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ClausThomsen said:
Which can be an issue for films. The film I mentioned (Fireball) the little girl in it was essentially a McGuffin to hang a villainous villain and lots of explosions and fires on. I'd imagine that felt like a kick in the teeth to a writer who's spent a long time developing the character over however many hundreds of pages.

I can imagine The Stand working. If the film is good and marketed very well with a big hitter or two in the cast then the source material is pretty much irrelevant to the majority and would pull in King fans on top of that.
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Spot on.

I can imagine a good percentage of the audience for the re boot of Dune, had never seen the original or read the book, but if you make the film that good and get your marketing right ( which they did ) and then the film sells itself ( which it did )
 
rylojr said:
A great gee-whiz serial cliff-hanger homage with so much to like. A shame it never got the audience it deserved.... i was definitely aiming for "Indiana Jones" style adventure, it just wasn't marketed well. The animated "What will happen if the Nazis get hold of the rocket pack gizmo" section is just brilliant, I'd watch a movie/tv show of that.

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the soundtrack is great as well, one of James Horner's better ones
 
COYBL25 said:
Spot on.

I can imagine a good percentage of the audience for the re boot of Dune, had never seen the original or read the book, but if you make the film that good and get your marketing right ( which they did ) and then the film sells itself ( which it did )
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It is crazy that advertising would be required to make people go and see that - its the best sci-fi movie of the past 20 years and one of the best movies overall in the same period. It was to the MCU what the Sistine Chapel ceiling is to the Beano.
 

tsubaki said:
It is crazy that advertising would be required to make people go and see that - its the best sci-fi movie of the past 20 years and one of the best movies overall in the same period. It was to the MCU what the Sistine Chapel ceiling is to the Beano.
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I think most people don't go to the cinema very much - I heard somewhere that twice a year or more is considered quite high outside of teens and young adults. Especially for slightly older adults with families and other commitments.

So the marketing has to be a double whammy - Is that film worth watching and is it essential enough to see it in the cinema and pay out a small fortune rather than wait a few months and watch it at home where even the average family set-up is light years ahead of what it would have been a relatively short time ago. The biggest blockbusters are the ones that pull a good share of those rare cinema visitors and marketing is how it's done. Most people only hear of a film when it's advertised to them - the person who checks new releases and reads or listens to what is coming out or in production is statistically probably quite rare.

MCU was a different beast in that it developed a cultish following among a demographic that absolutely thrives on obsessive details and seeing things first. And it still needed huge marketing budgets to ensure that interest didn't fade - even the end of a film became marketing for the next with the post-credit stingers.
 
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

The second and third entries in this series are just charmless, effortless, emotionless and bland cash grabs, with barely a single character worth caring about. Perhaps I shouldn't compare it to the Potter franchise, but I can't help it, and this just doesn't live up to it at all. The film's also too long, and big parts of the film was just boring. 3/10
 


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