• ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world
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    1 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

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      1 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.

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      1 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.

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        1 month ago

        Especially The Sound of Music. Hate that film.

        Everyone is entitled to their own (wrong) opinions.

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        1 month ago

        I don’t like old style musicals, but things like I Brother Where Art Thou are great.

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        21 days 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.