• MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    It really grinds my gears that they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they’ll be rewarded for it. Together, they’ll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.

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      You really think this is going to do gang busters? I’m not even convinced it will make the money back

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        I really do. I think it will be more Lion King remake than Cats adaptation. But I’m ready to admit that I was wrong if people don’t line up in droves for it. I think the first will do much better than the second, because a ton of people will say “the ending sucked. It just stopped without any resolution. And there wasn’t even half the songs from Wizard of Oz.”

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        Making films isn’t free, they have to have expenses. What do you want them to do, reduce the spending on the money laundering?