[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Tomax

totally wrong.

The Last Jedi was supposed to break all kinds of box office records and stand out as the best film in the series, and yet the movie has struggled and the studios have admitted that it has under-performed. It's also the most devisive film in the franchise...critics love it, but fans can't figure out if it is the best or the worst film in the series. (I wasn't a fan...)

Bright was supposed to be one of the worst films of the year, and yet it is Netflix's biggest and best reviewed hit to date (among viewers...which by the way...I enjoyed it a bunch...)

Devil's advocate comment I know...but just saying...there is no guarantee a film will fail or succeed in today's market. I have no doubt BP will succeed opening weekend, but if word of mouth gets out that it's bad (or boring...or pointless because of Infinity War or whatever people will find to complain about) it could very easily slip into Thor 2 futility. I haven't been wowed by anything in the trailers for it personally, but that comes from a lack of interest in the character and a general fatigue (and disappointment) in superhero films as of late.

As for the point about CG...it looked really bad in some of the BP trailers, and I think that the issues in quality more has to do with the advance in technology for viewing things at home and in theaters than it does with the artists and work in general. We now have access to 4k and higher resolutions in both, and while it's great to see things in such clarity, it also is so crisp and clear that it pulls back the curtain on CGI to show the little man running the show a bit more. I won't watch certain things on my 4k TV at home, simply because the clarity ruins the experience for me. Despite their age, movies like the Matrix, Titanic and Jurassic Park still look fantastic and magical in 1080...on 4k...they look like Discovery channel cartoons.