And, most of us would see that trailer, or it's 90s equivalents that you bring up, and state our intentions of watching it as stoned as we could possibly get.
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this trailer. I'm ridiculously excited about the movie.
Marvel spent 10 years trying to come up with anything can capture the same magic as the original Avengers, only to hire everyone back in different roles. Pure "throw shit at a wall" strategy. They even got rid of black Captain America lol.
It’s exactly that. Hollywood will always stick to their one and only true tradition of riding things out until the living fucking end. In a perfect world, “Endgame” would cap off all the stories, and then these performers and filmmakers will move on to other projects and focuses. No, what we need is MORE superheroes. MORE Star Wars. MORE zombies. To a point where something like “The Boys” is released and the reaction is “It’s such a relief and so original to not have a NORMAL superhero story!!!” Look at old photos of movie marquees from the 80’s or 90’s and you will see MULTIPLE awesome movies in theatres at the same time back then. Nowadays you might get me interested to go to the movies twice, maybe three times a year.
The “Infinity Saga” was very well handled overall, and is a contained storyline. The problem is, I got burned out with it and took a break…but now I don’t have time to catch up. So I’ll watch all these movies, but it’ll take me years to get to the point where I can even consider seeing a new Avengers movie,
I have a friend that works in entertainment law and I asked about why movies are just general slop now. He said because of streaming, margins are so razor-thin that they need to squeeze every penny out of every project, so there is not a lot of risk tolerance in studios in terms of investment. They just continue to capitalize on something that makes a lot of money until its sanitized and diluted down to just corporate marketing. To your point - these are the movies that came up in the summer of 1982: ET, Star Trek 2, Rocky III, Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, The Thing, Tron, Road Warrior, Star Wars, Poltergeist, etc. There just won't be many chances taken if people are staying home. And forget anyone willing to make an R-rated blockbuster at this point. Fury Road was the exception.
Something else I heard that makes sense too is a lot of people opt for the ad free packages on streaming services because why wouldn’t you? But theres more money to be made when people pay less because advertisers will earn them more than just a slightly higher monthly fee. It’s why we don’t get 22 episode seasons of shows anymore. And also why there’s so much unwatchable garbage on all the streamers.