I agree with you that a movie with minor characters can be awesome. I don't agree with you in that a movie like that can be succesfull. As simple as that. Why is that contradictory? Great movies bomb all the time.
Mxy, there are loads of movies out there with characters nobody has heard of before they go to watch it, and they are still huge sucesses. Nobody, or at least barely anybody had heard of Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Robocop or 1000s of other characters in movies, but they still went to see them because of good promotion of those films, and by your reckoning, word of mouth!
Lets face it, who the fuck knew Blade was even a Marvel comics character, but that didnt stop that film being a sucess!
