This sums up a lot. [YT]BFnTn6V99eU[/YT]
That man speaks the truth. The sheer level of rage towards the production is backfiring. If people weren't getting up in arms, I doubt there would be that many trailer hits and I doubt that the general audience wouldn't be as interested as they are.
What I was expecting was something where Doom is characterized as Wayne Knight's character from Jurassic Park who's really more of an enemy you'd see on a sitcom than Doctor Doom, the Negative Zone would be nothing more than our world run through a purple filter and the special effects would have a sort of 90s direct to video level of GCI with a Thing who never moves and stays static.
That was the movie that we were rumored to get.
And if this film was lighter in tone, hardcore fanboys would be saying, "they learned nothing from how bad the Tim Story movies were. They're doing the same exact thing we saw before!" The difference is that the general audience would feel the same way considering that everyone hated those films and they're excited for the new tone. So to everyone hating this film with venomous rage, you're ensuring that it's going to succeed. If the movie is absolutely terrible, people will want to see how bad it is. The fact is, it doesn't look all that bad so it'll actually remain profitable.
I watched Bio-Dome once because it's regarded as the worst big budget studio film ever made. (It is. It's unwatchable.) If it were not for the bad publicity, then I never would have checked it out.
Look at the films where the rights reverted to Marvel. I remember when Punisher War Zone and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance came out. More accurately, I remember not even bothering to Google them since by that point, the market was saturated with CBMs and I only wanted to bother with the good ones. Literally nobody was talking about them. Hatred means that there's an audience. It means, "even if you mess this one up, there's potential for a sequel." Apathy is what kills projects.
When Disney bought Marvel, the reaction from fans was to pile as much hate on Fox for daring to reboot Daredevil and Fantastic Four. Except before we even knew a single detail about either, far more people were hating Fox for rebooting FF and there was nothing but apathy for Daredevil. That's why Fox decided to let go of Daredevil instead of Silver Surfer. They realized that by that point, the potential audience didn't care about Daredevil but they did about the FF.
Like the best thing you can do if you want this to fail is to stop talking about it. I was angry in the aftermath of TASM2 then stopped sicne I no longer care about the Spider-Man movies. I started talking about Spider-man when it looked like Sony was willing to sell him back. I stopped talking about Spider-Man again since I'm simply not interested in anything that Sony has to do with the property anymore and probably won't unless the reviews for the new film are incredible or Sony sells the rights back to Marvel.
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