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.
To be clear, it seems you object to the concept of sequels and movie serieses (how do you pluralize “series”?) more than compilations?
Police Academy for $15?! Hell yeah!
Who the fuck is buying Billy Jack on DVD in current year?
Most of the movie compilations and tv series sets in store at Walmart are dvd still. There are some blu-ray ones, but they’re not common and usually only newer releases. Some shows it makes sense, like old 90s Nicktoons or classic series like The Addams Family. Honestly just having a dvd box set is better quality than some streaming apps (The Simpsons when originally added to Disney+ for example)
Is someone forcing you to watch all of these movies? If so, you should probably call the police instead of whinging online.
I don’t totally hate it, personally. More media for the same price, plus physical vs. digital.
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.
Some of those are pretty solid, especially if you catch them on sale. Get that physical media while you can.
Get that physical media while you can.
My pirated copies are just as long-lasting. And a lot cheaper.
The only subscription service I pay for is a VPN … so Comcast internet will stop sending me nasty emails about what I’m downloading.
