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. »
Imagine making 20 millions as a director to lose 200
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.
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’s still regularly discussed on this community
True. Maybe @rothaine@beehaw.org isn’t a regular member of this community.
I did watch it, although I had been warned. I figured the calls of it being a musical had to be inflated - they weren’t. If you cut the singing, you’ll have about half the runtime.
That in and of itself isn’t even bad, albeit not my cup of tea. However what really annoyed me, was that NOTHING happened. It was basically a slice of psychic ward life story. One with an explosive but blue-balled ending. It was basically just the script writers trying to make Lady Gaga sing a lot - well a job well done I suppose.
It actually annoys me a lot, because the cast was great and delivered exceptionally well in their acting. The premise and setting also had a lot of potential, but what we got was more of an art-house low-budget movie with great actors but terrible script
A psychic ward? Now that would make for an interesting story. Joker can now see into the future.
I just don’t understand. The first was a novelty that did surprisingly well, I had no expectation that this would be anywhere as successful. Who’s making these estimates?
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Compared to most movies… it was weird. I enjoyed my time with it but didn’t care what happened after the credits rolled. I don’t know anyone that was looking forward to this, most didn’t even know about it.
At least the first one had the stairs meme!
I loved the first one. The second one I immediately did not care about the moment I heard that it was a musical. At first I thought they were joking.
Don’t get me wrong, the first was a good movie! It was also what I expected going in: a slow character piece about some guy turning into a crazy Batman villain.
I didn’t know the sequel was a musical, what an odd decision!
That’s okay. In a year or two they’ll call it a “cult classic” and make another anyway.
No, they won’t. It’ll never be a cult classic.
