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Ikrik:
I totally should have put that point in....because yes he did, and yeah it was amazing.
est:
Why would you bring this to my attention? Do you hate me?
Jesus fucking christ, what the fuck is wrong with movie people.
Boro_Bandito:
Okay, if I ever get the chance to direct a sequel to a movie that was clearly meant to be stand-alone... well I'd probably do it. Unless I had already managed to hit it big I'd probably take anything to direct (except porn, I know someone's gonna say it) that I could get my hands on, even if I was being a hack. Money is money. The film industry is an industry just as much as it is an outlet through which a particular form of art is made. More, even. The majority of people are in movies to make money. I want to be in movies, I'm hoping to be able to make a career in them, at least enough to live off of. Creating masterpieces of film is all well and good, but if you can't get the bills paid... I'm sure in this case its no different, someone wants to get paid and this time around the IP is a casualty of business.
Inlander:
The thing that makes me uncomfortable about the "film industry is just a business" argument is the phenomenal amounts of money being spent, in combination with what seems to be an increasingly low strike-rate in terms of commercial returns. So basically, there's this massive industry which spends a large amount of its time spending what I feel, frankly, are obscene amounts of money, making products that by and large few people actually seem to want. I mean, I'll be genuinely surprised if this movie we're talking about here makes its money back - but I'll also be gobsmacked if that failure makes the industry thing twice about making another pile of dogshit. I know it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges, but it makes me feel almost angry that millions and millions and millions of dollars are squandered in such a way, when with even a fraction of that amount so many of the world's problems could be significantly eased. It makes me think that just maybe society's priorities are a little bit fucked up!
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--- Quote from: Linds on 01 Jun 2008, 12:19 ---Just Say No to Sequels.
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Not all sequels, what about Iron Man, Indian Jones and James Bond?
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That's more of a series to me. (I hate James Bond, though. And the last Indy was supposedly not very good.)
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