• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    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.

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    29 days ago

    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. »

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      28 days ago

      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.

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        28 days ago

        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.

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    29 days ago

    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.

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    29 days ago

    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?

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      29 days ago

      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.

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        29 days ago

        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!

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          28 days ago

          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.

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            28 days ago

            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!

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    29 days ago

    roughly $100 million to market and distribute.

    And yet this is the first time I’m hearing that it’s out

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlOPM
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      29 days ago

      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.

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    29 days ago

    That’s okay. In a year or two they’ll call it a “cult classic” and make another anyway.