Based on how the Jez comments looked in their final days, I’m about 100% certain they just fired everyone who manages them. So, these are the consequences of an online comment board with no maintenance or monitoring.

Not sure the word "logically" belongs in any of your screeds here. Think harder, and more 

A movie that doesn’t even get released is in no way equal to a ‘critically acclaimed’ show that gets cancelled.

The cancelled it like they cancelled our avatars here

...what?

That’s my feeling exactly. There are months where I won’t watch anything on my Shudder but I’ll likely never cut it.

I would suggest targeting any audience that’s large enough. I already gave Shudder as an example, but honestly you could start by looking at cable channels in their heyday. Networks like MTV, Discovery, the History Channel, Cartoon Network, etc. had (AGAIN, IN THEIR HEYDAY) well-defined identities that were all about…

The kids are hungry for old movies! It’s the boneheaded studio execs who wrongly assume there’s no money there.

I could go for some Jedi ass-blasters

No two ways about it. I know it’s been commented on around here ad nauseum but it remains unfathomable to me that they entered the trilogy without everything completely nailed down. Absolute professional malpractice.

Yeah. Star Wars is a great template for space action-adventure with what should be a fairly small dose of the mystical, and you can tell a million stories without ever reusing any of the characters or settings. But they’ll never do that because THING YOU KNOW, I CLAPPED BECAUSE I SAW THE THING I KNOW

Or just fucking go back in time a thousand years and have new characters having adventures during the Old Republic, on planets we’ve never seen before.

Original Screenplay was their best shot at a top tier Oscar for Barbie. Oh sure it’ll get token nominations, but the film has slim chances I think of winning in most categories. For one, it’s lost momentum going into the awards season. It didn’t make a lot of the top ten lists, not because critics are turning on it or…

Ah but that would require research skills and an actual knowledge of movies.  Both of which have become unrealistic expectations here.

Perhaps you should get up and fix yourself a drink?

I agree with most of your point. Though I do think that the biggest impediment was studios not trading the source material with enough respect. There was definitely a idea of “just throw some crap together and toss a super Mario title on it and we’ll print money from it.

more flailing than punching.

I’m unaware of anyone claiming either movie is a financial success (Flower Moon appears to be a solid critical success), but both of those movies were made for AppleTV+. The theatrical run is for awards consideration and whatever $$ they get is a bonus.

It’s pretty simple. Because The Marvels is a failure on the level of what theatrical Marvel movies are supposed to be. And is troubling from the point of view of the health of their entire market segment.

Yikes, does something this self-evident really need to be explained to people? If so, let me add that Wonka has already made $150 mil globally, and is on pace to make more globally than The Marvels by, likely, a hefty amount. It will be more successful irrespective of budgets.