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I personally enjoy all the movies that are made for explicitly for me, a white man in my early 40s that continue to bomb, but hit the traditional nostalgia chords. Just wait until that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe movie that's been 10 years in the failing.

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What an awful piece of trash this film was. And with that front loading you can’t tell me WOM was good or even the hardcore fans went back for a second viewing. I think they’d be wise to keep the budget tight as possible for part 2

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When a $20 million flick makes $295 million, they can afford to make another $20 million flick. Even with a possible Tomb Raider Trap situation, it would still be quite profitable. And, yeah, I'd hope the next batch of kid-targeted IP is better than this one (which seems to have been... burdened by its creator not unlike the Twilight and Fifty Shades sequels)

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You’re not wrong Scott - with these margins the budget could double and the WW gross could halve (both entirely possible) and we’d still be looking at a wildly profitable film. I wouldn’t want to burn the paying audience so badly a second time though. Patience might run out.

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Agreed. Didn't have time to really elaborate on this, but I kinda liked the notion of me watching a terrible film with my kid which was aimed at him which he liked because it was aimed at him. That used to be how it worked with these youth-skewing IP flicks, and that was okay. Dad half-watched Space Jam and Hook while the kids thrilled and then the parents watched JFK or Jerry Maguire.

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Or they could do things the old-fashioned way and make a $3 million straight-to-VHS sequel which builds nostalgia for the first one by being so awful that all conversation about the franchise is 'they should have made it like the first one!'.

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You know... Universal made that into a minor cottage industry (five Scorpion King sequels, two Darkman follow-ups, 400 Land Before Time movies, etc.) so if any studio would do that...

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