I've had it with 'What were you expecting?'
I thought the "what were you expecting" argument was dead and buried, but apparently some people still think it's a valid logical figure. What was I expecting? For 15 bucks, quite a bit more than an overstretched Saturday Night Live sketch crammed with self-referencing unemployed 80s stars. For a budget of 90 million dollars, some cinematography would be in order. This movie is made amateurishly, like they are on a budget. If you think that's a "tribute" to the 80s, then you haven't seen any 80s movies lately. They were good products, well shot, well edited, characters didn't just pop out of nowhere for plot convenience.
An action movie is not good just because it has action in it. Audiences are quite aware of that. Case in point, how does a Steven Seagal movie fare against a Jason Bourne one at the box office? People may be stupid but they realise when they are treated with respect and when they are contemptuosly patted on the head. That's why this piece of garbage flopped and that's why further instalments will keep flopping.