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You can make more money with a flop than with a hit!
I get this reference
Imagine making 20 millions as a director to lose 200
Meh the director already got paid. Producers are taking the monetary hit on this one. Probably won’t be a good sign for the director’s career moving forward though.
I’m sure he’ll survive, somehow.
Yes, the director definitely got his salary, but the money is still going to be lost by the studio
Fuck it, I’d do it for $2 mil.
I mean he also made the first one that made a billion.
Good point
I liked the movie a lot.
Yeah it would have worked if they waited another 5 years before trying to beat the horse for nostalgia value. They were impatient.
People saw the first film as a novel concept with a new exciting take on a classic character. People are going to see the sequel as something… not fresh.
Exciting is not a word I would use to describe the Joker movie.
From stairs dancing to shooting talk show hosts, I think a lot of people would disagree with you.
The penguin origin story is another shoe-in I feel. I don’t see it mentioned often. Is it decent it drab?
No, the Penguin is actually really good.
I see, thnx!
In an interview Todd Philips said he and Joaquin had no plans for a second movie until Joaquin had a dream about doing a second movie
Maybe dreams should actually remain memes.
It was actually not bad. It stumbled on the ending but did a lot of things well for the DC universe’s « La La Land. »
I haven’t seen it but was looking forward to it until I heard it’s a musical. Just why
Apparently the director didn’t want to do a sequel so he came up with a bad idea that he thought the studio would never go for, but they did.
I have heard this too, but I think it could also be that the director kinda got lucky with the first movie. I enjoyed the first movie, but it didn’t really feel original, it just seemed to borrow ideas from other movies and those ideas just worked cohesively enough. None of Todd Phillips other movies feel that original either.
Hey, completely unrelated, but based on your username you might like !dragonball@ani.social
Thank you, and subscribed
Didn’t even know this movie had been announced until I’d heard it was bombing. I never watched the first one so odds were pretty slim I’d have seen it anyway.
I just don’t understand. The first was a novelty that did surprisingly well, I had no expectation that this would be anywhere as successful. Who’s making these estimates?
I don’t think a Joker movie is really much of a novelty? Just a superhero film that looks at an origin story for the most popular comic villain of all time.
Compared to most movies… it was weird. I enjoyed my time with it but didn’t care what happened after the credits rolled. I don’t know anyone that was looking forward to this, most didn’t even know about it.
At least the first one had the stairs meme!
I loved the first one. The second one I immediately did not care about the moment I heard that it was a musical. At first I thought they were joking.
Don’t get me wrong, the first was a good movie! It was also what I expected going in: a slow character piece about some guy turning into a crazy Batman villain.
I didn’t know the sequel was a musical, what an odd decision!
roughly $100 million to market and distribute.
And yet this is the first time I’m hearing that it’s out
It’s because you use uBlock Origin and don’t subscribe to cable.
Plus, you’re on the Fediverse, where there are even less opportunities for advertising than centralized social media.
It’s still regularly discussed on this community
True. Maybe @rothaine@beehaw.org isn’t a regular member of this community.
That’s okay. In a year or two they’ll call it a “cult classic” and make another anyway.