tardigrade
Explorer
I could see a (heavily edited) OotS-like plotline working. I think it gets the ratio of character development (despite massive cliches), lampshading of obvious fantasy tropes and dramatic plot twists about right.
Hmm how about a bunch of teenagers in some post-apocalyptic world where their only escape is a set of musty D&D 5e books and suddenly they're transported from their sad world into a brighter more fun space. And alongside their fantasy counterparts they have some conflict to resolve back in reality.
Explosions + boobs + nostalgia = bad movies that make an obscene amount of money?
Bah, everyone slams them, yet they rake in a fortune, they aren't as bad as people make them out to be, they're fun movies, that get hated on my elitist hipsters (not saying your an elitist hipster, just a general obsversation).
Unfortunately that sounds too much like Ready Player One to me...
Profit =/= quality.
Sure, the transformers movies make a lot of money. But, so do daytime soap operas, cheaply made toys, and sweatshop-made clothes.
People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.
So what you are implying is that you should give people quality products and not the products they want?
People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.
Well I guess we all know what is going to happen in the D&D movie: they are going to split the party.
So what you are implying is that you should give people quality products and not the products they want?
Because these things you mention, that makes lots of money, are exactly what "people" are willing to pay for.
Generally when I hear this type of "quality" argument or demand, the product such people want are art house movies, which rarely are successful because "people" aren't willing to pay for them. (Look at all the movies that get Sundance or Caan awarded movies that barely make a profit.)
People vote with their dollars. If some product is financially successful, then it has all the right qualities, even if it's not some critic's opinion of a "quality" product.