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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's funny how people say this, yet when original movies come out, nobody goes to see them. Disney is a good example. People bitch that Disney only makes sequels and reboots and doesn't make original movies anymore. Yet the original movies they've released over the last 2 years have flopped and people don't go see them. Strange worlds, wish, etc all failed. And the moment they release a sequel it makes a billion in the box office.

It's no wonder they make more sequels than originals. They'd be stupid and bad at business if they didn't.

[–] napfkuchen@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But those movies simply weren't good.

Wikipedia even states that Strange World partly bombed because of poor word-of-mouth (which I definitely believe). And Wish got video essays and articles en masse about how it didn't deliver.