Lizzy Finnegan said:
Report: Ghostbusters to See a $70 Million Loss, Sequel Likely Shelved
Now if only they would have had the tiniest bit of cognitive and predictive ability that "should" come naturally to anyone whos job it is to predict the viability of potential projects and shelved this one that Stevie Wonder could have seen coming a mile away before they ended up elbows deep in wasted expenses on this doomed project that only ever sounded like a good idea back when it was still just an off the cuff concept that came out of no where that was allowed to fester until it gained an abominable life of its own, We would have all been better off for this being left as a pitch that would never again see the light of day where this whole concept always belonged never to be thought of again.
It is truly astounding that any industry can function on such a completely dysfunctional business model. Yet it is the same model seen with triple A gaming. Leveraging profits from prior successes to fund future projects on a locust scale devouring everything and that is tied to seemingly exponential budget inflation that requires each successive success to be even bigger than the previous thus watering down any sort of edge or risk and functionally rehashing the same things over and over again because it must appeal to the broadest demographics humanly possible in order to have any hope of hitting its ridiculously skyrocketing profitability bar. As if the only way you can create a bigger success than what you had before is to remake what you had before only bigger, louder, faster and shinier.
When your projected profitability requires you to attain unrealistic 30% demographic acquisition, why does it make sense to anyone to keep doing things that force that bar to be pushed higher and thus more unrealistic? Does it not make more sense to scale back on a budget and leave yourself with a project that could become profitable after like 5%?
I think that is the crux of this rant. Despite what some people will tell you, Capitalism is killing the U.S. and this is just another symptom of a slow and debilitating chronic illness that is technically terminal, but only because people refuse treatment and are determined to rely on faith with an incredibly poor success rating to fix the problem. If we could even just consider that this industrial revolution system that worked incredibly well for its time is ill equipped to handle the challenges faced in a modern era, Then perhaps we could consider going back to the drawing board and trying to construct a system capable of working with the issues of a digital world and moving society into the present and future, instead of trying to control and manipulate a digital world by using steam powered clockwork and analog hands.
Meh, /rant OFF
tl;dr This should have never happened. It did because of a broken system that should never been allowed to function this long without heavy maintenance and massive overhaul. If we want to prevent the effects, we have to first address the cause. What is it going to take to get us to finally start addressing the cause of SOOO many of these completely avoidable problems?
