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Originally Posted by RunDownHouse.
Oh, come on. Obviously you can tell if a movie will be good or bad before it's made
you really can't - there's a lot of films which people thought would win best picture or be total blockbusters that wound up being terrible
director having the wrong vision, poorly edited together, miscast actor etc can all ruin a film
likewise so many films fail just because the marketing sucks or there was no marketing and thus nobody ever heard of it
obviously, everyone knew what kind of film a roadhouse reboot starring an mma fighter would be like - but even then, it's a very fine line between making another great action film that'll be adored for generations or some utter crap that everyone hates
every year there's a few films that studios really thought would be huge films and threw a ton of resources behind and they just bomb because the great idea on paper just didn't translate to film and/or wasn't executed well