Parlor Talk: Reboots Ruining Hollywood

The Avengers: Endgame -Marvel

In recent years Hollywood has inundated us with hackneyed and trite reboots rather than compiling original content for their audiences. This is a vexatious trend because the lack of originality leads to a dearth of creative resurgence reviving the movie industry and thereby underscoring the denatured chasms created by the vacancy of creative output. With the degringolade of Hollywood creativity, we are cratering with a torrential flood of anagenetic reiterations of the past at the expense of pioneering vitality that once propelled imaginations to fathom reality in a new way that was proficuous and profitable. Now we see the systemic collapse of ingenuity as a stark refrain against the once-promising and personable outreach of Hollywood to engender a new bonanza for the aspiring audiences. Consequently, we are now treading through vacuous and insipid content that uses tired jaundiced gimcracks of resurrected tropes to barrage audiences with propitiation instead of fashionable revitalization that once stood as the hallmark of the zeitgeist when there were a plethora of new offerings every year in the film industry. Nevertheless, we keep feasting on subpar reboots as though nothing has changed and as a result, the film industry has homogenized while sustaining record profits because of the new marketplace of China as well as limiting blockbusters to only the sphere of Comic Book movies or Star Wars retreads. I am not the kind of person to dismiss the new offerings as subpar only because they harp on the same wasms and themes of yesteryear I am here, however, to decry this precipitous drop in originality as a prodrome of a deeper disease that needs to be attenuated quickly before Hollywood loses so much steam that its former mesmerism dies out, My main complaint relates to Comic Book movies because it seems like you cannot survive another year where 10-15 Comic Book movies are released without a shred of creative dignity and expect people to stomach that development without a hint of disdain or an ounce of hogra.

What Hollywood should do is return to the formula that made it a trailblazer in the 1990s and early 2000s when it gambled on properties like The Matrix and various other original concepts that were perceived as risky but outmantled the competition because of the strict ethics of cinematography that have sadly lapsed into second-best epigones that only startle people because of the surfeit of special effects and the gaudy and saccharine narratives that provide lip service to tired tropes. Although it might be unsightly and unseemly for alarmism at the current rate all movies that we will ever see will be tethered to concepts hatched in the distant past rather than new ideas flourishing in the spectacle of experimental film-making that is reserved primarily for dramatic films rather than blockbusters. Nevertheless, Disney continues to milk the fattened calf of Marvel for all that it is worth even after Endgame concluded the pitiable Avengers series on what some might consider a historic note because of the Box Office Records it broke but somehow when you cram a movie with 10 different protagonists it loses some of its more virtuous qualities and just becomes a farrago of miscegenated special effects rather than a true enterprise gilded with grit and sustainable into the future. Despite the Box Office Records that movie broke it says something about the sentimentalism of society that we tolerate the remontant showering of Marvel movies in our homes and in our theaters without balking at the lack of diversity provided by Hollywood that used to festoon and bedizen many aspirant hearts with variegated articles of vaunted Promethean trailblazing creativity and a diversity that should be obligatory in the film industry.

I suggest that the masses should petition Disney to focus not on reviving dead Marvel characters and make them the centerpiece of their advertising blitz but rather focus on the outcroppings of originality that once made the film industry refined, acculturated, cosmopolitan and sophisticated rather than vapid with insistent attempts to exploit licensing agreements until they had their fill of the litter. Many people, however, are content with this state of affairs as based on the box office figures for the past year because Comic Books are becoming more popular rather than less but for the rest of us, we complain because the faucet of creative revitalization has been shut off by the turncocks of the big wigs in the industry and we clamor with a strident clangor for more diversity rather than another flimflam flothery of Comic Book repute. Although most might not heed my complaints which are well-justified by the reiteration of insipid lifelessness endemic to the Comic Book foison I urge the people in Hollywood to put their thinking caps on to try and inseminate new life where there was once only desolation in an aged industry frazzled by efforts to change the business model because of record-setting profits that appease many groundlings but underwhelm the cineastes that clamor for new life in an otherwise moribund film industry. I hope this complaint circulates widely because I resent the pace of creative invention because it has slowed to a crawl and fewer offerings lead eventually to a jaded mentality of maudlin histrionics upstaging the frenetic pace of innovation that shimmered vibrantly in the heyday of movies when originality was heralded as incumbent rather than a subsidiary. The reason these complaints might not make a dent in that with new audiences in China the novelty of Comic Book movies is still retained because China is a new entrant into the Global Film Marketplace and as a result of the things we might be tired of resounding as new in China. I hope the film industry remediates itself because the stake of the future of entertainment is at stake and if it doesn’t reform many people will emigrate into Netflix rather than bear the tiresome taradiddle of second-rate action thrillers with run-of-the-mill plots pullulating in a vacuum much to the chagrin of people expecting some hallowed new properties to become prime real estate.