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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 fan 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.

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Calm the hell down. It’s a movie that people took their children to see.

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TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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.

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- BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  It means we will get similar movies like this one, for example.
  
  That’s a negative feedback loop. All it does is reinforce the decisions of the CEO to pump out more slop. Adding nothing but a new genre or style to their checklist of products to pump out.
  
  The take away is that the economy is fucked and people don’t have the money to watch random shit in the theatre. The CEOs see that a viewer choice and the negative feedback loop is going to turn everything into franchises to be milked.
  
  None of this is voting with your tickets.
  
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  - Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Well clearly remakes are what the majority of the audience wants
    
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    boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I guess people don’t have a lot of money to spend on movies so when they go, they go for a safe choice. Personally I haven’t seen any of these remakes in theatres, only go watch a big franchise if it’s something I really enjoy (I absolutely am going to go watch Mission Impossible even though it’s the gazillionth movie) or something new entirely. I actually enjoyed in the lost lands even though it was far from perfect.
    
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thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
it’s not a sign of quality, it’s a sign of what’s to come. these companies will keep putting out things that work. sadly these live action Disney remakes sell very well even though everyone seems to hate them. that’s what this tells us. if not for this info we’d all just be sitting around scratching our heads over why they keep doing them. this at least tells us why.

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