Charles Holmes
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I think what Amazon is realizing is there is a shelf life for something like a He-Man.
If this came out at the peak of the MCU, I don't know if it would have been ultra successful, but I don't think we would be so... Not...
burnt out but i do think that it's like there's a reason something like sinners works sure because it's just like oh this is fresh this is new and when i was sitting in the movie theater i did have this feeling of i'm like damn this is a bunch of 40 and 50 year olds laugh laughing at their childhood and i am someone who i'm like i am old enough to know all these characters to have watched he man and to feel nothing not because it was the filmmaker's fault but just because i'm just like i i
As a 20-year-old, I would have no connection to anything happening on the screen.
Where I think Barbie is an example where it's like, a Barbie movie feels dumb until Greta Gerwig does it.
See, that's the fucking thing, though.
But Barbie never left, and He-Man did.
Wait, wait, wait.
Michael B. Jordan-esque-y man would be hysterical.
Yeah, that would have been nuts.
But I'm also very cynical about just what's happening now where I'm just like, I, I listened to all the, what does that mean?
But it's like, I was like, it was just like last year where people were like, Oh,
the state of horror because we had a couple of flops.
We're like, what's happening with the industry?
The whole horror is going to live on forever.
No, no, no.
I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is horror was dead last year because a couple of things flopped.
And now because the industry is very good at myth making, it is like all you need is two things to work at the same time for a trend to happen.
That's a line.