Haven't watched the movie, but I'm sure a lot of the reason why movies like this are so much duller and more generic in their feel is that Hollywood realized that as international audience revenue grew at the box office they would have to cater to them to maintain profit margins. This has led to major studios only pushing for safe investments and shying away from topics, subjects and imagery that might be deemed offensive in some of the larger markets like China.
As the creatives have less and less control in big budget movies we've seen them become tamer in their film-making approaches as they don't want to be punished for wasting filming dollars on scenes they know will be cut by the studio. Add to that the increased use of statistics to pre-screen for elements they know will appease the broad audience and they've honed holly big budget movies down into a narrow subset of extremely sameish-feeling excuses for action, physical comedy and large explosions, which are all things that translate well across language and cultural barriers.
So while they've increased their share abroad and held onto the mass market domestically they've willingly let go of the intellectuals amongst us who have ourselves benefited from a resurgence of thought-provoking television, whose long-form allows for far greater character and plot development and tackling of the issues than any two movie romp could ever do. The sad fact is that as a percentage of the market those with discriminating tastes can't influence the box office that much, but at least we can binge watch a few quality shows every now and then, or reminisce about how much better Robocop was than the reboot.
why man
robocop was better.
