What happened to creativity?
Posted by Senior-Mix-3715@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 41 comments
Posted by Senior-Mix-3715@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 41 comments
YesIam6969420@reddit
I agree with this mostly, but pisses me off when people say this about the upcoming Harry potter show. Just started listening to the audiobooks, and never even watched the movies, just watched a few clips on youtube and it's so different in the books. The movies didn't do it justice.
Godoc@reddit
They downvoted him because he posted the truth
First two films were great - they went to trash after that sadly
Okama-uiro@reddit
Profit
sixaout1982@reddit
That in itself isn't original either, they've been making remakes since forever
notacrook_1@reddit
Early 2000s horror movies were obsessed with remaking Japanese horror
sixaout1982@reddit
As a whole, it seems to me that Americans are unable to watch a good foreign movie, so when one comes out Hollywood remakes it in America so people will relate to it
SipoteQuixote@reddit
When someone asked about a movie and I said "the 70s one?" And my friend said "nah thats a remake too. The 1930s one."
Forever a loop
internetlad@reddit
"wap just ripped off a song that itself ripped off another song that in turn ripped off a vaudeville act"
theyeshman@reddit
In my experience the people who complain about perma remakes won't go watch original films or even sit down and watch em on their TV or computer, they just want to complain. There's good stuff coming out every year, some of my favorite movies and games of all time have come out in the 2020s.
FMC_Speed@reddit
Things are far more expensive now games/movies are absurdly expensive to make, and investors want the safest formula possible
Wiinterfang@reddit
There's plenty of new ips at the moment at least. It was really rough 5 years ago.
Blasteth@reddit
They have been remaking games since the 90s. It ain't nothing new. But the real answer is that gamers are the easiest audience to nostalgia bait.
Sad-Guarantee-4678@reddit
Millennias of retelling the same beloved stories, but now it's suddenly a problem? People that make nothing complain about the lack of originality
Shoddy-Warning4838@reddit
making new stuff is hard and risky. For big companies that have a ton of people that depend on them, risky is bad. Combine the average mismanagement of big AAA games with having to do something that's actually creative and fresh, the hit rate would be small.
There is innovation, creativity and risks in the industry, just not among big companies. Indies are picking up the slack. The incentive to do something new, fresh, creative or at least massively improve something that already exists is there. They have no IPs, no big marketing budgets and huge fanbases. They have to let the game sell itself mostly.
There is also a bunch of copies and derivative work but it's up to you to pick what you want to play.
UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb@reddit
Corporate risk aversion.
Why take a gamble on something new making us a morbillion dollars when something old will for sure do the same thing, even if it critically sucks?
DontForgorTheMilk@reddit
It's not profitable.
dioptase-@reddit
well it didn't get saved by op
james_a_hetfield@reddit
The day the original star wars and Indiana Jones gets remade I'm officially leaving earth
gereffi@reddit
There’s more original media out there than ever before. If you don’t want to watch remakes watch something else instead.
AmaterasuWolf21@reddit
There's nothing new today!
watches mainstream
internetlad@reddit
Why did OP use a meme template someone else had already created instead of making a new original one on his own?
The_Noremac42@reddit
When you have millions of dollars on the line, people tend to want to go with what is safe rather than innovative.
BaronVonWeeb@reddit
On one hand, it got too expensive and money-focused, so corporate bigwigs want to play it safe and do stuff that worked before. Like, entertainment industry has more money in it than the space program, from what I’ve heard, and they won’t settle for a modest profit, so the stakes are too high. On non-corporate front, it’s cuz our times just fucking suck, so people look back to things from brighter days.
HubrisOfApollo@reddit
all im saying is harry potter does not need a fucking remake
brain_rot_studios@reddit
Reposting this is peak irony my guy
samyruno@reddit
As if it's their fault. Consumers are the one making that stuff successful. And when they try something original no one watches it.
Tho that's only for the big studios like Disney and AAA gaming studios. Indie movies, shows, and games rn are doing so well its crazy. It's your own fault if your oblivious to it.
tda18@reddit
It's almost like the big companies chased away creative people and now they to rely on their past glories wheter it be a popular previous game or the reputation and exposition brought by those games
kpingvin@reddit
I saw an interview at least 10 years ago with Ian Anderson, the lead musician from Jethro Tull and he said that the 1980's was the last great shift and nothing really happened in music since then. I kinda have to agree with him. You might not like what the stars of the 70's did in the 80's but at least they were excited to break new grounds and try out what the new style can provide.
Since then art seems so regressive. Everything is either 70's or 80's. Technology has progressed so sound quality is better and arrangements can be more complicated but there hasn't been a "Wow, what's this new sound?" kinda breakthrough. It probably has lot to do with the fragmentation of the global cultural experience into hundreds of sub-cultures but I really don't wanna make this comment sound like a 3 hour youtube video essay.
OldManChino@reddit
that's just some boomer moaning about the damn kids and their new music... we got the entire electronic music scene in the 90s (house, jungle, dnb, trance etc), and that was a huge shift. To say nothing happened is just wilfully ignorant
Prestigious-Fig1172@reddit
If your only spource of music is radio, then it will feel like 80's was the peak.
m0ppen@reddit
+1 music is incredibly diverse today. It’s just harder to find as it’s not given to you through a radio host but instead exists in its own bubbles on the internet
Prestigious-Fig1172@reddit
When it comes to Radio music, 70's-80's (and a little 60's) music is still popular. Nothing older. There is also new music on the radio, but late 90's to 2020 music is rarely played. Now this is only the radio, and the radio were I live. I often litsen to music from 90's-2020's elsewhere.
SoupaMayo@reddit
Your good buddy Anderson is full of shit
randomusername1934@reddit
A lot of it comes down to managers trusting data more than creativity. There's a fair bit of sense to that, in a creative industry almost any project is going to be a gamble (at best), and having a graph that says that 'remake of beloved show/movie/story' is a little less risky than something new is going to win out when projects are getting greenlit and funded.
_CalculatedMistake_@reddit
Nostalgiabaiting is easier
FearLeadsToAnger@reddit
More importantly, it's safer financially.
IWrestleSausages@reddit
Exactly, its cheaper and you dont have to try as hard to make people part with their money
UntitledPixelArtitst@reddit
well its because there was not enough good stuff to remake, like you couldnt remake a 40 year old movie in 1980 because no movie in 1940 was actually good.
AngusLynch09@reddit
Yes, famed 80s film Scarface definitely wasn't a campy remake of a film from 1932.
azureblueworld99@reddit
Even this meme format is 10 years old
Senior-Mix-3715@reddit (OP)
11 now, damn