Rabid fans have never truly impacted the box office.
lol what?
Fanbases and memes don’t equal box office success. If it did, Morbius would be a success, Henry Cavill would still be Superman, and Blade Runner 2049 would have had a sequel by now.
I agree with a lot of what you’re opining, especially the 4 quadrant ‘easiness’ of the avatar films. but cherry picking some of the worst products to come out of fandom, and ignoring the literal mutibillions made by marvel and lucasfilm etc., this is just facile. people lined up for weeks to watch and rewatch star wars when it was in the theaters, then again decades later when the prequels came. by the time Endgame came along, people were spending billions.
fanbases and memes may not always equal box office success but they sure as fuck don’t hurt. and get the fuck out of here with that morbius shit, it wasn’t a fan service product it was sony’s desperate squeezing of the IPs they controlled attempting to draft off of actual marvel productions. same re: madam webb. it’s all garbage to retain their hold on the option. see: the terrible FF movies made for the same purpose.
These stinkers do not negate the huge successes fandom from LOTR to Marvel to Lucasfilm to even DC lol.
lol what?
I agree with a lot of what you’re opining, especially the 4 quadrant ‘easiness’ of the avatar films. but cherry picking some of the worst products to come out of fandom, and ignoring the literal mutibillions made by marvel and lucasfilm etc., this is just facile. people lined up for weeks to watch and rewatch star wars when it was in the theaters, then again decades later when the prequels came. by the time Endgame came along, people were spending billions.
fanbases and memes may not always equal box office success but they sure as fuck don’t hurt. and get the fuck out of here with that morbius shit, it wasn’t a fan service product it was sony’s desperate squeezing of the IPs they controlled attempting to draft off of actual marvel productions. same re: madam webb. it’s all garbage to retain their hold on the option. see: the terrible FF movies made for the same purpose.
These stinkers do not negate the huge successes fandom from LOTR to Marvel to Lucasfilm to even DC lol.