Didn’t even know this movie had been announced until I’d heard it was bombing. I never watched the first one so odds were pretty slim I’d have seen it anyway.
I haven’t seen it but was looking forward to it until I heard it’s a musical. Just why
Apparently the director didn’t want to do a sequel so he came up with a bad idea that he thought the studio would never go for, but they did.
I have heard this too, but I think it could also be that the director kinda got lucky with the first movie. I enjoyed the first movie, but it didn’t really feel original, it just seemed to borrow ideas from other movies and those ideas just worked cohesively enough. None of Todd Phillips other movies feel that original either.
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roughly $100 million to market and distribute.
And yet this is the first time I’m hearing that it’s out
It’s because you use uBlock Origin and don’t subscribe to cable.
Plus, you’re on the Fediverse, where there are even less opportunities for advertising than centralized social media.
It was actually not bad. It stumbled on the ending but did a lot of things well for the DC universe’s « La La Land. »
Yeah it would have worked if they waited another 5 years before trying to beat the horse for nostalgia value. They were impatient.
People saw the first film as a novel concept with a new exciting take on a classic character. People are going to see the sequel as something… not fresh.
The penguin origin story is another shoe-in I feel. I don’t see it mentioned often. Is it decent it drab?
In an interview Todd Philips said he and Joaquin had no plans for a second movie until Joaquin had a dream about doing a second movie
