I'm commenting here to let you know I didn't read your post yet, because I'm afraid of spoilers. (The movie is not yet released here in the Netherlands yet :,( )
Relatedly, this is like a certain movie studio, after letting a talented duo create a great animated film based on a certain NYC-based teenager with arachnid-super powers, deciding to create an entire universe of films (both animated and not) based on other characters related to said NYC-based teenager and expecting them all to go gangbusters, only to find that they don't know how to do that.
I am going to watch it only in two weeks but I am already too excited, considering your very reasonable praise of this movie and my profound love to Swiss Army Man. Expectations are too high and now I am worried. Fingers crossed.
"See, if you’re an exec, and you throw your weight behind a bad clone of, say, Get Out, and it does badly, you can say, “well, hey, I had a good reason for doing this, because it was a clone of a successful movie,” as opposed to having to defend a more eccentric choice. What drives our culture is that kind of petty nonsense."
It's, like, the system, man.. if only Hollywood became a DAO..we could align incentives and kick all the petty white male tech asshole types out of Hollywood. Then, we could finally make more good, experimental films about existentialism and hot dog hands.
(As a DAO person, me, this makes so much sense in my head). #revolution 🍿
This is totally the same with any other cultural artifacts - just wait until Elden Ring inspires all the worst ideas in AAA games. Think of all the clones that popped up after the success of GOT, and so on...
I'm commenting here to let you know I didn't read your post yet, because I'm afraid of spoilers. (The movie is not yet released here in the Netherlands yet :,( )
Will come back to this in a month or so! ;)
Relatedly, this is like a certain movie studio, after letting a talented duo create a great animated film based on a certain NYC-based teenager with arachnid-super powers, deciding to create an entire universe of films (both animated and not) based on other characters related to said NYC-based teenager and expecting them all to go gangbusters, only to find that they don't know how to do that.
And now I am of course trying to determine what the acronym "EEAOTT" could mean. Everything Everywhere All Over The Top"?
I am going to watch it only in two weeks but I am already too excited, considering your very reasonable praise of this movie and my profound love to Swiss Army Man. Expectations are too high and now I am worried. Fingers crossed.
"See, if you’re an exec, and you throw your weight behind a bad clone of, say, Get Out, and it does badly, you can say, “well, hey, I had a good reason for doing this, because it was a clone of a successful movie,” as opposed to having to defend a more eccentric choice. What drives our culture is that kind of petty nonsense."
It's, like, the system, man.. if only Hollywood became a DAO..we could align incentives and kick all the petty white male tech asshole types out of Hollywood. Then, we could finally make more good, experimental films about existentialism and hot dog hands.
(As a DAO person, me, this makes so much sense in my head). #revolution 🍿
This is totally the same with any other cultural artifacts - just wait until Elden Ring inspires all the worst ideas in AAA games. Think of all the clones that popped up after the success of GOT, and so on...