Why did they stop making intelligent epics?
>mexican intellectuals
people stopped being an intelligent audience
>>69722183
Money
>>69722229
This.
>>69722229
This. But also, there's a layer of, y'know, work involved. The blood of the beast is money and the input/output has to lean toward input.
Normies demand movies with ripped Chads fighting each other and having super skills.
>>69722183
They're not "fun." They don't put enough asses in seats to justify their production costs.
Anymore.
Not sure if this passes as intelligent, but it was an epic. And a good one.
>m-muh historical inaccuracies ;_;
It's not supposed to be historically accurate. If it was, it wouldn't be as good.
>>69722229
Damn, somebody just got quints
>>69722222
>>69722183
They're used to be like 2-3 movies made in an entire year back then, so they had to make sure it was fucking good to justify the cost. When the industry and infrastructure grew to allow for production to exist at higher volumes, it not only lowered the bar for quality control, as it only impedes the speed at which new films can be developed, but it allowed for more risks.
This could be good or bad, but if you're movie flopped, your studio could also have 4 other coming out that year that could make up for it. This allowed new types of movies, both good and bad, to become mainstay genres.
We're now at a level, with systems like Red Box and the Chinese Box Office, that it's incredibly hard to make an awful movie that doesn't at least make it's budget back.
No risks breeds no need to try and improve. That is now placed solely in the hands of the filmmaker, instead of the studio and production as well, who instead just care about returns and profit, as well as development of intellectual properties and the prospect of having multiple tent pole films, to branch out into multimedia franchises.
Since Marvel Studios began to reap massive financial success, every other studio is now also trying to create "cinematic universes" in hopes to gain the same. Fortunately, no other studio has managed to gain any success in starting said cinematic universes, so they are sticking solely to tentpole creation and genre pipelines.
>>69722183
The trick is not minding that it hurts.
