The Wild Eric

This has the look and feel of a Nickelodeon TV movie. Only replace what would have been Spencer from iCarly with Jack Black.

Also I'm not even into shipping, and I want to have a ROBOT and a FOX marry each other. They are the coolest parents ever holy moly.

Said this in the weekend thread, but I cried 4 different times here. When Brightbill first left for the migration, when Brightbill told her mom how much he loved him, when Roz left the island, and the final ending when mother and son reunite. This was made for all the autistic runts like me who love their mother way too much, and it wrecked me hard. This is the kind of movie I wish came out when I was a kid. Though I will say, and this is very obviously a nitpick, it is funny how all the animals all decide to make a truce and be nice to each other...so what did the predators eat during all that time? What do they still get to eat? This is like Zootopia where they never answer something that stupid grown adults like me care about and it's hilarious.

Deadline top 10. Solid holds all around minus Transformers

Raging Bull is great, but it’s also one that has a lot of Scorsese tropes that are done better in his other movies before and after that it doesn’t quite click or resonate with me. But I also saw that movie after a lot of other Scorsese films. I guess a lot of his filmography is dependent on what you saw first.

Yeah. With you there. I think within what most people consider the top tier stuff, I'd only put Wolf of Wall Street and Taxi Driver in my top 5. Then you throw in Last Temptation, Mean Streets, and Bringing Out the Dead all in there, with After Hours not far behind (haven't seen all his movies yet though. Should probably see King of Comedy sometime this weekend, given...well, you know). Mean Streets in particular is really underappreciated. I get the complains. But if anything, it being so rough around the edges and not as handsome as something like Goodfellas or Departed is part of its charm and what makes me love it so much.

He directed The Box with Cameron Diaz...and that's it. I guess that film was the last straw with him and Hollywood.

Yeah. That's basically me.

I mean Godfather is a Swiss watch. Every dialogue beat, character moment, plot point, and acting performance is absolute perfection. It’s a sprawling epic and deeply intimate all at once. There’s a reason it’s still iconic over 50 years later and there are very few that match it. Will say I do like Goodfellas more than Godfather 2. Godfather 2 is a wee bit more saggy, though still excellent on all accounts.

I would.

I mean we got both a future Southland Tales-style cult classic in the making, and we got high-quality memes from this affair. And you know what? That’s all we really need out of a movie.

More like MegaFLOP…nah. Never mind, that’s too easy.

I mean these animated movies love to pimp out “from the studio who brought you X”, so people are going to have at least some understanding that it’s from a studio that made movies they like. Including Wild Robot, which emphasized the How to Train Your Dragon connections in its advertising. They have stuff on Twitter where Roz is interacting with Shrek and Puss for that matter. Illumination movies love to shove Minions in the advertising, even when it’s not a Minion production. I think people do see that and go “hey, this is from the Despicable Me people. I like Despicable Me. I might watch that.” Maybe it’s not the main reason for their success, but you can’t tell me it doesn’t at least give some minor benefits. Plus if I can speak personally, when I was a kid, I knew when an animated movie was from DreamWorks. I recognized the logo. And the trailers and ads always said “from DreamWorks” or “from the people who brought you Shrek and Madagascar”. Maybe I was the only kid who paid attention to what animation studio did what, but I strongly doubt that considering how advertising and branding works.

Don’t know if I agree with that. Their non-Minion movies typically gross on par with their cash cow franchise, and they love promoting in the trailers and commercials stuff like “From the People who Brought You Despicable Me”. They even have the Minions show up in the studio logos in all the trailers and ads so people know what it’s from. I don’t think people can recognize the studio name right off the bat like they can with Pixar, but I can’t imagine Blue Sky’s Secret Life of Pets getting anywhere close to 800M

Was hoping for an F tbh. Would have been iconic

Quorum Updates Saturday Night T-15: 20.83% Awareness, 41.91% Interest Better Man T-120: 17.72% Awareness, 32.15% Interest The Monkey T-148: 26.7% Awareness, 43.1% Interest Bagman T-1: 20.99% Awareness, 38.94% Interest Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 27% chance of 10M Final Interest: 22% chance of 10M Horror Interest: 20% chance of 10M Megalopolis T-1: 28.09% Awareness, 37.95% Interest Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M Medium Awareness: 25% chance of 10M Final Interest: 22% chance of 10M Medium Interest: 50% chance of 10M The Wild Robot T-1: 44.23% Awareness, 46.15% Interest Final Awareness: 77% chance of 10M, 46% chance of 20M, 25% chance of 30M Animation/Family Awareness: 83% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M Final Interest: 45% chance of 10M, 18% chance of 20M, 9% chance of 30M Animation/Family Interest: 82% chance of 10M, 54% chance of 20M, 18% chance of 30M Joker: Folie a Deux T-8: 70.29% Awareness, 61.13% Interest Final Awareness: 100% chance of 90M, 86% chance of 100M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 100M Final Interest: 100% chance of 30M, 90% chance of 70M, 80% chance of 100M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 30M, 67% chance of 100M White Bird T-8: 19.2% Awareness, 36.31% Interest Final Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Low Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Final Interest: 22% chance of 10M Low Interest: 9% chance of 20M Gladiator II T-57: 41.75% Awareness, 47.94% Interest T-60 Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 82% chance of 40M, 64% chance of 50M, 50% chance of 60M, 36% chance of 70M, 27% chance of 80M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 87% chance of 40M, 62% chance of 60M, 37% chance of 70M, 25% chance of 80M T-60 Interest: 60% chance of 10M, 34% chance of 20M, 18% chance of 30M, 11% chance of 40M, 7% chance of 50M, 6% chance of 70M, 4% chance of 80M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 10M, 86% chance of 20M, 57% chance of 30M, 43% chance of 40M, 29% chance of 50M, 14% chance of 80M Wicked T-57: 50.07% Awareness, 50.22% Interest T-60 Awareness: 87% chance of 50M, 69% chance of 60M, 62% chance of 70M, 56% chance of 90M, 50% chance of 100M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 50M, 67% chance of 60M, 33% chance of 100M T-60 Interest: 83% chance of 30M, 71% chance of 40M, 58% chance of 50M, 41% chance of 60M, 32% chance of 70M, 27% chance of 80M, 24% chance of 90M, 22% chance of 100M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 30M, 92% chance of 40M, 75% chance of 50M, 67% chance of 60M, 42% chance of 70M, 33% chance of 80M, 17% chance of 100M

https://thequorum.com/weekly-unaided-awareness-chart-wicked-vs-gladiator-ii-a-november-22nd-battle-is-taking-shape/

I cried like 4 or 5 times. I haven't felt so seen in a movie in a long time.

YOU FUCKING WHAT

I mean IF I understand, because it was coming out a week before Memorial Day and closer to summer weekdays. It's not like Garfield was that big a threat anyways. But yeah, Transformers should have dropped mid-August IMO

Crisis averted. Still convinced it would have done around 55M ten years ago. 45M at worst. But I'll take 35M I guess.

Moderation @Block-Busted Not sure why you're prolonging this conversation when you know that Pixar won't ever shut down, but it ends here. Do this again and you're getting a threadban.