Disney is going to buy 20th Century Fox for $50 billion dollars. Comic fans are happy that they can now have their Marvel movies with X-Men and Fantastic 4 now, but I say too little, too late. Infinite War has been built up as the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), featuring the crossover war featuring all sorts of characters. Litterally dozens of characters, but not all of them. That's why "fans" will piss and moan about this forever. Since it's a Disney property, they wont include the Netflix characters, because they're too hardcore. And of course, X-Men and Fantastic 4 weren't available at the time, so it's all kind of a cop-out.
Fox was finally on the right track with recent X-Men, making its entries violent and fucked up, with Deadpool and Logan. Great movies. However, Disney is guaranteed to pussify the brand, since they wouldn't dare go beyond a PG-13 rating. Where's the child audience they cater to, then?
So that's a lot of money, because Disney is getting out of hand. I always kinda joke about how Disney is the enemy, but they're on their way to monopolizing the industry, and that ain't good. Think of 20th Century Fox, for example. What are their good properties? I like Alien. Will that turn PG-13 (again đ)? Will they make R-rated movies? Or will they buy up the company, and continue to make their A-list big-budget super movies non-stop, in their effort to own everything?
New Line Cinema used to be a thing. WB bought it, and you never hear much of it anymore. MGM used to be huge, but it barely exists anymore, if for nothing more than novelty. Yet, in a more contrasting point, the old 80s-early-90s company "Orion" sorta made a comeback. That's kinda funny. Anchor Bay used to be the best horror dvd company, then Starz bought 'em and who cares now? At least they're making the Evil Dead show though...
Universal is all hung up on Fast & Furious movies, and their shitty Dark Universe movies. They've got nothing good on the superhero bandwagon, and those movies are crushing the competition these days. Paramount? What have they done good lately? Baywatch? Then a bunch of other shit probably, but I can't remember any of it, because none of it is really good.
Sony is trying to jumpstart its own universe with a new Venom movie coming out, but other than that, Sony hasn't put out much lately. 2017 hasn't been a great year for movies. Nothing truly awesome besides Logan, and I'd been debating whether "Three Billboards" might be my fave of the year or not, and that only came out last month.
Fuckin' Disney and their comic movies and Star Wars, trying to take over the planet... I don't even think The Last Jedi will be that great, but people eat up anything Star Wars. People are crazy.
Maybe all the good movies are the lower-budget ones that sneak by, made from random indie companies. Maybe that's how it's always been?!
I'm losing my train of thought here, because the industry is pretty mind-numbing. I need to see Disaster Artist. That'll fix my brain.