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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6237185" data-attributes="member: 91777">You're talking in generalities here. Which 'good' movies that bombed are you talking about? As far as your second point, bad movies do occasionally make good at the box office (Transformers series, anyone?), but I'd say these are the exception, not the rule. In the past couple years alone we've seen films like 'Lone Ranger' and 'Battleship' get treated by audiences as the garbage they are. By your logic 'Battleship' should have been a runaway blockbuster. This is true.  People THINK this is true, but it's not.What if Iron Man 3 had flopped? The studio would have been out $200 million on their 'sure thing'. Which is exactly what is about to happen to 47 Ronin.In fact, making lots of cheaper movies makes a bunch more sense than counting on a handful of $200 million tent-poles to deliver. If Small Movie B flops it's not as big of a hit financially. But occasionally a small movie can break out and make many times its production costs. And even better, because a small movie isn't a make-it-or-break-it proposition, the filmmakers can try new things and not stick to a CGI-infused formula.I view the current Hollywood 'mega-hit' model as not logical and not sustainable. It isn't something audiences asked for. Instead, the studio system has somehow gotten stuck on this financial treadmill where they respond to diminishing returns at the box office by pumping more and more money into films in hopes of creating blockbusters. A system where every film needs to make half a billion dollars to turn a profit is broken. Worse, it churns out crap like '47 Ronin'.<a href="http://www.film.com/movies/47-ronin-review" target="_blank">Excellent review of the film here</a>. Key quote: Possibly the second-worst thing to happen to Japan so far this century.</blockquote>

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