Threequels are notorious for being
the lowest out of a franchise's bunch at the box office with the exception of most superhero movies.
Not exact matches
It ranks even
lower than last year's Bionic Commando in Capcom's list
of franchises that had promise but turned
out to be no fun to play.
Producer Jason Blum
of Blumhouse Productions has made a career
out of taking
low - to - moderately budgeted horror films like Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Oculus and turning them into profitable box office offerings - often with promise
of sequel and / or
franchise opportunities.
The Vigil studio was not put up for auction with the other THQ
franchises which could mean that Platinum Games make a deal with THQ
out of auction for the
lower price that Inaba - san is talking about.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE is a return to his bygone days when the meaty scripts were still
out of reach and he had to build up a reputation, and it's sad to think how the once mighty one - man
franchise could have fallen so
low after a decade
of unparalleled greatness for an action star.
For every viewer happily creeped
out by the
franchise's simple scare tactics — its video vision
of things going bump and creak and moan in the dark — there's another moviegoer completely unfazed by such
low - budget prankery.
and even weirder CGI (can never get a young CGI'd Patrick Stewart
out of my head) make this a
low point in the
franchise that everyone wants to forget.
But as always we spend some extra time with a game we are about to give a
lower score on just so that we can find things that might prevent us from it, patches etc. to make the experiences somewhat better than what we first experienced and we managed to dig
out enough good things with the game to keep it from a
low score and yes, I am actually one
of the few fans
of the
franchise so I might be a little biased on this one but hey, I liked both previous games so why shouldn't I review the third one too right.
Every character here strongly represents Nintendo's diverse
franchises, and you can't really complain about the the character inclusions (though it is a shame the
low memory
of the N64 meant that Princess Peach, Bowser and King Dedede were left
out of the mix until later entries).
As for your second point about the public only going to
franchise lawyers if they perceive a benefit, you miss the point that a heavily - backed
franchise gets going, they can and will (as history has repeatedly shown — see the US title insurance predation
of the real estate bar) temporarily offer
low prices until the independent lawyers are wiped
out, at which point they will have the public at their mercy.