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Seems people are sick of franchises

posted 7 years ago by [deleted]
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underperforming

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/film-franchises-cost-millions-box-office-despicable-me-transformers-pirates-of-the-caribbean-a7822756.html

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Well, Hollywood make movies for Asia (read: China) nowadays. Asians do love franchise movies.

You Americans get sick from just what, 5 or 6 sequels? Look at the Japanese Godzilla (Gojira) franchise. It has, like, 30 sequels already!

And unlike James Bond franchise which has (slightly) different stories and varying directions, those Gojira films are roughly the same exact thing over and over again.

I think Hollywood's franchise movie sequels are doing all right in Asia. The problem is not the amount of sequels, but the overwhelming amount of franchises themselves.

We've had more than 20 sequels for James Bond and we were fine. But right now, along with Bond franchise we also have Bourne franchise, Jack Ryan franchise, xXx franchise and the new kid on the block, the Kingsman franchise. All has virtually the same premise. This is madness! No. This. Is. HOLLYWOOOOOOD!

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

I think the new tomb raider movie will be like the jolie versions.After what i read about the plot,Lara will be moked again by hollywood...such a shame.

[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 7 years ago

Franchises in all forms. Those restaurant franchises that do not pay $15/hr. wages and movie franchises that are being milked to make money instead of quality.

[–] PresidentAckbar (1289) 7 years ago

choco cake choco cake eat so much get a tummy ache

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

it doesnt really matter... these movies are just ads for the merchandise, toys and such... The studios make multiples of the ticket sales on those deals...

[–] TandyMan (10673) 7 years ago

The trilogy really is the best format for me. Three movies and i'm done. First movie is always great. Cool. A sequel? Sure, l could have another round. Maybe it was good, maybe it was bad. Then you want to see if either they can get it right next time, or you want to see them wrap it up with a good sendoff. Three is Puh-Lenty.

[–] napsdufroid (2077) 7 years ago

Even trilogies are too much in a number of cases.

[–] Barclays (960) 7 years ago

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[–] Kentry (45) 7 years ago

Good point about the Trilogy thing. :) I myself wrote a semi Trilogy, The Cocaine Addict, The Protest, and Taking Down Rob Patterson. TCA is briefly mentioned in TP and TDRP, but TDRP is definitely the sequel to TP. I think I have a SEMI Trilogy since TCA is BRIEFLY mentioned in both TP and TDRP. I know that I wrote TDRP as a direct sequel of TP though.

For example, in The Protest, The Villain Rob Patterson falls off the roof of his school in a botched attempt to force The Protagonist Dave Winston off the roof by lunging at him. Dave moved out the way in a last minute impulse instinct and Rob inadvertently fell off the roof. He ended up going to the hospital. In Taking Down Rob Patterson it was mentioned that Rob was put on crutches after falling off the roof and now, his crutches were gone. In The Protest, Dave tells his friends he used to be a Cocaine Addict. In TDRP, Dave goes to his old drug dealer to pay him to beat up Rob and kidnap him. The old drug dealer declines, saying,"I can get into a lot of trouble for beating and kidnapping! I could be jailed! (And, apparently, he's not worried about the probability of being jailed for selling illegal drugs to high school teenagers. Lord have mercy! ;)) But he offers to sell Roofies to Dave, telling him that he could give Roofies to Rob himself and then beat him up himself. Dave buys the Roofies, slips it into Rob's Pepsi and beats up Rob himself.

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 7 years ago

There are plenty of good original stories out there, studios are afraid to take on chances.

[–] Barclays (960) 7 years ago

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[–] Kazak (2030) 7 years ago

There's not a lot of vision anymore, just a lot of recycling and regurgitating ideas, and it comes off stiff. Yes, people are sick of it.