It is also the reason they will never try to do a reboot on Back to the Future. Terminator is a great example, without Arnold whatever they do is just bull. Some franchises are too tied to the characters that played them making a sequel or reboot almost impossible. I think Stallone produced a lot of that with overseas production companies as well. Rambo, along with the other Stallone stuff like Creed and expendables, I believe that if it were not for Stallone being in the drivers seat pushing those movies, they would be dead in the water or terrible reboots at this point. The ones that usually break the mold are made from outside Hollywood. The long treasured, less family friendly franchises are being reduced to cash-ins. They just need enough hands on deck to keep them from failing.įor the forseeable future, the bulk of our movies are are cycle of comic book, CGI and adventure films that straddle the PG/PG-13 rating scale.
The catch is, these movies don't even need to be well written to be successful. The movie that parents need to get baby sitters for is going to lose out in ticket sales just about any day of the week.
Adults will get nostalgic over a Predator movie, but they will also get nostalgic for Star Wars or Spider man, and so are their kids. (Who now owns Alien and Predator) If you are going to throw a wad a cash at only 8 movies a year, you want to maximize the ticket sales. Looking at it from a Disney exec's point of view. I think the simple answer is that there is no incentive for major studios to invest in a good movie that doesn't have a universal enough appeal. Is it too much to ask for just one decent modern film from any of these franchises? Heck, even Rambo of all things got a shot of new life with the 2008 film. 2012's Dredd proved that a modern gritty sci-fi/action flick can be done with the similar feel as the 80's greats. Batman Begins proved it's possible to resurrect a franchise fallen into mediocrity. It's not like great action/sci-fi isn't possible or that older franchises can't be given a new of life. And following Robocop 2, that franchise went PG-13 for some reason with both Robocop 3 and the 2014 reboot following suite. 2010's Predators was okay, but nothing special. The Terminator and Alien franchises have become a large mess ranging from mediocre entries to outright garbage. However, since then there really hasn't been anything done that well with any of these franchises. The original Predator and Robocop movies were also great, albeit followed up by not-so-great sequels. The original Alien and Terminator films were great and followed by arguably superior sequels.
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