What happened? While packing less punch that the original (and not having the advantage of being the original), A Dame to Kill For still has the same appeals as Sin City. Wouldn't the same audiences have come out to dip their toes in that world a second time?
After all, Michael Bay films all have the exact same aesthetic and are routinely panned by critics, but always deliver at the box office. Why would there be a massive drop between viewership of the first and the second?
Lots of reasons present themselves, most of which industry insiders will view as frivolous. The fact that more people are watching content on their iProducts than on big screens didn't impact Guardians of the Galaxy's take-home, did it?
Among those factors, though, is the reality that we are bombarded these days with brutality, tough-talking muck-rakers and inhuman behaviour domestically and internationally. It may be that we don't have the taste for cinematic selfishly-driven brutality and corruption the way we may have in 2005.
Guardians, on the other hand, is about criminals learning to put something above themselves first, willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause and for each other. And being stronger for doing so. Like Lord of the Rings, another crowd-pleaser, the cast is made up of heroes from different backgrounds; their diversity isn't a handicap - it's their collective strengths that enable them to win.
Guardians just keeps on going.
Something to think about, if you have a mind to commit sociology.
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