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I saw the movie. I enjoyed it. The effects and soundtrack were the best part of the film. Jared Leto was NOT the worst part. The script had little story and character development. That was the main problem. Jared made use of what he was given.
That said, they did set it up for a sequel so it does suck that they may not pursue that. Maybe they need to work more on story/characters and less on effects. It costs less.
Set up a sequel and apparently used characters that everyone wanted to see in this movie, right?
I've learned that the most important part of a story is the character and what happens to them. This may be a good example not only of ignoring that, but also not using characters already established as interesting and with potential growth. Maybe there's a back story there and they couldn't get the actors, so they ran with something different?
Not if you're Disney. Their actual goal is to print money with...
I'm not so sure the effects cost more than paying a room of skilled writers to come up with story ideas. Not anymore.
Wait fiver isn't a thing anymore? I mean really how hard is it to try and pull plot points from random bullshit that we've been randomly reading it's not like we're worried about trying to steal anybody's intellectual property anymore artificial intelligence is already done the hell out of that..... And no I'm not abdicating to stealing people's intellectual property but realistically how freaking hard is it to pick and choose little plot points from random s*** that we've been reading and just ask people hey that was a really cool idea you mind if I pay you a couple grand for it?
That sounds a lot like what I imagine the effects workflow is these days. Copy the shit from our back catalog, outsource the nitty gritty to developing nations. Send it to the Disney mega render farm and push it to theaters or +. Rinse and repeat. Those marvel movies have a lot of effects they can pull from. So does star wars, etc. I don't think writing compelling dialogue is as easy as that, without just copying others completely at least.
Game of Thrones showed they ignored hundreds of much better fanfic plotlines than what the last seasons resulted in.