They already have run out of gas, the last decade has given us little original content from Hollywood. Pair that with the way the US has destroyed their soft power in the past year or so, and you've got something that isn't culturally relevant on the world stage any longer.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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Years and years ago, I turned to foreign and independent films. Maybe 1 or 2 Hollywood films a year. I won't watch Part N, or any sequel. Complete gd lack of imagination.
I want to agree with him, but money shows he's wrong. People will go see sequels, adaptations, and remakes. Studios will not stop printing money because Spielberg wants to take the high road. Fortunately, studios will keep making Spielberg movies, but up and coming filmmakers won't have his pull.
What Spielberg might want to do is, create a fellowship for creatives, and see if he can get some of his pull applied to their works. He might have to put up some of his own money, like as an investor hoping to make a return. I think that's kind of what a production company (i.e. Amblin Entertainment, here) does, but I'm not 100% sure.
Also, we shouldn't be so quick to forget that Spielberg bought up the rights to Ready Player One so he could change it into an advertisement for his own movies. He did keep the spirit of the movie, and the movie was awesome, but everything was changed to advertise his previous films. The movie still worked — it was a fun homage to the 1980s — but it was never meant to be a showcase of one person's work, it was meant to be a showcase of the 1980s and the culture Ernest Cline grew up in, as a whole.
Although Spielberg recognized that his films were a significant part of the 1980s popular culture cited in the book, he opted to remove many references to them to avoid accusations of vanity.[75] Cline believed Spielberg wanted to avoid self-references to films he directed, due to the criticism he received for his film 1941, which lampooned his own previous works Jaws and Duel. Cline said he had to convince Spielberg to include some iconic elements, such as the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future, which Spielberg conceded as he only produced the film.[76] Spielberg also allowed the Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park to be included.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)#Cultural_references
For your last paragraph. What references to old Spielberg movies do you think you remember in Ready Player One?
"People will go see sequels, adaptations, and remakes." These are the same people that vote.
Yes, people will go see remakes and adaptations (sequels are fine since they are new content). The question is, for how long?
Spielberg knows it isn't going to last.
Just make movies about average people with a grudge killing the billionaire class. Basically revolutionary propaganda but entertaining. Make people be hyped about going to see the next installment of "billionaire execution spree luigi style". Pretty sure that would get fuckloads of views from all sides of the political spectrum :)
Oh right, you are part of and friends with the billionaire class, nvm...
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I’m pretty geecky myself but the avalanche of super hero movies of the past 10 years has left me utterly saturated. Yesterday I saw the Street fighter trailer ad I was already bored.
Why is Emily Blunt's face smooth af even when she's frowning?
It looks like a photoshop mesh of Emily Blunt, Ana de Armas, and Nicolas Cage.
I would watch that Face Off spin Off
There's been maybe a dozen movies I have given a shit about seeing since Y2K and 3 of them were Deadpool. Fuck modern Hollywood, I'm gonna go watch Big Trouble in Little China again.
That's the sour opinion I wake up everyday for
Please think about the poor investors!