Hollywood in the Making

Seeing that $60 million was spent on Joker really makes me want to rant. Will Smith's 2013 sci-fi flop, Back to Earth, only cost $60 million, and the 2019 Joker starring Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry only cost $55 million. In reality, the 2019 Joker only had a budget of $50-70 million. Where did you spend your $60 million budget on Joker in the 90s?

Okay, I can understand if you update less frequently and pad the word count. You need to make a living, after all. But copying and pasting another video creator's entire description for chapter 388 is just too much. There's no attempt to even try to hide it. Cross-industry plagiarism is truly impressive. I subscribed to the entire book of yours; doing this makes it hard to believe you're seriously writing a book.

Seeing the script leaked, haha, I really couldn't hold it in anymore. A budget of 160 million, with hundreds of millions in box office profits later on, this leak will kill a lot of people. The author and capitalists are really clean hands. Laughing to death. He's such a fat pig, he could cause several accidents. You try it if you dare, it'll be hilarious.

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Having been reborn for over twenty years, the protagonist still hasn't managed to save enough initial funds to make his first movie, not even for a low-budget film... Such a protagonist is truly rare; it would be better if he had just transmigrated.

To be frank, cross-era films are actually the best for commercial success, as every drama is tied to its time. Take, for example, the sequel starring the protagonist. It simply couldn't have succeeded, or rather, it would never have been released in 1992; no distribution company or theater chain would have dared to do it. The 1992 Los Angeles riots were all because of the Black issue.

Do you guys think the Joker could surpass the dinosaur? A movie that grossed 1 billion in 2019 doesn't mean it could have grossed 1 billion in the 1990s. Besides inflation, there's also the expansion of the film market, higher ticket prices, and audience acceptance. I don't really think it could surpass the dinosaur. I feel this part is too self-indulgent.

Having read up to chapter 182, my poison resistance is down to its last level. Did the author really not consider why this story is flopping so badly? Did they have to disgust the readers?

Did the author do any research before writing the book? Were there internet stocks in the early 1990s? The internet existed then, but there probably weren't any publicly listed internet companies; Microsoft was just a tech stock. Companies like Netscape, Yahoo, and Amazon, which represent the beginning of the internet, were publicly listed.

Why not adapt the perfectly good Hong Kong version and instead make an American version of Infernal Affairs? I don't know what the author was thinking. It's not even as profound as The Matrix. My interest in reading it, sparked by Batman, has been completely shattered. The original timeline only made an American version of Infernal Affairs because the Hong Kong version was so outstanding.