Why we're sick of franchise movies
NO SUCH THING
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we discuss the fatigue people have been feeling around franchise movies, particularly the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But where did franchise movies come from, and how did virtually all of Hollywood become so fixated on this kind of film? Walt Hickey, author of You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything, walks us through the weeds on this, and gets to the bottom of our questions. Walt is also the author of Numlock News.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Manny here. Just a quick announcement before today's episode. No Such Thing is going to be |
| 0:06.3 | publishing on Wednesdays now. Stick around after the episode during the credit sequence where you |
| 0:12.0 | will hear why. We've got a fun announcement. But that's it for now. Enjoy today's episode. |
| 0:18.3 | Hi, Mani. I'm Noah. This is Devin. |
| 0:26.5 | And this is no such thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:27.9 | On today's episode, is it just me or are we sick of franchise movies? |
| 0:35.7 | There's no such thing. No such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:37.6 | No such thing. |
| 0:40.5 | No such thing. |
| 0:42.3 | No such thing. |
| 0:43.3 | No such thing. |
| 0:46.3 | No such thing. |
| 0:51.3 | All right, boys. |
| 0:53.0 | There are a lot of franchise films in theaters right now. |
| 0:58.5 | You've got the new Superman movie. |
| 1:00.5 | You've got the new Jurassic Park movie. |
| 1:02.9 | You've got How to Train Your Dragon. |
| 1:04.9 | You've got the sequel to Megan, M. Thregan. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm looking at the now playing page on AMCtheaters.com, and I would |
| 1:15.2 | say that at least half of the movies on this page are franchise movies. But I'm going to start |
| 1:21.2 | this episode by just kind of like explaining my relationship to franchises, but more specifically |
| 1:27.1 | like comic book franchises. |
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