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Those examples are entirely different, its easier to "believe" in a world with magic especially in a fantasy world like LotRs. And no they are targeting the general audience, the fans they know they already have them.
Those examples are really not all that different. If you look at the original world of Dragonball (basically, the first half of the whole series, before it became "Z" in the anime) it was a whole land filled with fantasy and wonder. Hell, it was built off of a mystical myth about a Monkey Boy on a journey :laugh: Yeah, the tone kind of changed, but it NEVER had the tone that was present in Dragonball Evolution. It not only changed the tone of the entire show, but the tone of the characters as well.
But still, I ranted away from my original point
Oh, and the obviously failed to try and get other people to enjoy it, because the fan base hated it, that spread, and then even people who had very little nostalgia with it didn't even want to see it OR ended up hating it themselves. Oh, and from what I hear, the normal movie goer didn't even enjoy it