Eric is Quiet
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5 minutes ago, AniNate said:
Ha, they knew they would get people on board addressing that criticism about Pua getting shafted in the first
lol was about to say. Was really mad the pig didn’t do fun stuff in the ocean last time.
Trailer itself? Looks like a Moana sequel alright. Which is a good thing! If you like Moana. If you don’t? Well…why would you watch this lol
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Will say before the teaser potentially dashes my hopes that I would think going from TV series to movie may actually be a blessing for this creatively? The big issue most of these Disney+ shows have is that their pacing drags, as they all feel like movies being bloated and padded out to be 6 episode TV shows. You could take Obi-Wan or Falcon and the Winter Soldier, remove a subplot here and there, and get a 2.5 hour movie that, at the very least, fixes pacing issues. Condensing a bloated Moana sequel from 130 minutes to about 95 or 100 minutes? Sounds good to me!
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1 minute ago, keysersoze123 said:
Bad Boys OW > Deadpool & Wolverine confirmed by QuoLOLrum.
That is very much not what that data implies whatsoever, and I’ve explained this numerous times already, but go off I guess. 🙄
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11 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:
Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the weekend where we all kind of realize at once that the bottom fell out and it's not coming back. I had hope as of two weeks ago. Did a whole post on it. Now I'm just in acceptance stage. I think it's all probably winding down and we are about to see things collapse "slowly, then all at once" over the next year or two for this industry as we know it and love it. That's how it usually goes. It's just so incredibly bleak. I wish the boards weren't so depressing. I wish I personally wasn't so depressing in how I post on them. I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel at this point for the box office anymore. Even with all the bad over the last two years, this month is the first month where I do not see any light.
I mean I warned you in that post a couple weeks earlier nothing changed. Shoulda listened to ol' Mr. NTC. 🍵
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56 minutes ago, harry713 said:
This would have been the funniest Vine of 2015...I miss Vine.
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Quorum Updates
Twisters T-53: 46.87% Awareness, 55.02% Interest
The Forge T-88: 13.3% Awareness, 36.58% Interest
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice T-102: 57.29% Awareness, 64.67% Interest
Speak No Evil T-109: 20.25% Awareness, 47.81% Interest
Here T-184: 8.33% Awareness, 34.17% Interest
Kraven the Hunter T-200: 27.52% Awareness, 39.64% Interest
Bad Boys for Life T-11: 64.06% Awareness, 58.03% Interest
Final Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 88% chance of 30M, 85% chance of 40M, 73% chance of 50M, 58% chance of 60M, 46% chance of 70M
Medium Awareness: 100% chance of 70M
Final Interest: 79% chance of 20M, 60% chance of 30M, 45% chance of 40M, 31% chance of 50M, 23% chance of 60M, 16% chance of 70M
Medium Interest: 75% chance of 20M, 58% chance of 30M, 25% chance of 40M, 8% chance of 50M
The Watchers T-11: 28.53% Awareness, 44.61% Interest
Final Awareness: 16% chance of 10M
Horror Awareness: 33% chance of 10M
Final Interest: 49% chance of 10M
Horror Interest: 45% chance of 10M
Horizon: An American Saga Part 1 T-32: 20.91% Awareness, 36.31% Interest
T-30 Awareness: 54% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M
Medium Awareness: 75% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M
T-30 Interest: 32% chance of 10M, 6% chance of 20M
Medium Interest: 50% chance of 10M-
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I mean I know from experience that outside of Harry Potter, the one non-Disney thing most Disney Adults adore is Broadway. And Wicked is one of the most iconic for that demographic. It's basically a Disney movie when you get down to it (not helped by Disney ripping it off like 5 times). At the very least, both dropping on the same day may not cause either movie to bomb, but it's still pretty foolish IMO
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21 minutes ago, toutvabien said:
This and Wicked sticking with 11/27 when they have a lot of crossover audience is wild... the rest of that month could use a family blockbuster that can keep playing over the holidays!! I know it could turn into a big weekend of musical family entertainment but damn, it probably won't!
Disney's got such a weird thing going on where they just keep the same release dates for everything. Which like in the 2018 was reasonable, but they are way more vulnerable to competition now. Elemental got a lucky break where everything surrounding it ended up bombing, but Moana's probably not looking likely, at least at the moment. And either way, having it out in early November, getting IMAX and all of Dolby to itself, makes way more sense box office wise, especially since you should still get a good Thanksgiving hold. But I guess Disney's too stubborn or stupid to do it? It's dumb!
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6 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:
Why did this become a thread about Troy?
Why not?
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10 minutes ago, Krissykins said:
Yeh I got the trailer in IMAX before Furiosa and it gave me goosebumps.
Have never seen the show, strangely. But I’m just going to wait for the film.
Can confirm that I got goosebumps. Ariana's still unwatchable, but Cynthia Erivo's voice in that IMAX surround sound? Heavenly stuff. She's gonna kill Defying Gravity for sure.
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5 hours ago, Speedorito said:
I like how the discourse went from “People are tired of sequels/reboots/remakes/franchises/CGI slop and want real films” to “Oh, I guess people just don’t like movies anymore” in such a sort amount of time.
Still can’t believe The Fall Guy is what initially shook people to their cores.
Oh I never believed people didn’t want the same NTC slop anymore. If anything, it just kept getting worse. I’d love to be in a world where people actually were demanding like people claimed they were, but the math doesn’t math sadly.
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2 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:
I don’t see why not having John Krasinski and Emily Blunt would be much of a detriment for A Quiet Place. It just needs to deliver on being a tense creature feature.
In my opinion, they were a crucial part of these movies' appeal. Partly because of the real-life husband and wife connection, as well as how they help add a sense of emotional and familial grounding that isn't seen in a lot of horror movies. They may not be the deepest characters, but they play a big part in the popularity and quality of these films, and I feel it doesn't quite feel right not seeing them in this.
But hey! Could just be me! Could be wrong!
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Devil's advocate though: Kingdom of the Apes still did well, and it didn't have the original cast or characters. So hey! That could happen again!
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7 minutes ago, Unfitclock said:
@Eric Furiosa you sound like before transformers rise of the beasts came out you said the same thing about that movie
I mean not really? Transformers has no Shia or Mark Wahlberg, but they aren't the reason people go to these. Rise of the Beasts still had Optimus, Megatron, Bumblebee.
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Might be the constant underperformance of horror and Furiosa bombing, but Quiet Place feels like an underperformer tbh. It has the same problem Furiosa has where there's almost none of the original cast (though I guess Djimon Honsou makes it a little better?), and the hook isn't even all that interesting. It's showing what happened the first day the aliens took over...which is something we already saw in Quiet Place 2. Just feels like one where opening in the 30s would be an achievement IMO
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10 minutes ago, Juliet said:
Maybe this summer will teach Hollywood that getting on the back of Marvel and giving it bad PR is not doing them any favours. Actors saying they would 'never lower themselves' to a Marvel movie. Its not going to help the industry. They need Marvel and Star Wars hitting hard so those theatres stay open for their passion project 5 people and a dog will turn up to.
Moderation
Yeah, we're gonna end this before it begins. It's too early in the day for this.
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I will say that Twisters obviously won't gross as much as Top Gun Maverick, but it has a lot of the same vibes as that movie, so long as the film's got a banger RT score. And honestly, Lee Isaac Chung makes me feel pretty confident in that regard. Like it has some heartland/Americana stuff that can appeal to flyover states and rural/conservative areas, fun action and spectacle that you don't really see in movies anymore for PLF junkies, while potentially being a legit crowdpleasing and exciting movies for coastal elites like me. Plus, it's the only big PG-13 movie in town. So Deadpool will for sure hurt it on its second weekend, but it arguably stands out from all the R-rated mayhem coming afterwards. Weird to say PG-13 feels like counterprogramming, but this has been a weird summer.
Again, it all depends on reviews, but I feel, at the very least, it will play well to underserved audiences.
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6 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:
Triangle of Sadness was also a comedy without subtitles yet only yielded 4M DOM. It's interesting to me how little Neon's titles gross.
They're currently where A24 was circa 2016/17 where they've had one or two solid hits, but the normies don't recognize their name just yet, nor do they have overpriced merch to make them seem cool to hipsters. I don't even think any of their movies have appeared on Netflix, while A24 hops to Netflix/Max/Hulu/Prime for mass exposure. I think Neon's stuff is Hulu-only.
The guy who owns Neon threw shade at A24 for selling candles and shit, but that might not be a bad idea if they want to get to their level. Just saying.
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1 hour ago, wildphantom said:
What’s with Gitesh’s hyperbole about no May movie grossing over $175 million for the first time since 1998. He knew that would happen, so why start crying about it now? Is it for the engagement? I don’t get it.
He’s doing his job reporting on the box office. And yeah, talking about historical lows and being negative over those objective truths are part of the job. Even if you “knew it would happen”, that’s still terrible.
1 hour ago, kayumanggi said:Even Luiz. It's like they expect each month should produce a 200M film. They should know better. Big movies have been delayed because of the strike. The number of releases still has not reached pre-pandemic levels.
I mean the bigger issue is that only one movie opened to the expectations from box office nerds and the industry. Everything else opened below expectations. Even if you think IF or Fall Guy were predicted too high, that’s still really bad, very alarming news. If you can’t even open to 35M or 45M like what the industry projected, how can you not be disappointed or say negative stuff about it?
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Gotta be honest, the whole “Netflix movies have no impact” thing just doesn’t hold much water as the years go by. Like yeah, a lot of their movies come and go, but anecdotally, Don’t Look Up has been mentioned in climate change circles many a time,Leave the World Behind was brought up when some social media sites are down, Irishman is still brought up during Scorsese discussions online, Marriage Story memes were a huge thing, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio gets brought up as a modern animated classic. Like Lana Condor was on Abbott Elementary a few weeks ago, and tweets were out saying “Look, it’s Lara Jean”. Sure, they might not be talked about as much as they do when they first came out, but that’s how every movie works. There’s a peak time for discussion for anything, then it dies down. Everything Everywhere isn’t talked as much after the Oscars, but you can’t say the movie isn’t popular.
Really, the big reason why most Netflix movies don’t “leave impact” is because a good chunk of them either aren’t in popular media franchises that have been around for decades, or simply aren’t good or interesting. Like quality is a far bigger issue here than the platform, since the movies I listed all were a step above quality, or at least have more to say about them.
Plus being a box office hit doesn’t automatically mean your movie left some big cultural impact. Like honestly, when was the last time you saw somebody talk about Free Guy out in the wild?
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Moana 2 | November 27, 2024
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