Quote: (07-29-2016 07:09 PM)eradicator Wrote:
That is a good reason, they own the license and can potentially market it. I'd say go ahead and make the movie if they can make it for $20M, and then the hard core fans will emerge and see the movie. But spending 150M on rocketeer 2, would seem like a catastrophic mistake.
If you've got an IP with a niche fanbase: spend $8 million, make a TV series, put it on Netflix. You'll get the initial nerd fanbase spiking the viewship, and should have a long tail of undiscerning binge-watching sloths who see it and think "Well, I guess it's something to watch."
The key is to do it cheaply.
Remember when Yahoo thought the online nerds furious obsession with 'Community' was worth sinking
$42 million into and staking their Online Streaming Service around it as the flagship show?
Result?
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What's the reaction to this. Well, obviously, the problem is now there should be a 'Community Movie'.
As Vox Day says,
they always Double down.
They also had something by Paul Feig called 'Other Space' that I've never heard anyone talk about, but, judging by the 'High School Outcast' nature of the cast pics, shows Feig's deep, burning hatred of normality and functionality once again failed to resonate with an audience. The guy is a good investment if you want to repel a mass audience.
This is what SJW's do: they try to elevate the ugly and broken into heroes, because they deeply identify with failure.
The guy who owns the property I'm staying at was watching some new show set in the 80's when I came into his place the other week. (Looked it up: 'Stranger Things'). He was laughing at how retro it was, like it was a mashup of everything he watched as a kid.
I couldn't play close attention, 'cause, dammit, seeing a post-wall Winona Ryder broke my teenage heart.
One thing, however, was he pointed out how the heroine's dumpy, mom-hipped, fading into the wallpaper best friend was a dead ringer for Elizabeth Shue's friend in 'A Night On The Town', which I could see, if you removed all detectable charisma and comedic ability from that character. (It came up recently when his young daughter repeated the 'Don't Fuck With the Babysitter' line).
It's the 'dumpy best friend of the hotter main character' archtype:
80's original:
16's version:
So, looking it up now, what did I see? All the leftist media have seized on this bland, fat character with no detectable charisma (who apparently is
only in the first two episodes), as
the most important character on the show, and is now a breakout star / internet sensation, and I'm seeing the narrative being formed.
Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, The Onion, Vulture, UsaToday, Hitflix, The Mary Sue, The Guardian are all pushing her hard, because she fits the narrative: particularly that she's an innocent victim of her hotter friend's quest for 'conformity' and 'hanging with the cool kids'.
It's like these sites are run by Goths. Sure, they're listening to Taylor Swift and Beyonce, but, in their heart, they're Cure fans.
And, yes, Tumblr is already doing fan art.
https://www.tumblr.com/search/barb%20stranger%20things
Why? Because ugly, damaged people only have sympathy for the broken, because they can't
imagine aspiration or social functionality.
One of the sites is even calling for her to play something called 'Squirrel Girl'. I'm guessing it's a superhero thing. All that now needs to happen is for some Narrative-Obsessed Executive to notice the hype, and sink $80 million into a movie with her as the lead, thinking it's what the mass audience, and not a tiny, sour and broken minority want.
It seems obviously-stupid to us, but
it could happen.
So, what are we left with with "The Rocketeer"? An expensive, would be tentpole based around an oppressed double minority fighting sexist and racists Nazis during World War II?
This sounds awfully familiar. Wasn't this a superhero show the Feminists were going on about recently as evidence why 'Ghostbusters' would work?
Quick research later: Yeah, something called Agent Carter, which was apparently related to those big Marvel Movies, so, as mass market culture as you can get, and was about a Strong Female Character that audiences 'get to know
as a person first, superhero second'. Result?
First double episode: 6.91 million viewers.
Second episode: 5.10.
Eighth Episode: 4.02.
The media starts talking about how it would be Sexist and Racist to cancel the show now because it needs to show all of the Asian and African American Women War Heroes that totally existed.
Ninth Episode: 3.18
Eighteenth and Final Episode: 2.35.
Cancelled.
The media now start flailing about speaking about how 'important' this is, and saying someone should take it to streaming. Whereas, I'd look at those numbers and think "Why invest in something that it's obvious no-one wants but the media?"
This is the fundamental problem. Hollywood has a broken world view based upon Groupthink, and has no idea of basic functions of entertainment, such as how to be exciting, funny or inspirational, which is why I never sit still long enough to watch full movies or tv shows anymore, (a mate now calls the part where the movie starts going to shit as 'The Bosch Wanders Off' moment). It can only sell a Leftist Narrative, and when its shown audiences don't respond, they're incapable of admitting their worldview is wrong, so only know how to double down.
Someone really needs to put together an Information Package for the Japanese and Chinese Owners and Investors of Movie Studios, to explain to them what Social Justice is, how it infects their organisations and destroys their product, and how it can only lose them money.