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It's not even the strongest in DWA.

Uh... You're saying that there's a theoretical line above which films are successes and below which films are flops. That's not how it works. You need to take multiple factors into account. Ex Machina might be low grossing, but it's not a flop, nor was it a disappointing result. $25m for a platform release of a very cerebral science fiction film from a small studio and a limited marketing outlay is fantastic. It was 60% higher than Spring Breakers, which got a lot more pre-release buzz. District 9 has a much more conventional approach, a lot of action to sell it, and had a major marketing campaign. If you want a better 2009 comparison, look at Moon. Small budget, cerebral sci-fi that had good reviews. And it did okay, but was a bit disappointing in that they never gave it any awards push. So Ex Machina's looking a lot better.

Brilliant? Maybe some parts of the second, but the franchise overall is mostly just above average.

Well, erasing nuance assumes there's some there in the first place.

Ex Machina was a flop? It had a small production budget, a platform release, and a limited marketing outset. It grossed $36m WW against a $15m budget. It wasn't a blockbuster, but I doubt it was a disappointment, either. It's by far the highest grossing film that A24 has released.

It's pretty amazing how marketing for feature animation will consistently dumb it down and remove any nuance from the final product.

I doubt that would work here. It seems fairly obvious that the teaser has no footage from the actual film.

I'm really glad I stayed abstained on that SOTM.

I'm willing to do Mad Max.

Had planned to go see KFP3 after hitting my word count for the day, but I ended up not feeling well and staying in. Instead I continued my trek to cover the Spielberg films I hadn't seen with Empire of the Sun. Good, but I liked The Color Purple better.

I think it's because anything that's a sequel is automatically adapted. The Oscars are the same way. (See: Toy Story 3.)

That whole "people who saw five movies" thing again.

I'm actually surprised about that.

Don't blame me. Only one of my noms got in for Actress.

Jakku Chase.

Good lord, those are terrible choices for best scene. While I nommed three of the films, only one of them was for the scene chosen.

They didn't. They just nommed it based on Sorkin's name.

I'm sorry! I was right up against the deadline!

It's got a long way to go in these noms to be more overrated than Star Wars.

Hrm. I might be to blame for Mya Taylor not getting a BSA nom. It looks like I didn't update that cat after seeing Tangerine.

So it looks like I went 0-for-everything on one film.

Yeah. It's amazingly well done, especially when you consider what they were working with.

... So, no Nicholas Hoult, then. You people are terrible.

Actually, IO is the one that surprises me most in the comedy cat. It's got funny bits, but that's not really a driving factor in it.

Tangerine is great. It's not surprising that it didn't get nommed, since probably very few people saw it.