SooperSte t1_jae7ogh wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:14 PM

People aren't choosing to not see that small indie darling because they are going to see a superhero movie instead, they just don't give a shit about it and wouldn't have watched it in the first place.

If superhero movies suddenly stopped, there would be another mass marketable genre immediately taking it's place. They haven't "changed the landscape", big budget action movies always have been, and always WILL be dominating box offices, the thing that has changed is that people who don't like them now just have more platforms to pretentiously proclaim about how "cinema is dead" because the next Spiderman isn't a black and white French language drama shot in 10:4 ratio

MichaelMcCrudd t1_jae8cdi wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:18 PM

Also, small indie darlings weren't in multiplexes before the superhero craze, I don't see what would elevate them there now. I've always had to go to special theaters to see indie movies. Superhero movies didn't cause that.

AlanMorlock t1_jaei490 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:21 PM

Have you maybe tried actually looking at thr box office from mote than just 20 years ago?

nayapapaya OP t1_jaefov9 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:06 PM

But I'm not talking just about indies. Even the average mid-budget movie made money pre-Covid. Look at Bohemian Rhapsody or The Greatest Showman. Bohemian Rhapsody made almost a billion dollars, The Greatest Showman 450 million, La La Land made almost 450 million and Little Women (2019) made 200 million. Those aren't action movies.

And that's ignoring that even into the 80s and 90s, you had films like Erin Brokovich, When Harry Met Sally, Big Daddy and The Sixth Sense in the highest grossing films of the year. It wasn't always just action films all the time making the most money.

SooperSte t1_jaeghp4 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:11 PM

> Look at Bohemian Rhapsody or The Greatest Showman. Bohemian Rhapsody made almost a billion dollars, The Greatest Showman 450 million, La La Land made almost 450 million and Little Women (2019) made 200 million. Those aren't action movies.

And all of these came out during the "superhero era" so....what exactly is it you are trying to say???

Sonny_Crockett_1984 t1_jaejrdy wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:32 PM

We only had like 4 channels back in the 90s and no streamers like Netflix. If you wanted to watch an Adam Sandler movie you had to go to the theater or wait 6 months for the VHS. The other films you mentioned were spectacles like superhero movies are and/or based on well-known and loved material (The Queen bio included).

Seems like you are looking for evidence to back up your conclusion rather than working the other way around.