Why are shows/movies made for mass appeal considered a bad thing?

Why are shows/movies made for mass appeal considered a bad thing?

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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't like them dumbing down shit too much. It's condescending and often leads to awfulness.

  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because there are eight billion people in the word and I care about like, twenty of them.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Twenty is a lot, anon. Good you care about so many. Connections are important to keep us going.

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >packers shirt

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Academic art wankery, and people with niche interests to a lesser extent.
    >The first hates things that don't try to achieve their ethereal, unappealing philosophic ideal of art
    >The second hates how their interests are lost among so much mainstream content, and hates when the stuff they like is adapted but loses some of it's uniqueness for the sake of mass appeal

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >appeal to one specific niche
    >write the perfect story for that audience, doing things that would be unappealing to most people
    >that audience is left as satisfied as possible
    >everyone outside that audience will likely hate it
    vs
    >appeal to as many people as possible
    >write a story that doesn’t contain anything that might be unappealing to anyone
    >final product is bland, leaving the entire audience slightly unsatisfied but not enough to hate it
    Mass appeal is what you go for to make money, not to make a good product.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Movies are expensive as frick so they NEED to make a lot of money.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        But they don't need to be expensive. 50 million is enough of a budget for any genre, especially if you use some new talent instead of hiring some jackass for 10 mil.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I know it's hard to imagine because as a Zoomer you grew up in this era, but there used to be a range of movies of various sizes that catered to various different audiences. There's been a lot written about the death of mid-range movies and the shift of the industry to almost total reliance on mass-appeal mega-budget blockbusters over the last two decades. It wasn't always like this.

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone got that pic of punk elastigirl getting weirded out about her own baby?
    I thought it was kinda funny

    I think it was a set pic too

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is this it?
      God I love her young design

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Fun

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anyone got that pic of punk elastigirl getting weirded out about her own baby?
        I thought it was kinda funny

        I think it was a set pic too

        https://i.imgur.com/Aa7VOCx.jpg

        Why are shows/movies made for mass appeal considered a bad thing?

        It's such a stupid retcon, we saw how she looked like young, punk doesn't fit her character

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          The punk look was before she met Bob.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            But in the prologue of the first movie didn’t she look normal? Unless you’re saying she was so thirsty for Mr. Incredible that she completely changed her personality for him.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              Could be her punk look was in her early 20's and then she grew out of it

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          The punk look was before she met Bob.

          But in the prologue of the first movie didn’t she look normal? Unless you’re saying she was so thirsty for Mr. Incredible that she completely changed her personality for him.

          Could be her punk look was in her early 20's and then she grew out of it

          I always assumed it was a phase after she met, but before she was with Bob. When we see her first meet Bob, she feels like a country/small town gall who just moved to the big city. Maybe she tried to reinvent herself after that, having a country bumpkin complex, resulting in the punk look.

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do you not understand why or arguing the opposite or what?

    They're considered bad because they are. Or rather, boring to be exact. The average person is an easily offended dumbass. So when a studio decides to make a product for the masses, they make it as simple and bland as possible. Since a ticket for a movie costs the same regardless of whether a person rates it highly or not, they will always make more money producing mass appeal shit (as long as it's not aggressively bad and word of mouth kills it). Their perfect sweet spot is a 5/10 movie that is a 5/10 for everyone. Rather than a movie that will polarize people and be a 10 for some and a 1 for others (those too offended or too confused, for example).

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone thinks they're the smartest, most sophisticated guy in the room.

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why are shows/movies made for mass appeal considered a bad thing?
    Because lot of them end up being shit. Bam boom end of thread.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most of them are fine, you're just a pretentious nerd with his head up his ass.

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    "bad" is a subjective term.
    If a writer has a morel or pet message they want their work to convey, then mass appeal is the death of that. A good story should have a certain amount of clear focus on the subject, but something made with mass appeal will be cluttered with distractions that take up the valuable time and energy.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      every story has a message

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bevause the "general audience" is a myth.

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    because mass appeal means men like it
    and thats bad

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