>>212007413 (OP)The truth is that people want the same movie again and again.
'Smile 2' was literally the same movie as Smile, and people loved it for that.
Then with M3gan 2 and Joker 2, you have films that very much honor the first installment, but try to do something new with it too. People hate it for that, so much so, that the current mainstream interpretation of Joker 2 is so far off from what is actually on the screen.
"WHY DIDN'T THEY DO TEST SCREENINGS? WHY DIDNT THEY LISTEN AND GIVE US THE MOST REDUNDANT MOVIE IMAGINABLE." It is so anti-art and treats movies like a dopamine butron dispenser. I guess that is what most people demand from movies now I guess.