After all the comic book reboot and crossover (variant covers) madness of the mid-90s, I lost interest in comic book stories, so aside from the occasional show or comic movie I get in to, I'm no longer invested in the content being created, but I agree that there's enough content to be mined for a long time, but that doesn't mean the creatives behind these projects won't muck it up. See Alex Kurtzman's Spider-Man or the Dark Universe (or anything he touches including Star Trek).
There's two arguments here, there's the commercial and the artistic. Why did Westerns die-off and get played out is somewhat a different discussion than the artistic decline of Westerns. I like spaghetti westerns of the 60s and the karate (billy jack) and comedy/parody westerns of the 70s. I like sci-fi inspired westerns like Firefly.
There was still good material there, but westerns and movie-going were so popular in the 50s that they had double features and all sorts gimmicky low grade "cinema" being made to fill the demand. There were other factors that killed the big studios and movie-going back then but with all the of remakes, genre spectacle flicks, and even 3D movies being made again, it does make you wonder what kind of moment we're in.
We're in a moment where TV is by far the better medium for telling stories.
Marvel TV has way more potential than what they've done with the movies thus far IMO.
As I said, people think that people who have reputation and money are, or at least should be above such petty things. But his latest piece of 'cinema' ain't in theaters like he wants it to be because not enough people would go see that shyt to justify the budget. How far fetched is it to say that might have influenced his comments?
We needed to make an expensive picture,” says Scorsese. “The movie business is changing hour by hour — not necessarily for the better — and many of the places we would have gone to for funding in the past were no longer viable. Then we started talking to Netflix. We agreed on everything, most importantly that we all wanted to make the same movie. So we went forward.”
"....Scorsese made The Irishman at Netflix largely because it was the only place the movie could get made"
Why Martin Scorsese Made ‘The Irishman’ for Netflix
He's standing in the same line with a bunch of other people from hollyweird lamenting the success "marvel movies" and how unfair it is that nobody wants to give them Guardians of the galaxy budgets for some shyt nobody is going to be racing to go see.
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