The point of the image is to showcase how mildly infuriating it is to sometimes be at a store, glancing at the movies available and seeing the amount of compilations. Compilations to series that should never, ever, have piled on more installations than needed. Like American Pie, it is up to 9 movies at the time of this image, could be up to 15 for all I know and that’ll warrant another compilation. Spider-Man, 8 movies, it is going to get about 5 more so it’ll be 13 movies for another compilation.
On and on. Demonstrating how redundantly out of ideas Hollywood or even other film studios are.
I’m not sure if you’re mildly irritated at the compilations themselves, or that the “franchises” involved went way too long.
I’m a f an of compilations tbh. It’s a solid way to snag the whole schmear cheap (usually). I can just choose to ignore the ones I don’t like, same as I did when a given series started going to shit.
Spider-Man though, that’s a different kettle of fish. Comics run for decades, lifetimes in some cases. Movies about the same characters are going to be as likely to have extended production, with as many ups and downs as the comics do (and there are some horrible runs of even the best comic titles).
I’m with you on the laziness and risk aversion that makes 9 American pie movies happen. Or most franchises that start in a similar way. The first was a great movie, but it really didn’t need a sequel, much less multiplies that not only abandoned the characters and what little storyline there was, but stopped putting in effort to good writing.
Not that a successful one-off can’t spawn a decent franchise, it’s just that studios don’t put in the investment to make it happen.
Look at the Bond series. While there have been plenty of stinkers, it was approached as a long term thing early on and has also managed to have some great movies even as it aged. No high art or anything, but still some solid escapist action.