Quote from: OpenMaw on Dec 09, 2017, 09:31:04 PM
So no. You guys can stop trying to pin the success or failure on this supposed swarm of fans who hated A:C because it wasn't "Aliens 2." There is no such beast. You're talking about a very small minority of the fan base, and the fan base AS A WHOLE still isn't an effective number of people to hold to having that kind of effectiveness against the box office. No movie is made "for the fans." They're made to be consumed by millions of people who may never have even seen a film before.
I felt the same way, too, even for franchises like
Star Trek and even
Mad Max. That is, most of the audience is from different countries, and likely young, such that they barely know about the earlier movies. That's probably why the recent films for this and other franchises are generally alike: more than two hours long, lots of spectacle and action (plus reliance on A-listers if possible) to make the movie look expensive and thus worth watching on the big screen (both in the theater and at home) as well as to justify high ticket prices, lots of content and cardboard cutout characters to make the stories understandable across various cultures, and borrowing from earlier films (clearly seen in A:C,
Mad Max: Fury Road, and even the first new
Star Wars movie) and focusing heavily on prequels, sequels, reboots, and remakes to speed up development time, etc.
However, it's possible that at some point the industry may implode due to high risks coupled with over-saturation.