It IS made for us. The fems that took over the industry make insulting shows for guys to get pissed off at. Then gaslight you with ''it's not made for you'' (btw, you fall for it every time)
@@OwO377 I don't becuase it's not true... Dice, ubisoft microsoft say it becuase of the fact you can't please every all the time so way true... Which Halo infinuite is one of tghe highest groosing games of all time with the biggest budget dispite tghe hate from everyone...
Fundamentally, our brains are subsets of reality. Therefore they cannot contain all of reality. Therefore we are by definition stupid and uninformed. Embrace it. Nobody has their shit together, especially not the people who pretend they do.
Amazing that no one seems to listen to Dr. Ian Malcom, even 30 years later. "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should." But instead of of resurrecting dinosaurs, they're dropping 9 figures on movies/shows no one asked for.
Star Wars Vs Disney Wars Similar to Wheel of Time Vs Wheel of Prime Or Lord of the Rings Vs Rings of Prime Each are different products, each assessed separately and correctly identified that all they share in common is the names.
I think about the only good "Disney era" Star Wars product is the Jedi series from Respawn. And I live in fear that each entry will fuck Cal up and go the woke route.
They want to create the "modern audience" themselves, hence why the alienate and push us out of a hobby and industry we love so they can replace us with a group that consume and repeats "the message" no questions asked
"I appreciate you spending your time with me", is your final line of this video. It's true and it shows. This channel puts out quality videos one after the other, never pandering, never talking down, always in the same jovial non-preachy tone that we have come to know and love. Keep marching on, dear sir!
I swear he did something to piss someone important off in like 2005. Shallow Hal? SCHOOL of ROCK? 9+/10 films Even year one was alright. Everything since has been a humiliation ritual.
These companies acquire IPs that are inherently valuable, because they already have massive audiences. Yet they instead try to appeal to general audiences instead of that audience, nonsense. Just pure nonsense
Well yeah, the point is that they're chasing 'infinite growth'. But these IPs, which are at the height of their popularity, have already reached the saturation point of their audience. Everyone who is already interested is already watching. But infinite growth STILL must happen, so the only option is to try and mess with the formula to stretch the target demographics even further. Make a project, at a reasonable price, that actually knows its target audience and it will be well received. And even people who aren't the target audience may appreciate it because it's good. I am not a car guy, but I loved Ford v. Ferrari. I am not a girl, but I loved the Barbie Movie. I don't like soccer or feel good sports movie, but I enjoyed Last Goal Wins.
@@stephengray1344 Because this is what studios have always done. People are trying to claim that it's some new nefarious thing with a political agenda but . . . well . . . When mainstream movies started appealing to racial minorities, they started by putting in minor characters that were black or asian. 'Tokenism'. Lots of action movies had a half baked romance subplot, to try and get lady butts in seats. The modern pattern is just a clumsy continuation of that trend to try and make the thing that appeals to all people by way of the lowest common denominator. Clearly it doesn't work. But nobody CEOs were SMART.
They are NOT trying to appeal to general audiences, which is much of the problem. They are trying to appeal to a specific audience... "Karen", being an example of said audience. Intersectional whamenists.
It’s the enduring paradox of the reboot addicted era: resuscitate old IP’s specifically to cultivate an already existing audience / proceed to alienate them by all/any means / bitterly whine when the latter succeeds…. Make it make sense ‘coz I’m not seeing the ‘masterplan’ in the above. 🙁
I've been saying for the last three or four years that all these Studios need to bring their budgets down to within realistic expectations of their target audience for these movies. Because there's nothing wrong with making a movie that we all know is only going to make 200 million worldwide. But you got to keep the budget for that movie under 60 million. While they keep pushing the budgets of those movies over 150
It seems like they may have actually followed that strategy with Agatha. Another niche appeal production, but they didn’t spend much on it. This one may not be a huge loss for them.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish cost a fair bit, but not nearly as much as other things. And because of how amazing it was, people showed up for it and it made a profit.
My dad would break out the cornhole boards and beer. At least there I’m guaranteed a degree of entertainment compared to Concord and the Boarderlands movie.
I ask myself this same question. After all these backlash, flops and low viewer ratings, why do they keep wasting money on making these? Each one is a mediocre story with copy paste tropes of "Girl boss main character", "Racially diverse casts", "Representation". Why can't they just give us what we want? Hollywood can't be this stupid.....right?...Right?
It's bc they think they are fighting for a noble goal of justice and equality and human rights when in reality they're being the very racist, divisive ppl they hate. However they're stuck so deep in their world view that they genuinely think they're doing the right thing and are the underdogs fighting the good fight and they think that giving the fans what they want would be evil and racist so they refuse to do it
We want good writing. Not every woman can be a girl boss. What's wrong with dancing botany and painting? Plenty of good female character are like that.
The “modern audience” is the writers, producers, executives and the people that live with them in their echo chambers, it’s why they think everybody will love it, they don’t interact with people outside of their bubbles
I always love when these companies eventually course correct and then the media (MarySue, IGN, etc) puts out articles attacking them saying “they’re attracting the wrong kind of customers now.” Yeah . . . . the paying kind.
This is why ‘course correct’ remains an extremely difficult, parlous proposition and still quite rare: doing so permanently forfeits not only the favour of but also social access to the leftwing media and their dependents. Few have the stomach for openly chasing genuine fans/mainstream audiences given the cost of being cast out as ideological lepers from their unforgiving industry/social circles…
Their agenda matters more to them than anything else. And, if you dont like the agenda, they are more than happy to voice their contempt for you Act accordingly.
The reason the agenda matters is, 35% of the economy is now diverted through the regime, and the regime will direct that money to anyone providing support for its narrative.
Subscribed just because I went to high school with you. Take note, kids: when you’re nice to people when you’re young, it’ll pay off when you’re old! Great stuff man! Keep up the amazing work.
i really would like to be a fly on the wall to watch how these choices are made. Taking a male dominated franchise and then targeting the franchise at teen females is a mystery to me.
I think something happened when your official “proof of nerdiness” shelves were finally completed. Your vids have always been fantastic, but lately you’ve been killin it more than ever. I’m convinced the shelves + nerd paraphernalia leveled you up.
I love the Nintendo way of doing things. I don't care as much about the graphics or capability of the system, I care about a memorable and fun gaming experience at an affordable price. Having a great time with Echoes of Wisdom right now.
Xbox is doing a good job. They made a cheaper console that isn't super powerful but runs well and can still play new games. And they have a more expensive console that actually earns a $500 price tag.
Yes, they lack creativity to imagine themselves as someone else, and project this on to the audience who believes they can't imagine themselves as anyone else either. That's why every movie must have a character to represent each segment of the audience.
They're not fans of the material they're butchering. They think their version is superior to the [insert buzzword here] stuff they're remaking in a "better" image. Start calling it hate-fiction, not fan fiction.
You forgot a few other critical points: they are uneducated in English (or their native language) as well as failures in grammar, their so-called degree is a lie and scam, and they can write to save their pathetic existence.
@@GAPearce828 As a fanfic writer myself, why don't you take Alan Moore's advice of reading terrible books and try rewriting the activists' bad material? That would immensely help your own style. ua-cam.com/video/rCOmkrwQdFc/v-deo.html Come on, show us what you got.
Wheel of time Greg. You being one of the few UA-cam people who talked about the book series Is one of the reasons I subscribe. That is the dumpster fire that warms my dark heart. It also breaks it when I think about the greatness that could have been.
@@Dee-b5p Well what Hollywood practices is performative DEI. Diversity Equity and Inclusion doesn't just mean race ethnicity or simply sexuality it also mean diverse socio economic background. A good example would be the current (rather you like it or not) presidential ticket featuring a black woman from my home state of California and a white guy from the Midwest. That is a DEI ticket. The WOT had DEI done right before that was a concept. All Amazon had to do was follow the damn books! What really hurts me is that thanks to the Wheel of Prime people negatively associate the book series with the show thinking that what they see in the show is in the books. I won't see a good WOT in my lifetime :(
1:15 You know that meme where the guy speaks up at a board meeting, and gets thrown out the window of the skyscraper they're in? It's that. No one will speak up for fear of career suicide.
I think when further research is done, that executive HAD to be money laundering to spend 400mil.... There's A LOT of money missing based on what the game launched with. 10 year old game design shouldn't cost 10 times what it did 10 years ago😂🤣
Greg I laughed like a maniac when you played "I'm Proud to be an American." Thank you for giving me something to smile about today. Cheers and G-d bless you. 😁😁😁
@@NinjaFlibble To answer your question: As far as I know UA-cam isn't censoring that word. I'm Jewish and that's how I learned to write it as a kid. Just an old habit. Given everything that's happened I wouldn't put it past Google to censor people talking about religion though.
The worst part is they are just now STARTING to figure this out. We have 5 more years of stuff still in production that is going to fail before we ever get anything different...and it's anyones guess if they course correct correctly. This seems unlikely, se as they have only figured out that things aren't working, but refuse to acknowledge what things aren't working.
To course correct would require a degree of awareness and common senses that seems extremely endangered in Hollyweird, not to mention the basic level humility and respect necessary that is practically heretical to the narcissists in charge right now. Things like ingenuity, creativity, integrity, and such also need to be heavily reintroduced to the mix as well. Yeah, I’m not expecting that anytime soon. I’m always hoping I’m wrong in these things, but yeah.
Deadpool & Wolverine is one of the few recent movies that checked off a bunch of diversity boxes, had heart, made the audience feel something, pleased the fans, and all without pandering . Hey Hollywood, just do that more.
That movie dragged on 45 minutes longer than it needed. I checked the time twice honestly Ryan Reynolds is only funny for about 80 minutes then he gets predictable
@@kcisthe1still give you that his humor might not be for everyone... but I double dare you tell me that [Rings of Power, The Acolyte, Agatha All Along, She Hulk] was more entertaining or better written
Crap Deadpool movie. 'Member berries, a couple decent jokes, dumb plot but one of the best villains ever portrayed on screen. Compared to the first film this one is not even half as good... but people got see THE SUIT & Chambit, Blade (the real one) & Elektra... ooh, ahhh, pretty colors.
@@desmondjefferson2127 lmfao. I still get second hand embarrassment/cringe whenever I hear that chant. You just know that, in her mind, she thought it'd be this cool thing that will have the kids repeating it at the parks. Instead It's become this generation's "STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR..."
I've hung out on Tumblr. I've written fanfiction. I've also ghostwritten for certain (not important) people in the entertainment industry. I can definitely say that these types seek put spaces with little meaningful pushback. Their ideologies and daydreams are more important than their clients' or customers' requirements. The end result is crap that only a few pple could appreciate... if there was technical quality. Which there isn't.
@arostwocents objectively incorrect. Due to past colonisation our culture, for better or worse, is part of many other peoples' cultures. Some nations we have had a huge influence on. Therefore we are definitively less exotic than most other island nations.
Dude. Sony should have just copied sega Saturns strategy with the 32x. Just thrust a giant hunk of plastic and hardware into the PS5 and call it a day. The only thing you’ll need to buy is a new entertainment cabinet.
1. You do realize the console would have to be designed for that in the beginning, right? 2. What would need to be upgraded during this generation would be hundreds of dollars worth of chips, conpared to $15-20 back then. Think about how much it costs just to upgrade your GPU. 3. Even with all the advantages towards this thinking back then, it failed. So it will never work in this generation, or ever, going forward.
I think it's because when they do market research: they will ask "do you support women?" and see about 100% yes, and when they ask "do you support men?" it's only about 50%.
The weird thing is… women aren’t watching this stuff. They’re watching real crime coverage on UA-cam, they’re watching Netflix reality TV, they’re watching bridgerton.
There are at least two other reasons these abominations might exist: 1. Tax write-off (Honestly, I've only heard this mentioned before. No idea how it would work.) 2. Meeting the minimum requirements to hold onto an IP for a set time.
Roland being comedic was never the problem; Roland in the first game was as comedic as the other player characters, laughing and joking as you went. It was the CASTING that went wrong with him. Terry Crews should have had that part.
I personally find Tina as the biggest butcher of character. Character aging stuff aside. She felt like someone trying poorly to be a Tina Body Double then actually Tina. At least, BL2/1.5 Tina. I don't know about her and BL3
Another good video. Honestly, I'm just amazed at the "purposeful disconnect" that is still rampant in Hollywood. To see the shock coming from "creators" and actors, etc. makes my eyes roll...HARD. What makes it worse is when these "creators" like Elizabeth Banks or a Paul Feig does an interview a few years after their movie bombs with this "I did nothing wrong. I was just trying to make a movie" sort of tone. I never thought it would come to a point where it isn't how much a movie will make, but how much money a movie will lose (examples: Snow White starring Rachel "I can't my mouth shut" Zeigler and the Rey Palpatine movie.) Hopefully (with fingers crossed) this willful destruction of cinema, games, etc. is powering down because the patience of the consumer is dangerously thin at this point.
All this reminds me of a quote from Joe dirt it’s not what you want. It’s what the consumer wants. How sad is it that a character like Joe dirt knows better than they do
I remember scrolling down tiktok one day (I blame my friend) and saw an advert for borderlands, and the entire thing felt very "and so, that's how I'd describe Tiny Tina, now, remember, you're not allowed to interact with the source material!" ~ The worst part about game adaptions is how virtually every single time there is a need to make it their own, when many of these games have pretty compelling storylines within themselves or even have hints towards an elusive past that would be great to see fleshed out! Also, as you said, it's weird how companies will butcher source material, most people aren't looking out to see a game adaptation, so that is generally going to scare them off unless you get a "holy damn that was good" from people who already have an investment in the franchise, so I don't understand why there is this constant process of throwing out franchise fans in favour of some audience which has consistently shown they're never going to show up, assuming they even exist
Lol, Borderlands was never gonna be good with Uwe Boll on the project. ‘Why do you want to be immortal?’ ‘So i can never die’ Actual Uwe Boll Dialogue from House of the Dead
11:36 The current rumor circling around has it that section was meant to feature Concord, which was made by a Sony owned studio. Obviously, they would have jettisoned any mention of that if it were true.
I kind of felt this way about Pacific Rim Uprising. The first movie was so expertly crafted, and then the sequel came along and asked, "What if we did that again, but it was immature and cynical instead of clever and sincere?" Not even the usual argument of "just enjoy the flashy monster-on-robot fights" could work as an excuse because they were completely hollow. I was quite happy to see it fail. Heck, it failed so bad that these days, the running joke is that it doesn't even exist. And it's looking like A Minecraft Movie (not even THE Minecraft Movie, just A Minecraft Movie) is going to be the next big flop, but I guess we'll see.
I agree, and I think it should have been animated, and written with a mature audience in mind. Fans of Borderlands are all adults now anyway, making it pg 13 is an arrow to the knee.
@@Spongemonkey26 Also, to paraphrase Joker: You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun.
So so so many recent garbage fires recently. It's like market research just doesn't exist anymore. What I really don't get is after all the failures, these people keep their jobs, sometimes get promoted. I'd love a job like that!
I assume that might be because sales tax in the US varies. Here in the great state of New Hampshire, the only products with sales tax are prepared foods.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough Action movies are a young person's game, specifically a young man's game, before the joints start creaking and they face plant one too many times (looking at you, Harrison Ford). Women like romantic comedies, men like action movies. If you put a woman in an action movie it has to be a woman who appeals to young men, like Charlize Theron (Atomic Blonde) or Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider). Not women who're old enough to be their grandmothers. What works even better are big strong men who young men aspire to be like, like Arnold, or Sly. You cannot look at the cast of Borderlands and tell me with a straight face that they should be seen in anything more action oriented than Downtown Abby.
Last game I played was Bejewelled. Before that Galactica and before that Frogger. Before that Asteroids. My friend, though, had a -- must have been -- six-eight foot screen and I personally watched him reduce next year's Wookie attendance to the annual family's reunion by about 85%
Thank you for just objectively critiquing the industry and not doing what 90% of my feed does which is just going WOKE!! WOKE IS BAD!! GO WOKE GO BROKE!! Insufferable
The wokeness is one layer of the rotten onion that is modern Hollywood. It’s definitely there. Most people are just mid to low intelligence, and need a simple obvious thing to focus on, but they’re not wrong. WHY did the entire creative team think the abusive female character was charismatic? Politics. WHY did they think a character being gay was enough to hitch an entire TV show’s plot to? Politics. WHY do they subvert original authors’ values in adaptations? Politics.
@@OrchinX I don't think it is politics though. I think it's just incompetence. The incompetence is simply more apparent because we have so many mega projects that are also slop writing quality right now. But like, Barbie did well while being wildly feminist. Get Out, a movie with huge racial politics overtones, did extremely well for a tiny indie film 245 million out of 4.5 million budget. Crazy Rich Asians did well as a Hollywood movie with an all Asian cast that was all about Asian identity. The list goes on. Good movies can and often do have a clear message. It's not that movies have a political message, or even that it's message that we agree/disagree with . . . it's that the movies just aren't very good. I'd say the MCU's lack of coherent vision in phase 4, the completely abandonment of proper preproduction, and the saturation of tv projects, was far more damning than any politics.
You can be woke or political and still be great. For example WALL•E and the iCarly Revival are woke because in WALL•E it discuss how were damaging the planet hy throwing our trash. And its political because well Because of many of these jokes. Season 1 was the most political one, they went softer after season 2. The problem is most movies, games, shows are just focusing on the political message and not the writing. Yes every great movie needs a message, message we can learn from, but nowadays THE MESSAGE is just political and gets thrown through our throut.
@@akl2k7 No that makes perfect sense from the c-suites position. Remember, it's not enough to do well. You have to keep GROWING. Marvel and Star Wars Products are a high cost/high return strategy. If they've already completely cornered the boys market, they've already got all the boys who are going to watch, the only way to squeeze more money out of each project is to somehow onboard girls as well. Now it wasn't like the MCU lacked female fans! Lots of 'boy things' have female fans. Lost of them in fact. Just like lots of 'girl' things have male fans! But Disney wanted all the girls to be watching the same fervor as all boys at all times. They wanted 'the one franchise to rule them all' and so it stretched things to the breaking point.
Kind of a pointless thing to say "nobody asked for this" when "this" hasn't been tried before Like, nobody asked for the first Matrix movie, for instance. Do these people want only pre-established intellectual properties to thrive? and then complain about lack of creativity? Now that being said, I totally agree with the rest of points being made in this video. We care about the products being good, original or not
Am honestly tried of asking "who is this for" in all honestly when that pops in my head i just say "naw am do my own thing" and just forget it/make sure i dont waste my money on it
"Modern audience" and "It's not for you" are codes for "I made my fanfiction"
it's as if all the bad Mary Sue fanfictions from the early 2000s have come to life
YES!!
The full is “I made my fanfiction about my politics “
@@qazhr Exactly! Made their fan fiction while pushing their political agenda...
Some fanfics can be good, unlike marvel slop
"It's not made for you."
Then why are they angry I didn't watch it?
Everyone totally agree that statement.
It IS made for us. The fems that took over the industry make insulting shows for guys to get pissed off at. Then gaslight you with ''it's not made for you''
(btw, you fall for it every time)
@@OwO377 I don't becuase it's not true... Dice, ubisoft microsoft say it becuase of the fact you can't please every all the time so way true... Which Halo infinuite is one of tghe highest groosing games of all time with the biggest budget dispite tghe hate from everyone...
I think it's, "It's not made for you... But I expect you to go anyway. Consume the content."
Entitlement. The activists take over and expect blind obedience and unlimited cash from the real fans.
Remember when you were a kid and you thought the grown ups knew what they were doing? Fun times.
Yes. I even thought the president had to be the smartest person in the world.
I certainly did. I thought adults would be mature and wise. Which is why they were grown ups.
The day I entered the corporate workplace I learned that lesson VERY quickly. 😅
Childhoods end is the point where you realize that the adults are just overgrown children, and they don't know what's going on either.
Fundamentally, our brains are subsets of reality. Therefore they cannot contain all of reality. Therefore we are by definition stupid and uninformed.
Embrace it. Nobody has their shit together, especially not the people who pretend they do.
Amazing that no one seems to listen to Dr. Ian Malcom, even 30 years later.
"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."
But instead of of resurrecting dinosaurs, they're dropping 9 figures on movies/shows no one asked for.
I’ve been thinking of that quote fairly often these days. Seems more relevant with each passing year
I have to use this quote way too often
Well they are trying to revive mammoths and tazi tigers but I agree. Society has become much too self-centered
I guess it's not so surprising to see you comment on a Greg Owen video.
You just broke the Internet. Thank you so much. I would have added "Some people just want to see it burn" ... but your quote works very well.
My son (34) has started saying, 'I'm an old Star Wars fan' to differentiate himself from people who like the current 'quality' of Star Wars products.
I'm the same, I'm a Star Wars fan, not a Disney Star Wars fan. They are 2 very different things
Star Wars
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Disney Wars
Similar to
Wheel of Time
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Wheel of Prime
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Lord of the Rings
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Rings of Prime
Each are different products, each assessed separately and correctly identified that all they share in common is the names.
I wasn't even much of a Star Wars fan until I played KotoR. Tons of cool ideas in the EU.... 😥
I think about the only good "Disney era" Star Wars product is the Jedi series from Respawn. And I live in fear that each entry will fuck Cal up and go the woke route.
Disown him
The “modern audience” sure doesn’t like to watch tv and movies 😂
Whoever they are 🤷🏻♂️
I think they can all be found on Twitter and tiktok, but not in stores or theaters, haha
Or play games.😂
@@jointkay-y5i Beat me to it😂
They want to create the "modern audience" themselves, hence why the alienate and push us out of a hobby and industry we love so they can replace us with a group that consume and repeats "the message" no questions asked
Apparently they were just AI bots on Twitter.
Please don't make video like this, you're going to upset all modern audiences (All 5 of them)
Please, 5 is too many most of them are just UA-cam shills
Funny joke🤦🏾♂️.
The 5 loudest ones that don't even watch what they fight for.
Tobias Funke shouting "There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!'
"I appreciate you spending your time with me", is your final line of this video. It's true and it shows.
This channel puts out quality videos one after the other, never pandering, never talking down, always in the same jovial non-preachy tone that we have come to know and love.
Keep marching on, dear sir!
Yes exactly! Thank you for a great and honest analysis. Like Tom Cruise thanking audiences for watching before MAVERICK. ❤
He's become a favorite of mine. Absolutely true!
Jack Black, I'm begging you to get a new agent. You nailed it with Bowser, but you don't have to be in every video game movie.
Its his kids. They ask him to be in the movies and hes a great dad, so he does it.
Replace Jack Black with Ving Rames, problem solved
Minecraft looks pathetic, especially him as a gay pimp woman in blackface.
I swear he did something to piss someone important off in like 2005. Shallow Hal? SCHOOL of ROCK? 9+/10 films
Even year one was alright.
Everything since has been a humiliation ritual.
@OrchinX Nacho Libre was an awesome movie, even Kung Fu panda was good but I wonder who he pissed off recently?
These companies acquire IPs that are inherently valuable, because they already have massive audiences. Yet they instead try to appeal to general audiences instead of that audience, nonsense. Just pure nonsense
Well yeah, the point is that they're chasing 'infinite growth'. But these IPs, which are at the height of their popularity, have already reached the saturation point of their audience. Everyone who is already interested is already watching. But infinite growth STILL must happen, so the only option is to try and mess with the formula to stretch the target demographics even further.
Make a project, at a reasonable price, that actually knows its target audience and it will be well received. And even people who aren't the target audience may appreciate it because it's good.
I am not a car guy, but I loved Ford v. Ferrari. I am not a girl, but I loved the Barbie Movie. I don't like soccer or feel good sports movie, but I enjoyed Last Goal Wins.
What makes you think that they're trying to appeal to general audiences?
@@stephengray1344 Because this is what studios have always done. People are trying to claim that it's some new nefarious thing with a political agenda but . . . well . . . When mainstream movies started appealing to racial minorities, they started by putting in minor characters that were black or asian. 'Tokenism'. Lots of action movies had a half baked romance subplot, to try and get lady butts in seats. The modern pattern is just a clumsy continuation of that trend to try and make the thing that appeals to all people by way of the lowest common denominator.
Clearly it doesn't work. But nobody CEOs were SMART.
They are NOT trying to appeal to general audiences, which is much of the problem.
They are trying to appeal to a specific audience... "Karen", being an example of said audience.
Intersectional whamenists.
It’s the enduring paradox of the reboot addicted era: resuscitate old IP’s specifically to cultivate an already existing audience / proceed to alienate them by all/any means / bitterly whine when the latter succeeds….
Make it make sense ‘coz I’m not seeing the ‘masterplan’ in the above. 🙁
I've been saying for the last three or four years that all these Studios need to bring their budgets down to within realistic expectations of their target audience for these movies. Because there's nothing wrong with making a movie that we all know is only going to make 200 million worldwide. But you got to keep the budget for that movie under 60 million. While they keep pushing the budgets of those movies over 150
It seems like they may have actually followed that strategy with Agatha. Another niche appeal production, but they didn’t spend much on it. This one may not be a huge loss for them.
Meanwhile Godzilla minus one had a budget of 15 million and is regarded as one of the best films of the 2020s.
They seem to think we are mindless robots easily abused, easily changed. We aren't.
@@kathleenhensley5951 truth
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish cost a fair bit, but not nearly as much as other things. And because of how amazing it was, people showed up for it and it made a profit.
"You were so preoccupied with wether or not you could, you didnt stop to think if u should"
It's all about "THE MESSAGE"!
The problem is that they fired all the people who could create and it on a normal budget
At this point, they're throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks
"When they crash and burn, I'm right there with graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate"
that feels like the dad-iest line I've ever heard 🤣
My dad would break out the cornhole boards and beer. At least there I’m guaranteed a degree of entertainment compared to Concord and the Boarderlands movie.
@@LoneSilverW0lf
I'm pretty sure you could be watching grass grow and it would be at least marginally more entertaining 😂
I ask myself this same question. After all these backlash, flops and low viewer ratings, why do they keep wasting money on making these? Each one is a mediocre story with copy paste tropes of "Girl boss main character", "Racially diverse casts", "Representation". Why can't they just give us what we want? Hollywood can't be this stupid.....right?...Right?
It's bc they think they are fighting for a noble goal of justice and equality and human rights when in reality they're being the very racist, divisive ppl they hate. However they're stuck so deep in their world view that they genuinely think they're doing the right thing and are the underdogs fighting the good fight and they think that giving the fans what they want would be evil and racist so they refuse to do it
The real answer is social engineering
You're not supposed to reject the product, you're supposed to consume the product, and then get excited for more product.
2 words: tax write-off
We want good writing. Not every woman can be a girl boss. What's wrong with dancing botany and painting? Plenty of good female character are like that.
In Germany sales tax is 19%. For a 700€ base price, that is an extra 133€.
*spits out coffee* what?!
Whoa
Im sorry, I'm happy someone pays more for sales than my 12%
It's 25% in Sweden...
@marcusjosefsson4998 holy crapdumpster u guys get screwed
Wait qhats the price in Australia
The “modern audience” is the writers, producers, executives and the people that live with them in their echo chambers, it’s why they think everybody will love it, they don’t interact with people outside of their bubbles
Its for the activists in the creative team.
Of course.
It's for them to keep having jobs while contributing nothing of value. Easiest job in the world, act offended then get your way and repeat.
Hardly a big enough market.
>For the Fans
>For the Modern Audiences
Two massive RED FLAG statements in history.
The industry keeps giving us this garbage thinking we're gonna come around eventually but certain of us never will.
I always love when these companies eventually course correct and then the media (MarySue, IGN, etc) puts out articles attacking them saying “they’re attracting the wrong kind of customers now.” Yeah . . . . the paying kind.
Which ultimately is the most important kind of customer
This is why ‘course correct’ remains an extremely difficult, parlous proposition and still quite rare: doing so permanently forfeits not only the favour of but also social access to the leftwing media and their dependents.
Few have the stomach for openly chasing genuine fans/mainstream audiences given the cost of being cast out as ideological lepers from their unforgiving industry/social circles…
They can't even course correct properly. They're so damn hesitant to give fans what they want.
Their agenda matters more to them than anything else. And, if you dont like the agenda, they are more than happy to voice their contempt for you
Act accordingly.
definitely.
I got to be honest what even is their agenda anymore?
@@RikkiSan1 strunk wahman!
The reason the agenda matters is, 35% of the economy is now diverted through the regime, and the regime will direct that money to anyone providing support for its narrative.
@@angrydachshund Dude you sound like you would beave that the sun was blue and the sky yellow because of some actvists aganda...
Agitha is definitly for middle aged moms. Idk if middle aged moms have been asking for a marvel show, but there it is.
For me, the worst thing about the entertainment industry wasting such vast amounts of money, is all the good it could be used for instead :(
That's a very childish thought.
Subscribed just because I went to high school with you. Take note, kids: when you’re nice to people when you’re young, it’ll pay off when you’re old!
Great stuff man! Keep up the amazing work.
It's made for the makers no-one else. It's all self inserts and very expensive therapy sessions.
Ghostbusters 2016 feels like Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
@@xtrachrisb488 Friday night
i really would like to be a fly on the wall to watch how these choices are made. Taking a male dominated franchise and then targeting the franchise at teen females is a mystery to me.
I think something happened when your official “proof of nerdiness” shelves were finally completed. Your vids have always been fantastic, but lately you’ve been killin it more than ever.
I’m convinced the shelves + nerd paraphernalia leveled you up.
I love the Nintendo way of doing things. I don't care as much about the graphics or capability of the system, I care about a memorable and fun gaming experience at an affordable price. Having a great time with Echoes of Wisdom right now.
That game rules
I have largely ignored Nintendo until now but it seems you're right. They hit the winning strat
@@jamesavis1 This is why Nintendo can survive even with heavy competition of PC gaming. They emphasize on fun game than beautiful game
Xbox is doing a good job. They made a cheaper console that isn't super powerful but runs well and can still play new games. And they have a more expensive console that actually earns a $500 price tag.
@@bowserbreaker2515 ? their 4th in a two person race losing to an XR device that poeple think is a nicne fad.
The product they make is for themselves. It's about fulfilling their own power fantasies and terrible fanfic stories.
Yes, they lack creativity to imagine themselves as someone else, and project this on to the audience who believes they can't imagine themselves as anyone else either.
That's why every movie must have a character to represent each segment of the audience.
They're not fans of the material they're butchering. They think their version is superior to the [insert buzzword here] stuff they're remaking in a "better" image.
Start calling it hate-fiction, not fan fiction.
@@jesperburns That makes perfect sense.
You forgot a few other critical points: they are uneducated in English (or their native language) as well as failures in grammar, their so-called degree is a lie and scam, and they can write to save their pathetic existence.
@@GAPearce828 As a fanfic writer myself, why don't you take Alan Moore's advice of reading terrible books and try rewriting the activists' bad material? That would immensely help your own style. ua-cam.com/video/rCOmkrwQdFc/v-deo.html
Come on, show us what you got.
It had to be said and you summed it up beautifully, great job!
Wheel of time Greg. You being one of the few UA-cam people who talked about the book series Is one of the reasons I subscribe.
That is the dumpster fire that warms my dark heart. It also breaks it when I think about the greatness that could have been.
That one crushed my soul. One of my favorite series turned into a DEI abomination
@@Dee-b5p Well what Hollywood practices is performative DEI. Diversity Equity and Inclusion doesn't just mean race ethnicity or simply sexuality it also mean diverse socio economic background. A good example would be the current (rather you like it or not) presidential ticket featuring a black woman from my home state of California and a white guy from the Midwest. That is a DEI ticket.
The WOT had DEI done right before that was a concept. All Amazon had to do was follow the damn books! What really hurts me is that thanks to the Wheel of Prime people negatively associate the book series with the show thinking that what they see in the show is in the books. I won't see a good WOT in my lifetime :(
Good mornin' mr owen !
Morning!
As a classic gen1 gamer,
PC and Switch is all I need for gaming.
Switch for the exclusives and mobility, and PC for everything else.
Same. Plus switch has some solid couch coop and party games for when I have guests.
That too,
This has quickly become a favourite channel of mine, keep up the great work
It’s for Larry Fink and Klaus Schwab
I like how everyone pronounces that movie "Muh-Damn Webb." 🤣
Thanks for the Get Smart clip.
Agreed.
1:15 You know that meme where the guy speaks up at a board meeting, and gets thrown out the window of the skyscraper they're in? It's that. No one will speak up for fear of career suicide.
From Concord we know the modern audience consists of about 25k people.
Its also the industry that makes the products. So maybe a couple hundred thousand beyond that but even then they just care enough to make it.
the Dustborn numbers today: 7 online, 12 day-peak, 83 all time peak.
12K? :)
You forgot to subtract the people that never wanted to play it but had to for their game review channel
I think when further research is done, that executive HAD to be money laundering to spend 400mil.... There's A LOT of money missing based on what the game launched with. 10 year old game design shouldn't cost 10 times what it did 10 years ago😂🤣
@@desmondjefferson2127 Rich people don't money launder. It's a tax write off. Totally separate thing. /s
The 'crazy lady glasses' are always a big red flag.
Greg I laughed like a maniac when you played "I'm Proud to be an American." Thank you for giving me something to smile about today. Cheers and G-d bless you. 😁😁😁
Is youtube really actively censoring the word "God" now?
(mostly writing this comment as a test, don't mind me)
@@NinjaFlibble To answer your question: As far as I know UA-cam isn't censoring that word. I'm Jewish and that's how I learned to write it as a kid. Just an old habit. Given everything that's happened I wouldn't put it past Google to censor people talking about religion though.
@@pittland44
Fair enough. I've seen it around a bit so I was curious. I wouldn't put it past them either.
Thank you for the information :)
@@NinjaFlibble Well cheers to you, and G-d bless. 😉
It's not for us. It's for them. 'Cricket sounds.'
The worst part is they are just now STARTING to figure this out. We have 5 more years of stuff still in production that is going to fail before we ever get anything different...and it's anyones guess if they course correct correctly. This seems unlikely, se as they have only figured out that things aren't working, but refuse to acknowledge what things aren't working.
To course correct would require a degree of awareness and common senses that seems extremely endangered in Hollyweird, not to mention the basic level humility and respect necessary that is practically heretical to the narcissists in charge right now. Things like ingenuity, creativity, integrity, and such also need to be heavily reintroduced to the mix as well.
Yeah, I’m not expecting that anytime soon. I’m always hoping I’m wrong in these things, but yeah.
Deadpool & Wolverine is one of the few recent movies that checked off a bunch of diversity boxes, had heart, made the audience feel something, pleased the fans, and all without pandering .
Hey Hollywood, just do that more.
That movie dragged on 45 minutes longer than it needed. I checked the time twice honestly Ryan Reynolds is only funny for about 80 minutes then he gets predictable
@@kcisthe1still give you that his humor might not be for everyone... but I double dare you tell me that [Rings of Power, The Acolyte, Agatha All Along, She Hulk] was more entertaining or better written
Crap Deadpool movie. 'Member berries, a couple decent jokes, dumb plot but one of the best villains ever portrayed on screen. Compared to the first film this one is not even half as good... but people got see THE SUIT & Chambit, Blade (the real one) & Elektra... ooh, ahhh, pretty colors.
Nope.... You will get, "THE POWER OF ONE, THE POWER OF 2, THE POWER OF BANKRUPTCY!" And you will love it, or else. (or they'll go out of business) 🤣😂🤣
@@desmondjefferson2127 lmfao. I still get second hand embarrassment/cringe whenever I hear that chant. You just know that, in her mind, she thought it'd be this cool thing that will have the kids repeating it at the parks. Instead It's become this generation's "STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR..."
I've hung out on Tumblr. I've written fanfiction. I've also ghostwritten for certain (not important) people in the entertainment industry. I can definitely say that these types seek put spaces with little meaningful pushback. Their ideologies and daydreams are more important than their clients' or customers' requirements. The end result is crap that only a few pple could appreciate... if there was technical quality. Which there isn't.
@17:00 Ironically, they probably could have made just as much money paying Steven Wright to stream himself playing Borderlands
Calling us "islanders" makes us sound a LOT more exotic then we actually are. Got a laugh out of me though. £700 is outrageous.
Wat. How much time do you spend online to not realise our entire culture and history is based on being an island nation?
We are just as exotic as every other nationality. It's relative. Amazon tribes are not exotic to other tribesmen.
@arostwocents I knew there'd be one of you eventually. I'm aware it's an Island. It's not exactly tropical. Don't be a fool, it's embarrassing.
@arostwocents objectively incorrect. Due to past colonisation our culture, for better or worse, is part of many other peoples' cultures. Some nations we have had a huge influence on. Therefore we are definitively less exotic than most other island nations.
@arostwocents last thing. It's a silly comment on UA-cam. Maybe don't get whiney about it at 2 o clock in the morning? Bit sad to be honest.
Dude. Sony should have just copied sega Saturns strategy with the 32x. Just thrust a giant hunk of plastic and hardware into the PS5 and call it a day. The only thing you’ll need to buy is a new entertainment cabinet.
1. You do realize the console would have to be designed for that in the beginning, right?
2. What would need to be upgraded during this generation would be hundreds of dollars worth of chips, conpared to $15-20 back then. Think about how much it costs just to upgrade your GPU.
3. Even with all the advantages towards this thinking back then, it failed. So it will never work in this generation, or ever, going forward.
I still question, what was the age group, highly expected for "She Hulk Attorney.. ???
Middle Aged Women obviously
Disney keeps making things for women and the (mythical) modern audience who apparently don't want to support the movie/ products.
I think it's because when they do market research: they will ask "do you support women?" and see about 100% yes, and when they ask "do you support men?" it's only about 50%.
@@funkydiscogod doesn't matter what people say it matters what they actually spend money on.
The weird thing is… women aren’t watching this stuff. They’re watching real crime coverage on UA-cam, they’re watching Netflix reality TV, they’re watching bridgerton.
For the entire PS5 segment, you can just watch Skeletor presents ps5 pro. It covers everything in less then 10 min.
Hollywood has forgotten how to do Market Research.
Which is sad because they were renowned a world over for their Great Marketing
Hello. Love the videos. Great job.
Thank you so much!
There are at least two other reasons these abominations might exist:
1. Tax write-off (Honestly, I've only heard this mentioned before. No idea how it would work.)
2. Meeting the minimum requirements to hold onto an IP for a set time.
Roland being comedic was never the problem; Roland in the first game was as comedic as the other player characters, laughing and joking as you went. It was the CASTING that went wrong with him. Terry Crews should have had that part.
I personally find Tina as the biggest butcher of character. Character aging stuff aside. She felt like someone trying poorly to be a Tina Body Double then actually Tina. At least, BL2/1.5 Tina. I don't know about her and BL3
You're absolutely right about pushing customers away. I'm saving up for a Gaming PC right now. It's just a better deal.
That James Dyson comment, Greg... WOW! 😵
At this point I think they would prefer to die not trying than actively try to produce anything good. The modern audience has taken over
They didn't show off ... both... of Sydney Sweeny's "acting abilities".
Another good video. Honestly, I'm just amazed at the "purposeful disconnect" that is still rampant in Hollywood. To see the shock coming from "creators" and actors, etc. makes my eyes roll...HARD. What makes it worse is when these "creators" like Elizabeth Banks or a Paul Feig does an interview a few years after their movie bombs with this "I did nothing wrong. I was just trying to make a movie" sort of tone. I never thought it would come to a point where it isn't how much a movie will make, but how much money a movie will lose (examples: Snow White starring Rachel "I can't my mouth shut" Zeigler and the Rey Palpatine movie.) Hopefully (with fingers crossed) this willful destruction of cinema, games, etc. is powering down because the patience of the consumer is dangerously thin at this point.
All this reminds me of a quote from Joe dirt it’s not what you want. It’s what the consumer wants. How sad is it that a character like Joe dirt knows better than they do
Cause snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like....lol
I remember scrolling down tiktok one day (I blame my friend) and saw an advert for borderlands, and the entire thing felt very "and so, that's how I'd describe Tiny Tina, now, remember, you're not allowed to interact with the source material!" ~ The worst part about game adaptions is how virtually every single time there is a need to make it their own, when many of these games have pretty compelling storylines within themselves or even have hints towards an elusive past that would be great to see fleshed out!
Also, as you said, it's weird how companies will butcher source material, most people aren't looking out to see a game adaptation, so that is generally going to scare them off unless you get a "holy damn that was good" from people who already have an investment in the franchise, so I don't understand why there is this constant process of throwing out franchise fans in favour of some audience which has consistently shown they're never going to show up, assuming they even exist
Lol, Borderlands was never gonna be good with Uwe Boll on the project.
‘Why do you want to be immortal?’
‘So i can never die’
Actual Uwe Boll Dialogue from House of the Dead
lol well yea…I mean…that does logically follow
11:36 The current rumor circling around has it that section was meant to feature Concord, which was made by a Sony owned studio. Obviously, they would have jettisoned any mention of that if it were true.
I kind of felt this way about Pacific Rim Uprising. The first movie was so expertly crafted, and then the sequel came along and asked, "What if we did that again, but it was immature and cynical instead of clever and sincere?" Not even the usual argument of "just enjoy the flashy monster-on-robot fights" could work as an excuse because they were completely hollow. I was quite happy to see it fail. Heck, it failed so bad that these days, the running joke is that it doesn't even exist.
And it's looking like A Minecraft Movie (not even THE Minecraft Movie, just A Minecraft Movie) is going to be the next big flop, but I guess we'll see.
The first-person perspective of Hardcore Henry is how Borderlands should have been presented.
I agree, and I think it should have been animated, and written with a mature audience in mind. Fans of Borderlands are all adults now anyway, making it pg 13 is an arrow to the knee.
@@grindtoothmedia120 Animation is, in my opinion, a superior medium over live-action.
So then the question is why are they making these films when it's a foregone conclusion that they will never achieve any sort of meaningful audience?
Because they don't know that. They're told that if they just keep pandering to "modern audiences" that it will somehow pay off.
"It's not about the money, it's about sending a message"
-Joker
@@Spongemonkey26 Also, to paraphrase Joker: You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun.
So so so many recent garbage fires recently. It's like market research just doesn't exist anymore. What I really don't get is after all the failures, these people keep their jobs, sometimes get promoted. I'd love a job like that!
6:52 Anytime someone uses a Get Smart clip it's great.
When you printing too much money...
Your money lost its value
As well as
Money spending customers😊 and their feelings 😂😂😂
8:30 Not exactly. The price in euros includes taxes, the one in dollars does not.
I assume that might be because sales tax in the US varies. Here in the great state of New Hampshire, the only products with sales tax are prepared foods.
I don't have kids or go to movies. I'm here for those Pro UA-cam moves baby!
Reminds me of the ghost cities built in China.
They did that in Korea too. It never worked, I don’t think.
@@Aaron-zt5eePotemkin villages.
Sooooooooo much shadenfreude to be had these days. Thx "modern audience!!"
Middle-aged women serving as action heroes is the most ludicrous thing I think I've ever seen
Blame Eli Roth for that 😂
@@MrDman21Eli Roth just wanted some of that gilf lol
What because they should be in the kitchen?
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough
Action movies are a young person's game, specifically a young man's game, before the joints start creaking and they face plant one too many times (looking at you, Harrison Ford).
Women like romantic comedies, men like action movies.
If you put a woman in an action movie it has to be a woman who appeals to young men, like Charlize Theron (Atomic Blonde) or Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider). Not women who're old enough to be their grandmothers.
What works even better are big strong men who young men aspire to be like, like Arnold, or Sly.
You cannot look at the cast of Borderlands and tell me with a straight face that they should be seen in anything more action oriented than Downtown Abby.
@@stellviahohenheim HA HA! 😄
Last game I played was Bejewelled. Before that Galactica and before that Frogger. Before that Asteroids. My friend, though, had a -- must have been -- six-eight foot screen and I personally watched him reduce next year's Wookie attendance to the annual family's reunion by about 85%
Thank you for just objectively critiquing the industry and not doing what 90% of my feed does which is just going WOKE!! WOKE IS BAD!! GO WOKE GO BROKE!! Insufferable
For real. It’s the most reductionist, unhelpful slop.
The wokeness is one layer of the rotten onion that is modern Hollywood. It’s definitely there.
Most people are just mid to low intelligence, and need a simple obvious thing to focus on, but they’re not wrong.
WHY did the entire creative team think the abusive female character was charismatic?
Politics.
WHY did they think a character being gay was enough to hitch an entire TV show’s plot to?
Politics.
WHY do they subvert original authors’ values in adaptations?
Politics.
@@OrchinX I don't think it is politics though. I think it's just incompetence. The incompetence is simply more apparent because we have so many mega projects that are also slop writing quality right now.
But like, Barbie did well while being wildly feminist. Get Out, a movie with huge racial politics overtones, did extremely well for a tiny indie film 245 million out of 4.5 million budget. Crazy Rich Asians did well as a Hollywood movie with an all Asian cast that was all about Asian identity. The list goes on.
Good movies can and often do have a clear message. It's not that movies have a political message, or even that it's message that we agree/disagree with . . . it's that the movies just aren't very good.
I'd say the MCU's lack of coherent vision in phase 4, the completely abandonment of proper preproduction, and the saturation of tv projects, was far more damning than any politics.
He didn't he has no idea want gaming is and hjumped on a soap box peaching to gamers who are not his audnce.
You can be woke or political and still be great. For example WALL•E and the iCarly Revival are woke because in WALL•E it discuss how were damaging the planet hy throwing our trash. And its political because well Because of many of these jokes. Season 1 was the most political one, they went softer after season 2. The problem is most movies, games, shows are just focusing on the political message and not the writing. Yes every great movie needs a message, message we can learn from, but nowadays THE MESSAGE is just political and gets thrown through our throut.
Can't stop trying to picture Stephen Wright in a big action movie. would it have to be 100% slow motion? I bet it would still be hilarious!
@12:00 perfect usage of the Office meme ❤
If there is one type of person corporate executives don't listen to, it's people they pay for their expertise.
3:59 what movie?
Dodgeball: grab life by the balls
Great movie btw @spears13skate
Don’t pay for what you don’t like. The customer must come first. Remind companies that, if they want your money, they have to give you what you want.
Disney already has markets to teenage girls with Olivia Rodrigo and stuff like that.
Yeah, and they bought both Marvel and Star Wars to cater to boys, which makes their attempts to turn them into girl brands baffling.
@@akl2k7 No that makes perfect sense from the c-suites position. Remember, it's not enough to do well. You have to keep GROWING. Marvel and Star Wars Products are a high cost/high return strategy. If they've already completely cornered the boys market, they've already got all the boys who are going to watch, the only way to squeeze more money out of each project is to somehow onboard girls as well.
Now it wasn't like the MCU lacked female fans! Lots of 'boy things' have female fans. Lost of them in fact. Just like lots of 'girl' things have male fans!
But Disney wanted all the girls to be watching the same fervor as all boys at all times. They wanted 'the one franchise to rule them all' and so it stretched things to the breaking point.
The proud to be an American bit had me rolling. 😂😂 Almost caused a spit take. Fantastic video as always.
the rings of power
and only because Disparu and Altiori are turning that turd into comedy gold!
I like this video Greg 👍... And great 'Field of Dreams' reference 😄
I just wanna watch a good movie with a neat story man....I don't want these feature length BS propaganda promotional videos anymore.
So cathartic to hear that others are not engaging with all this bilge that I'm not engaging with
Gotta have diverse cast in movies and shows these days. Thats why i dont watch them. Lol.
Because all moves need to be white men acting as other encitces... LIke you realluy want to go back to that?
The PS5 Pro is retailing for $1199 down here in Australia. Guess I won’t be buying that one.
Kind of a pointless thing to say "nobody asked for this" when "this" hasn't been tried before Like, nobody asked for the first Matrix movie, for instance.
Do these people want only pre-established intellectual properties to thrive? and then complain about lack of creativity?
Now that being said, I totally agree with the rest of points being made in this video. We care about the products being good, original or not
Now I kinda want to see Steven Wright-pool. Thanks, Greg 😂
FIRST!!!!👍
I did it again! That's two firsts for everyone keeping track. 😂
@@MumRah Thanks for the heads-up, let's see if you can pull a hat trick
hey! I have that exact same paperback edition of LOTR that you have on your bookshelf! Had it since i was a teenager, and Im ooold now.
Its about, 'forcing' behavior change.
Am honestly tried of asking "who is this for" in all honestly when that pops in my head i just say "naw am do my own thing" and just forget it/make sure i dont waste my money on it