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How are they stretching this into a trilogy?

posted 6 months ago by LiquidOcelot (2407)
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They barely managed to fill 90 minutes in this movie with anything interesting.

[–] agentalbert (3107) 6 months ago

I haven't seen it, but by that logic, should it be hard to come up with two more 90 minute movies of barely anything interesting?

[–] LiquidOcelot (2407) 6 months ago

Well yes, if you struggled to fill one 90 minute movie it will be even harder to fill another 180 minutes. Which school of logic did you go to?

[–] agentalbert (3107) 6 months ago

The one where it's easy to come up with uninteresting stuff. If they can do that for 90 minutes, it's no sweat to do it for another 180. I didn't say they would be good movies.

[–] LiquidOcelot (2407) 6 months ago

But they're not purposefully trying to make it uninteresting, no filmmaker tries to make a boring film.

[–] DavidM (875) 6 months ago

Yes, it's very sweat. Have you ever tried to write a film script?

[–] BKB (9982) 6 months ago

I mean, did this new one do any business at the box office to warrant 2 more?? I get movies now only last like 2-3 weeks in the theatre, then head to Streaming and all??

[–] [deleted] 6 months ago

They were all shot back-to-back so we'll be getting them regardless and the truth is that this actually did fine at the box office. A budget of $8.5 million with a gross of $36 million and counting. Then when you add in the streaming VOD purchases, dvd and blu-rays down the line... definitely profitable though not a massive hit.

[–] tomimt (24) 6 months ago

It's quite likely that Chapter 1 has already covered the budgets for the next two. They all were shot back to back, so they are more or less done already.

[–] samoanjoes (56856) 6 months ago

It was supposed to be one film, but they shot 4.5 hours worth of footage and decided to release a trilogy.

[–] [deleted] 6 months ago

Because idiots like you keep going to see these movies.

[–] ElectricWarlock (111) 4 months ago

Apparently there will be 2 more "strangers" with different masks in the future ones.