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How To Make A Megaflop (3 simple rules to ensure humiliating failure)
- niccolop 15y agoInteresting from the perspective of tech startups.
- tambourine_man 15y agoI thought we were using gigaflops… oh, OK.
- Amadiro 15y agoI was also staring at the title for half a minute, puzzled as to what's the deal about failing to designing a CPU with a megaflop...
- droithomme 15y agoStrange article. Uses John Carter as an example, then none of the "3 simple rules" are applied to it. Nor is it mentioned the reality: the film is good, but was very badly marketed.
- DanBC 15y agoThe Economist (at least, the UK version) is great, but the opinion pieces are often the weakest bits. > But the existence of flops such as “John Carter” is perverse proof that the Walt Disney Company is doing something right.
- z92 15y agoBad article. "Slaughtering a sacred cow" and "mixing oil and water" both can be formula for great movies. Which leaves us, not surprisingly, the third reason "produce a genuinely awful product" as the lone one. On a side note, I think not having a wow moment is one recipe toward movie disaster. The other one might be: not being able to stir up emotions of the viewers.
- olavk 15y agoTotally missing the point with The Producers. In the movie the "Springtime for Hitler" play becomes an (unplanned) success. And the movie itself became a success, showing that you can indeed "mix oil with water" with enough audacity. The article presents it like it is obvious that Hamlet or Lolita will never work as a musical - presumably because the material is too serious for showtunes - but Jesus Christ Superstar was a huge success.