Eric the Marxist
-
Posts
37,178 -
Joined
-
Days Won
453
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Gallery
Annual Subscriptions
Media Demo
Posts posted by Eric the Marxist
-
-
1 minute ago, Madhuvan said:
Inflation is extremely overrated
What about change in movie going habit and the medium of entertainment increasing??
OTT is far far more bigger worldwide right now then in 2019.
So saying 500m in 2019 is 600m today is bit misleading in hindsight. I could be very well wrong but when judging movie performance, Inflation is wrong method
Roughly 80% of the time I see people bring up inflation here, it's typically just trying to downplay a movie's success or just to instigate a fight. Obviously the metric isn't totally invalid, but I do often feel like I have to sideeye people when they bring it up. It was especially annoying back in 2019 when Marvel nerds and Cameron nerds were trying to use inflation to dog on each other's movies, even though Endgame and Avatar were both objectively massive hits.
-
3
-
-
Where are the flowers for Free Guy bringing back “Fantasy”? Mariah’s best bop ever imo
-
1
-
-
@WrathOfHan @Blankments Trailer time! Sorry for missing the last few months!
17x:
Inside Out 2: Wonka, The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, The Color Purple, Soul, Wish, Migration, Turning Red, Kung Fu Panda 4, Luca, Shrek 2, We Grown Now, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wildcat, IF, The Garfield Movie, Young Woman and the Sea
13x:
Alien: Romulus: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, The First Omen, Late Night with the Devil, Alien, Abigail, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Watchers, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, MaXXXine, Deadpool & Wolverine, Trap
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, We Grown Now, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, IF, The Garfield Movie, Young Woman and the Sea, The Watchers, Inside Out 2, Thelma, Inside Out 2 Round 2, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, Trap
12x:
Twisters: Dune: Part Two Round 2, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, Civil War, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Ezra, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, The Bikeriders, Thelma, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, Janet Planet
9x:
Speak No Evil: Alien, Abigail, The Watchers, Kinds of Kindness, MaXXXine, Longlegs, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Trap
8x:
Despicable Me 4: Turning Red, Kung Fu Panda 4, Luca, Shrek 2, The Fall Guy, IF, The Garfield Movie, Inside Out 2
The Wild Robot: Kung Fu Panda 4, Luca, Shrek 2, We Grown Now, Mars Express, Young Woman and the Sea, Inside Out 2, The Lion King
6x:
The Bikeriders: The Creator, Ferrari, The Beekeeper, Dune: Part Two Round 2, Abigail, The Fall Guy
Fly Me to the Moon: The Garfield Movie, Ezra, The Watchers, Thelma, A Quiet Place: Day One, Janet Planet
Deadpool & Wolverine: Monkey Man, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Fall Guy, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Kinds of Kindness
Transformers One: IF, Inside Out 2, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, The Lion King, Twisters
Elio: Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, The Incredibles, Coco, The Lion King, Moana
5x:
Trap: A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, MaXXXine, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine
Borderlands: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Wildcat, Inside Out 2 Round 2, Kinds of Kindness, Deadpool & Wolverine
Mufasa: The Lion King: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Young Woman and the Sea, Inside Out 2, Inside Out 2 Round 2, The Lion King
4x:
The Watchers: Dune: Part Two Round 2, The First Omen, Abigail, The Fall Guy
Daddio: Love Lies Bleeding, Immaculate, We Grown Now, Janet Planet
Kinds of Kindness: Ezra, The Bikeriders, Thelma, Janet Planet
White Bird: Thor: Love and Thunder, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, The Little Mermaid, IF
Wicked: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, IF, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine
3x:
A Quiet Place: Day One: Alien, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys: Ride or Die
MaXXXine: Challengers, The Fall Guy, The Watchers
Longlegs: Dune: Part Two Round 2, Immaculate, Abigail
Harold and the Purple Crayon: The Garfield Movie, Inside Out 2, The Lion King
Joker: Folie a Deux: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Trap
Moana 2: Inside Out 2, Inside Out 2 Round 2, The Lion King
2x:
SpoilerBad Boys: Ride or Die: Monkey Man, Civil War
Cuckoo: Immaculate, Longlegs
My Penguin Friend: The Garfield Movie, Young Woman and the Sea
The Crow: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
My Old Ass: Kinds of Kindness, Longlegs
Venom: The Last Dance: Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Trap
A Real Pain: Kinds of Kindness, Twisters
Heretic: MaXXXine, Trap
Nosferatu: The Bikeriders, A Quiet Place: Day One
1x:
SpoilerTreasure: Ezra
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1: The Bikeriders
Sing Sing: The Bikeriders
Didi: The Bikeriders
The Fabulous Four: Ezra
Kneecap: Thelma
Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure: Inside Out 2
Blink Twice: Challengers
Strange Darling: Longlegs
Reagan: Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1
The Front Room: MaXXXine
Killer's Game: Twisters
Wolfs: Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Piece by Piece: Inside Out 2 Round 2
Anora: Longlegs
Flight Risk: Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1
Smile 2: A Quiet Place: Day One
Red One: Twisters
A Complete Unknown: Deadpool & Wolverine
Captain America: Brave New World: Deadpool & Wolverine
The Unbreakable Boy: King Richard
-
-
1 minute ago, John Marston said:
Deadpool only dropping about 50% despite summer weekdays shows WOM is clearly through the roof.also people mentioning MoM reminded me of how the rules of the multiverse seems to change with each movie. Didn’t they say in that movie that when you dream you dream of your other multiverse self and if you go into another universe you could cause its destruction or something? Makes no sense.
When it comes to science fiction mumbo jumbo in movies, it's just best to smile and nod and let it happen.
-
2
-
-
13 minutes ago, Madhuvan said:
So at the end , summer wasn't
Inside Boys
Inside Me 4
But
Inside Wolverine
Disney won.
Should have never doubted Mickey's Law. How foolish of me.
-
3 minutes ago, Unfitclock said:
Where do you find the telegram?
I can PM you if you would like to join.
-
1 minute ago, baumer said:
I eat everything by the way 😁
-
2
-
-
1 minute ago, Unfitclock said:
Lower opening day than trap despite the fact that the trailer viewership was really high for trap and much better than old I’m really not sure what happened here is it even gonna do 15 million at this rate
I've liked all of M. Night's movies from Split onwards, but that's his last movie that really landed with the GA. I don't think it's a big reason, but the badwill from his last couple movies probably didn't help. The reviews for Trap also aren't all that, so that makes it even worse for fence-sitters.
-
1
-
-
So like...I kinda get the casting decision. But honestly, I'd be curious of the box office in an alternate world where Harold and the Purple Crayon starred an actual child and had Zachary Levi as the dad or uncle or something. Because to quote The Fairly Oddparents, when a little kid is using his imagination to draw stuff with a purple crayon, it's kind of cute. When a grown adult does it, it's just plain creepy.
-
5
-
-
https://deadline.com/2024/08/box-office-deadpool-wolverine-second-weekend-trap-1236030041/
6.6M Friday for Trap. Should reach mid-teens. Pity. But I'm doing my part later today!
-
2 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:
Gonna get around 627M by the end of the weekend. So yeah, 650M is happening. Jurassic World found dead in a ditch.
-
3
-
-
19 hours ago, Claire of Themyscira said:
Well, if everyone knows who it is, name then!
Like, vaguebooking is such a pussy thing.
He's talking about me. I'm the moderator.
And you know what? He's right. I do give out most of the warning points. And sometimes, I can be harsh with that stuff. I've been told that a lot. But somebody has to do it. And I'm just trying to do what I think is best for the forum. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. But I feel my warnings are pretty fair 98% of the time. And for the most part, they seem to be working. Besides, a 2-point warning that only lasts a month is pretty light all things considered. A slap on the wrist. Something you can quickly learn and quickly change just like that. And most of the time, people learn from my warnings and don't cause any trouble. Good thing we got the "10 points and you're out" system in place, where people can be given multiple chances to learn.
And don't worry LMD, you're allowed to call me out directly. Prefer if you just did it privately, which you did literally yesterday, but you can say my name. I'm not above anybody. I have thick skin. I don't ban people the second somebody criticizes me, like you're pretending I do. And hey! If you bring up a good and valid point, I'll listen and internalize it. Frankly, I've been hit with way more insulting rhetoric than being called "the mod who hands out all the warnings". You're good hon.
-
4
-
1
-
-
-
-
1 minute ago, excel1 said:
What?
This is clearly Clark Kent:
This is clearly Superman (s face):
I mean, who can say this pic below doesn't just scream "huge success"?!
It's been 20 years hon. It's time to move on.
-
1
-
1
-
-
Just now, ringedmortality said:
I still wish I could have been there in the recording studio. Why did they get Tom Kenny, the whitest man on the planet, and have him act all “street?” Why must you be like this Michael. Why?
-
1
-
1
-
-
1 minute ago, grey ghost said:
So Del Toro's Pinocchio is a dark fairy tale that's really about fascism?
Like Pan's Labyrinth?
Btw, the guy voicing Mussolini is the same guy who voices SpongeBob. What a resume
-
1
-
-
I think the Planet of the Apes movies from the 70s deserve a watch too. They are low budget, but have a lot of charms and great political and social intrigue despite their low budgets. Nobody talks about them sadly, but they were very fun to look into.
-
5
-
-
1 hour ago, AMC Theaters Enjoyer said:
I’m seeing Trap today with some coworkers. Shyamalan is a filmmaker I like and usually respect even if it doesn’t work out.
Speaking of which, I will go to bat for his last three movies and say they’re some of his best work.
I’ve been pushing that his new era of movies have been some of his best for a while now. Old and Glass and Split and Cabin have all excelled as some of his most creative and emotionally resonant movies yet. Really, of his post-blockbuster era, The Visit is the only one of his I’ve hated, though that is in large part because I think he did a crummy job re: the whole found footage angle. Not sure what the point was (well, outside of keeping costs down)
-
1
-
-
2 hours ago, HummingLemon496 said:
he's one of the most knowledgeable people in the EFAP group.
Are!’t those the dudes who spent like 12 hours ranting about some YouTuber’s negative Joker review that lasted like…a half hour? Not sure if that is something to be proud of, mate.
-
1
-
-
8 minutes ago, AMC Theaters Enjoyer said:
The Zachary Levi movie star era has come to its appropriate end.
Half-expecting by the end of next year that Levi will star in some generic network cop show that nobody under the age of 50 will watch, but will somehow last 7 seasons. Or a Peacock show that gets canceled in two.
Of course, he's guaranteed within the next 7 years to star as Chuck in a Super Bowl commercial for like...TurboTax or something.
-
2 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:
Where is the weekdays thread? We still don't have official Thursday numbers for most movies.
Moved it to the Speakeasy thread earlier today by accident. It has returned to the main thread. Sorry about that!
-
1
-
3
-
-
14 minutes ago, Claire of Themyscira said:
When stans were making fan fiction of Zootopia, and someone wrote a fic about Judy getting an abortion...LMAO.
Good memes came from that imo
-
1
-
Weekend Numbers [Aug 02 - Aug 04, 2024] | Actuals | 96.81M DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE | 22.80M TWISTERS | 15.45M TRAP
in Numbers and Data
Posted
Alien will probably stop its run, but is beating out Everything Everywhere (77.2M) still a possibility?