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Seeing how a bit of a discussion emerged in the "Ghostbusters Salt" Thread, I thought it would be more appropriate to put my answer here (sorry if this is a bit "a prospos nothing" to everyone else in this thread, though 
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"Ghostbusters was a dead franchise"
-"Here are some examples that it was active"
"They don't count, for no specific given reason."
The statement about Adam Sandler not being popular anymore and insinuating that has any bearance on a possible GB reboot... Sandler made the same 'lowest-common-denominator' crap for 2 decades. Maybe that's the reason why his movies are such trainwrecks? Just for shit's 'n giggles, the first thing that came to my mind when watching the GB trailer was that it just lacked Sandler in drag to be a Happy Madison production.
The entire last paragraph is a just a broad generalization that vilifies people with legitimate critiscm or a general dislike for a subpar comedy as basement dwelling neckbeard fanboys. That paragraph couldn't poke a reasonable argument with a 10ft pole. Period.
And on a sidenote: the "Admit it" and "Let's face it" remind me of Brianna Wu's patented bullshit tweets starting with"Real talk:"
That out of the way, I'll address your later post:
I'll admit, I never heard about the "Piss off 50% of the intended demographic" marketing strategy.
If anything, Sony's marketing and the resulting decline in viewership would indicate that they horribly failed at "opening up the series to as many people as possible", seeing how this movie seems to lack appeal to the broad mainstream audience.
Currently, the movie is neither a big hit nor a bomb. However it's far from being successfull, too. It still has to make back it's budget of roughly 400-500 Million dollars and has recently scratched past 180 Million Dollars internationally (so at least it covered the production cost). Just for reference, domestically it made 46 Million Dollars on it's opening weekend. The second weekend, it barely made 21 Million Dollars. The following week, it made 10.1 Million Dollars. Last weekend it made 4.7 Million Dollars. It's similar with the weekly results. That's a steady decline of >50% per week.
35,8% of cinemas already pulled it from their screens in the US.
Concerning Sony's approach on this new movie and their success, these numbers speak for themselves.
And need I remind you: FireForge Games went bankrupt 72 hours after they released their critcally panned game.
I might not own the GB franchise, but I do own money - which is what Sony wants from me.
I can decide not to spend any money on anything related to this movie (which is pretty much what I did). And going by the above numbers, I am in good company.
So, as far as I'm concerned, Sony can freely do whatever they like with their franchises. They want me to spend money to watch their stuff - not the other way around.
):Not complaining about your "harsh tone", I am merely refering to your less then stellar argumentation.
"Ghostbusters was a dead franchise"
-"Here are some examples that it was active"
"They don't count, for no specific given reason."
The statement about Adam Sandler not being popular anymore and insinuating that has any bearance on a possible GB reboot... Sandler made the same 'lowest-common-denominator' crap for 2 decades. Maybe that's the reason why his movies are such trainwrecks? Just for shit's 'n giggles, the first thing that came to my mind when watching the GB trailer was that it just lacked Sandler in drag to be a Happy Madison production.
The entire last paragraph is a just a broad generalization that vilifies people with legitimate critiscm or a general dislike for a subpar comedy as basement dwelling neckbeard fanboys. That paragraph couldn't poke a reasonable argument with a 10ft pole. Period.
And on a sidenote: the "Admit it" and "Let's face it" remind me of Brianna Wu's patented bullshit tweets starting with"Real talk:"
That out of the way, I'll address your later post:
And by "opening up the series to as many new people as possible" you mean "try to silence all negative feedback by antagonizing half the population"?
I'll admit, I never heard about the "Piss off 50% of the intended demographic" marketing strategy.
If anything, Sony's marketing and the resulting decline in viewership would indicate that they horribly failed at "opening up the series to as many people as possible", seeing how this movie seems to lack appeal to the broad mainstream audience.
As above, I'd say Sony blew it.
Currently, the movie is neither a big hit nor a bomb. However it's far from being successfull, too. It still has to make back it's budget of roughly 400-500 Million dollars and has recently scratched past 180 Million Dollars internationally (so at least it covered the production cost). Just for reference, domestically it made 46 Million Dollars on it's opening weekend. The second weekend, it barely made 21 Million Dollars. The following week, it made 10.1 Million Dollars. Last weekend it made 4.7 Million Dollars. It's similar with the weekly results. That's a steady decline of >50% per week.
35,8% of cinemas already pulled it from their screens in the US.
Concerning Sony's approach on this new movie and their success, these numbers speak for themselves.
And need I remind you: FireForge Games went bankrupt 72 hours after they released their critcally panned game.
Au contraire, mon ami.
I might not own the GB franchise, but I do own money - which is what Sony wants from me.
I can decide not to spend any money on anything related to this movie (which is pretty much what I did). And going by the above numbers, I am in good company.
So, as far as I'm concerned, Sony can freely do whatever they like with their franchises. They want me to spend money to watch their stuff - not the other way around.
