I haven’t seen it but was looking forward to it until I heard it’s a musical. Just why

You can make more money with a flop than with a hit!

I did watch it, although I had been warned. I figured the calls of it being a musical had to be inflated - they weren't. If you cut the singing, you'll have about half the runtime.

That in and of itself isn't even bad, albeit not my cup of tea. However what really annoyed me, was that NOTHING happened. It was basically a slice of psychic ward life story. One with an explosive but blue-balled ending. It was basically just the script writers trying to make Lady Gaga sing a lot - well a job well done I suppose.

It actually annoys me a lot, because the cast was great and delivered exceptionally well in their acting. The premise and setting also had a lot of potential, but what we got was more of an art-house low-budget movie with great actors but terrible script

Imagine making 20 millions as a director to lose 200

I liked the movie a lot.

Yeah it would have worked if they waited another 5 years before trying to beat the horse for nostalgia value. They were impatient.

People saw the first film as a novel concept with a new exciting take on a classic character. People are going to see the sequel as something... not fresh.

It was actually not bad. It stumbled on the ending but did a lot of things well for the DC universe’s « La La Land. »

Didn't even know this movie had been announced until I'd heard it was bombing. I never watched the first one so odds were pretty slim I'd have seen it anyway.

That's okay. In a year or two they'll call it a "cult classic" and make another anyway.

roughly $100 million to market and distribute.

And yet this is the first time I'm hearing that it's out

I just don’t understand. The first was a novelty that did surprisingly well, I had no expectation that this would be anywhere as successful. Who’s making these estimates?