Current Events > Why does Hollywood keep rebooting stuff and making sequels over and over?

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I get it, they wanna play safe with an established audience. But notice how most of these reboots also keep getting panned by critics? And this ultimately plunges the movie down into box office failure anyway.

It's ridiculous.

Critic reviews don't mean box office failure. Have you done an analysis on how well these films perform? Have you gathered stats on how many movies they make that are original versus reboot/sequel?
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Because we keep watching them
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Darmik posted...

Because we keep watching them

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You answered your own question. It also doesn't help investors want money now now now and don't want to wait for a seed to eventually become a tree. Look at the DCEU as a prime example, instead of taking their time with their movies to build a universe which would have yielded better results, they rushed it out to get money for investors now and it blew up in their faces
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It's easier than taking a chase on something completely new.
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C_Pain posted...

Critic reviews don't mean box office failure. Have you done an analysis on how well these films perform? Have you gathered stats on how many movies they make that are original versus reboot/sequel?

almost every movie I see with low critic scores (before the movie was released) would predictably bomb in the box office. It's to be expected. People follow the RT score like it's some guiding light of truth.

Y'know why sh***y movies that get low critic scores somehow score big in foreign countries like China? Because RT doesn't exist there.