Deadpool was a success because the people who made it did what everyone who makes superhero movies *should* do. They read the comics and said "I'll make this movie." They didn't read a three paragraph wikipedia summary of decades of stories and say "I'll make this movie." Anyone who intends to write, direct or star in a superhero movie should be required to take a test about the source material, and if they fail they're locked in a bunker full of comics and only let out to try the test again.

"those pg-13 ratings have been holding us back from the authentic wolverine experience we all deserve" and then it turned out that it totally was

Why they keep making Tarzan, Peter Pan, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, etc, movies? Two words: Public Domain. They don't have to pay for the rights to the characters. It's also why Disney makes movies based on theme park rides. They already own the rights. I'm surprised this video didn't point these facts out.

...and then Logan turned out to be pretty damn good, so now there's *definitely* going to be more R-rated superhero movies.

I'm pretty sure series of unfortunate events isn't about magical children. Just children with shitty lives.

Not really. The new Ghostbusters did bad because: 1. Nobody really wanted a remake of Ghostbusters. 2. It had a trailer that made it look like a straight to DVD movie. 3. It is mediocre at best. 4. Their whole marketing campaign was "Watch this movie or you are a misogynistic sexist pig" (even if you are a woman). The lesson Hollywood should learn from that is STOP INSULTING YOUR AUDIENCE. And work on your posture man, my neck hurts from just looking at you.

Logan turned out better then anyone expected it to. Best wolverine movie by far.

If you watch this now...your take on Logan and R rated superhero flicks doesn't look so strong.

What we need are more lower-budget movies in the various genres. Make more $20 million dollar Westerns instead of a $200 million dollar western, etc.

Bend It Like Beckham is a woman-led sport movie that is pretty well-loved and actually like... a really good film with a lot of poignant things to say about culture and gender.

Couldn't have been more wrong about Logan

Yeah.... about that R rated Wolverine movie... 🤔

I think the next Hollywood blockbuster should be a rated-R teen musical about a post-apocalyptic Earth ruled over by dragons that can only be saved by Squirrel Girl. Damn, I should get to writing this, I'll make bank....

It's very simple, just have a good story.

It has nothing to do with the “type” of movie. It has everything to do with uninspired writing and plots. Any genre can be a hit, just stop rehashing overused tropes and plots. That being said....it’s not easy to pull new ideas for movies from a hat that’s bled out.

"Exploitation is the lens through which Disney views the world." So true.

Why isn't he mentioning Django: Unchained when he talked about 'modern Westerns'

To be fair... the R-rated Wolverine could mean that we get a fight that would involve Wolverine regenerating entire sections of his skin through the fight or something like that... and honestly... it was kind of annoying that in literally EVERY X-MEN movie ... Wolverine's claws would remain bloodless despite him literally stabbing people with small swords.

Logan was great

Ender's Game flopped because it was terrible. The book was fantastic; the movie... Not so much. That said, no one could have made that movie well. It was too mental. Some books can't be made into movies.

Dear Cracked, Why do you keep coming out with just enough good content to keep your awful content from driving me away? WHY? Loved this.

Failure to Dragon, The Pink Dragon, Nanny McDragon, Dragon at the Museum, National Dragon, The League of Extraordinary Dragons, Pete's Dragon, the Jungle Dragon, Dante's Dragon, The Dragon Witch Project, and my personal favorite, Dragon's of the Caribbean.

I feel like Logan does need to be R rated to get the full effect.

Great video. But it's amazing how far off the mark he ended up being. Logan was fantastic. Probably one of the best Marvel movies ever made.

Hollywood doesn't fucking read anymore. That's the problem. It's obvious when you realize that the different remade remakes of once book-based movies are actually based off EACH OTHER nowadays, rather than the original material.

How to train your dragon did well unlike some of the other dragon movies

There's a book called 'A Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives'. It analyzes a whole bunch of different things and shows that they're just random. One chapter is about how the public responds to media. It's random. Truly, completely random. For every huge-budget star-studded runaway box office smash hit... there is a low-budget nobody-filled runaway box office smash hit. For each of those big budget films full of stars, there is also a big budget film full of stars that was a catastrophic flop. For every Titanic, there is a Waterworld and a My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding. There really is nothing you can do to give a film a better chance of success. Bigger budgets don't help, famous stars don't help, particular genres don't help, etc. I believe they looked at over 50,000 different aspects of movie production and found no statistically significant factors that could predict a movies success. But, Hollywood is made of people. People with careers. In an industry where the careers of executives are determined by whether they "know what the public wants." As a result, superstitions proliferate like crazy. That's what humans do when there isn't actually any pattern to something - they invent fake patterns. So when an executive gets lucky, they grab onto that lucky roll of the dice and they ride it for all it's worth. They even believe it themselves, telling themselves that they have their finger on the pulse of the publics tastes. But, they don't. So their followups inevitably fail. It's only because they have an extremely high degree of control over what makes its way into theaters in the first place that they're able to be financially successful. The book even looked at the performance of various executives, and found that the ones held up as "geniuses" had no better than random performance either. In almost all cases, the big successes that they were credited with were actually projects started by the exec that came before them that just finished production and got released as the 'genius' took the reins. Then when their own projects started coming out, copycats of what they saw work before, flopped and everyone said "their hot streak was over." It's not just movies, this happens across all forms of media. The Harry Potter books got turned down by 9 publishers before someone took a chance on it. How can book publishing executives by so catastrophically incompetent? Because there's nothing to be competent in. They're rolling dice, and that is all they can EVER do. Analysis can't tell us what movie to make or what book to publish... but it can tell us to cut the salary of those executives by 90% and stop looking up to them as "tastemakers."

He was right in everything he said except R rated wolverine was one of the best super hero movies ever made.

I love Peter Pan 2003. I wish that was still a thing.

How could you forget about Dredd when you were mentioning R rated movies?! One of the best R-Rated comic book movies that's come out in the past half decade and nobody knew it had come out thanks to Lions Gate barely advertising it, and that's the reason why we're not getting a sequel.

We do want R rated Superhero movies, but good ones.

haha Logan was awesome your prediction sucked

Divergrent wasn't that great of a book. It was okay. But then they deviated so far from the books with Insurgent that it was like. Yeah, you are gonna ruin what little good this book had with this. There was like 45 minutes of stuff in the movie that wasn't in the book. Like really? You aren't even trying to make an adaptation at that point.

so basically: 1. More women 2. Stories > genre

but Logan did turn out pretty amazing

Dungeons and Dragons the movie was a total farce in the worst ways!

Ender's Game and The Host are NOT like The Hunger Games! Ender was written way before, and is a sci-fi classic. The battle things is never the point. The whole point of the book and the movie is that the treath was imaginary and that humans are the bad guys. and the host is not only one of the best portrais of realistic aliens (with a wrong focus, I admit, but that's kinda of Stephanie Meyer's point), but it has nothing to do with saving the world. When the movie starts, the world has already been conquered.

i want an r rated harley quinn movie

What exquisite banter! I keep laughing and needing to go back 10s...

6:16 A Series Of Unfortunate Events is an AMAZING movie.

Biggest thing lacking on screen right now? Mini-series.

why does every cracked video become a political debate in the comments? the video was about movies

Logan actually ended up being really good. It's definitely one of my favourite movies

Really good work! One of your best vids =) '!!*

Hey! The 1st Dragonheart was awesome.

I fucking love Whip It! It doesn't have any dragons in it though.

Incredible!!! You insight on Hollywood is spot on. I wish some big wigs would watch that

"Everything you always wanted to know about dragons (*but were too afraid to ask)" has to be the premiere Dragon based film.

Reign of Fire. That is all.

Man, is it ironic that this exists on Cracked, a website/show that gets thousands of comments telling them "We don't want this type of video, why do you still make it!?" and yet they still make those videos?

You're right on the Ghostbusters movie. Hollywood never learns I mean we didn't even like Ghostbusters 2 why would we like a remake?

"Those pg-13s have been holding us back from the authentic wolverine experience we deserve" I mean...

Hey Cracked- see that like to dislike ratio? That's what happens when you make an actual video.

I agree with everything but R-rated superheros. I want MORE of that. I want this to be what stems the introduction of some of the best comic book and graphic novel characters. I'm sorry, but a high budget R-rated Spawn, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, or Nemesis. I feel like this is the direction I always wanted superhero movies to go, but was always stuck with shitty pg-13 versions of what I actually wanted.

When he sarcastically takes a shot at Logan not knowing it was going to be pretty good. 😂

I love most videos about movies by Cracked, you are both interesting and funny, a rare gem.

lol, my grandpa and I used to watch Quigley down under together. good times.

Ugh why can't they make all movies that just caters to all of my interests ?! Dang :/

Although correct about many points, sort of missed the other obvious points: Creative Accounting : Hollywood accounting bears no resemblance to real accounting. Whether a movie is a hit or a loss has nothing to do with actual earnings vs expenses. The money is made in the distribution chain not the production houses. They misrepresent earnings on a regular basis inside the USA. Expanding Markets : Movies can be flops in the US but so long as they do well overseas they can be big money makers for the distributors and the producers. The World of Warcraft movie was a flop by normal standards in US sales, but China distribution meant it was a Hit financially.

Django Unchained: Budget $100 million, box office $425 million. Does this guy even movie?

Solid video, and Hollywood will not learn a thing from it

Hey, Series of Unfortunate events was good...

The balance of smugness, dismissive eye rolling and actual facts was pretty much perfect.

But.....How to train your dragon was awesome and did really well.

Worst super hero movie ever is still Fantastic Four

Uh, excuse you. Batman does not always take himself so goddamn seriously. Have you seen the Lego version of Batman? Darkness? No parents?

"Because clearly what was holding wolverine back was the PG-13 rating". How do those words taste now cracked? lol.

Actually Logan was fucking PHENOMENAL

Also we hate shaky cam, but still, I keep throwing up in theaters.

Django Unchained was also really good western movie, actually I feel like he is blatantly missing out parts to it to continue the rest of the rant half way through.

Logan was amazing though

Now THIS is the question I really need answers for!

I liked Dragonslayer....What? No, really I did. Greystoke wasn't that bad either for Tarzan. I'll leave now.

Don't forget that Dragonheart had a direct to video sequel starring the guy who played Francis in malcom in the middle

2018, and this video is still very relevant.

#4 looks kinda dumb now that logan has come out....

why not just name your videos by what you're going to actually talk about. then we'll tell you about the other dragon movies

The amount of money thrown at a movie has become a warning flag to me lately. Almost all my favorite films of all time had really low budgets: The Usual Suspects, Memento, 28 Days Later, Drive, The Thing (1982), Alien, etc. Great movies, miniscule budges for their time.

3:56 Whoa, I literally had a Cutthroat Island poster in my room when I was 7 years old.

awesome vid. here in australia we think hollywood are pretty clueless

...Dragons wide shut... ...Dragons day off... ...The little dragon... ...7 dragons... ...Dragonhead... ...Dragon fever... ...Harry Dragon and the goblet of fire... and you're thinking "Jesus Christ Nikki!" yeah I got that covered too... ...The passion of the Dragon... ...The last temptation of Dragon... ...The son of Dragon... ...Dragon Christ superstar... and who can forget: ...Dragon.

I really do wish Hollywood would make more *good* fantasy movies.

60 million in 1985 would be about 150 million today when factoring inflation. Yeah I know that’s 1 film versus 2 but the biggest differences in budget these days is Star salary.

Watching this in 2017, man oh man were you wrong about Logan.

I cannot like this video enough. Thank you. So much.

A dragon movie you forgot was Pete's Dragon.

I think this is one of the best cracked videos I've seen in awhile!

Thank you for this video.

Pitch perfect 2 has bigger DT gross than MAd MAx? What is wrong with people?

Watching this now he was totally wrong about Logan

I find it funny that my ad for this video was the next Resident Evil movie.

Jack has some good points about the recent Ghostbusters

Somebody show this to the hollyweirdos. Educate them on how to make better movies.

Good points man. Now here's some the list that Hollywood had made billions of dollars while they continue to made movies sucked. 1. Sony needs to stop making bad films with terrible decisions, worst editing cuts, and false advertisements. (Sony! Get your ass straight up and make your studio to be on track! Since "Annie," "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," "Ghostbusters" reboot, "The Angry Birds Movie," "Sex Tape," "The Interview," and every "Adam Sandler" films were the worst decisions that your greedy boss don't give more appreciation! You're losing your intention! I'll be watching you for releasing "Spider-Man Homecoming" next year. So don't! 👁👁☝👉 Sony's 2010's entertainment probably the worst studio ever! Whenever that happened? 2. Stop making found footage films that people are getting tired of seeing this genre. 3. Get Michael Bay outta here before he will harass and rape another "Transformers" film. 4. Abandoned Adam Sandler away from comedy films. (Seriously, it's been done so long so watch something else.) 5. Make R rated action films instead of putting into a kid friendly PG-13 ratings. (Back off teenies! We're making hardcore R rating films since 80's and 90's were the best so back off!) 6. Stop rebooting classic Action films from the 80's and 90's and leave it alone! (No one is not watching Total Recall, Point Break, RoboCop, Terminator Genisys, or any film that Hollywood would make more! Just stop it!) That's all there is.

Reign of Fire was one of my favorite "Fantasy" movies. It had a surreal quality to it, but these weren't "Fantasy" dragons at all, they were biological creatures that had the capacity to periodically clear the planet of all humans, than clear themselves from the planet, with a small number remaining to hibernate, then reemerge for the next cycle. It starred Christian Bale, and Mathew McConaughey... and it was more of a "distopian future" story than "fantasy". I just watched it free on KZfaq. Apparantly it set visual trends for movies like LOTR, and Game of Thrones.

I'll have you know that cutthroat Island was one of the first DvDs i ever owned, and i do not nor will i ever regret that purchase.

''True Grit'' was fantastic. (...just saying.)

Did you just badmouth Blazing Saddles? You sir, are talking without making any sense... randomly picking bad movies then assuming they all suck is pathetic, you've clearly learned the Ted Talk method of nonsense.

"People like stories! Not genres!" OMG yes!! The genres aren't the trends you should be following, Hollywouldifwecould... heh

Hollywood accounting is a place where math doesn't actually exist. For example, Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" is still not in profit despite costing $9m, a box office take of $15m, and tons of VHS, DVD, streaming, and broadcast sales. J Michael Straczynski talked about how he shot "Babylon 5" under budget, it was so popular it proved episodic TV would sell on home video, yet officially still is a loss.