As an R-rated, money making movie you would think that people would use The Expendables as a reason to make At the Mountain of Madness. Scott Pilgrim was a PG-13 kiddy-love-story. Its success would have in no way aided the creation of Mountains of Madness, save to give the production company extra money. From a standpoint of audience and market, Expendables seems to me to be absolute proof that R-rated entertainment can make money.kickyourass said:As if I needed another reason to hate The Expendables, god this species sucks sometimes.
They already made a SAW game and it sucked out loud.CronoT said:This is the same exact reason that they made 7 SAW films: because gullible people with too much money and not enough sense/taste kept going to see them.
The original SAW film was a masterpiece of psychological suspense and horror. It kept you guessing right up until the end, literally. The second one was decent, if a little rushed. All the rest were just a filthy cash grab.
If we're lucky, Bob, Nintendo or MS will greenlight that as a game, a la Eternal Darkness. A guy can dream.
I should clarify, I'm not saying that capitalism doesn't work, I'm saying that the way it works has done harm this time around. The whole purpose of it is to serve as a reward for good work, which it often does. It's like xp for real life, and it usually works in that respect.MBE said:I agree. The best movies are produced by anti-Capitalist countries like USSR, Cuba, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, et al.LawlessSquirrel said:Depressing. This is probably as pure an example as there is of capitalism simply not working.
Now, if we only had some sort of endowment on a national scale that could fund art like "Scott Pilgrim" and Lovecraft that would free selfless artists like Del Toro and Cameron from oppressive Capitalist pig studios and let them make whatever films they want on the taxpayer's back.
Actually Capitalism works perfectly when it is allowed to work. In this case, people WANT "The Expendables", people WANT "Fast & Furious 4/5/6". If people didn't want to watch crap, they wouldn't voluntarily give their money to watch crap.