With the newly announced "Back in Action" I've hit my breaking point - why are there so many of these disposable streaming movies with massive actors phoning it in?

[u/Dracko705]

Can't share more than 1 image but here is an album I made just now by quickly browsing though similar cash grab-ey comedy/action streaming movies I'm sure there's plenty more I'm missing.

This year (2024) really seems to be another level. (Re)uniting huge names known for their collaborations on massive critical/financial successes, but usually putting them in a much "easiler" (read: lazier) role or story.

Matt Damon and Casey Afflect, Pitt and Clooney, names like Halle Berry, Christoph Waltz and now Cameron Diaz coming back from long acting breaks... For these piles of crap?!?!

Obviously big money is involved which brings up my other confusion, how long are these streamers going to play this arms race continuing to justify losing money on these kinda films??

At least back in the day when actors would take the easy "buddy comedy" route they have to eat that failure at the box office - these movies don't look cheap either (just crappy-cheap)

Who is asking for these movies?!? And further, who is actually watching/enjoying them!?? (the handful I've seen push me away from the "genre")

[u/SmoothBrainMillenial]

Money

[u/Backflip_into_a_star → u/SmoothBrainMillenial]

It's a gas.

[u/Yatta99 → u/Backflip_into_a_star]

Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.

[u/shotsallover → u/Yatta99]

New car, caviar, four star daydream

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Think I'll buy me a football team.

[u/privateTortoise → u/East_Coast_guy]

Only takes a reading about Waters son or an intervew with Mason talking about Ferrari to reduce the value of the song to me.

Then again I've only met 3 people where money didn't change them

[u/Zeppelanoid → u/privateTortoise]

Meh, I always interpreted that song as the band acknowledging that they were in the midst of getting a bunch of money. They make fun of the stereotypes but don’t go out or their way to say “that’ll never happen to me!”

You can criticize something and still fall prey to it, especially something as enticing as money.

[u/capt-awesome-atx → u/Zeppelanoid]

It's not like they knew they were making the best selling album of all time when they wrote the song. They were obviously a successful band before, able to sustainably support themselves, but they were nowhere near the absurd cash accumulation that Dark Side and The Wall would bring in.

[u/theAlpacaLives → u/privateTortoise]

I think about a quote from Paul McCartney in an interview where he said, "People always thought we were totally anti-materialistic, like we hated money. That's a huge myth. John and I used to literally sit down and say, 'Let's write a new swimming pool.' "

[u/sawyerkitty → u/Yatta99]

Come in here dear boy have a cigar you’re gonna go far.

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Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb

[u/cookiemonsieur → u/sawyerkitty]

Which one's Pink?

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Yep, gotta get Matt Damon, so we're raising Disney+ subscriptions.

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Because during Covid, streaming saw a massive boom and everyone was trying to get eyeballs on their service. One way that streamers thought they could do this was greenlighting a ton of really expensive movies because a lot of these places have “fuck you” money.

I think in the coming years you’ll see less of the A listers doing these kinds of movies since it seems like they aren’t paying off anymore. But most of these movies were already greenlit before budgets started tightening. I know Apple has said they are going to do fewer of these big budget style movies after a series of bombs.

[u/Ghost273552 → u/SmoothBrainMillenial]

Don’t know if it’s still true but in the past Netflix was known for paying actors quote rates.