Comment Re:It's What the Audience Wants (Score 1) 100
What evidence do you have for that? The two biggest recent movies were Oppenheimer and Barbie, and both were utterly unique as movies. The biggest bombs were The Marvels (derivative of a comic book (with characters no one ever cared about)), Dial of Destiny (gender-swapped zombie of a 40-year-old franchise), and Shazam 2, all, not at all coincidentally, poorly-written, cynical cash grabs. Which deservedly failed at the box office. Barbie was generally an awful movie, but it was certainly inventive.
Hollywood has gotten incredibly tone-deaf, they repeat the same mistakes over and over, and don't appear to care one whit about what people want to see.