2023 has been an interesting year for movies.
What was once Hollywood’s easy go to for major box office returns in the form of sequels, nostalgia, and superheroes has not worked this year.
Films like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Fast X, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Flash, and The Meg 2 were all quickly disappearing duds.
Instead, this has been the summer of Barbenheimer, with Barbie and Oppenheimer dominating cinemas.
It’s been refreshing to see.
Moviegoers have told Hollywood that they’ve grown bored with the same old thing.
They yearn for originality and a return to how movies used to be, magical and fresh, not something that felt like it came off an assembly line.
We don’t want creativity just in our movie plots, but also in how they’re visually presented.
We want more practical effects, Hollywood!
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