NGNSteveTheSamurai t1_jae7rf9 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:15 PM

Blockbusters and people who only go see blockbusters existed well before the MCU. Not much would change.

Intelligent-Age2786 t1_jaef1od wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:02 PM

Some people act as if superhero movies are the only movies ever that people saw more than others. There’s always some sort of king. This whole cycle isn’t new.

AlanMorlock t1_jaehyem wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:20 PM

What is different is them being not hyper concentrated into one genre but so few studios.

Bug movies used to be called Tentpoles because they provided revenue thst allowed a wider range of things to be made. The last decade there's been less and less tent.

The contrast between blockbusters and other types of films used to be far less drastic. Actually go back and loose a the top 10 box offices lists from before 2001. It wasn't all IP films from one studio. There was a much wider variety of viable genres.

Intelligent-Age2786 t1_jaei5iw wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:22 PM

I’m meaning in the sense that superhero movies aren’t the only ones guilty of having that situation happen

AlanMorlock t1_jaej6bn wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:28 PM

The hyper concentration of trntpoles without a tent is a pretty recent phenomenon. Comparisons to westerns or whatever just don't really include context fornehst else was in theaters and the budgets and resources committed.

StreetMysticCosmic t1_jaelbws wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:42 PM

> so few studios.

Five major studios had the budgets to regularly make blockbusters. Four made lots of superhero movies over the last twenty years. Then one of those four bought one of the others. The other one still makes other blockbusters regularly and the three that make superhero movies still make other blockbusters.