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I really really appreciate that Hollywood has given us (me) a Godzilla/MonsterVerse or Jurassic World movie nearly every year since 2014. Only shamefull years in that regard were 2016, 2020 (understandable) and 2023. Then again, 2016 we (i) got Shin Godzilla and 2023 was Minus One ... Man, we (i)ve been eating good this last decade for real ...

This and Fury Road will make for a very enjoyable double feature.

Dont worry as soon as the trailer for Jurassic World 7 drops ill be much more optimistic about the box office and its inevitable saviour

At this point, im just gratefull for every movie that does still get made and released because in the not so distant future (maybe by the start of the 2030s), i actually think new movies will only be made for streaming services (in other words: all new movies will suck) and cinema is dead.

I was depressed because the box office is dead. Then i decided to see Furiosa because ofc one has to see Furiosa. I really like the film, though its ofc not the same level as Fury Road (nothing really is) I go to the forums to see how the movie is doing. I am depressed.

We need more mad men and crazy persons to direct movies.

Hard pass for me personally since ive kind of hated Season 1 for many reasons. I hope ofc that those who look forward to it will enjoy it.

Part of the problem with that question is that theres such a ... mixture of generes within the broader "fantasy" one itself in Anime 😅 for example, the vast majority of fantasy-themed shows are actually Isekai anime, a genre where most of the time a teenage boy from Japan gets transported into a fantasy world with (or sometimes without) some kind of special power. Its power fantasy essentially and most of it is honestly trash (though i do enjoy my trash from time to time) I would personally recommend the following ones: For good, non-Trash Isekais, id say theres Re:Zero, That Time i got reincarnated as a Slime, KonoSuba (a parody of the genre), Mushoku Tensei, Overlord and The Eminence in Shadow (though that one is borderline also trash and also kind of a parody) For "pure" Fantasy shows besides Frieren there is actually only Made in Abyss on the top of my head that i recently watched. Some would probably put shows like Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen or Solo Leveling into Fantasy as well, so its maybe a definition thing like i said.

Frieren is very good. Is it the best anime of all time? Nope, there is some heavy recency bias going on with that right now, but its certainly one of the best fantasy anime series in recent years. I think its also a great show for non-anime fans who maybe want to try out the medium.

No way lol Fury Road didnt came out a decade ago ... *checks calendar* oh ... Fuck man.

Still makes me sad that movies run. Deserved much more.

Funnily enough, the first Jurassic World is actually set in Christmas time.

If theres a god, GxK will reach 200M!

Exactly. My go-to modern example is John Wick: Of course those movies are hevily influenced by earlier action movies, but the first John Wick was still an original film that introduced the character and world to audiences. Now John Wick has become one of the biggest pure action movie franchises of this century. None of that would have happened without that first original movie. Just like with every other big franchise.

Streaming made everything worse for all partys involved except most customers: The extremely lucrative DVD/Blu-Ray market was destroyed with only collectors now buying them and streaming is still (as far as i know) a moneyloser for all studios. So they ditched a golden moneymaker to have a moneyloser instead. Peak capitalism right there (yes thats irony).

Not in the next 10 years at least. Inflation needs some time to give another movie a chance. And that is if cinemas even exist when Inflation would theoretically reach that threshold. If we're talking 20 years+ then maybe there wont be simply enough movie theaters to support that kind of opening.

Rare time where a prequel (Oppenheimer) ranks higher than the original (Godzilla Minus One).

Hey i would agree with you. I also think that the invention of the Internet and all other technologies that came and come with it will one day doom us all. After all, we are (mostly) hairless monkeys that are a bit more intelligent than our chimpanzee cousins. We are essentially group animals that thrive in social environments where you can speak with, interact with and ultimately of course F** others of our species for the overall health of the whole species. In the Internet world where more and more people consider their online life more essential than their real world-life, thats all slowly crumbling. The Internet is one of the biggest social experiments in the history of the human race and were all a part of it, not knowing how its gonna unfold in 5, 10, 20 years time. But i for one am not that optimistic that the positives outweigh the negatives.

On that note, its also a trope of ghost/haunted house horror movies that usually little girls get posessed and do the spooky things/kill people. Ive read somewhere that one explanation for this trope is that little girls represent basically the most innocent form of human beings as a whole and twisting that perception into something murderous like little killer girls leads to people finding the murders more disturbing than when it would have been done by a grown woman or man for example. I dunno how much sense this makes honestly, but ive always found this theory interesting.

At this point, im sadly convinced (for a long time actually) that the GA doesnt want originality. They want familiar franchise fare fabricated for feel-good consumption where you dont need to think very hard or be challenged by anything. And i dont blame them, movie tickets are more expensive than ever and i would be personally a total hypocrite to complain about the GA when ive seen GxK 5 times by now and will probably see the new Jurassic World movie 20 times next year ... Wait ... maybe im the problem ...

I agree and i hope the modern characters dont get so much focus in Season 2.

The Fast and Furious comparison fits imo and one thing thats also playing a role here i think is the fact that the MonsterVerse/Godzilla actually has quite a big fanbase nowadays. 10 years ago there were like 187 Godzilla fans worldwide (the 2014 movie was extremely hyped among the whole GA, it wasnt pushed by a massive fanbase), but now in 2024 Godzilla is more mainstream than ever and the fanbase gut much bigger, so logically that would mean frontloading for the movies.

The second trailer actually has more views on YouTube than the first. Thats a rarity among big blockbuster trailers and says a lot i think.

9/10, goofy movie.