[ SECRET POST #6029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6029 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 31 secrets from Secret Submission Post #862.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://i.imgur.com/MaZQ8mZ.png

[(Anonymous)]

Fair.

Studios are starting to work this out too. When you spend three hundred million on a movie and it makes only four-five hundred million, that is not a lot of profit after marketing. When you spend thirty million on a movie, and it makes sixty-seventy million, that is all gold baby. Or even less, I think studios are going to be looking at their balance sheets and slushpiles very carefully next year, and there will be less big franchise tentpoles. Superhero movies are not going away, ever, they will always be popular, but there will be more room in the release schedule for smaller movies. Maybe some mid budget romcoms too.

[randomdrops]

I really love the image for this secret. So calming.

I think you're right about us all being tired (and strapped for cash) and looking for more low key entertainment. I think that's a big part why "cozy fantasy" has taken off as a genre in the past couple of years. I would love it if you're right and the same type of cozy low stakes genre comes to films and TV soon.

[(Anonymous)]

Goddamned yes. I want movies that rely on actual good writing and good acting and not overworked and underpaid CGI artists.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, frankly, I doubt it.

I think studios will probably cut back on some of the excessive production costs for blockbusters - stuff where it's like $250 million or $300 million instead of $150 million, totally unnecessarily.

But I just don't see any reason to think that filmgoers would prefer to watch a $20 million or $50 million movie over a $150 million action blockbuster. Sure, there are exceptions on each side - there are really well-done mid-budget movies that catch fire and there are action tentpoles that flop. And for creative reasons and for the sustainability of the industry, it's important to have more mid-budget movies in the pipeline. But I think at the end of the day, most moviegoers just prefer big action blockbusters over other kinds of movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you're right but I'm not much of a regular moviegoer so I can't really remember a previous point in this cycle where low budget indie movies dominated the cinema...

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who refuses to pick any post-90s movie to watch on Netflix I get where you are coming from, that era/style of movies was very interesting. Even blockbusters had a lot of human drama going on besides lightning and explosions, and those that focused on the graphics, not only have less longevity, weren't always well accepted (looking at you Waterworld) I am not a movie goer at all but I did like the Miramax era and the few years that followed spanning "blockbuster-indie" titles like Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, etc were also interesting to me so maybe I agree with you in a way.

[greghousesgf]

I fuckin hope you're right. I didn't even give a flying rat's ass about superheroes when I was a kid. I'm a bad nerd.

[meadowphoenix]

I don't think you're quite understanding how the economic incentives have changed with streaming, distribution, technology, and like greed, but I hope you're right anyway.

[deleted_scenes]

I can't say I agree with this secret.
Look at how well Spider-verse is doing.
And Top Gun Mavrick is one of the top grossing movies of all time.
They just have to be good movies.
Disney spread itself too thin with Star Wars and this stage of Marvel movies is just boring and badly written.
The Flash had drama around it.
Didn't The Batman from a few years back do well? I feel that movie just came and went.

[(Anonymous)]

If only because the big franchise/superhero films force the studios to bankruptcy that they have no choice but to start lowering budgets on films they greenlight.

[queenslayerbee]

I hope you're right, but I can't find it in myself to be this optimistic...

The indie content is something we're still going to have to go actively (even aggressively lol) looking by ourselves, I'm afraid.

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[feotakahari]

Everything American does this since September 2001, and I hate it.

[(Anonymous)]

What are some examples of this happening in Star Trek?

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was surprised at the look of it too. More generic than I expected and really reminiscent of series other than Final Fantasy.

Granted, I have a laundry list of other things about the game that have me grinding my teeth. I haaaaaaaate the move to an action RPG style of combat and I’m not overly thrilled about the deliberate attempt to make a darker “more adult” story. FF was plenty mature already. And on a purely subjective level, they leaned hard into story tropes that I can’t stand, so it’s just massively disappointing all around.

I really wanted to have a new FF game to get all excited about… :(

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[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Love me some toxic ships; re-imagining them as not-toxic takes out alllll the fun for me.

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[(Anonymous)]

“Dodgy” is British? Whoops.

I was going to contest “legit” until I saw the definition.

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[(Anonymous)]

We know, we've seen you scream about spoilers here before.

Rosebud was his sled, btw.

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Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

... but you wouldn't mind if someone else made them for you! As always, including the fandom and full character names is a big help, and I'll try my best to use an appropriate image choice.

Just to clarify - it's my intention to make all the secrets left in this thread, so even if they're not marked claimed, they will be made. I'll monitor this thread until tomorrow's secret post goes up, so feel free to leave your comments until then!

Yours truly,

a secret maker

P.S. Please don't worry if you've submitted a secret and it hasn't been posted yet. I usually post these threads before running out of the previous batch of secrets to get a head start on the next batch.

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