2020 Movies Delayed Due to Covid: No Excuse for Negative Reviews

[toddly6666]

The good thing about Covid is that producers can have time to really review their final product. Pre-Covid, rushed deadlines cause movie quality to suffer. With Covid delaying all big movies except for Tenet, this seems to be a chance to make sure that their completed films originally meant for 2020 release are now pretty flawless.

They have the money and time for reshoots if they know what to fix to improve the film, so once the theaters open up, and all the big 2020 films as well as the ones currently filmed now are released into theaters, there is almost no excuse for crappy reviews. Time gives an opportunity to fix mistakes. We'll see how the critics and audiences react to the next big films released in theaters whenever that may be.

Any thoughts on this?

[levcore]

So studios should pump even more money into their completed movies whilst there is still a very uncertain future regarding cinemas, audience attendance and box office? Yeah no.

[Mothravka]

I don't think it matters. If they are bad, they are bad.

[CyberpunkCentral]

I don't think so. Studios are already losing a ton of money as it is. Spending even more doesn't make sense to me.

[Aclea]

Not if the script was bad to begin with. Or if the film was miscast. Or if the wrong director was hired. Or if it was just a terrible idea to begin with...

By the OP's theory, Pluto Nash and Town and Country should have been great: after all, they spent over $100m on each of them with extensive reshoots and rewrites over two-three year periods before releasing them, so they must have ironed out all the kinks.

[Foggy]

Well not only that, some films just plain don’t work no matter how hard they can try to fix them. Sometimes you just don’t know if ideas or plans pay off. If it was that easy to make good flicks, they’d all be good.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Any thoughts on this?

Yes: it's a weird idea for a thread.

[kylor]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

The good thing about Covid is that producers can have time to really review their final product. Pre-Covid, rushed deadlines cause movie quality to suffer. With Covid delaying all big movies except for Tenet, this seems to be a chance to make sure that their completed films originally meant for 2020 release are now pretty flawless.

They have the money and time for reshoots if they know what to fix to improve the film, so once the theaters open up, and all the big 2020 films as well as the ones currently filmed now are released into theaters, there is almost no excuse for crappy reviews. Time gives an opportunity to fix mistakes. We'll see how the critics and audiences react to the next big films released in theaters whenever that may be.

Any thoughts on this?

I remember reading somewhere that for Venom 2, because of the delay more time can be taken to render the CGI and touch up things to look even better than they would have done on original release. I guess that's a bonus.

[Aclea]

With CGi it's rarely the effects themselves but the time - and hiring multiple companies to work round the clock to meet a release date - that drives the cost up, so in theory they might be able to save some money as well unless social distancing is slowing the workflow or benching fx houses.

[Ricky G]

The level of incompetence in Hollywood is too high for a noticeable boost in quality when (or if) this all blows over.

[drush9999]

I'll have whatever the OP is smoking

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by kylor

I remember reading somewhere that for Venom 2, because of the delay more time can be taken to render the CGI and touch up things to look even better than they would have done on original release. I guess that's a bonus.

Thank you for a giving a non-douchebag non-wise-ass comment.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Thank you for a giving a non-douchebag non-wise-ass comment.

More like "thank you for writing something that aligns with my uninformed opinion."