Idk if economics was the right flair but I don’t know how it’s economically feasible for big studios to lose money on a lot of films with huge budgets and to make them so bad.
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They aren’t trying to make bad movies.
Sometimes, a great idea with a great director and a great cast just… doesn’t work. Movies are incredibly complex to make and you don’t *really* know until the end how it’s all going to turn out.
To answer your real question, nowadays most big budget movies are really being made by committee the entire time. And that’s a bad way to make anything creative.
Instead of a writer having an idea, a studio or director finding that idea and deciding they want to make it, and so on etc etc until they build the team. Now a studio will decide “we need to capitalize on this brand we own, let’s make a movie”. And they’ll hire a writer (or 2, or 4, or a dozen) to keep rewriting the movie until a room full of executives are satisfied that it hits as many of the things as it can to be “successful”.
It’s basically movie making done by committee, and that committee is trying to copy previous success and rely on things they think they can measure, and none of it works and it strips all of the creativity.
Then! At the end, even if a director magically made this Franken-movie great, the studio steps in again and says “hey we’ve been focus grouping this movie and people don’t like X-y-z” and then there’s a whole OTHER round of creative by committee.
And so what you often end up with is an uninspired, nonsensical, uncreative hodgepodge of old recycled ideas and cliches and everyone who maybe cared about making it great has had the passion beat out of them by overpaid executives who don’t even care of the movie is good, just if it makes money to make them look good so they can keep their jobs.
Why yes, I do work in film
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