These things aren't going to stop and I do NOT begrudge Universal for trying to save their own studios by pandering to idiots. It's great, movies are entertainment again. And that's how it should be. It's actually great for smaller stories, because these can go undetected and made with the residuals of something like "Furious" movies. In other words, with a surplus MAYBE studios can take small chances. What they called back in the day "singles and doubles."
So earlier there were talks about how studios were going down. That streaming and all that is going to kill them. Which is sort of true. These movies are an anomaly and should not be taken to be the trend. A movie like "Star Wars" is a proven track record since the 70's. James Bond movies too. What this says is that writing stories that have no link to...common sense and structure no longer need to be the deciding factor. NOT that you can or will be lazy with your storytelling, but there is a strange part of me that gets ill at the idea some kid in film school will want to emulate these types of movies. Maybe good. When "Lethal Weapon" came out the "franchise" ran out of gas fast. And attempted another re-boot on television 20+ years later. I think when this well dries out...it will see a re-boot in television. It was MADE for television.
Which goes back to William Goldman's prescient and oh-so-true "nobody knows anything."
We don't. "The Fast and Furious" started out as alley racing. According to the trailer...it's submarines and missiles now. Oh...and they already wrote two more.
Paul Walker must be kickin himself.
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