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[QUOTE=j9ac9k;5866467]^^ While I think the actress made a mistake to reply the way she did, let's not forget how much some "passionate" fans these days also act like giant assholes at the drop of a hat to express their desire to torpedo projects they dislike before they're even released. And while it's easy to think of "Hollywood" as some monolithic entity, these are still people, which the trolls tend to overlook in their "passionate" tirades.[/QUOTE]
But those "passionate" fans are who are needed to make a project like this successful. These studios don't get to chose their fans.
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Wonder how much of this is on Christopher Yost.
Heard that Watanabe was consulted but they tossed his notes (Kind of like Disney with Lucas on the Star Wars sequels...)
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[QUOTE=Immortal Weapon;5866815]But those "passionate" fans are who are needed to make a project like this successful. These studios don't get to chose their fans.[/QUOTE]
No, they don't "need" them. Not those fans - the ones that act like they're owed something, and the vocal trolls love thinking they speak for all "fans" but most reasonable fans (and the new ones) are who the studios court. They may try to placate the vocal trolls sometimes, but they love deluding themselves into thinking the studio answers to them and love to trumpet the failure of anything they dislike as though their reasons for disliking something are only reasons it failed.
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[QUOTE=j9ac9k;5866961]No, they don't "need" them. Not those fans - the ones that act like they're owed something, and the vocal trolls love thinking they speak for all "fans" but most reasonable fans (and the new ones) are who the studios court. They may try to placate the vocal trolls sometimes, but they love deluding themselves into thinking the studio answers to them and love to trumpet the failure of anything they dislike as though their reasons for disliking something are only reasons it failed.[/QUOTE]
Studios can't really choose the fans.
Studios may want new fans, but using an existing franchise implies they also plan to attract old fans (an entitled fans arepart of this too).
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[QUOTE=j9ac9k;5866961]No, they don't "need" them. Not those fans - the ones that act like they're owed something, and the vocal trolls love thinking they speak for all "fans" but most reasonable fans (and the new ones) are who the studios court. They may try to placate the vocal trolls sometimes, but they love deluding themselves into thinking the studio answers to them and love to trumpet the failure of anything they dislike as though their reasons for disliking something are only reasons it failed.[/QUOTE]
Everyone money is green at the end of the day. Studios may not like those fans but turning them away is terrible business. Unless they can recoup the lost of zealots with new fans it is never a good idea to shit on the base no matter how unreasonable.
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[QUOTE=Immortal Weapon;5867076]Everyone money is green at the end of the day. Studios may not like those fans but turning them away is terrible business. Unless they can recoup the lost of zealots with new fans it is never a good idea to shit on the base no matter how unreasonable.[/QUOTE]
The notion that they're "shitting on" the fans is a butt-hurt fiction propagated by the unreasonable.