namelessfly wrote:I have had a lot of fun with this thread but the serious point here is that the success of 300, both the original and the sequel, demonstrates that more serious Sci Fi movies can be profitable and that the need to be PG or PG-13 criteria for profitability is no longer paramount.
It does no such thing though. The overlap between the people who want to see 300-like material and the people that want to see Honorverse-like material, while nonzero, is not big enough to allow us to extrapolate the success of one based on the other. The differences in style and tone are just too great.