Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Too Expensive" video.

  1. Sleepless in Seattle was a remake of an old black and white movie. Return of the King was from one of the most iconic brands humanity has to offer, that had been disastrously adapted in previous (and subsequent) years. The Firm was based on a contemporary bestseller. Pirates of the Caribbean was a remake of a theme park ride for heaven's sake, in a genre that produced some of the biggest, most expensive flops of past decades. I guess the lesson here is, remaking or adapting something works, if you do it RIGHT. That is to say, faithfully to what made the brand successful in the first place.
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  2. Sound of Freedom - $15 Million
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  3. Hey Drinker! Could you get together with a bunch of other online critics and do a series on the Most Expensive Flops in Cinema History? You've done half of them already seemingly, but it would be fun if you did some serious analysis on what lessons were learned, and what lessons should have been learned. You, Chato and the Midnight's Edge team, the EFAP guys, and maybe some historians, what do you think? It could be a rich content-mine for when Hollywood winds down due to the Writer's Strike.
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  4.  @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375  Remember when people made bad movies for cheap? Fun times...
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  5.  @Attmay  You could include "Institutions Destroyed" in the "cost" column. What else do you have in mind?
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  6. They're employing masses of activists with these budgets.
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  7. "Stop making huge bets on movies that have to appeal to everyone" Nah, just stop making movies with budgets that have to appeal to everyone, and then force in political messaging that will turn off 50-75% of your audience. Movies about vanishingly small minorities need vanishingly small budgets. Only movies designed to appeal to normal humanity should have huge budgets, because that's the only way to make that money back. The fact that we have to say this, means that most entertainment executives should either lose their jobs, or fire the people who have been forcing them to do what they know is wrong.
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