Madlove <mad...@arkham.dc> wrote in
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> On 02/13/2018 12:47 AM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>> Madlove <mad...@arkham.dc> wrote in
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>>
>>> On 02/12/2018 02:37 AM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>>> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote in
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>>>>> Plus, they're rebooting stuff where the original
>>>>> (supposedly) had such low ratings that it was cancelled!
>>>
>>>> Actually, it does make sense. Something that has a very
>>>> noisy, but small fan base is perfect. They're noisy enough
>>>> that everyone has heard of it, but it wasn't good enough that
>>>> very many people actually *saw* it. So you get a lot of brand
>>>> recognition that's bought and paid for long ago, but no real
>>>> expectations that will not be met.
>>>>
>>>> If you believe for one second that the people in Hollywood
>>>> that make decisions have _ever_ given a flying fuck at a
>>>> rolling donut about creativity, you're a fool.
>>>
>>> Hollywood is all about making cash *safely* and with little
>>> risk.
>
>> And?
>
> ... if a show/movie was popular then a reboot/remake/sequel
> should do at least as well with today's crowd.
Because, as we all know, where tastes in entertainment are
concerned, nothing *ever* changes or *ever* could. That's why our
only source of entertainment today is shadow puppets around a
campfire deep in the cave.
Moron.
> Doesn't always
> work, in fact many times it doesn't:
Doesn't work quite often. The Hollywood marketing types aren't
especially bright, but they're clearly brighter than you.
>
> Knight Rider, Charlie's Angels, MacGyver...
>
>>> Better to sell to a known fan base than to an unknown crowd.
>
>> Not when the known fan base is tiny, and the unknown crowd has
>> demographics that the marketing people have successfully read
>> before. Brand recognition is worth a lot more than actual fans.
>
> "Better to sell [something familiar] to a known fan base than
> [to sell something new and untested] to an unknown crowd" is a
> common way of thinking in Tinseltown.
Not really, but that's basically what I said. Something people have
heard of from die hard fans, but don't actually *remember*.
>
> If you have something popular, even if it's only mildly popular,
> make more of it and hope the new additions are well accepted and
> make money.
Works best if it wasn't popular enough to have contracts renewed
with terms mroe favorable to the creator, or, worse, that the
creator bought the rights to.
>
>>> Hence all the reboots and sequels that we get over and over
>>> and over ad nauseum.
>
>> Most of stuff that a lot of people have heard of, but very,
>> very few actually remember.
>>
>> As I said.
>
> A great many people can quote shows/movies line for line and
> remember them in detail.
A great many people can quote the best known line or two from shows
and movies, even if they've never actually seen it. More than that,
no, very few people can.
> Trekkies are a good example.
>
Trekkies are freaks. And hardly representative of the mass
audience. And most of *them* can't quote more than a line or two
from a few episodes.