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⌈ Secret Post #5446 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If audiences went to those sort of movies, studios would make them. They don't though. The Last Duel proved that. I'm not blaming teh kids with their smart phones, just saying that general audiences are even more conservative right now than even the studios. If the Last Duel had been a success, then Hollywood would be rushing through a huge slate of pseudohistorical sword and sorcery movies even as we speak.

[(Anonymous)]

The Last Duel is only one movie, and one that was poorly marketed at that. Treating its box office failure as (1) a failure on the part of audiences and (2) proof that all gambles taken by studios will fail because audiences don't want new ideas is ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to studio logic.

Okay, how about the RDJ Doctor Dolittle movie? That was hugely advertised and had a bankable actor in it and still tanked. That is two.

[(Anonymous)]

The remake with toilet humor? Can't imagine how that tanked.

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to studio logic.

I agree that studio logic is bad. I don't think it's audiences' fault.

[(Anonymous)]

How was Doctor Doolittle a gamble? They spent a fortune on it, and it was an established IP.

I guess the gamble was that it would buck the trend of the OG Doctor Doolittle and actually make money?

[(Anonymous)]

That looked like a kids' movie and kind of lame, to boot.

Things can tank because they seem lame, you know.

[(Anonymous)]

SA, and I meant to add that the Eddie Murphy Dr Doolittle came out 20 years ago. Adults now saw that one and didn't feel the burning urge for another. They probably have the dvd and their kids have seen it there or on streaming.

Nobody was clamoring for more Dr fucking doolittle.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure there's isn't any sorcery in The Last Duel. It's a historical drama, not fantasy.

It's hard to compare box office during a pandemic with box office before it, but TLD didn't do that well streaming either, did it?

If you want to talk about a massive risk by taking on an epic fantasy with a huge budget and not a lot of really big name stars (well-respected actors but not huge celebrities, and also some unknowns) that paid off ridiculously well at least for a while, Game of Thrones is right there.

[(Anonymous)]

The Last Duel is a historical drama, not a fantasy. Also if we're talking recent films, The Green Knight wasn't a blockbuster-sized success (not that much is, right now) but it did very well for an indie movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure why you think a dour piece of historical fiction about dudes reacting to a woman's rape would inspire a slate of sword and sorcery movies. Or that people not wanting to go to see the dour rape movie during a pandemic means people don't want fantasy. Because neither of these things are true.