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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9570347" data-attributes="member: 18">Mid-budget movies basically don't get made, anymore, thanks to a combination of streaming services and movie studios feeling like only blockbusters are worth investing in, and in part because well, they don't seem to be profitable the way they once were. You might even be right that a mid-budget D&D movie would make money, but you try pitching a mid-budget movie to a streaming service or Hollywood...It sucks because the vast majority of truly interesting and good movies (including most long-term favourites) over the last century fit into those eras definitions of mid or low budget. Now we get 150-200m blown on absolute brain-dead and not even exciting drivel for Netflix or Prime or whatever, because they know if they just give it an obvious lowest-common-denominator-appealing premise (even if it completely fails to more than superficially engage with that premise), a couple of big stars* (even if they can't act and increasingly lack charisma, like The Rock), they'll get a bazillion views, because that's how streaming works. And Hollywood keep struggling to try and make everything (including the MCU) into the next MCU because they're incapable of perceiving any other way!(I will say, it kind of seems like Hollywood might be trending very slight away from this, if perhaps only because so many CU attempts have failed, but frankly streaming is just get worse and dumber and lower quality despite higher budgets, c.f. Red One with a $250m budget, but which manages to look cheap and is absolutely unwatchable-without-mind-altering-chemicals drek.)* = This is going to get worse btw. Right now the stars are generally people Hollywood has made big and often are at least charismatic and/or able to act. As Hollywood slowly dies, they're going to replaced. And with whom? Influencers. Influencers who can't act, don't have any charisma, and we'll basically just have the Generation Alpha equivalent of Mr Nanny and Suburban Commando over and over and over again until films die out entirely as a mainstream medium. I know at least one of you sick freaks (and I say that with love but people...) is looking forwards to this, salivating at the very thought of a paunchy, 50-something Mr Beast starring in the worst action movie you've ever seen.</blockquote>

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