Either nerds are destroying it
http://www.standbyformindcontrol.com/2013/05/are-nerds-destroying-the-movie-industry/
Article has more but a lot of people who were called a nerd back then are more often taken aback by the sophistry-laden sappy maudlin soap opera wearing the thinnest veneer of sci-fi trademarks.
And based on viewing figures, since when do nerds give a crap about how many like something just for the sake of liking it?
After all, pictrures tell a thousand words:
Spot on, that...
Especially when the original Tron didn't have the plot problems its sequel had. Those who didn't recognize it are probably not nerds. If it has to be spelled out, the original Tron was cognizant of CPU clock cycles being faster than how humans act in real time. The sequel is blissfully overlooking that. Any nerd will know that just as much as an infant knows it has soft mushy bits going in and out and will cry if those bits stop moving because, you know, breathing is cool. Maybe a nerd helped write the original, there's plenty in it to enjoy for nerds and non-nerds and just about anybody...
Um, that pretty much spells it out point blank that these alleged nerds either stopped being nerds, or never were to begin with. QED. BFD.
Or they're alleged to run it and I'll explain why that's bunkum in a moment:
https://gen.medium.com/the-decade-comic-book-nerds-became-our-cultural-overlords-f219b732a660
Excerpt:
Really, John Steed and Cathy Gale had that much of an impression on folks? Really?
Other way around, actually. Most nerds have been bleating against this...
Wait, new movies instead of remakes or reboots? *gasp* That's an incredibly original idea! If not screamed by numerous people for over a decade now... so that already is one reason nerds aren't running the industry that doesn't involve learning the wheel again...
A lot of nerds - apart from not taking old properties and "dumbing down" them for mass consumption and using nostagia as stated above - tend to be oblivious or unaware of mainstream neurotypical audiences* and often want to see or create a vestige of scientific accuracy or more complex concepts, or look for plot nuances or problems, which is why sci-fi and fantasy are often deemed mutually exclusive... though some nerds like fantasy and they'll sit there and fathom how a light saber might work whereas fantasy in of itself doesn't care how it works. There's a entirely different set of rules, though as most franchises are combination of the two - all while taking care not to bend the rules excessively, or at least finding something of interest to compensate. That's why it becomes interesting when a ship is hiding inside a sun or black hole and figuring out the laws of physics needed to keep the ship from burning up, blowing up, or being torn apart by gravity (having a FTL engine can also help since nothing else could begin to withstand the forces of a black hole...) But there were far more actual nerds writing for TOS and TNG, Doctor Who, and even 1979 Buck Rogers have more than many sci-fi/fantasy shows and movies circa 2000-present... though the scraps nerds have gotten have been pretty great indeed...
* assuming nerds are all not neurotypicals to begin with, that's a separate issue altogether and many probably are
http://www.standbyformindcontrol.com/2013/05/are-nerds-destroying-the-movie-industry/
Article has more but a lot of people who were called a nerd back then are more often taken aback by the sophistry-laden sappy maudlin soap opera wearing the thinnest veneer of sci-fi trademarks.
And based on viewing figures, since when do nerds give a crap about how many like something just for the sake of liking it?
After all, pictrures tell a thousand words:
nerds
not nerds
Spot on, that...
Especially when the original Tron didn't have the plot problems its sequel had. Those who didn't recognize it are probably not nerds. If it has to be spelled out, the original Tron was cognizant of CPU clock cycles being faster than how humans act in real time. The sequel is blissfully overlooking that. Any nerd will know that just as much as an infant knows it has soft mushy bits going in and out and will cry if those bits stop moving because, you know, breathing is cool. Maybe a nerd helped write the original, there's plenty in it to enjoy for nerds and non-nerds and just about anybody...
Um, that pretty much spells it out point blank that these alleged nerds either stopped being nerds, or never were to begin with. QED. BFD.
Or they're alleged to run it and I'll explain why that's bunkum in a moment:
https://gen.medium.com/the-decade-comic-book-nerds-became-our-cultural-overlords-f219b732a660
Excerpt:
Really, John Steed and Cathy Gale had that much of an impression on folks? Really?
Other way around, actually. Most nerds have been bleating against this...
Wait, new movies instead of remakes or reboots? *gasp* That's an incredibly original idea! If not screamed by numerous people for over a decade now... so that already is one reason nerds aren't running the industry that doesn't involve learning the wheel again...
A lot of nerds - apart from not taking old properties and "dumbing down" them for mass consumption and using nostagia as stated above - tend to be oblivious or unaware of mainstream neurotypical audiences* and often want to see or create a vestige of scientific accuracy or more complex concepts, or look for plot nuances or problems, which is why sci-fi and fantasy are often deemed mutually exclusive... though some nerds like fantasy and they'll sit there and fathom how a light saber might work whereas fantasy in of itself doesn't care how it works. There's a entirely different set of rules, though as most franchises are combination of the two - all while taking care not to bend the rules excessively, or at least finding something of interest to compensate. That's why it becomes interesting when a ship is hiding inside a sun or black hole and figuring out the laws of physics needed to keep the ship from burning up, blowing up, or being torn apart by gravity (having a FTL engine can also help since nothing else could begin to withstand the forces of a black hole...) But there were far more actual nerds writing for TOS and TNG, Doctor Who, and even 1979 Buck Rogers have more than many sci-fi/fantasy shows and movies circa 2000-present... though the scraps nerds have gotten have been pretty great indeed...
* assuming nerds are all not neurotypicals to begin with, that's a separate issue altogether and many probably are
