10-09-2023, 03:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2023, 03:47 PM by HaughtyFrank.)
(10-09-2023, 01:45 PM)PhoenixDark wrote: Insanity. Looks like the movie should make a profit but the bigger picture is these guys bought the IP rights for 400mil. Two films are planned, the current one and a sequel coming next year. I don't see how the math works, even if they have many more films lined up.
Another weird example of taking incredibly popular, universally liked films or franchises and deciding to...make them appeal to more people in the weirdest ways imaginable...? Like, we're not talking about Warhammer 40k or some other niche thing that would indeed need some type of appeal to different or more casual groups of people. It's the Exorcist, brehs. People are gonna see it if the trailers look scary. I'm not even talking about adding a black family to the story - that's fine, makes sense, whatever. But why are there witch doctors and other non-Catholic figures in this film helping to combat evil. We don't need this to be a Captain Planet mixture of religions. It's Catholic horror shit.
It really encapsulates how dumb the culture war is. First you got some clowns calling the movie woke because it dared to include a black kid who gets possessed and then the actual movie goes go dumb woke in a completely different way by shitting on the legacy of the first movie for no reason.