- December 11th, 2024, 7:38 pm#5002099
[NOTE]: **apologies to MODs. This isn’t about Ghostbusters but Ghostbusters will be mentioned. I didn’t know where to put this is so feel free to move it if you think it covers Ghostbusters too much**
Another day, another Sony IP that is getting released with extremely poor reviews. This time it’s “Kraven The Hunter” which sits at a paltry 16% on Rotten Tomatoes. I had no idea that movie was even coming out yet.
It’s getting to the point where any movie they do release with decent reviews you think it must be an accident. That it happened in spite of itself. But it’s the IP that really is just not cutting it. Look at this list of IP:
Morbius? Venom? Kraven? Men In Black? Uncharted? Madame Web? Yes, even Ghostbusters
They also killed the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book series(the Fincher film was great! Then they make a sequel and…recast with no Fincher!)
Each of those franchises have been mismanaged and underperformed to one degree or another with the exception of Venom where the poor reviews didn’t seem to matter until this last film. I’d argue that those films still underperformed since had those movies been of a certain quality they might’ve done even better.
They screwed up Spider-Man so bad they had to get marvel to come in and fix things for them.
It seems the only area Sony can lay claim to any quality is in animation
What the hell is going on here? Why can’t this company do things right?
Now I know some of you will say “Oh I liked movie X”. Fine. But on the whole audiences and critics didn’t seem to. And this is a repeating pattern.
The 2016 GB reboot was a movie NO ONE wanted. It got decent reviews and has it fans yet It bombs and now the well is poisoned from all the drama and hysterics surrounding that movie. Rebooting Ghostbusters killed all future Ghostbusters movies. Beetlejuice is out doing Ghostbusters. Beetlejuice. Plus a handful of other movies that we KNOW doesn’t have the fanbase ghostbusters does
The same is true from Men in Black. Now that was a soft reboot and took place in the same continuity but if you are going to reboot Men in Black you best do something special. You best cast a Will Smith like actor. And Chris Hemsworth ain’t that.
So what’s the problem here? Why are Sony IP movies sucking so hard? Well. The filmmakers they hire usually aren’t A grade. They aren’t visionaries. They are journeymen. Hired hands. Or the casting is all wrong. Tom Holland as Nathan Drake? That movie should’ve been AMAZING. It sucked. That franchise could’ve been something special in the hands of someone like an Edgar Wright or a Denis Villeneuve or even a Sam Raimi, a James Gunn. Jon Favreau.
Madame Webb was a joke. A joke.
Sony. Get your shit together. Or…just make better movies?
Look what happens when they hire someone like Phil Lord and Chris Miller. They get the Spiderverse films. That could be the live action IP world if you would just trust these creators with your IP
Another day, another Sony IP that is getting released with extremely poor reviews. This time it’s “Kraven The Hunter” which sits at a paltry 16% on Rotten Tomatoes. I had no idea that movie was even coming out yet.
It’s getting to the point where any movie they do release with decent reviews you think it must be an accident. That it happened in spite of itself. But it’s the IP that really is just not cutting it. Look at this list of IP:
Morbius? Venom? Kraven? Men In Black? Uncharted? Madame Web? Yes, even Ghostbusters
They also killed the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book series(the Fincher film was great! Then they make a sequel and…recast with no Fincher!)
Each of those franchises have been mismanaged and underperformed to one degree or another with the exception of Venom where the poor reviews didn’t seem to matter until this last film. I’d argue that those films still underperformed since had those movies been of a certain quality they might’ve done even better.
They screwed up Spider-Man so bad they had to get marvel to come in and fix things for them.
It seems the only area Sony can lay claim to any quality is in animation
What the hell is going on here? Why can’t this company do things right?
Now I know some of you will say “Oh I liked movie X”. Fine. But on the whole audiences and critics didn’t seem to. And this is a repeating pattern.
The 2016 GB reboot was a movie NO ONE wanted. It got decent reviews and has it fans yet It bombs and now the well is poisoned from all the drama and hysterics surrounding that movie. Rebooting Ghostbusters killed all future Ghostbusters movies. Beetlejuice is out doing Ghostbusters. Beetlejuice. Plus a handful of other movies that we KNOW doesn’t have the fanbase ghostbusters does
The same is true from Men in Black. Now that was a soft reboot and took place in the same continuity but if you are going to reboot Men in Black you best do something special. You best cast a Will Smith like actor. And Chris Hemsworth ain’t that.
So what’s the problem here? Why are Sony IP movies sucking so hard? Well. The filmmakers they hire usually aren’t A grade. They aren’t visionaries. They are journeymen. Hired hands. Or the casting is all wrong. Tom Holland as Nathan Drake? That movie should’ve been AMAZING. It sucked. That franchise could’ve been something special in the hands of someone like an Edgar Wright or a Denis Villeneuve or even a Sam Raimi, a James Gunn. Jon Favreau.
Madame Webb was a joke. A joke.
Sony. Get your shit together. Or…just make better movies?
Look what happens when they hire someone like Phil Lord and Chris Miller. They get the Spiderverse films. That could be the live action IP world if you would just trust these creators with your IP
“Because they’re stupid that’s why!”
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