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ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 weeks agoWith the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.
There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They understand, but they also understand that when they need to make something new, and the old classic already had a complete story, their best chance to make money is off of something familiar. So not Tom Bombadil, but that’s how we ended up with Solo: A Star Wars Story and every Terminator after 2.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.
Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Even Terminator 2 changed the time travel rules established in the first movie, but at least it felt like its ideas were still original. And I didn’t even mind Terminator 3.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
THANK YOU, I always feel I’m the only one who acknowledges that. Don’t get me wrong, I like T2, but it completely broke what was established in T1. I do understand why, you can only do that twist once, after the audience knows time is a loop you can’t add meaningful stories because there are no stakes. But it’s still annoying, that they undid one of the major things of the first movie.