10 Disappointing Things We Learned About Movies In 2013
7. People Do Prefer Franchises To New Ideas After All
Before each and every summer audiences are quick to moan that the blockbuster season is chock full of nothing but sequels, spin offs and reboots of existing franchises. Where oh where has creativity gone? Hardly a new complaint, things are a lot better now than they were a couple of decades ago. There are certainly some bad sequels, but were also getting some bloody good ones too, with the rule of ever decreasing budgets a thing of the past. Add on to it a sizable amount of new and interesting projects and 2013 could have been the year to show there can be a balance. Well, it wasn't. I did a list just as the summer was kicking off showing ten big, upcoming films that werent sequels and most either made a loss or an incredibly unremarkable profit. The one thing people seem to hate more than a dearth of ideas is having to risk their money watching an unproven one. It seems silly given how bombastic and broad Pacific Rim was, but because it and its ilk struggled studios are increasingly less likely to greenlight completely new concepts. And thus the cycle begins again.
