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Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
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Has to be RUS. Success rates are virtually 100%. The cast of It's Always Sunny... could troll him.

So why are comic books the only source material for big budget movies anymore? It's a stunted creative joke, really. The genre has become more tiresome than the 1950s Western.
In the 1990s and early 2000s some studios paid a fuck ton for production rights to a lot trademarked "ideas". Now they've realized they can make their money back by recycling the different franchises (Batman, Superman, Spiderman). Then you've got Marvel, which is now producing stuff in house to make up for the money it lost by selling some of its bigger names off a decade ago. Plus the writing is simple since the "mythology" is set in stone which means they can hammer films out in quick succession (see Avengers) and people will spend money to go see them.

In two words, "it's easy".
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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In the 1990s and early 2000s some studios paid a fuck ton for production rights to a lot trademarked "ideas". Now they've realized they can make their money back by recycling the different franchises (Batman, Superman, Spiderman). Then you've got Marvel, which is now producing stuff in house to make up for the money it lost by selling some of its bigger names off a decade ago. Plus the writing is simple since the "mythology" is set in stone which means they can hammer films out in quick succession (see Avengers) and people will spend money to go see them.

In two words, "it's easy".
The reality television of movies I see. :andyandbarcelona:
 

ZoSo

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Jul 11, 2011
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Reality TV sucks dick, they're all the most popular shows here and take up all the prime time slots. You name it; cooking, renovating, singing, talent shows, losing weight they show it. I don't understand how peope can watch that crap, but I guess people don't know any better after being practically brain-dead their whole life.

 

Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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Reality TV sucks dick, they're all the most popular shows here and take up all the prime time slots. You name it; cooking, renovating, singing, talent shows, losing weight they show it. I don't understand how peope can watch that crap, but I guess people don't know any better after being practically brain-dead their whole life.
Much of it is just car crash entertainment. I admit I was briefly entertained by My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding for just how stunningly awful these people were.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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It all started with a writers' strike in the 1990s. They couldn't afford to pay writers, so they let the morons on camera write themselves. The formula worked, and it keeps the producers in the money because of low expenses.
 
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Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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Sociology has to be one of the lamest areas of specialisation in the world. Every single one of them is just...weird, even by academic standards, and I've just been informed one of them calls himself brian with a small b, but capitalises his surname.
 

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