‘M3GAN 2.0’ flops; earns 3x less than first movie

[hELXIG 42,921]

Oh I didn't know it had released. Huh

[Borislshere 52,964]

Crazy cause I actually thought this one was decent. I hated the first cause it felt like a complete rip off of child’s play 2019. This one felt original for the most part. Oh well. 

[RichAssPiss 4,901]

Haven't seen the movie yet but I don't understand why they marketed the sequel as action comedy and not really horror at all. That never seems to work.

You still need the horror base to turn up. The meme audience is not big enough to turn a profit on a studio movie, even a relatively inexpensive one like this. 

[robotvoiceinalice 1,547]

the thing is when you have such a large departure from what made the movie so special and what made people want to watch, you'll never see the success you did on the first one

yes take risks but this was a big swing and a big miss based on reviews. its like Joker:FAD, they abandoned what made the joker movies so special and even the character from what the Joker is. Again, a big swing and a big big miss.

I think studios just need to reevaluate their processes and stop trying so hard to come up with something totally different for a franchise or first movie and just do what people wanna see which in this case is character development of MEGAN and the question of what happens next after the house scene in the first movie. 

Joker would have been more successful if they done a story and movie that was true to the character of Joker

[Gagaism 11,547]

12 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Did you lose your phone as well? 

Yes, kween M3gz is the one who took it from me 

[bowlcutchris 101]

Saw the movie on opening night and the theater was super empty. It was a dumb movie with some cheesy writing and convoluted plot points but not the worst movie I’ve seen (The Kitchen). The definitely wanted the sequel to be more camp instead of horror and idk if that’s what people want (obviously not if the movie is flopping)

[Ziggy 11,672]

i didnt know it was out lmao honestly the biggest problem is they clearly were vying for gay appeal again but then why have it come out in pride month when every gay person is busy doing pride month lol no one is going to see a movie unless it has a ton of runway and good press. i feel like they got lucky with the marketing of the OG one as it became an organic phenomenon, but with this they tried to replicate it again as a known entity and what wound up happening is no one knew it was coming out. you can't really do guerilla organic underground marketing for something that's widely known bc no one is "picking it up" into the cultural consciousness. It's already there. So the job isn't to do that same thing, it's to get the people who saw the original to be invested enough to see a sequel, and coming out in pride month was a baaaaad idea for that (especially the weekend they did when there's a lot of pride festivities, in particular)

[Ziggy 11,672]

3 hours ago, robotvoiceinalice said:

the thing is when you have such a large departure from what made the movie so special and what made people want to watch, you'll never see the success you did on the first one

yes take risks but this was a big swing and a big miss based on reviews. its like Joker:FAD, they abandoned what made the joker movies so special and even the character from what the Joker is. Again, a big swing and a big big miss.

I think studios just need to reevaluate their processes and stop trying so hard to come up with something totally different for a franchise or first movie and just do what people wanna see which in this case is character development of MEGAN and the question of what happens next after the house scene in the first movie. 

Joker would have been more successful if they done a story and movie that was true to the character of Joker

honestly the concept for joker 2 wasn't bad it was having a disinterested director and overly watchful studio involved neither of whom have a firm understanding of how to make something like that work. When John Waters said he loved it, I could see immediately how he could have made that concept into something incredible. Joker is pretty malleable and musical components are core to much of his aesthetic if you go back pre the dark knight (though even in that he did a lot of humming and sing song-y type stuff). The team just couldn't agree on what they wanted to do so it was muddled