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      Best I can do is safe and unimaginative with lots of marketing and a big cast of overpaid actors past their prime.

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    I mean, make fun of me if you want, but I saw The Beekeeper in theaters. Maybe not super original but it wasn’t explicitly marketed as a remake or rehash or whatever.

    No, I didn’t have a free ticket or voucher or anything, I paid full price for the ticket.

    Yes, I snuck in alcohol (they don’t serve).

    As a popcorn flick, I enjoyed my 1.5 hours or whatever.

    Yes, I paid a stupid amount of money for popcorn, it’s a local theater not tied to any mega corps.

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      I didn’t watch Beekeeper in a theatre it because I didn’t know if it was gonna be just a cheap cash grab.

      I watched it via a paid service and enjoyed it very much with my wife in the home theatre I built.

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    Market it properly. I’ll watch. The way they marketed movies like Transformers One, or the utter failure that was The Fall Guy, I can’t even fathom why they would choose to market it that way…

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    the thing is, most people don’t. Movie buffs are a minority, the casual viewers flock to what they know, which is exactly why there are only sequels and reboots. It wouldn’t be like that if it wasn’t making them tons of money.

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      False. Star Wars viewing drove off a cliff when their sequels sucked.

      There is a 1-2 sequel movies buffer until the drop off starts when the quality is consistently bad.

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        the thing is, most people don’t. Movie buffs are a minority, the casual viewers flock to what they know, which is exactly why there are only sequels and reboots. It wouldn’t be like that if it wasn’t making them tons of money.

        False. Star Wars viewing drove off a cliff when their sequels sucked.

        There is a 1-2 sequel movies buffer until the drop off starts when the quality is consistently bad.

        That doesn’t make anything they said false. What you said just means that quality still matters, eventually.

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          People like sequels to stuff they liked. When it sucks they will not like it anymore. Brand loyalty is heavily oversold in Hollywood. Which is the real reason why theaters are bombing. It all sucks.

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    People also want to see more after season 1 instead of cancelation and some new junk pushed in their face.

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    Banshees of Inishirin.

    Story of a friendship going sour and one guy having trouble moving on. Some great acting. A dark comedy. Quite refreshing from the Hollywood schlock that is typically in our local thestre