dxmatrixdt

🙀

,

.

.

🙀

,

One Missed Call (2008)

the production value seemed cheap despite the 45 million budget. a lot of the scenes were stretched out, and the boat chases looked like they were filmed live rather than just using all CGI. it was another 2008 film that was painful to get through, but it is still good enough for a review because of the cast and big setting. I am wondering the Writers Strike of 2007-2008? had any effect on some of the 2008 released films. D - 65%

is there an official production budget yet? Wikipedia had this filming in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(film)

Mile 22 is supposed to be made to be a franchise starter, and is going out on 3,500+ domestically. The director is Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon), there are no reviews, and the budget is $35 million.

good numbers so far with everything

Meg made 41.4 w/o previews. Half that is 20.7. Should make 18-18.5 during weekdays, less than half, and it wont be good for other films with CRA opening in 3,300 today

I got pretty lost right away. When there were mind twists, I was too lost to tell who they were coming from. By the time bodies piled up and the characters continued to interact like nothing happened, it was hard to balance out what was going on with all the psychosis flying around. The patients would play things out like nothing happened and be in this relationship boiler time continuum by a script too raw and grounded to escape from. The lack of visual effects made a reliance on the acting and writing. The visual technique of being shot on an iPhone 7 Plus made the picture sharp, but the quick editing and lack of focus took away at a direction of a higher presentation of the interior of the facility. The scenes in different rooms when patients interacted did not seem accurate to everyday living within inpatient mental facilities, and the introduction to these scenes seemed to be built around on what the characters were feeling. In these movies, whenever the inpatients interact, it seems they are not being treated fairly, and then the outside perspective view would shift. It is like if one constantly scolds themselves for doing something right. But these are movies about people made by people showing the fallout amongst the collision of so many minds hoping to go somewhere else, but something will not allow them. And then I think one is to draw comparisons between institution and normal life. Should the scars of the victims be made transparent, or should it be the scars of the facilities? The ending makes it seem like another paradoxical impossible task. Still, Unsane is probably one of the few 'thumbs down' on a 2018 theatrical feature so far. It was unsettling, but not bad enough to avoid a review. Unfriended 2: The Dark Web is at the bottom of my list right now w/ Hotel Transylvania 3 at #2, but HT3 is another one that needs further film and writing knowledge before developing a firmer review. Hotel Transylvania 3 - 76 Unsane - 74 Unfriended: The Dark Web - 73 *The acting in Unfriended was top notch and matched the acting in Unsane which is surprising with how I usually position bottom of the list horror movies. Slender Man will likely compete here as well and if it is a tie and Slender Man has the better acting, then it might outperform this list.

Just finished The Lazarus Project. It was okay, it felt like it was a derivative of something else. It was low budget though and can be seen a number of different times experimentally. Coincidentally, I rented the 2018 film Unsane which I am watching next and I think its going to be similar in a grouping aspect. Must have had psychological thriller genre on my mind at the rental booth. I'd probably give the Lazarus Project a C- w/ room to grow. the is probably directors commentary rewatches via dvds on Ebay. In 2008, that is a decent enough score to make the top 100.

which soul are we covering today?

and off point, the two Steve Jobs films I was mentioning at came out in 2013 and 2015, not in the same year like these two films. I think Little Women coming out in 2 months should compete well enough to make it in the bottom of the top 10.

I put Durden at #93 and Edward Norton at #70. I had to put Edward Norton as - "The Narrator", he has no other name in the film. I hope that did not hurt the vote process and I doubt he makes it. With the spread of votes, I am thinking Quaritch DOES NOT make it now since Jake Sully did.

so two Little Women movies coming out months apart. The first one should be small, the second one a bit hit? Kind of like the Steve Jobs films?

Does this movie titled Little Women that opens in a few months have to do anything with the movie titled Little Women in this thread? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2018_film)

I saw Mile 22 will be getting some IMAX screens, but I have seen nothing on Alpha getting those screens after advertising advertised it as an IMAX experience.

will a new James Cameron film do well in todays day and age, or should they switch directors?

20.6 - The Meg - 86.6 20.0 - Crazy Rich Asians - 30.0 16.5 - Mile 22 - 16.5 12.6 - Mi6 - 183.5 8.3 - Christopher Robin - 66.5 8.0 - Alpha - 8.0 6.0 - Black Klansman - 22.5 4.8 - Slender Man - 22.4 4.2 - Spy/Dumped - 32.3 4.2 - Mamma Mia - 112.2 3.6 - Equalizer - 95.9 3.4 - Hotel Tran - 153.8 2.8 - Ant-Man - 208.6 2.4 - Incredibles - 594.4 1.5 - Dog Days - 6.6 1.25 - Jurassic - 412.0 1.00 - Teen Titans - 27.7 0.70 - Darkest Minds - 12.75

Darkest Minds will probably loose 2,000 and was already deduced to 2 showings/day at a lot of places this week. Dog Days will be in its second weekend and might or might not reduce to 2 showings/day because no new tentpoles are opening. Dog Days can pick up good business in the afternoon, Darkest Minds probably doesn't sell much with the early bird crowd

meh, Greatest Showman went to 175 and would have got a nomination in the populae category

next weekend predix w/ light holds. 0.18 - First Purge - 68.78 0.30 - Skyscraper - 66.80 0.70 - Darkest Minds - 15.05 0.80 - Teen Titans - 27.61 1.00 - Eighth Grade - 12.31 1.40 - Jurassic World - 412.10 1.60 - Dog Days - 6.93 2.50 - Incredibles - 594.60 2.60 - Ant-Man - 208.50 3.70 - Hotel Tran - 154.20 3.70 - Equalizer 2 - 96.00 4.00 - Spy/Dumped - 32.50 4.10 - Mamma Mia - 112.20 5.30 - Slender Man - 22.20 6.60 - Black Klansman - 22.60 9.00 - Christopher Robin - 67.80 9.00 - Alpha - 9.00 12.50 - Mission: Fallout - 184.50 16.00 - Mile 22 - 16.00 20.00 - The Meg - 86.50 22.50 - Crazy Rich Asians - 33.00