10 Reasons Why 2016's Blockbuster Season Sucked

10. Studio Interference

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The clue is right there in the phrase 'movie business'. As an industry with billions of dollars at stake, Hollywood tends to keep a closer eye on the production of their $100m-plus blockbusters than a micro-budget genre flick that can fly under the radar. While it sounds like a sensible business strategy for a company to follow the development of one of its biggest yearly investments, too much meddling can leave the grubby fingerprints of studio interference all over the final product, often compromising the director's vision.

Enough has been written about the post-production issues on both Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad that there is no need to get into that again here, while Duncan Jones has also been vocal about the role of the studio during production on Warcraft, describing the process as 'death by 1000 cuts'.

With blockbuster movies becoming more and more expensive and thus becoming riskier investments for the studio, the difference between a director working from a studio-mandated brief and filmmaking by committee is becoming less pronounced, which could go some way to explaining just how bland and generic much of this year's big-budget output has been.