This feels kinda sorta like the equivalent of those people who used to message me and indicate that one of my priorities as a game critic should be not hurting the game’s profits, only those people are writing the coverage. Which, go off, I guess, you do you and all that, but
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There are definitely fans who have an unhealthy relationship w/the financial success or failure of the properties they get attached to. Like it’s a kind of personal validation when the focus of their obsession is a huge hit. It proves the “objective” validity of their obsession.
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It’s just weird for me because while I do sometimes enjoy a well-made fairly conventional film as much as anyone, and of course I want the things I like to succeed, generally speaking I want art that tends toward risk-taking rather than toward focus-grouped reliability.
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Speaking of art that takes chances, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how amazing Cloud’s arc is in FF7, and while FF7R may or may not play out similarly, I hope that even with all the money riding on it and all the limiting expectations that come with its huge budget...
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...it’s able to be as strange and dreamlike and quasi-Lynchian and beautiful when the time comes. https://twitter.com/carolynmichelle/status/1264292915339120640?s=21 …https://twitter.com/carolynmichelle/status/1264292915339120640 …
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Yeah, Avengers Endgame, Lord of the Rings, etc. did very poorly at the box office due to their 2.5+ hour runtimes. :|
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..........was Blade Runner 2049 a box office bomb though, or did it not just meet some ludicrous huge blockbuster number?
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Yeah I’m not sure either, I wasn’t aware of it as a bomb. And I suspect that like its predecessor (though not to the same extent) it’ll have long legs and be something of a cult success making money on Blu-ray etc for years to come.
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Unless you're Villeneuve or an investor in the film is there any particular reason to care if the film bombs? Obviously I don't want them to go out of business but as a moviegoer I don't really care about the box office returns for what I'm seeing.
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