Is Cinema Becoming Less and Less Innovative with Time?

Hollywood should be banned from making sequels, prequels and remakes. That way there might be some new ideas for stories. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

Hollywood is dead. It just hasn't worked that out yet.

Direct link to the pdf: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper7806.pdf

Asteroid City. Beau is Afraid. Dream Scenario. Medusa Deluxe. Poor Things. Saltburn. Skinamarink. Smoking Causes Coughing.

Barbie. Oppenheimer.

Soon, The People's Joker, which has been stuck in purgatory since last year given its unconventional telling of a mythos that (on the surface) seems similar to Batman's.

You don't have to like any of these movies, and they're all challenging, but all of them were unconventional and innovative and released to theaters in 2023. This has been a wildly unconventional year, and a fairly exciting one in mainstream cinema.

Oh, wait, what am I arguing against? I read the study, and it says that cinema remains innovative despite discourse arguing otherwise! Indeed.