{"id":34091,"date":"2025-08-03T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=34091"},"modified":"2025-08-02T22:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:48:25","slug":"long-long-ago-in-a-studio-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/long-long-ago-in-a-studio-far-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Long, Long Ago in a Studio Far, Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the tent-pole summer movies of July fade into August obscurity and dinosaurs, Superman and lesser Marvel superheroes get rated and dissected by the movie critics I think it has been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that the failure of Hollywood to replicate the billion-dollar paydays from earlier versions of Star Wars and the Avengers franchises can now be definitively explained.\u00a0 They forgot that a superhero movie (or even just a plain hero movie) requires a hero.\u00a0 And the requirements of a hero (whether in book or on a screen) include that we like the hero.<\/p>\n<p>And that seems to be where Hollywood has gone off the rails.\u00a0 They\u2019ve managed to make a bunch of movies where the heroes are unlikeable.\u00a0 For the most part these unlikeable heroes have tended to be of the type currently known as the \u201cgirl-boss.\u201d\u00a0 The prime example of this category is Rey, played by Daisy Ridley in the Star Wars movies.\u00a0 The type includes the following traits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although small and thin she is completely capable of defeating men many times her size.<\/li>\n<li>She hectors male characters about their obvious shortcomings compared to her.<\/li>\n<li>Completely humorless.<\/li>\n<li>Has no flaws.<\/li>\n<li>Has no setbacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, this sort of character fits perfectly into the social messaging of all modern Hollywood films.\u00a0 It allows older franchises with male protagonists to be replaced with the girl-boss.\u00a0 Examples include Rey in Star Wars replacing Luke Skywalker, Helena Shaw replacing Indiana Jones and Captain Marvel basically replacing all the Avengers.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with these replacements is that the producers think that just saying that their new characters are just as good as the originals (if not better) is enough.\u00a0 For some reason they didn\u2019t think it would be necessary to hire good writers and directors to make the movies exciting and entertaining.\u00a0 But as it turns out they are extremely important if you don\u2019t want your movies to be unwatchable crap.\u00a0 And that is the thing that all these movies share.\u00a0 They\u2019re awful.\u00a0 And unfortunately for Disney they\u2019ve been making these \u201cbetter\u201d movies and television series in the Star Wars and Marvel series for about ten years and they\u2019ve completely dissipated the enthusiasm and good will of their legacy audiences that paid billions of dollars to see the older movies that actually were well written, exciting and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last six months it has finally dawned on Disney (and the other studios) that they\u2019ve killed the goose that lays the golden eggs.\u00a0 They\u2019ve alienated about 70% of their audience and destroyed a machine that printed cash.\u00a0 From what I\u2019ve read, the most recent Marvel movie \u201cFantastic Four\u201d went to lengths to not go down the girl-boss lane and even had a decent script that could be enjoyed as an adventure movie.\u00a0 The problem is that most of their old audience didn\u2019t bother to give it a try and so the movie while not a complete bomb is struggling to become profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether \u201cFantastic Four\u201d makes money I think we may be at a turning point in the fantasy-adventure genre.\u00a0 It has finally dawned on the studios that social messaging for the woke agenda is box office poison that has a tiny audience.\u00a0 As the recent purchase of Paramount by Skydance Media demonstrates, entertainment that doesn\u2019t make money ends up on the auction block and then the chopping block where the unentertaining and unprofitable components get sliced off and thrown in the garbage.\u00a0 And similar things are happening all over the media and entertainment world.\u00a0 CNN, MSNBC and CBS are all finding out that woke ideology doesn\u2019t equal profitability and if they can\u2019t adapt to a world that isn\u2019t amused by it, they\u2019ll be out of work.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019m an eternal optimist but maybe, just maybe, in a year or two decent fantasy adventure may be produced in Hollywood again.\u00a0 At least it could happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the tent-pole summer movies of July fade into August obscurity and dinosaurs, Superman and lesser Marvel superheroes get rated and dissected by the 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