The myth that there are no original movies.

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I've got a huge multiplex that was built near me with a new shopping center about 4-5 years ago. Feels a lot like a throwback to the days when movies were events and going to the theater was special.

They do a good job of showing every shitty "Jesus cures atheist's evil heart" movie that comes out, and they dedicate 6-8 of their 10 screens to superhero movies and kids cartoons.

Artsy, critically well-regarded movies for adults get 1 screen, 3-4 showtimes, 2 weeks max (usually less). Many of them simply never play here at all.

I think it's what they have to do to stay profitable. The moviegoing public, certainly around here anyway, isn't clamoring to see art. They want an air conditioned room to take their kids in the summer.

Most of us don’t live in Los Angeles

Original movies are being made. It’s just nobody’s coming out to watch them. Out of the 20 highest grossing box office movies this year, only four aren’t part of a franchise, based off a comic book series, or remakes. By contrast, only three of the 20 highest grossing box office movies from 1990 were part of a franchise or remakes. It’s a different world nowadays.

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Original movies are being made. It’s just nobody’s coming out to watch them.

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Where? Coming out where?

Where do I watch these movies? They aren't in the theaters by and large. The movie going public isn't even given an option these days. It's superhero movie or cartoon or stay at home and watch Netflix.

This isn't the horse leading the way, this is Hollywood putting the cart before the horse and telling us what to watch.

Of the top 20 films at the box office last decade, only one movie was not based on a past film or tv show (remake/sequel), or an adaptation of an established property (be it a comic, book, play, toy…etc).

And it was a cartoon...Finding Nemo.

Out of the top 50 grossing films of this past decade, there were only 9 movies based on original properties...and 7 of them were Cartoons. And five of those nine films were created by Pixar Animation Studios.

And it's only gotten worse this decade. Reboots, remakes, sequels, everything is a franchise now.

If there was original content today, I'd be going to the theaters more than twice a year.

I used to go all the time in the 80's and 90's.

Now I just wait for some gem on DVD or Amazon Prime to pop-up. Amazon and Netflix have some original content. Major studios have abandoned that working model a long time ago.

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Where do I watch these movies? They aren't in the theaters by and large. The movie going public isn't even given an option these days. It's superhero movie or cartoon or stay at home and watch Netflix.

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Id say I go to the theater a good bit more than the average person and very rarely am I seeing a superhero, cartoon, or remake. It’s really not that hard unless someone lives in a very remote little town

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This isn't the horse leading the way, this is Hollywood putting the cart before the horse and telling us what to watch.

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And if that’s the case, then I give Hollywood props for being smart enough to realize the average person will just throw their money at all those movies. And it will keep happening as long as people fill the theaters to see Spider Man 7

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And it will keep happening as long as people fill the theaters to see Spider Man 7

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But people filled the theaters to see The Sound of Music (#3 highest grossing movie of all-time adjusted for inflation) E.T. #4 adjusted for inflation, Titanic #5 adjusted for inflation (I wonder if even Titanic could get made in today's Hollywood culture - they'd say, ah...that shite won't make no money. Give me more Spiderman.)

Jaws, #7 adjusted for inflation.

Has the movie-going public changed so much that fricking Jaws wouldn't be a hit today...Hollywood says yes ...maybe Hollywood isn't giving us the option of Jaws...maybe Hollywood is just giving us the same movies over and over and over again and they make a shite ton of money because that's all there is...captive audience of parents who will take their kids to see anything so they stop bugging them on a weekend.

Superhero movie begats superhero movie begats superhero movie isn't totally purely public demand driven as you think.

People like to see movies, it's the only thing showing. So it justifies itself by exclusion of other films.

Directors have consantly said recently that - good movies can still be made and they'd make money but Hollywood isn't interested. They want franchises because they sell themselves, are easy to make and have a built-in audience.

It's not as you maybe were suggesting that audiences rejected the above list I posted and so Hollywood was forced to go to superhero and cartoon movies to make money.

Hollywood simply rejected the above overnight and went to superhero and cartoon movies and said, hey...they make money.

Well a lot of original films can make a shite ton of money too.

But Hollywood isn't willing to take any risk. So it's cookie-cutter bland same ol' shite in every movie.

It's the model of the car companies. Cars used to be cool in the 50's - every car company had their own design. Then the Ford Pinto exploded on impact from a rear-end collision based on a new design.

And they got sued and almost bankrupted Ford.

So now every car company ensures they make everything to "industry standard" - every car company all copy each other by design and their designs and produce the same looking cars. Just like Hollywood studios now.

Enter the superhero movie and competing Hollywood studios.

I like going to movies and I have not had one pique my interest at all since the Queen movie and that was the first of November.

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I listen to a podcast that discusses ever new movie released to theaters in Los Angles

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Why?