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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 25 points 1 month ago

If it's a good movie more people will go to see it. Opening weekend is a reflection of the hype machine and expectations

Not having mad max in a mad max film probably didn't help the opening weekend.

But a good movie will be good, and people will tell their friends, so let's see what happens next weekend.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Opening weekend is a reflection of the hype machine and expectations

Well, maybe they should have advertised it more. I didn't hear anything about it until after it was released.

Not having mad max in a mad max film probably didn’t help the opening weekend.

Was there Mad Max in Fury Road?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 15 points 1 month ago
[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I guess I'm so used to having Mel Gibson as Mad Max that I didn't really register that it was the same character.

And isn't that kind of the point, really? There was nothing in that movie that reflected Mad Max as a unique character, other than the "badass dude" heroic action-packed stereotype that we've seen represented in a hundred other movies. Hell, he talks so little in all of the movies that he might as well be one of those silent protags in an video game.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, but madmax is literally the title character.

Imagine a James bond film without James bond

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't you want to see a prequel where you follow Q during college in similar vein to National Lampoon's Animal House as well as a developing issue with the patent office where he tries to file more and more outlandish and dangerous inventions until British Secret Service finds out and recruits him?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 month ago

That would be cool!

Just don't call it James Bond, if you call it James bond people will expect to see... James bond.

Q: in her majesties service!

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Imagine if they made a spin-off show from Better call Saul and named it : Saul - Chicken Run in a Winnebago and Saul barely showed up in it at all, maybe a few seasons in as a totally dismissable side character

People might get disappointed even if this hypothetical spinoff was quite good.

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