Easy answer as to why they exist- they made money. We can argue on their merits and the sad decline in the public's tastes, but if they don't generate revenue they'd stay as trashy ripoff paperbacks.
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 22, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Divergent-Franchise-Just-Needs-End-Immediately-119747.html > > And no, "because the books are awful" is not the point the article is making. > > If I didn't know that this was a major studio release, I would have assumed > that Allegiant was a DTV ripoff of The Hunger Games. And that's a shoot. I > saw the trailer for Divergent when my wife and I saw Catching Fire, and I > thought it looked ridiculous. Then we saw the trailer for whatever the > second one was called, Insurgent (???) when we say Mockingjay, Part 1, and > somehow it looked even worse. And then we saw the trailer for Allegiant when > we saw Mockingjay, Part 2 (notice a trend here?) and it looked like a Full > Moon DTV feature. > > Just let it GO Lions Gate. The Mortal Instruments has seemingly made a more > successful switch to TV over features, maybe that is the route for Divergent? > I don't know. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
