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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M_Natas" data-source="post: 8990187" data-attributes="member: 7025918">Yes. And the movies that succeed in making us (the casual movie goers in general) care about the characters usually do better at the Box Office.And one of the biggest criticisms of HaT is, that reviewers don't really care about the characters. And I can see that. I don't know if I would have cared so much for the characters if I haven't read the prequel novels. They really enhance the movie.Like even though I make fun of James Cameron, he know how to make us care about giant blue people. Haven't seen Avatar 2 yet, but in one, we care about the Na'vi and are like "Yeah, stick it to the human corporate scum!".In HaT? Did anybody really care that Edgin and his Crew turned around to fight Sofia and safe the city instead of running away with the loot? The highest stake in HaT (saving the city) had no emotional connection. The Movie didn't make us care about the City and its inhabitants.They don't because it is the right thing to do, but it doesn'thave the same impact as Han Solo coming back in Star Wars (IV) to help Luke blow up the Death Star. It is the same plot device (reluctant hero comes back to save the day). In Star Wars we care that the death Star is about to blow up the rebel base, because Leia & Luke care. In HaT, non of the Characters really cares about Neverwinter. It is really like a D&D campaign, where the Group goes to random city 12 to save it and then move on. Its a D&D campaign in good and in bad.People didn't care for Thor or Captain America in the beginning either. But they made us care. Shang Shi and Eternals ate in the same ballpark (around 400 million) as the first Thor or the first captain America. Shang Shi is better rated, Eternals worse than those two. So they are right in the ballpark of at the beginningmof making us care. Only an exceptional marvel movie (or other external benefiting factors like black panther) with new characters will make more then 400 million in their first movie.Yeah. And that is true. But they need an emotional core. I mean, as much as I don't care about the Fast & Furious movies,  they have their emotional core in their found family and they are milking that.</blockquote>

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