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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 2, 2022 3:07:49 GMT -5
Their line of thought was "Chris Nolan's trilogy was really successful. Let's do all our DC movies like that!" That was the Ur bad decision that led to every other one regarding the DCEU. It's also seems to lead to... ALL BATMAN MOVIES SHOULD BE SUPER SERIOUS AND GROUNDED IN REALITY! God, I was so relieved watching The Batman and there being some jokes that were actually funny and not in that, "let's take the piss out of superheroes as a concept because we're ashamed of what we're making" way.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Aug 2, 2022 3:16:41 GMT -5
Sega releasing The Saturn before it or a majority of the games were even finished Not only that... making it a "surprise", to literally everyone. Including the stores selling the consoles. And, they didn't get it in a lot of rental places. Where I live, everybody had the Playstation to rent and obviously PS games to rent. Nobody had the Saturn or any games, and it wasn't just where I lived, my cousins in a bigger town just had Blockbuster where they could rent it, and that section was nothing compared to PS. In that day, who wanted a console where they couldn't rent games at all, and instead had to buy every game? You had to get into video stores to stand a chance. Yeah, Decca passing on The Beatles and eventually signing The Stones feels more like a fate-y thing than anything else. Everything worked out they way it should have. I learned during the Johnny Depp trial (of all places) that the merchandising side of the Star Wars film deal (in terms of a cut the studio would potentially get) was seen as unimportant on the studio's end, and they let George Lucas just have the rights from any future merch sales. Think about THAT one. Yeah, Fox assumed what could this unknown sci fi picture possibly have in terms of merchandising... and... honestly they were almost right... originally only a few coloring books and stuff were originally designed and going to be sold before... well... Star Wars. (hell they sold a f***ing empty box for Christmas because the toys wouldn't be ready for it.) Yeah, it's a bad decision by Fox in hindsight. And it's only bad because Star Wars shattered every record and completely changed merchandising. Before Star Wars, movies would get some toys but they'd be done soon after and that's it. Movies wouldn't get much merchandise beyond some toys, and shirts and stickers. Star Wars changed all of that, and the toys were always in stores, they sold like crazy till after Return. Everything Star Wars was selling long after the movie hit theaters. Fox couldn't see what was coming, because nothing like it had happened before. Jaws was the highest grossing movie ever, with over $190 million, and then came Star Wars to shatter that record with ease. Lucas took a gamble on himself and his franchise, and it paid off. No movie before Star Wars did what Star Wars did, there was no precedent. So, I wouldn't say it was a bad business decision by Fox.
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Post by ARI WOW WOW on Aug 2, 2022 5:25:30 GMT -5
Hiring Russo. Then, secretly re-hiring Russo.
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Post by castletonsnob on Aug 2, 2022 5:40:35 GMT -5
Nickelodeon passed on Adventure Time, Ed Edd n Eddy, and Phineas and Ferb, and instead picked up Fanboy and Chum-Chum, Breadwinners, and Planet Sheen.
Now, you can say that AT, EEnE, and P&F wouldn't have been the same show or wouldn't have been as successful on Nickelodeon, but that doesn't change the fact that Nickelodeon passed on those shows, and they became HUGE hits for their competitors. It also doesn't change the fact that Nickelodeon passed on those shows, and instead picked up OBJECTIVELY terrible shows like Fanboy and Chum-Chum, Breadwinners, and Planet Sheen.
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Post by castletonsnob on Aug 2, 2022 5:43:11 GMT -5
Surprised nobody has said "The Fingerpoke of Doom" yet. That, combined with revealing that Mankind would win the WWF Championship (seemingly not realizing how over Mankind was), was the beginning of the end for WCW.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Aug 2, 2022 5:50:03 GMT -5
Hiring Russo. Then, secretly re-hiring Russo. Ccing Dave Meltzer in an email about how you secretly hired Vince Russo
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Aug 2, 2022 5:58:43 GMT -5
Unless it's been debunked, I remember hearing that Shane McMahon tried talking Vince into buying UFC way back in the day, and Vince passed on it. This was a while before UFC blew up and became huge in the 2000s. I don't remember the source for that rumor tho I just remember reading it somewhere. They were in negotiations to buy PRIDE years later, but Vince sabotaged it so it ended up being WCW'd by UFC.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Aug 2, 2022 6:04:01 GMT -5
NewsCorp acquiring MySpace as a hot commodity in 2005, and proceeding to ram it full of clutter and crap adverts so it was rapidly overtaken by Facebook and had over $500 million wiped off its value by the time it was sold.
Then again, is anything that loses Rupert Murdoch half a billion dollars a bad thing?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Aug 2, 2022 6:25:55 GMT -5
The Coleco Adam. The thing was an interesting bit of tech, but it tried to do too much and didn't do much well as a result, it was also expensive, unreliable and generated an EM pulse on startup that wiped any removable media left in or near it. They lost tens of millions in the two years it was sold, back when that was a big deal.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 2, 2022 6:48:01 GMT -5
The publishers who passed on Harry Potter
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 2, 2022 8:16:34 GMT -5
Including one of the most infamous examples: "Bro to hype up this new Ready To Rumble film we should have David Arquette work and win in a main event match." "Gee Vince why don't why we give him the world title too while we're at it." "Tony, that's brilliant! As god as my witness this is going to turn the company around." Considering the state of WCW and that Arquette gave every last cent to Melanie Pillman, Martha Hart and Droz, I say it's a net positive. Very much a silver lining to that particular dark cloud indeed.
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 2, 2022 8:23:49 GMT -5
McDonald’s has a track record of trying to add mode “sophisticated” or “exotic” items to their menu, always forgetting the whole pint of fast food is the fast part, and each time they spent more money on the ad campaigns than they made on the product. McPizza, the Arch Deluxe, Mighty Wings, the list goes on.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Aug 2, 2022 8:35:27 GMT -5
The Wii U was a misguided venture from conception, though to naming, to launch, to marketing and beyond. Ultimately, it was protracted blunder and we all kind of just accepted that this was a machine with great games that nobody else owns.
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 2, 2022 9:27:30 GMT -5
Speaking of studios making bad calls, how many studios decided to pass on Peter Jackson wanting to do Lord Of The Rings before he got the deal with New Line? Fun story: when Peter Jackson started editing the footage fir LotR he invited the then CEO and founder of New Line, Robert Shaye, for a sneak peak. When Shaye walked into Jackson’s office the first thing he saw was a poster for Meet the Feebles. He has described it as one of the worst moments of his life, feeling himself ho numb and the walls sinking in as he thought “I gave this man three hundred million dollars!”
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 2, 2022 9:43:01 GMT -5
By giving the grill to George Foreman instead of me, brother. All I did was miss one call, jack!
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 2, 2022 9:48:19 GMT -5
Their line of thought was "Chris Nolan's trilogy was really successful. Let's do all our DC movies like that!" That was the Ur bad decision that led to every other one regarding the DCEU. It's also seems to lead to... ALL BATMAN MOVIES SHOULD BE SUPER SERIOUS AND GROUNDED IN REALITY! I prefer the 90s Batman movies to the Nolan stuff. Absolutely dead serious.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 2, 2022 9:53:03 GMT -5
The vacuum company that offered free airline tickets with purchase, the tickets being FAR more valuable.
The airline that offered incredibly cheap lifetime passes.
Names are escaping me now.
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Post by Stu on Aug 2, 2022 9:58:35 GMT -5
From what I understand the suit is still building, it was a (cynical) move to try and head off a lot of ill will. Oh. That gesture is a lot more likely to generate ill will lmao.
No, no. I prefer what happened in Seinfeld *Kramer sues company after being burned by hot coffee Exec: Okay, we'll settle. We'll offer him a lot of money and a lifetime of free coffee. *During settlement Exec: Okay, we're ready to settle. We're offering you a lifetime of free coffee .... Kramer: Deal!
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Aug 2, 2022 10:00:22 GMT -5
Yahoo buying tumblr, banning porn in a way that only worked for legit people, not the bots they were trying to get rid of, causing a massive exodus of users who got mad about it, and losing a billion dollars.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 2, 2022 10:42:56 GMT -5
Yahoo buying tumblr, banning porn in a way that only worked for legit people, not the bots they were trying to get rid of, causing a massive exodus of users who got mad about it, and losing a billion dollars. Tons of spam bots and literal nazis? Perfectly fine. Female-presenting nipples? Get that shit outta here. Tumblr has at least a sort of comeback under WordPress and it's a good place for shitposts. But Verizon really screwed up there.
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