Quote: Original post by Talroth
Hollywood has been going for over 100 years now, and as far as I can tell its current model has been going strong for what? 20 years or more?

Could you please explain how this isn't long term?

Depending on what you consider the current model, it's been going for close to 90 years.

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Quote: Original post by Talroth
Hollywood has been going for over 100 years now, and as far as I can tell its current model has been going strong for what? 20 years or more?

Could you please explain how this isn't long term?

Depending on what you consider the current model, it's been going for close to 90 years.

I will admit that I'm not a movie fanatic so I haven't really followed Hollywood's history all that closely (Especially films from before I was born), but from what I've seen people tend to 'complain' about how Hollywood is now rehashing and redoing old films, or simply making bold faced copies of each other. But of course they keep going to watch the very movies they 'complain' about on the big screen.

My understanding is that the out right copying/re-visioning of old films is fairly recent and only two or three decades old. Of course when you compare this to the life of cinema, this is still a very long time in it.

Quote: Original post by Talroth
My understanding is that the out right copying/re-visioning of old films is fairly recent and only two or three decades old. Of course when you compare this to the life of cinema, this is still a very long time in it.

This isn't true. It's probably becoming more common, but I'd say that's primarily because there are more films to copy from now whereas before you'd have to copy from something like a book. Still, there have been remakes of movies since roughly as long as there have been movies to copy from, so it's been going on for more than 70 years.

This weird notion of "rebooting" a franchise seems to have become a buzzword in the last ten years or so, but even this is hardly new and I don't think it really represents a major change in Hollywood's business model.

Quote: Original post by Talroth
My understanding is that the out right copying/re-visioning of old films is fairly recent and only two or three decades old. Of course when you compare this to the life of cinema, this is still a very long time in it.

This kind of comes with the implication that re-visioning old films is bad. Would you call the new batman movies bad?

The problem isn't re-imagining itself, it's making an easy buck (which can be done easily on new IPs as well).