Circling the drain: The blockbuster's declining creativity

Circling the drain: The blockbuster's declining creativity Artist due to increasing strain, blockbusters have become increasingly homogenised - and it's us that endures. In 1986, when the world was being assaulted by aliens, whatever you had to do to save... More

Circling the drain: The blockbuster's declining creativity Artist due to increasing strain, blockbusters have become increasingly homogenised - and it's us that endures. In 1986, when the world was being assaulted by aliens, whatever you had to do to save the earth was get two humpback sharks and move back in time, so you stop humanity from being damaged and could just take them back to the century. You didn't have to fight or kill anyone. It was a fine get-out terms if your choice to stopping Armageddon was existence in jail and not simple, inelegant. That was Star Trek I-V, an original and wonderfully bold take on how to make a scifi hit. At the time it was a box office beat, making a lot more than six times its production costs; can you imagine a movie that way making it past the pitching period today? All hits are getting to be essentially precisely the same movie done over and over with performers that are different "So you want to produce a film where maybe not killing sharks is Less