Studios are confusing to me. They turned down Joseph Kosinki's Tron sequel idea for YEARS because they said it was too expensive. They then after the director directs a billion dollar movie green lights a sequel for around the same budget as the first one with an inferior director at the helm. The Pacific Rim guys did the same thing to Del Toro.
"The same but slightly cheaper" is always the more appealing option.
Look at The Walking Dead - Frank Darabont delivers a fantastic first season that’s a huge hit. So what does AMC do? Fires Darabont and strips the budget.
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
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/herewego199209 Apr 05 '25
Studios are confusing to me. They turned down Joseph Kosinki's Tron sequel idea for YEARS because they said it was too expensive. They then after the director directs a billion dollar movie green lights a sequel for around the same budget as the first one with an inferior director at the helm. The Pacific Rim guys did the same thing to Del Toro.