Are you excited to spend the next decade in constant anticipation for a cinematic universe to unfold right in front of your eyes? To watch a movie, in order to watch this movie, so that maybe you can watch this limited show and this other movie? If that doesn’t suit you, are you all aboard with watching your favorite movie or piece of media become a hollow (minus the money bursting out from its shell) and cheap cash grab of sequels and additions? Well if you said yes you can take your leave honestly. This presentation is for the people who care about the life of cinema. It’s to make it loud and known that the way movies are handled in today’s cinema era isn’t okay, healthy, or enjoyable by all standards.

Throughout this presentation I will go over different facets of why I disapprove of today’s handling of IPS. Specifically the Fast & Furious series, the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the MCU/DCEU’s array of movies (and shows). Not whether an installment is necessarily bad but more of, did it really need to be here in the first place? Did F&F really need 10 movies, with another one incoming (I heard it might be the last), did FBAWTFT need 2 more movies that felt like they could’ve been a separate series of installments tackling a different story (sorry I am like really opposed to the direction the franchise took since the 1st movie is one of my favorite movies of all time). And lastly, less about the movies themselves but more of the approach of building a cinematic universe, where many challenges face the consumer and producers. The lives of actors can directly impact either their future relevance to further installments or the universe as a whole. Projects can have improper balance of budget acquisitions which can lead to glaringly obvious gaps of quality between the movies. Much more could be said but for my presentation that’s what I want to go over for the time being.

And for reals lastly, I’ll even give out some of my takes or opinions on some movies I’ve watched in 2025, then other movies I’ve watched throughout my life.