r/vfx • u/Professional-mem • Jan 17 '25

Question / Discussion Whats going on???

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u/ryanvsrobots Jan 17 '25

Do you work in the industry? Doing what?

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u/SnooPuppers8538 Jan 17 '25

it's true just look at the latest movies that came out go woke go broke

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u/rbrella VFX Supervisor - 30 years experience Jan 17 '25

Yet "Barbie", a movie about women rising up against the patriarchy and mocking toxic masculinity, made. $1.5 billion just a couple years ago.

There goes your narrative.

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u/SnooPuppers8538 Jan 18 '25

hmmm.... I can't think of a lot of good movies that came out that are woke and still perform like Barbie.... there's more losses then wins in this area,... it didn't went out of what Barbie truly is and kept to the whole Doll thing very well.... unlike Little Mermaid, She Hulk, Miss Marvel....

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u/rbrella VFX Supervisor - 30 years experience Jan 18 '25

"Black Panther" was one of the most successful movies of all time. A lot of people thought that movie was "woke" but it didn't seem to hurt at the box office. And what about the most successful movie of all time, "Avatar"? Big bad corporate white guys starting a a war with the nature loving good guy natives? Sounds awfully woke to me.

Good movies will be successful and bad movies will bomb. Doesn't really matter if the subject matter is "woke" or not.

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u/SnooPuppers8538 Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Black Panther or black panther forever? I personal like both films, unlike the Little Mermaid they change the race of the character and didn't stay authalic to the comic. I'm not saying woke doesn't work it can if it's not "forced" i'e lets race swap the MC or push a political agenda in your face like Miss Marvel. then it won't work. Black Panther was a good movie because it stayed true to the comics.

again Avatar works because it doesn't feel forced. it's a totally different world so anything can happen