Maybe if they tried to have an original idea instead of reboots, remakes, and retreads, they might have a turnaround.
Lots of good stuff in the literary world (esp. SF) they haven’t even touched and never will.
Just imagine what they could have done with H. Beam Piper’s Space Viking or The Cosmic Computer (aka “Junkyard Planet”).
Of course, Hollyweird would completely eff up these jewels. Maybe we’re better off.
“Maybe if they tried to have an original idea instead of reboots, remakes, and retreads, they might have a turnaround.”
indeed. nothing but dreck for over 10 years. haven’t been tempted the slightest to go the theaters in that time. and crappy movies don’t get any better just because you can stream them for “free” a few months later; i’d rather rewatch great movies of the past a second or third time.
besides, movies are no longer where good entertainment is being made: the entertainment with the best production values is being made in the form of series from cable channels, streamers like HBO & Netflix and foreign countries. For example, right now, HBO’s Westworld blows everything else away, and even Game of Thrones is far more compelling than any movie made in the last 10 years.