Killimano3

Everyone forgets the box office curse would never allow dune to end in the 200Ms. Either it ends up high 100s like JW4 and goes on a crazy run to over 300M like Oppenheimer. There is no in-between.

I've noticed a weird thing where a lot of young people will randomly declare "NOBODY IN MY GENERATION WATCHES/READS/LISTENS TO THAT" because them, their 3 friends and their brother haven't despite the fact that it is clearly not true in any way. I remember back when the Dnd movie came out some users on this board were convinced the film was bombing because "nobody in their 20s knows what dnd is and only boomers like it."

I love the movies so I bring my kids to essentially ever kids movie that releases, whether they know about it or not, and whether I even want to see it or not. They love going to the movies so they're always happy. But I definitely agree if I hadn't done that they might not have any interest on their own. Even as it is I find that they are very impatient about TV/movies compared to I was when I was a kid in the early 00s. We used to just accept things like having to watch whatever was on, needing to wait til movies released in theaters and then came out on VHS/DVD. But my kids can't STAND the fact that they have to wait until films release on streaming a month or two later XD The second we get home from a movie they liked they'll beg me to play it again on the TV and I'll need to explain to them that no, you can't just put whatever you want on the TV always, sometimes you have to actually wait until something releases. They're too used to thinking "I want to watch this" and then they can just watch whatever it is always instantly

Obviously the box office is still performing below the pre-pandemic era, but I feel like most of the year has been at least performing admirably enough, with a few months performing at near pre-pandemic levels. But for whatever reason the only months that have been truly dismal the past couple years has been the holiday season. November and December were basically carried the last couple years but single films making upwards of 60% of the months entire gross (Black Panther 2, Avatar 2, Spider-Man 3), and this year just doesn't have that. The strike certainly hurt this year but I feel like even if it hadn't we'd still have seen a terrible season overall. I also feel like we can't just blame the sad state of the moviegoing industry since we've since seen lots of hits this years. For some reason we're just seeing abysmal holiday schedules...

It's not so much about Jake being literally white and more about the plot being "guy from foreign colonizer country is the only one who can save the natives, also he's better at being a native then the natives". I think the US and Canada are the places where that narrative is considered the most offensive. Maybe Australia as well though I don't live there. I have a lot of native family/friends who didn't appreciate that aspect of the film. Especially when the random colonizer guy becomes essentially their chosen one.

Holy god that Marvels drop. That's some insane rejection. Honestly makes it hard to tell what went wrong here. With numbers like that there's basically no movie to compare it to anymore. Like people weren't just not interested, they were ACTIVELY making sure to avoid it at all costs

Wait... They split it in two? Goddammit I thought we were passed that bullshit by now

I can see Garfield doing really well. I don't mind Chris Pratt as an actor but that man has to be just the luckiest actor on planet earth. Seems to me that that he lives in a permanent cycle of: Gets cast in guaranteed blockbuster ---> movies makes billions ---> producers think Chris Pratt is the draw ---> Chris Pratt is cast in guaranteed blockbuster To give him some credit I guess he's just incredible at choosing roles

I didn't hate quantumania as much as other people did, but it definitely was one of the more meh films, very similar to dark world to me. My main issue is that it sort of lost the soul of the antman movies. They just deleted all the fun side characters. And I will NEVER forgive them for ruining the relationship between him and his daughter. The relationship between Scott and his daughter was sweet, and one of the best parts of his character. I don't give a shit if somebody at marvel wanted to give him character development by making him miss out on her childhood, it was a stupid idea. Instead she got replaced with the most forgettable character in the entire MCU

I've been wary of prequels/sequels to big franchise for a while now thanks to star wars/Harry Potter/hobbit. But I must say this one has looked incredibly good and I'm very excited for it. Helps that it's based off an actual extension of the story by the author, and that they didn't try to split it into a dozen movies for no reason

I understand that the individual films post-endgame have had problems, but I l still believe that the biggest culprit for the sudden collapse of the MCU is the oversaturation of the market and the nonsensical state of the overall narrative. The infinity saga was incredible at telling a story over the long-term while tying in individual character arcs and stories. Since endgame it's like there's no direction anymore and even each films approach to the “multiverse” feels inconsistent. The shows made it near impossible for an average person to keep up as well, and even for some hardcore fans.

I honestly don't know where the appropriate place to ask this is but I've been reading my daughter The Hobbit book and she's been really enjoying it, and she knows there are films and wants to watch them after (we did that with the Narnia books). Thing is, she's 6, and she's pretty good at sitting through long movies and pay attention to the story but I don't want to confuse her by throwing a 3 film trilogy with a bunch of random side characters thrown in for no reason and loads of backstory that wasn't in the book at her. So my question is... has anyone seen that one-film edit of the Hobbit made by a fan? I've never seen it but I was thinking if it was a good film maybe that would be the best way to watch it with her.

So how bad is the opening looking for this

I expected FNAF to play like twilight but I didn't expect it to invent it's own new category of terrible holds... Didn't expect much from it this weekend but it still somehow disappointed

Trailer looked very promising. Just a teaser, but it certainly looked like it will be as visually impressive as the last few. Plus I like how they're bringing it forward in the future a bit and exploring how things progress.