“Explosions translate into every language. Snappy dialogue, not so much.”
This to the nth degree. CGI and explosions rule the day.
Almost every single movie trailer I see these days is exactly the same: lots of explosions, pulse-pounding music, a sudden silence, and then the name of the movie, occasionally with a final chord at the end.
They look exactly the same. They sound exactly the same. Political correctness has watered down plots to such a degree that they might as well all be the same.
I’ll tell you what, though: Hollywood’s complete lack of imagination has sure made cordcutting easy on me.
I notice many movies make more in the international market than the domestic. For some, like Cruise’s new movie the international puts them into profit.
Hard to get good dialogue etc when the studio wants everyone in China to see robots exploding.