Hollywood Killed All The Writers

By Real Life Fake Wizard

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The Super Mario Galaxy movie is a 7/10 roller coaster ride theme park attraction of a film. It’s fun. It’s visually stimulating and filled with fan service Easter eggs. And yet... yeah, it’s got a light cough of a story. The only one with character development happens to be Bowser, which is funny on its own. And all of that is okay for what it is and what it was meant to be. This movie is a commercial for Nintendo products in the same way Masters of the Universe was a toy commercial. You can have fun and enjoy this movie for what it is. Kids can enjoy this for what it is. But because of the proof of audience reception—the fact you have thousands and thousands of families going back to the theaters to see this… well, this is the only thing they’re seeing. In the past, of all the family movies in theaters, families might have seen 3 or 4 movies a year, and maybe 1 or 2 of those were toy commercial films. The rest were entirely legitimate with the intention of telling good stories first

Tags: storytelling, stories shape culture, hollywood decline, modern movies suck, why movies fail, heroism, virtue, aristotle poetics, catharsis, psychological warfare, psyops, propaganda in media, media analysis, film commentary, writing analysis, why audiences hate hollywood, moral ambiguity, morally grey characters, character arcs, good vs evil