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THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE WEEKEND THREAD
Jayhawk the Hutt replied to Eric the Ape's topic in Numbers and Data
INT numbers were good as well. Should do over 100m WW -
Would say this looks better than KotCS (a film I enjoy and think has some rather standout action scenes) since that, despite clear effort, still had too much Janusz-milky flair over the classic, practical look of the original 3. This one still doesn't have as much of a stripped-down look as I would have liked, but it gets closer. They also clearly shot as much as possible on practical locations/sets, the chase scene in Morocco in particular looks great. Also, the face de-aging, while not absolutely perfect, is the best I've seen considering the challenges of fully applying it to a massive action set piece with significant lighting changes. Still interested to see/hear what Ford moves and sounds like in the flashback, though it seems like they used a body double for the really stunt heavy stuff there. Overall, very excited for it. Indy is one of my absolute favorite franchises. I've been hopeful (even against better judgement) the whole time for this, but got especially excited since reading about what Mangold was trying to accomplish. By leaning into the whole age thing, not treating it only as a joke, but as an actual thematic underpinning of the story seems to be the best way to actually counteract the whole, "am I supposed to believe Indy is still having adventures as a geriatric!" take that seems to most plague the very idea of this movie. Looks like that faith is paying off with Disney's clear confidence in it.
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THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE WEEKEND THREAD
Jayhawk the Hutt replied to Eric the Ape's topic in Numbers and Data
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It's pretty wild how successful the stunt hyping has worked for the franchise the past decade+. But it does show fundamentally how much love and care goes into these movies. People really like them because they can feel they are extremely well made and considered, even if ultimately they are big dumb fun action movies!
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Don't think it will be universal acclaim, but certainly seems like a lot of folks love it. Tough to tell from the reactions, as it seems somewhat divisive, but plenty have said it's crowd pleasing. May just be one of those movies that doesn't necessarily get the best audience score but still gets solid legs based on the whole, "you just gotta go see it" factor,
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Never really been worth presale tracking in my area since it is always so low (it's incredibly walk up heavy), but top gun has really good sales at the regional chain for this weekend. This is exactly the area where I would expect TGM to over index, our county has the highest proportion of veterans in the state, and is generally pretty conservative.