• @breadsmasher
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    341 month ago

    the fact its a musical buried this film

    • Quazatron
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      181 month ago

      The only good musicals (where people start singing for no reason) that I actually love are Blues Brothers and Monty Python’s Holly Grail.

      I’d watch it if it was a heavy dark drama. A musical? I think not.

      • @Visstix
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        181 month ago

        The southpark movie was pretty good too

    • originalucifer
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      121 month ago

      have to agree. i was kinda looking forward to it… but a musical? gad. no. the worst episodes of my favorite shows are when they thought it would be cute to make them musicals.

      • @MeekerThanBeaker
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        131 month ago

        It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia did a fine musical. It’s one of their best episodes.

        • originalucifer
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          131 month ago

          if youre referring to the nightman; i would argue that they put on a musical within the show. the episode itself was not a musical.

          the other episode that is a musical is not one i particularly enjoy

      • @dubble_deee
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        21 month ago

        Imo the scrubs episode where the patient views the world as a musical is pretty good, but you’re right it’s far from being one of the best episodes.

    • @deanimate
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      31 month ago

      Oh… First film was great but…a musical. ffs

      • @Lemming6969
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        01 month ago

        First film was a great film if it were new IP, but a shit joker batman film. The second film was always likely to be shit, because they were always going for abstract and avant garde artistry without a clear connection to the underlying and far stronger story and IP people are expecting. I’m sure it’s a beautiful film and musical, but it’s dog shit attached to joker.

    • @2000mph
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      21 month ago

      Seriously, after the first film this is as far from what you’d expect, and want from a sequel.

      I’ll definitely pass on this as well.

    • sunzu2
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      21 month ago

      I have a feeling this was done on purpose… The regime didn’t like how the first movie resoanted a little too much with the plebs for their comfort.

      So they made a movie to alienate the core audience. But that’s just some tinfoil.

    • circuitfarmer
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      11 month ago

      With Lady Gaga, no less. They added a music person for the musical.

      It seems that the suits have misunderstood their target audience get again.

  • @ImminentOrbit
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    261 month ago

    That they hid it was a musical is my issue. Did no one learn from the Mean Girls musical? If people get to the show and are surprised with a genre they aren’t expecting, of course the film will suffer. Additionally, people who like musicals aren’t going to attend since they aren’t being advertised to

    • VindictiveJudge
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      61 month ago

      Unexpected genre also killed Brutal Legend. The commercials advertised it as an action-adventure game, but it’s actually an RTS. Action-adventure fans hated it, and RTS fans had no idea it was an RTS until it showed up on Steam four years later.

    • @Zahille7
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      21 month ago

      It was announced to be a musical when it was first greenlit.

      • @ImminentOrbit
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        11 month ago

        Sure, but I wasn’t paying attention to that and I think a lot of people weren’t either. The previews, while musical, seemed stylized and did not convey a strong sense that that is how the whole movie was going to be.

    • @Fredselfish
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      21 month ago

      That explains why all the scenes in the trailer were of people singing and dancing. Welp I dont care for most musicals. Especially The Sound of Music. Hate that film.

      • TheRealKuni
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        61 month ago

        Especially The Sound of Music. Hate that film.

        Everyone is entitled to their own (wrong) opinions.

  • @MisterMoo
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    191 month ago

    Not everything needs a sequel.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    As somebody who hated that the first movie was so popular, I have the biggest grin on my face right now

    • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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      31 month ago

      It has its moments but I say it was just very overrated. I was worried about it because the first one came out at the height of violent incels idolizing the Joker. With that movie almost portraying him as a sympathetic villain I had concerns it may start to galvanize a few too many of those wackados