Critical Drinker: Why Hollywood Will Collapse 

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Is it just me or is it harder to connect with movies in this genre these days? I can feel the agenda in all of it and it ruins it for me.. Its hard to tell if im just getting old or if my perspective is valid.

I'm from Indonesia, and we can feel the agendas forced down our throats. When it does have those in trailers, most of us didn't watch the movie. That's why Hollywood is falling. Don't force American politics to other countries, it has nothing to do with us.

As someone who has worked in hollywood my whole life, there are a lot of factors in the decline of Hollywood. I was as FOX when Disney bought us and canned everyone - FOX was really the last studio do do a lot on fresh content - Ford v Ferrari, Bohemian Rhapsody, Last Duel, etc. All the good Hulu content is from the Fox library. That was a big loss. Second, the obsession w/"diversity" over quality in everything from hiring, staffing, etc, has been a huge dagger to the industry - we are seeing the result of so many talented people pushed out/aside as they usher in incompetents that check diversity boxes while possessing little to no real qualifications. I have watched this phenomenon increase over the last few years and believe that cumulatively it has had a devastating effect on the industry.

I'm Asian. I don't live the US. Yet I grew up watching mostly Hollywood movies. Funny because in the past I honestly couldn't care less about the actors' skin color/race, sexual orientation etc or whether the cast is diverse enough. _I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THOSE THINGS._ As long as the story is good and the movie is entertaining, then I'm sold. Being an 80s-90s kid, there was _nothing_ like Hollywood movies back then. I grew up watching classic and iconic movies/franchises such as Terminator, Alien, Jurassic Park, (original) Jumanji, Back to the Future, The Mask etc to name a few; Disney was also still in its _golden era_ (with classic animated movies such as the original Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas etc). But most importantly those movies were ORIGINAL. At the time, the world still saw Hollywood as the #1 place for entertainment industry. From movies to music to TV, Hollywood dominates all. Nowadays it's _very rare_ to see a Hollywood movie with a solid original story line. It's all either reboots/remakes, sequels/prequels, or another same old, same old superhero movie. I can understand if a lot of people nowadays think there's no more creativity and originality left in Hollywood. And what's worse, most Hollywood movies today are so obviously dripping with "woke" agenda and propaganda it drives people away, including me. Doesn't matter how subtle they try to play, we can all see right through their BS. This is also one of the reasons why I have abandoned movies and theaters in the past few years, starting since the pandemic. I've lost track on all the new superhero characters introduced in every single movie. I think the last time I've watched a Marvel movie was probably around a decade ago. After that I never care to follow the superhero genre anymore. Like, how many superhero movies do we really need in a year??? I guess you can pretty much say that I'm so *done* with Hollywood at this point. Oh and btw a lot of people think Hollywood is no longer the #1 movie industry in the world. Other countries are also starting to catch up with superior movies that have top-notch writing and most importantly an ORIGINAL story line, such as South Korea, Japan, Thailand etc in Asia and France, Spain, Germany etc in Europe.

My daughter who is 32 now, refused to take my grandchildren to see Aladdin. She said NO ONE can replace Robin Williams. She cringed at the thought of Little Mermaid and was furious about the Scooby-Doo dumpster fire called Velma, which she said ruined her memories of her favorite series as a child. After Aladdin came out she went through my attic to get all of her old Disney DVD's made before 2012. As far as I know, she hasn't taken her kids to see a Disney movie in the theatres since 2019.

The live-action remakes were about converting nostalgia into cash. Disney has been holding a garage sale for years, and they finally ran out of old stuff to sell.

Tom Cruise is on a one-man mission to save cinema, the guy knows exactly what the public want - entertainment first and foremost, escapism from modern life for a few hours. That's why the MI movies get such rave reviews, and why Maverick made over $1bn. Baffles me as to how Disney and the other major studios just can't comprehend that simple fact.

Besides Top Gun, I have not been excited about movies in years. I don’t even think about going to the theatre anymore when it used to be a monthly thing we did in the 90’s.

Is anyone actually sad that Disney is struggling? Nah, me neither.

I've had friends look at me funny because I told them I only consider the audience score, *not* the critic score.

Critical Drinker is a better critic than any of those paid shills

Every time I see Disney lose 100s of millions, it grows my hope for humanity.

Sound of Freedom costed $14.5 million to make and it looks better than movies Hollywood is coming out with that are $300 million. They have lost a sense of money management.

Endgame was literally endgame.

I agree with Richard Dreyfuss. The Virtue signaling, pandering and condescending nature just makes me want to throw up

Part of why more modern movies fail to appeal to me is that they don't feel sincere. By that I mean, virtues cannot be delivered seriously or without being used to push some kind of message. I always use The Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas as a great example. It shows someone working hard to achieve their goals, striving to achieve justice and learning that protecting others is ultimately more important than self serving vengeance, and while it's a very funny film, it knows when to be sincere and the audience is expected to genuinely root for Antonio. In new movies, virtues like that are always delivered with quips or 'ironically', or the virtue was there ALL ALONG and the protagonist just needed to show off how awesome they were - Hollywood no longer wants to show heroism portrayed in a genuine light. It's not 'cool' to be a good person who works hard, so it's all accompanied by an endless stream of 'ironic' commentary on how meaningless everything is, or how they're being 'cliche'... I CANNOT see a movie like the Princess Bride, with the amazing cliffside sword fight being made ever again because two good people who admire and respect each others capabilities was simply... played straight, and nowadays it would HAVE to include some stupid, sarcastic "Are we FLIRTING right now? Like, are you hitting on me? I know you're HITTING ME but I mean in the other sense..." line. It'd be disgusting.

Smaller, smarter film without CGI will save Hollywood.

A month ago when i was on the dentist, the doctor chatted with her asistant about cinema and she said that the changes to these characters are so unnecessary that the change itself take you out of the movie. Even a regular person with 0 cinema knowledge can see through disney issues

the drinker without sunglasses is a different vibe

I rewatched the old Disney Sing Along Songs and I miss when Disney was like that. The studio respected its history and it felt like Disney. It’s so sad that the company is not like that anymore.

I am convinced that Disney is now being run by the sunk cost fallacy. As bad as it is when a movie or show can't make back the money it cost to make, it' even worse if the real cost of releasing it anyway is even more bad press, bad word of mouth, reputational damage all of which results in diminished views for the next few projects, whatever those may be. Disney consistently puts out movies that can't possibly succeed and are guaranteed to make audiences less likely to tune in next time, and they are shocked their profits have fallen off a cliff after a decade of playing stupid games. They could have learned their lesson from Last Jedi, which still made a profit but killed the Star Wars franchise in the process, at least on the big screen. I imagine in hindsight a lot of Disney people are wondering why Indy 5 wasn't just quietly axed when the studio found out about the atrocious ending and test screenings. Why waste another 100 million trying to polish a turd with reshoots, why waste an equivalent amount trying to market a polished turd, only for it all to turn into the biggest embarrassment the company has faced in years? Surely even stockholders can grasp that this is a failure on every level?

The commentary around why live action Disney remakes made money are spot on. I’m a 40yr old father of three who loved the Lion King. The live action remake came out. I took the whole family and wasted £70. The film was awful. But the tickets sales were there for Disney.

Speaking of "young genius" characters. A fanfic I was writing featured a girl who was tech savvy. But I scrapped that side of her because I KNEW as an armature who write for fun that her being that way made 0 sense. Her age, the sources available to her, her parents understanding of machinery. It was jut a lazy character trait. So I scrapped it. It annoys me that big movies can make mistakes I try to avoid and get rewarded for it AND defended by the fans.

Never seen Drinker without his glasses. He’s a handsome lad. 💪🏼

That shield started with Ghostbusters. Sort of. It actually started with Fury Road, where they tried to preempt bad ratings by stating there was some kind of MRA boycott on it - you probably even heard this. What was it? A twitter with less than 100 followers. That was it. Then that movie turned out to be critically beloved and they stopped doing that. Ghostbusters was the one where they tried to make it a political act to see the movie, and use their casting choices as a shield against the fact it was a *terrible* film.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen drinker without sun glasses on. I guess Tatiana got hypnotized by those blue eyes 😂

I may be wrong but I think the remake period is fizzling out at least in terms of profitability. They were all the rage in the mid to late 2010s because that's when Millennials finally became aware of the passage of time and tried to recapture the magic, but now they are increasingly seen as cheap soulless money grabs, and people are increasingly more careful how they spend their money and increasingly inimical toward Hollywood

The fact that they have hidden the Batgirl movie makes me want to see it more than any movie they've released. I would love to watch that and enjoy it like a cult hit that's just bad beyond relief. They could call it Bad Girl.

Something i think people miss when saying Alladin made alot of money is there wasnt the kind of awareness and backlash towards disney at that time. The ideas had started to form. Alot of people went, myself included, wanting to see a depiction of the cartoon i had grown up with. Instead we get characters who dont match what they were in the first movie, Finism messaging, and completely rejecting the whole reason i wanted to see the movie to begin with, a GIant live action Cobra scene. I guarantee you if Aladin was to be released today it would not make the same amount of money

Back in 2016, the all female Ghostbusters got like a 70% or something from critics and that was like the lowest fresh rated movie at the time! RT rushed the ratings so that they had to put that score on that rank just to show that they support women! It was on that moment I stopped rating my movies by RT and just followed my instincts!

A movie scene I’d love to see: a family touring LA has to flee for the city limits so they don’t get sucked into Hollywood’s studios as they crumple and implode like the house in Poltergeist.

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." JRR Tokien

THE DRINKER HAS EYES?!?

There comes a point when a studio thinks that doing sequels, prequels, reboots, "reimagining" is jumping the shark and people no longer care, want to be preached/virtue signaled to and *PFFT there goes the support. I stopped caring about the super hero genre after seeing End Game as well, I've moved on to old black & white movies (love it!).

I dont think anyone has an issue with “strong women”. I grew up with Ripley from Aliens, Sarah Conor from Terminator and Leia from Star Wars…all 3 badasses in non traditional roles. I don’t even care about racial changes to characters in remakes. I just want good entertainment that isn’t beating me over the head with “the message” but these hacks cannot do subtlety.

I believe that Hollywood and Disney value ideologically capturing future generations over short term profit. The problem with that is, that this is a multi decade project and the level of spending required I don't believe can be sustained to be "successful."

Person grows up. Person faces challenges. Person gains magic powers. Person uses said magic powers to overcome challenge. Rinse, repeat.

RottenTomatoes edits the viewers scores as well though. I've had reviews published on there when I'm positive about a film, but when I post one that's critical of some woke aspect (without using that term exactly) it just never appears, they just drop it.

The live action remakes have been an amazing cash cow for Disney, but think they've reached to point of diminishing returns, as are Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, and the MCU. All these things are on the downswing, possibly because of incompetence, where people got bored of unoriginal, predictable movies too many times. I don't think boycotts for ideological reasons work most of the time, but people just not having as much fun going to the movies will keep them away in droves.

The thing about Rotten Tomatoes is the critics' score on any movie or show is really just a percentage of critics who's reviews lean even slightly positively. Theoretically, if every single critic rated a movie 6/10, the Rotten Tomatoes score would appear as 100%.

The first question is excellent- that is EXACTLY how it has felt for me since Endgame. I don’t even care to care anymore. They’ve completely destroyed the brand to the point I don’t even pay attention other than to watching videos ripping the trash they try to promote as film.

I feel so fortunate to have lived during an era where so many good movies were made. The Die Hards and Terminators and Predators and Aliens and Star Wars and Jurassic Park and The Matrix and the Disney Animated classics. All superb movies. And i've watched every single one of them numerous times, some more than others, because they are just that good that you want to go back and see them again even when you know basically every scene and every line. And in the early 2000s we were truly blessed with GOOD franchises. Harry Potter had a ton of movies. Lord of the Rings had an amazing trilogy. Even the Star Wars prequels, which I was critical of certain aspects at the time, seem like fucking shakespear compared to what we have today. And again, i've watched every film in these franchises countless times. And then... What the fuck happened? Where did it all go wrong? Franchises that were once good started having shit movies pumped out for cash grabs. Even before the intense messaging Hollywood was going for, there were so many soulless money grabs in the interim period. So many movies that I only watched once because I just never cared to see them again and others I skipped entirely because they looked like crap. And after the endless bad cash grab sequels, reboots started becoming more and more common, trying to cash in on old classics people loved. And then... We finally transitioned to the woke agenda. It started with little things like casting a black man to play a Norse god then calling everyone racist when they criticized, but most didn't really care, as dumb as it was, because Idris Elba was a cool guy. But it just started happening more and more often that white characters were replaced with black ones, men were replaced with women, christians replaced with muslims, straight characters replaced with gay characters or trans characters, and so on. And even with all that happening, it STILL wouldn't be bad if they did it in a way that added to the story or at least if they prioritized the story, but they don't. They prioritize pushing that agenda over all else. I remember how annoyed I was with the Sabrina remake. I wasn't an avid fan of the old tv series or anything, but I did watch it sometimes for a laugh when nothing better was on during the era before digital recording everything and live streams, and my favorite character by far was Salem. The black cat was snarky, sarcastic, intelligent, and kind of a terrorist of the witch world now being forced to live as a cat as punishment. He was funny and enjoyable and just interesting. I thought the prospect of a modern remake with a bigger budget could really bring such a character to life. And then what did they do? They replaced him with a black gay man who was somehow a cousin to the main character. They gave HIM the snarky attitude and sarcasm. They gave HIM the backstory of being a criminal and being punished by being restricted to the home. The cat wasn't even downgraded to side character status, it showed it in like one episode where they basically explained it wasnt going to be involved anymore and couldnt talk, and that was it. And then they added episodes exclusively to have that new character have some gay romance going on just so they tick that box. This character could have, and should have, been a friend and confidant to Sabrina but instead he was put there specifically to push agendas. And then lest we forget the whole moral of the story at the end of the day was "men bad, men oppress women". Ugh. They could have done so much with this show but they always prioritize the message over the story and it ends up making it unwatchable because they have to HURT the story to squeeze in the message. Thats the problem. They just don't care about making good stories anymore, all they care about are finding new vehicles to push their ideology and messaging down your throat.

When talking about the 'critics' it reminded me of an assessor with one of the big auditing firms(KPMG or similar) being asked during the 2008 crisis,why did they publish such positive ratings and figures etc. for the likes of Bear Sterns,Leman Brothers and the like ? she answered--'because if we didn't they'd just switch to a competiter that WOULD and that would cost our company $millions.So even the auditors are compromised !

I think people can no longer afford to go to the movies, or they cannot afford to see everything that comes out and maybe go to one or two movies a year. I had a lot more money to see movies when gas was 2 dollars a gallon and the cost of food was not three times more like it is today. When people have to pay more for necessities they have less for luxuries.

$20 bucks? I've gone to the theaters and spent $70 for two. Had we only bought movie tickets, it would have been a little less than half of that. I know the numbers because I charged the amount back to a property I was managing and got called out of the theatre before the movie even started due to an emergency. This was before the pandemic. The days of the dollar theatre are dead. I can't imagine the theatres surviving the streaming age.

To be fair, I went to watch The Eternals during the pandemic and I left halfway through because of how terrible the movie is. But we all know using Covid is a scapegoat by Hollywood.

I been listening to the drinker for quite some time. Mostly when he's the character of himself talking about a movie or show on his own. Kinda cool seeing the real him in a very good back and forth that was

The real problem is Disney bit off more than it could chew acquiring both Star Wars and Marvel. Their current DEI model can't handle the IP that they acquired so everything they create from it becomes a soul-less shell of the original themes and ideas. Their greed is their ultimate downfall.

There's only a few gems every other year that makes me bother going to the movies. Top Gun Maverick was the last one, and Mission Impossible will be the next. Critical Drinker's recommendations have so far hit the nail on the head for me, so there's that too.

I love this guy, never seen him out of character... or actually ever seen him at all.

Something that Hollywood can't seem to wrap its mind around is the fact that no matter how well a script is written, or how good the acting and production is; if a movie has a message that the audience strongly disagrees with, they're going to pan it and stay away.

The critical drinker is one of the best movie and tv critic I’ve ever seen. I remember getting hooked when he did a break down of the old ghostbusters movie and the female remake. It was perfect breakdown. I watch him and trust his overall opinion on movies.

What's so stupid about all of this is that Hollywood has a perfectly good source of examples of how to write strong female characters correctly, yet has ignored it the entire time: anime. I've been watching anime for nearly 25 years, and many of my favorite characters of all time are girls or women, but not because they were lampshaded as being empowered or some such crap. I love them because they're just plain cool, well-written characters, ranging from ones who are physically frail but emotionally resolute to ones who are a one-woman walking army. Just write good characters and a good story, and the profits will follow. This ain't rocket science.

20 years ago, I went to a theater nearby, often. The last movie I saw was "Midway". And that theater is now unoccupied, chained shut so you can't even get in the parking lot. That says it all.

Their has clearly been a decline in the quality of music and movies . It's just my opinion music seems to have declined after 2010 and movies have really declined since around 2015. I am not saying their aren't any good movies after 2015 I'm just saying that their seems to be far less really good movies after 2015.

The Disney remakes make money from baiting nostalgia. If you look at the box office performance of the Disney remakes in China- where no one grew up with the Disney classics and are therefore not nostalgic for them- the remakes all did poorly there (The Little Mermaid remake in particular made less than $4 million in China). The one exception is The Lion King remake which made a ton of money in China, but that didn't have to bank on nostalgia because people in the international market who have no idea what The Lion King is would see the trailer and just think it was a cool lion movie. One interesting example is the Mulan remake which- despite pandering to Chinese audiences by trying to be a wuxia film- did notoriously poorly there. Chinese audiences just saw it as yet another movie based on the legend of Mulan (Mulan is probably as prominent in Chinese media as Robin Hood is in Western media), only a bland, watered-down American retelling.

Studios don’t get that people are able to tell the difference between inclusion and propaganda.

A New Hope: Hollywood collapses. I’m sick of all their classics-ruining content

I miss Captain America and the ol gang. Good times...

Disney also had this little movie called Sound of Freedom and refused to release it. It was a low-budget film, but had a great story, was based on almost unbelievably true events, and was very tastefully shot and had phenomenal acting. They shelved it for years and ended up losing the rights (or sold it or whatever) and now it's beating, of all things, their own Indiana Jones movie. Crazy but true!!!

The economy has changed and the pandemic has had several lasting impacts to the industry. 1st, is decling movie going audience. 2nd, the creation of ultra woke pandemic content the alienates half the audience 3. The cannibalism of streaming for lasting box office revenue 4th, the increasing competition from streaming series that focus more on character and ease of viewing UX experience.

The animated Arielle is so much more beautiful than the "real"...

Most movies nowadays fail to capture the wonder and magic of past eras. 90 percent of new movies today are either superhero movies, unnecessary sequels, or bad remakes of past successes. Where are the new Harry potters, Lotrs, or Star wars

DC never took off - Aquaaman and Joker each made a billion - that's not too bad I have to admit.

Hollywood had a golden age between about 1980 and 2010. That's pretty good. It's now reverting back to mean and just can't compete with all the other entertainment options out there. I think it'll be telling how the SAG and Writer's Guild strikes pan out.

Now I see why the Critical Drinker wears sunglasses all the time. One eye is looking straight while the other does whatever it feels like.

''It's Not About Money, It's About Sending A Message'' - Joker

My daughter, once a huge Marvel fan, hated the last Thor and hasn’t mentioned anything related to Black Widow or any of them since. Can say I’m disappointed.

Aquafina voice is enough for me not to watch movies if she's in it

If you think Black Ariel is the last straw, wait until you see the live remake of Dirt Brown and the Seven Baristas of Seattle. If it succeeds, it will only be as a comedy.

One example of bad politically correct casting was when the BBC did a documentary recreating and examining the world of Jane Austen. The show was explaining the importance of events such as balls and the nuances of social behavior. It had a recreation of a ball such as Jane Austen may have attended. The documentary lost all credibility when black actors were shown as guests at the ball. While there is rare probability of blacks attending social events at London as representatives of various African kingdoms, it is very doubtful if not completely inaccurate that blacks were guests at a country society events that Jane Austen attended . This was about the level as casting a black woman as Cleopatra on an attempt to claim Cleopatra as black. It's lying about history to appease a very small minority of woke activists.

Parents with kids aren’t ‘easily amused’. They’re exhausted.

It's nice to see Drinker on a Normie's podcast

I became disinterested when i saw Black Panther and Endgame. I was done. Infinity War was the last MCU film I genuinely enjoyed. Not counting Spiderman NWH

I wanna watch Sound of Freedom. But none of my local cinemas are showing it.

I don't think you can trust audience scores for films either, because who are they polling? I rarely ever leave a review of something I liked, but I'll go out of my way to deconstruct something I disliked. There may not be any pressure to audience opinion directly, but many things I've enjoyed have been trashed by other people, usually because they're mad about something political they read into it, or were told to read into it by another reviewer, that I just didn't see or care about whilst being entertained by it.

I actually don’t have a problem with a studio making a movie with the exact same script. As long as the original story is good and they don’t ruin it it’s fine. Theaters that have live plays always do that. To kill a mockingbird and Shakespeare are still being acted on stage with the same scripts and people still go. Everything doesn’t have to be brand new.

We're in the Weimar period.

The problem with the MCU is the same problem that you have when you get uncontrollable diarrhea: It doesn't stop, there's more than you ever thought there could be, and you know it'll never end.

They purchased marvel and Lucasfilm to have an IP that appeals to men. Which it did, at the time. Then they stopped making the films for men and tailored it more for women and the woke crowd. It doesn’t really make much sense. Women were attending the movies. Now they don’t.

People are yearning for movies with a real ( non-woke) message, that's why The Sound of Freedom is so successful at the moment.

The fact that Disney isn't pumping the brakes is very sobering. It's not about the money.

The cruela movie was fantastic. The visual artistry of it, especially the use of colors was just excellence

I gave Disney the benefit of the doubt for the Beauty and the Beast remake. “Maybe some people aren’t into animation and would prefer live-action”. Then you see the anti-creative, politically motivated, changes perverting the story and moral foundations. Modern Disney is an abomination.

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The MCU had hits and misses in the first 3 phases but they managed to rally the audience along the way with team-ups and big reveals. Once they shifted to identity and sexuality messaging, they stopped having those big waypoints.

Hollywood will be fine. There'll be flops, there will be hits. Studios will have ups and downs, they will annoy us, they'll entertain us... However, any apocalyptic predictions are wishful thinking. I understand it, I really do, but the machinery (even with layoffs) will keep going.

The Sound of Freedom, a must see.

I also think that besides the politics (which have been a huge deterrent for me) us millennials are ready to move on from mourning the past. All those remakes and sequels appealed to us because life was hard and we missed our childhoods. Now, even though life is still hard and maybe even harder, member berries don’t work for us anymore… we see that we can not successfully go back to the past. Like in Pet Semetery, things keep coming back wrong. Now that we have children of our own, we want them to have new properties WITH SOULS that they can imprint on and we can enjoy with them. We’re all ready for new properties, new characters, new franchises. Give us something we’ve never seen before. What’s dead should stay dead. We’re ready to look to the future

Thing is... Disney... The Walt Disney company has pretty much unlimited money. They will suffer a bit here and there, but they will never fall completely.

The wokeness at Disney has gotten so bad they're replacing Dwarves in snow white. Except one problem. The Dwarves in snow white are the Germanic mythical creatures called Dwarves... Not people with Dwarvism. They're so blind to their own cause they can't tell mythical creatures from real life anymore.

Have you read about the link between ESG scores and financing/interest rates on loan? I wonder if this could be driving some of the decision making at the major Hollywood studios

My parents couldn't afford to buy me Disney when I was a kid, so I'm really not losing anything now.

In my experience, women are watching these movies. Women either have bad taste in films or enjoy being pandered to

I must confess to a degree of fatique in the Marvel Franchise, where I didn't watch Infinity War/End game. I think Black Panther was showing in a different hall. The lead character lives in one outing, dies in the next. It just brought the lack of consequences into sharp focus. With gods like Loki in that universe it just felt meanless...

I'm boycotting any movie with an agenda get politics out of movies and video games.

Fear not independent film companies are all over the country now great movies will keep rolling they wont even be missed.

Disney has done more damage to their own side in the culture war, and I'm all for it.

If I were to put it in a word, I would call it the economics of spectacle. We have reached a point where notoriety can be a substitute for quality. This can be profitable for companies with enormous marketing budgets and valuable historical copyrights. It's proven to be a desperate short-term hit and miss strategy. The company is effectively feeding on itself using low risk guarantees, which erode the value of each franchise they dig up. This will eventually exhaust the enthusiasm and nostalgia of what is left of their fan base as they repeatedly disappoint them and slowly run out valuable re hash material to poltically bastardize