Why did this bomb so bad?

Not sure why it bombed, but there was no 2D version playing in my area save for one theatre which took it off its list after one week.. so I didn't bother, as the friend I was going with has a lazy eye and thus can't watch 3D films.
That and the negative critical reception/other friends' reactions didn't make me particularly keen on seeing it. It also, somehow, looked a lot 'cheaper' than the first film.. not sure what was changed though

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because it didn't feel special or magical like the first one, the first slapped the audience in the face with noir, sexuality, violence and you were grateful for every minute of it.
the second kinda felt like an edited repeat of the first with a few kickass scenes taken out. it just felt a bit washed out or diluted compared to the first.

punishable-by-death, the violence in sin city 2 is not tame, it is really graphic

One of the reasons is that it didn't get made when the audience still wanted it. He put this off for years because he wanted to do "bigger and better" things and when those things didn't pan out he had to come crawling back to his safe franchises. Thing is while people were still interested in Fast and Furious Vin Diesel benefited from coming back to the safety net. But now, audiences are wanting a little more substance to their comic book movies and Sin City (while a good graphic novel) is almost all style.

There's also the fact that he didn't make Sin City a straight adaptation of the comics but integrated two new stories (from what I've been told I actually didn't see the movie) in to the movie instead of just adapting the books.

Some other problems were the release date in August and the lack of effective advertising. But I think one of the biggest problems was casting Eva Green as the Dame to Kill For. For so many people Angelina Jolie was the perfect casting but Rodriquez waited too long to make the movie and she no longer wanted to play it. I haven't seen the movie but I've read the graphic novel and seen Eva Green in a handful of things and she just doesn't seem to be right for the role.



Transformers Age of Extinction makes The Happening look like a masterpiece.

You do realise there is a thread right next to this one that asks the exact same question. Why bother.

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