Eret

02 Sep 2014, 23:44

Incoming rant:


I'm SO angry about this. I'm angry about Disney/Pixar shamelessly taking the original release date, I'm angry that Dreamworks picked JUNE 2017 of all months as their backup plan, and I'm angry that theres absolutely no way that Dragons 3 can compete with the lego movie 2, a pixar movie, AND despicable me 3. Dragons 2 couldn't even manage to meet the domestic numbers of the first movie with zero animated competition. The tickets are going to be split for all four of them, but Dragons will be by far the most adversely affected, especially domestically. Just... WHAT were you thinking Dreamworks? They should have gone back to a spring release and just accepted that summer is not going to work. Who knows if this even means they'll have longer to work on it or if they'll just start production later anyway? And if it does end up significantly increasing the quality of the film, it sucks even more that its going to inevitably end up doing poorly at the box office. And before somebody responds with the typical "well if the movie is good then why does it matter if it doesn't make a lot of money?" it matters to me and it matters to dreamworks and, yes, unfortunately it matters when it comes down to award season. Sorry, I'm just really disappointed by this news. I'll get over it eventually but ugh.

thescienceofmagic

02 Sep 2014, 23:59

Eret

02 Sep 2014, 23:44

Incoming rant:


I'm SO angry about this. I'm angry about Disney/Pixar shamelessly taking the original release date, I'm angry that Dreamworks picked JUNE 2017 of all months as their backup plan, and I'm angry that theres absolutely no way that Dragons 3 can compete with the lego movie 2, a pixar movie, AND despicable me 3. Dragons 2 couldn't even manage to meet the domestic numbers of the first movie with zero animated competition. The tickets are going to be split for all four of them, but Dragons will be by far the most adversely affected, especially domestically. Just... WHAT were you thinking Dreamworks? They should have gone back to a spring release and just accepted that summer is not going to work. Who knows if this even means they'll have longer to work on it or if they'll just start production later anyway? And if it does end up significantly increasing the quality of the film, it sucks even more that its going to inevitably end up doing poorly at the box office. And before somebody responds with the typical "well if the movie is good then why does it matter if it doesn't make a lot of money?" it matters to me and it matters to dreamworks and, yes, unfortunately it matters when it comes down to award season. Sorry, I'm just really disappointed by this news. I'll get over it eventually but ugh.

Woah woah woah what makes you think it can't compete with those films? HTTYD2 has already trumped the The Lego Movie this year, why would it not be able to do so again? Plus this year for example it has Big Hero 6 and The Boxtrolls to compete with, yet it's already done pretty darn well. Ok maybe it wont win all the awards, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been successful. It's just the same scenario for 2017, and I believe it will do just as well.
Yes, I'm a bit angry at Disney for taking the same release day and forcing DreamWorks out, but I'm not going to direct that anger to DreamWorks for trying to save their movie. The movies it's facing in 2017 aren't half of the competition of what Finding Dory would be (imo) and they made a better decision considering the circumstance.

The Norse Nerd

02 Sep 2014, 22:45

*Look at this post*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT THREE MORE YEARS!!!!!