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- Just to be clear, the top grossing movie so far this year: Super Mario Galaxy. And #3: Toy Story 5
In 2025 all the top 10 films were either 3D animation or CGI-heavy action, with one exception: F1 used a lot of practical effects.
Maybe the problem with Moana and Mandalorian is that even lazy uninformed movie-goers recognized an empty cash-grab when they saw the trailer.
- No, everyone just watches Nolan movies because he's seen as a director who can do no wrong. It says nothing about CGI.
- Yeah it's just the big budget movie with the non-stop marketing. It's everywhere.
- It doesn't hurt that the reviews from both the viewers and the critics are really good.
- People pay a premium for hand-made over factory-made.
It’s too early to make a conclusion but its an interesting hypothesis.
- In addition to CG fatigue I think users are having remake fatigue. Audiences don't want to see a Moana remake, another Marvel movie or another Superman spin-off. Star Wars and Marvel are getting so overexposed people aren't bothering to show up for them to theaters.
- Audiences are having woke fatigue, it seems to be pushed on audiences and gamers as some kind humiliation ritual. Despite proved fake upvotes and studios buying tickets, this mediiocre movie will almost certainly flounder.
My prediction is that AI will be so good in 10 years time (think good AI acting) that the cost of making a movie will move so low that people will seek out small talented makers, rather than feed the pockets of demons who hate them
- Is that really the take away?
I think the real take away is that audiences want good movies. The Odyssey is a good movie - it just so happens to be made the hard way.
(Or, in other words, correlation does not imply causation, and that's all this article has.)
18 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 10 comments