The carnage extended to other titles, but ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ remain strong.
The whole point of making a costly sequel is it can’t be a total disaster. If nothing else, “Joker: Folie à Deux” proved that is not the case.
Well, if studios can accept that sequels and remakes actually aren’t immune from being flops, maybe they will be more open to considering new ideas? I won’t get my hopes up, but it’s a nice thought.
Technically, the sequel was an attempt to innovate. Who would think to make a jukebox musical for comic book nerds?
And not even like having a good soundtrack like GotG, but Sucker Punch but they replaced the fight scenes with full on musical numbers.
Seems more likely to push them to make even safer financial decisions, like re-releasing the movies that performed well earlier in the year, or pushing out AI video generator content.
“Batman and Robin” has entered the chat.
I can think of a dozen successful science fiction novels that have been in publication as long, or longer than ‘Dune.’ Same thing with mystery series like Kinsey Malone [A is For Alibi] Any of them would have a built in audoence, but the execs will fo with something that’s been tried fifty times before because it’s got a track record.
“John Carter” wasn’t a perfect movie, but it was a fun ride and failed mostly to bad marketing. I would have loved to see more.
I noped out after the first ten minutes.
Here’s a really good one that died at the box office. “The Rhythm Section” with Blake Lively. It had the bad luck to come out in early 2020, right when everything shut down.
It takes all the ‘revenge on terrorist’ tropes and upends them.
Really enjoyed Joker. Didn’t have any desire for a sequel. I feel like this was kinda destined to fail.
I just don’t want to watch musicals.
I’m just shocked to learn it was a musical. I’ve only heard that like within the last 48 hours here on Lemmy. I saw so many ads for this movie and not one of them even suggested there was singing in it.
I’ve heard that pretty early on when it was being announced, which immediately turned me off unfortunately. The first movie was great though.
Something with 5 singing set pieces is a musical now?
Yes, anything above 0 is a musical.
Must be a sad world to live in to not watch The Blues Brothers, Men in Tights, Willy Wonka, or Whiplash.
Whiplash had singing???
JK Simmons pep talks to the students is like music to my ears.
IMDb list one of its genres as Music
Well yes. It has lots of music. I wouldn’t call it a musical in any sense though.
Comedic musical numbers fit well within comedy movies, but doing a drama with musical numbers is antithetical. The singing breaks the fourth wall too much, completely interrupting your suspension of disbelief. It’s impossible to take dramatic things seriously when they’re singing and dancing to/about it. You can break the fourth wall in comedies with music, because nobody watching is taking it seriously enough to think that the movie with the boner jokes can’t have a bit of musical parody.
Man, Todd Phillips and sequels.
