Louis Lux
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16 hours ago, Valonqar said:
so why is this teaser hated on twitter? I didn't want to give clicks to the site so I didn't read beyond the headline.
I don't know if it's hated but I don't think it wowed or pleased a lot of people. I think some people are not on board with Guy Ritchie's signature colour palette and grittiness but most of all Aladdin's appearance in the teaser didn't convey the charming street urchin quality that people associate with the character.
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I was going to go through the releases a couple of years ago to count how many were built around "we are doomed!". There were so many I got overwhelmed and quit counting.
We are definitely obsessed with the idea that we are doomed. We base religion around it. (even new religions like environmentalism)
That's what is refreshing about Star Trek....they don't assume "everything is getting worse" like we see everywhere else.
So really there is no "going back to believing the future will be a utopia" because we've never done that. Movies like 1984 are the norm. (how wrong was that one?) But truthfully, if anyone made any movie about the future over the past 150 years....reality would have exceeded the most optimistic scenarios most of the time. We never seem to notice how much we've improved our existence.....like...doubling our lifespans in 150 years. We could definitely use more optimism since that's how it's actually played out. The doomsayers have been wrong 100% of the time.
1984 is a novel written in 1949 that used its dystopian future to staunchly criticize totalitarian regimes, it was not really meant as an accurate predictor of life in 1984. Even so, the novel remains very relevant to this day with issues such as mass surveillance and let's not forget that totalitarian regimes still exist and life there is not so great.
I do agree that in fiction writers seem to overstate modern day problems just to make things a bit more interesting without inserting something truly meaningful in their work like in 1984.
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This summer kind of sucks. Not saying all the movies were great but I feel the onslaught of releases and rapid theater loss for movies hindered their runs
It's pretty clear studios overstuffed the summer, a lot of tentpoles along with surefire bombs taking away screens.
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I honestly don't understand most of the complaints with Prometheus. The only thing I had a problem with was the black goo and its inconsistent effects.
Prometheus' second half completely lost focus, it was like 2 movies trying to be a single whole movie and it didn't work.
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I honestly don't know and don't care about Ryan Reynolds dating history and I still find the guy hard to watch on screen. He's just not a very good actor, he's bland and repetitive. And of course people are a bit anoyed cause he gets a lot of high profile acting jobs.
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The only movie that completely floored me was The Matrix. The first scene alone just completely blew me away.
I also got to mention Toy Story 3, I'm a big fan of Toy Story but time had passed and going in I didn't really know what to think of this second sequel. In the very first scene I got a lump in my throat and it didn't subside, still cannot see it without crying.
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Will University finish under Inc (289M)?
That would be another se/pre/quel under the original for Pixar.
289M is with re-releases. 256M was the original run.
Something in the 280M range is possible for MU.
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Most people and mostly kids (me included) enjoyed Batman Forever. Things really derailed with B+R.
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I dont understand the whole "a flop will be covered by a success" thing. Never have. A studios goal is to make as much money as possible. Disney covered JC's losses with TA, but that means less money they get from TA. You dont want to use one movie to mask another, you want JC and TA to be profitable. Why use IM3 and MU to cover TLR, when you want money from all 3? If I was an exec, I wouldnt be so light on flops. I'd get tired of having to use another movie to cover a movie every year, thats less money I get.
But that's how it works, companies do not report for financial profit or loss for each individual movie. They report quaterly with financial profit or loss for all their projects. Sure flops hurt their bottomline but it's not a risk free business and if you think about it the whole MCU was a huge gamble that paid off. It could have been the other way around, John Carter could have been a huge hit spawning several sequels and the MCU could have been met with disinterest.
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Don't turn this in the MoS thread. I'm completely avoiding the MoS thread because every page has walls of text that no one has time to read.
They aren't even discussing MOS... They're talking Star Wars...
Considering the competition MOS is having a good run. It's been dropping around 20% on wednesday so I think it can stay above 1.2M for a 5.5M-6M weekend.
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Nice Week to week hold for WWZ.
Hoping for 200 million.
At this point I don't see how it could miss it.
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nice drop for MU but is it fair to say 300m is out of the question?
DM2 pretty much killed its chances... It might possibly outgross UP.
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Some big drops, not that surprising. Hoping for a nice bump on tuesday.
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Except it's not a fact, you are just pulling this "fact" out of your ass.
No, I just calculated their respective share of the gross and subtracted their production budgets, they have the same profit. As long as they have a similar performance in the home market they'll be even.
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Into Darkness is as successfull as Star Trek 09 just based on numbers. And they both are/will be profitable. Those are just the facts everything else is just fluff.
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That' now how it works....
If DM2 gets the same 5-day multiplier as Dawn of the dinosaurs then we'll get a 410M+ total. I think it will reach it.
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MOS is still on track for 300M+ it will need what, 30M more?
MU's 300M is in a bit of trouble but it's too close to call.
WWZ will get to 200M with room to spare.
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I'm not american and I love adam mckay, except for Talledega Nights, which is too american even for me.
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That's the point no? Reboots do not retain 100% of their audience, so MOS being able to return the Superman franchise to its peak in the 80s it's really great.
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Lol @ '30+'. No high end?
Probably 30M-25M
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Studio estimates 100,1M
Actuals 98,9M
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My all time fav comedy is anchorman
60% of the time it's funny every time.
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Seems bad for Man of Steel. Just can't catch a break
17% drop doesn't seem that bad considering it lost almost a third of its screens.
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What's up with the scheduling? Wouldn't Lone Ranger and WHD be better served with another release date? They're both saturating the market and getting the short end of the deal.
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Aladdin live action movie | 24 MAY 2019 | Disney | 7th most profitable movie of 2019. Disney does it again!
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Posted · Edited by Louis Lux
I have to disagree. The treasure room is mostly blue and the desert with the city of Agrabah looks like it's made out of dirt, the sky is the same colour as the desert, there is very little contrast. The day scenes looked like a cheap movie set on mars or a Mad Max knock off. Fury Road in comparison looks way more interesting in the way it was shot and graded. I believe Fury Road was greatly improved from what was presented in the trailer but I have my doubts that Guy Ritchie will change things that much for the theatrical release.