The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs
The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs
Seems like a lot of the entertainment Disney makes tries to be extremely average. Not edgy, not offending anyone. The end result is almost like AI slop before AI slop existed. Entertainment so mediocre that it doesn’t make you feel anything.
Entertainment doesn’t need to be good anymore.
As we use more and more electronic distractions, we start to leave streaming on all say while we work, play, etc…
This means people aren’t really paying attention, so the streams just play and generate cash, with people not noticing that the quality has dropped
Why why pay top dollar to make programs when they can just dribble out pablum to stream.
So we get dumb crap with bad writing and childish titles.
Movie by committee.
Just enough to maintain their grip on the IP and make some merch sales
Disney movies are theatrical length ads for merch and experiences. The animation style for BB-8 was 100% prioritizing driving merch sales.
“What if we had tiny droid but ball?”
And then: “what if we had even tinier droid that does nothing but act like a scared puppy?” for D-0, literally the most useless droid in all of Star Wars history; moreso than the mouse droids from the OT.
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my old professor called it “Attraction to Mediocrity” - the idea that over time things move towards the most average as you try to please the most people
But that’s what modern audiences actually want. They want mediocre slop because it doesn’t distract them while scrolling Instagram or TikTok. Modern audiences don’t watch movies anymore, they only use movies as background noise. So why even bother with memorable characters or a real plot? I’m not trolling here or anything, just saying the truth. If I would make films for a living, I wouldn’t make them more complex either. Because it’s only a waste of time, effort and money.
The difference between an artist and someone with money sickness.
That’s why I wrote for a living. If you have to earn money you’re bound by contracts, deadlines, budgets, your client’s demands, the market and so on. If you want to make art you have to do it as a hobby. I know the difference very well, I’ve worked in several fields. Not in film (Those rare occasions as extra or boom doesn’t count, I was young and needed the money) but the principle is the same. I don’t like it but that’s just how things are, it’s how economy itself works.