Looking at YOU, Williams Street/Warner Bros.

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    I’m so fine with them killing off as many franchises as possible. Might force them to make an original movie again.

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          I’m not sure I mind that. The last one was pretty good. Not sure about the spinoff as I stopped watching it after two eps maybe.

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            The Caprica spinoff, you mean? It was really slow for most of the season, suddenly picked up at the end and got really good, and then it was canceled.

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        This 100%. It’s still an IP that they own and when it’s brought out of the vault it’s new to a bunch of people and nostalgic to others

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      It’s funny how people say this, yet when original movies come out, nobody goes to see them. Disney is a good example. People bitch that Disney only makes sequels and reboots and doesn’t make original movies anymore. Yet the original movies they’ve released over the last 2 years have flopped and people don’t go see them. Strange worlds, wish, etc all failed. And the moment they release a sequel it makes a billion in the box office.

      It’s no wonder they make more sequels than originals. They’d be stupid and bad at business if they didn’t.

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        But those movies simply weren’t good.

        Wikipedia even states that Strange World partly bombed because of poor word-of-mouth (which I definitely believe). And Wish got video essays and articles en masse about how it didn’t deliver.

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            wtf is “doing anything” in this context? is it becoming a massive globe spanning multi billion dollar company and making movies cuz i think most people would be down for that if they could. regardless heres something YOU could do: stop licking the boots of a corporation.

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              Obviously we movie goers aren’t making the kinds of movies we want to see. We need to be the change and be the movie makers which we have no experience, skill or possibility of being. It’s so simple that it’s fucking crazy.

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              So you skipped the comment I replied to talking about word of mouth, essays, and other forms of spreading news. Or even yes how about getting off your ass and making one. You think every director or movie was made and spread by studios. You people have no idea how to help yourselves.

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                first off, what fucking comment? second u are completly delusional if u think any significant number of people can just make a movie on that scale, if at all. Just a sheer lack of knowledge about the amount of money an equipment and labor it takes to make even short films let alone an entire movie.

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            So what, we’re supposed to watch and support poor quality media in the hopes that eventually a piece gold shows up in the turd pile?

            No, if they make good content people pay for it, if they don’t make good content then they can’t whine.

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    In theory it helps by funneling fans between The Avengers, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, for which they have refined the process of pumping out content and merchandise with lower cost and risk

    declining ticket sales

    In practice people just stop going to the movies

    But hey, I guess the profit margins are better

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    Yeah, but think of the profits when people have absolutely forgotten the original release and the movie can just be recast 30 years later and passed off as original.

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    Ah yeah the famed “cross generational fandom” upon which Hollywood is so dependent.

    Don’t they just put an ad on the side of happy meal box to create the hype they need ?