• rothaine@beehaw.org
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    4 hours ago

    roughly $100 million to market and distribute.

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

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    9 hours 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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    8 hours 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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    10 hours ago

    Imagine making 20 millions as a director to lose 200

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    8 hours 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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    9 hours 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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      5 hours 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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        33 minutes 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!