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[-] Marauder20@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago

Seems this has become standard operating procedure for much of this industry - make shitty movies, wonder why they flop at the box office, then go scorched earth against alleged "pirates" and blame them for your "losses". When the studios make movies that are worth seeing, people will go to see them. See: Top Gun Maverick and Avatar 2, among other recent multi-billion dollar hits.

It is worth noting that many of the more egregious abuses of the legal process as of late seem to be by this one company Millennium Media and their many subsidiaries (Bodyguard Productions, HB Productions, etc.) They are basically just a bigger version of Strike 3, just professional trolls who would rather profit off of legal shakedowns than make good movies.

[-] LonelyWendigo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Funny, those are the same movies I'd point to as what's fundamentally flawed with the film industry; chasing the lowest common denominator and avoiding interesting and artful risk.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Name 10 interesting and artful films and you'll have also named 9 box office bombs. Hell, Fight Club didn't even gross half it's budget at the box office. Very few people want good films.

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