Yay the IP owners made lots of money on another ugly live action remake. So fucking what?
How is what a movie makes matter to the audience? Besides “ohhh it sold lots so it must mean it’s good and not the most generic, inoffensive, mass marketed, nostalgia bait”
Do fans really get off knowing how much they enriched some CEO?
“ohhh that thing I watched and like made some corporate owner a few more million dollars to by another fucking yacht, while lobbying politicians to remove humans from the creative process as fast as fucking possible with Ai. Yay!”
Stop paying attention to sales numbers as a sign of quality. That’s capitalist Stockholm syndrome.
ohhh it sold lots so it must mean it’s good
That has never been true at all. Good movies can flop at the box office, and mediocre or outright bad movies can make $1 billion. Your last paragraph is 100% correct. Box office is a measure of popularity, not quality.
How is what a movie makes matter to the audience?
It means we will get similar movies like this one, for example.
When you buy a movie ticket, you are casting your vote for that movie. You’re sending a message to the studio that says, “Yes, we want more films like this.”
The message to take away here is, if people want to see more original, quality-driven movies (and not endless IP-driven sequels and remakes), then they need to go support them at the cinema.
Is it a remake or a sequal?
Live-action remake.
