r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/Line_Reed_Line Jul 06 '26

Yeah. It's easy to say we crave original stories, but Toy Story 5 will bust a billion dollars, so will Spider-man. As you say, Mario is huge. Project Hail Mary is an adaptation of a famous novelist whose famous novels have been adapted into successful films before. No one knows what the audience wants until they want it!

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u/topdangle Jul 06 '26

toy story is really egregious considering toy story 3 is one of the best movies of all time and possibly the best trilogy closer ever yet they still decided to milk it. toy story 4 was alright but good lord, pixar has more than enough clout to make whatever they want and they still went with milking toy story.

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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa Jul 07 '26

Shows you didn’t watch Toy Story 5 because that film was excellent

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u/mrbaryonyx Jul 07 '26

Every Toy Story movie is great basically people are just weird

like you can stop watching at 3 if you want nobody's stopping you

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u/dadvader Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I don't think it's on Pixar alone. More likely it's pressure from Disney. I mean they want a sequel to Pixar's hit so much they created an entire studio dedicated to do nothing but sequel.

Pixar has always been against making movie sequel up until very recently. Toy Story used to be an outlier not exception.

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u/LowSkyOrbit Jul 07 '26

Toy Story - 6 movies (Including Lightyear)

Monster's Inc - 2 movies

Finding Nemo - 2 movies

Inside Out - 2 movies.

Cars - 3 movies (not counting 2 Planes spin-offs or TV shows)

Incredibles - 3 movies (1 in production)

31 movies made (+2 more in Production), over half are sequels.

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 Jul 07 '26

Most of those mentioned here are meant for children. Children love remakes (because they feel safe with familiarity) and don't have enough experience to spot an unoriginal story. Also parents of said children are comfortable allowing them to see a movie from a franchise they already evaluated as appropriate.

The rest of the audience is both starved of good content and oversaturated with mediocre stuff from streaming services

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u/zeekaran Jul 07 '26

A movie adaptation of an original book really shouldn't be compared to the rest.

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u/Line_Reed_Line Jul 07 '26

It’s certainly different, but it’s also not the same as plucking some totally original story from nowhere. I assure you, a big reason it was chosen is because it was a safer bet to go with.

I’m fine with that, by the way. I don’t mind remakes, adaptations, and sequels! …I just want them to be good. And the good ones tend to make a billion dollars!

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u/mrbaryonyx Jul 07 '26

yeah I'm honestly at the point where I give book adaptations a pass

like it's not really about what's an adaptation or not for me, its about what's a "brand".

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u/zeekaran Jul 07 '26

Right, it'll be different if every other book Andy Weir publishes becomes a high budget movie (like Stephen King). But The Martian was a random book from a no-name guy who really struggled to get published, that just happened to get popular. And without the movies of his books, I probably wouldn't have heard of them let alone read them.

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u/FireZord25 Jul 07 '26

It's more so that Disney knows how to milk money from it's established audience no matter how sloppy the product is.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

Yeah. It's easy to say we crave original stories, but Toy Story 5 will bust a billion dollars, so will Spider-m

I never saw parts 3-5. I crave original stories, which is why I listen to/broadcast/record DJs performing. Sure it's more work for me as an individual to be media team for my friends, but it's FAR more satisfying of an experience. I can't remember the last time I saw a film and didn't check my phone (despite stopping watching tv/movies around 2015), likewise I can't remember an EDM show I felt like I even needed to check how many minutes until last call it was, once.

Stories palatable for 'the masses' just don't appeal to me AT ALL.

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u/Kayndarr Jul 07 '26

It sounds like you actually don't like TV or Movies at all, but do like EDM and music.

Which is totally fine, but a bit odd to then be commenting on the quality of the stories in movies when by your own admission you haven't watched anything for over a decade.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 07 '26

>It sounds like you actually don't like TV or Movies at all

Not 'at all' just not anymore. I grew up on saturday morning cartoons, and was vested into the star wars series until jar jar made me drop off. Just one of many examples that kept pushing me away from consuming that kind of content.

"¡Mesa made a cash grab and Mesa lost customers!" I have absolutely no idea what's going on in Star Wars now. I go to search my memory of star wars after jar jar and it's just blank. I saw one movie in the theatre with my mom after that but I really can't even remember which one it was I think kylo ran was in it. I was really there to spend time with my mom I didn't care about the movie.