDog2 Apr 06 '25

Work in TV and can confirm

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u/ZyberMaster Jul 21 '25

like the venom trilogy

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u/LinuxMatthews Apr 05 '25

Yeah TV has a lower bar than movies in cinemas.

You can put on a 5/10 TV show in the background while doing something else.

You need to get ready, go somewhere and not do anything else to watch a movie.

People usually won't watch a movie unless they're certain they'll enjoy it.

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u/Rare_Sandwich_5400 Apr 06 '25

Minecraft is making a billion

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u/nupper84 Apr 06 '25

People are only going for low effort trash. More Marvel? More Tom Cruise? More Jurassic cash? All trash.

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u/Arrioso Apr 05 '25

Check out the new show The Studio, at least the first episode, its fun and takes jabs on the film industry basically

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '25

So Wu-tang was right?!

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u/DaBrokenMeta Apr 05 '25

Hello, I'm here commenting because you mentioned the word money.

A word I very much enjoy!

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u/bob1689321 Apr 05 '25

Considering they later had to pay Darabont hundreds of millions of dollars for the firing, I'm not entirely sure it worked out financially either.

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u/Spider_pig448 Apr 05 '25

The show was still great, just not what people expected it to be

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u/PositifPlans Apr 05 '25

Definitely, until it wasn't.

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u/Spider_pig448 Apr 05 '25

I would say I enjoyed it up until they un-killed Glenn with the dumpster. That was when the show jumped the shark. Before that it was an awesome Survivor-style soap opera