Even Dhar Mann has better sets, writing and even to some extent actors. If Tyler Perry is this wealthy he has no excuse to make low quality films.

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    Tyler Perry is very open and honest about one thing when it comes to his movies. This is his quote. I super serve my base.

    He knows exactly who likes his movies and what they like and he makes movies for them. He doesn’t give a fuck, his words, about what anyone outside of his base audience thinks of his products.

    I think his movies are shit, but I am not in his base audience clearly neither are you

    Now, with all that said , there has never been a correlation between the quality of a movie and it’s financial success. yes many great movies are financially successful but pulling numbers out of my ass 10 times that terrible movies are equally financially successful.

    Also, a lot of making money in movies is about understanding the finances and business of making movies. Perry has mastered the ecosystem of movie sales.

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      The recent financial disaster that is “The Bride” is almost completely correlated to poor spending. I believe the studio spent around $190 million after promotion and marketing on what was arguably an amazing indie arthouse film that should have been made on a tiny budget. It’s just so niche.

      Tyler Perry cranks out low budget films that have an extremely low financial hurdle to clear before they become profitable.

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        I’m Confused as to why you’re so convinced the bride would be amazing If it had A tiny budget but hey whatever.

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          It sounds like they think the movie is good, it just took too much money to make given it’s lack of appeal to a wide audience. I think that makes sense.

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          I think they mean IF the Bride didn’t have such a massive advertising budget, it probably could have sold more than it cost. Smaller advertising would have resulted in less sales overall, but would require less sales to become profitable.

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      Visualize that base: people who like Tyler Perry Movies. They would probably say Monty Python are shit and they can’t believe how much garbage they produced.

      Basically yeah: Tyler Perry movies are not for you (or me). And other people think the same thing about the stuff we like.

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        I am nit certain on your first paragraph, but absolutely on your second.