Via Insty:
“[Kathleen Kennedy] gambled some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood history on the modern audience. And wow, did she lose big. To paraphrase Chris Gore, she took boy brands that everyone could enjoy and turned them into girl brands that nobody enjoyed. Men felt excluded and disrespected, and women felt patronized and pandered to. The modern audience had failed to show up, and the existing audience was abandoning ship. Kennedy’s greatest gamble had failed, and inevitably it all finally caught up with her.”
Can I be frank here for a moment? I grant you that the destruction of these comic-book “franchises” leaves me totally unmoved because I have never been in the target audience for these infantile fantasies. So to Star Wars, Star Trek, all those ur-Nordic fairy tales, Justice League and all the nochschleppers… good bye, fuck off and good riddance. Ditto to the directors and producers, and indeed likewise to the actors and actresses, all of whom have made billions of dollars from filming this silly, inconsequential oeuvre of fluff and nonsense.
A pox on all their houses.
Let me add to that the opinion that I will be really, really glad if none of these fantasies see the light of day for a generation or two so that maybe, just maybe some of those bloated production budgets might instead make their way into the production of decent movies with grownup storylines, good acting and productions that don’t rely on the deafening of their audiences.
But I risk being as naïve as the franchises’ audiences if I truly believe that any of this will ever happen.
Thank goodness for my DVD collection, which grows monthly.
Don’t get me started on all the Hollyweerd retardedry over the past 40+ years. I like a good story, no matter how it is told, and there have been very few worth investing in during that time period.
Especially all the “comic book” silliness. Look, I read comics heavily when I was a kid, but then somewhere around the age of 12 or so I started growing up, and so did my tastes and requirements.
Hollyweerd has failed big time and I have long kicked it to the curb. I haven’t spent any money in the direction in decades.
Hollyweird is still around?
I guess I was a fan of some of that. I came of age when that kind of thing was popular and I enjoyed it.
However seeing these woketards get punished by the market, then stand there and finger-wag about how the market is too stupid to understand what’s good for it…..well its hubris defined.
But eventually this shit is going to get big in the .gov, like we’re going to be forced to buy electric cars (If you can buy a car at all) we may be forced to attend these propaganda fests as well, because if you knew what was good for you, you’d be there.
Sergei Eisenstein & Stalin would be proud.
A good description I heard once of her was of “a little sister who takes your G.I. Joes and puts them in Barbie clothes and has a tea party just to annoy you”.
I enjoyed Star Wars and the Expanded Universe books as a kid and teen in the 80-90’s but was underwhelmed by the prequels and never saw or had any interest in the new-generation movies. I had moved on. My kids haven’t shown any interest, and really, if you can’t get hyped about space wizards with laser swords at the age of ten, it isn’t likely to strike later.
-8notch