Eric the Clown

Allow me to clarify things again. I felt, around the time Loki and Black Widow came out at the same time, that I personally felt oversaturation and exhaustion and that while it did not impact Black Widow, though I can't prove that per se, there could be a bad situation where it will impact the franchise long-term. Is that all clear? Is everything understood now?

I mean the right wingers who are complaining about "wokeness" were never going to see this movie? The kids aren't going to care about this silly nonsense, and we are already seeing a "woke" movie hitting box office records right now as we speak. Not saying Snow White is impervious to bombing or whatever, but right wing media and YouTube grifter silliness impacts nothing.

Moderation Yeah, no. We don't need to do this petty, mean nonsense here. You're more than free to say the upcoming Snow White will bomb/underperform, but stuff like this is absolutely unnecessary.

No. I never even remotely said anything like that. Please do not put words into my mouth.

I know it's still early-ish, but it feels like Lionsgate has already given up on advertising this. You would think they would have put out a trailer for this in time for the biggest movie event for women this year, but they just didn't for some reason. Like we recently got trailers for both Dune and The Marvels, but not this. Do they want to fail? I don't get it.

I've been a proponent for years now, around when we had Loki and Black Widow premiering on the same week, that these shows are hurting the box office of the movies. Even if they were the best shows ever, it's just a bad case of oversaturation. There's no breathing room anymore because there's a new Marvel thing every month now. It's bad for fans, because they never have time to relax or truly enjoy what's coming out, and it's bad for casuals, because now they have a bunch of other things to catch up on if they want to understand what's going on. And while it's obviously not the main culprit, I do think it is hurting the longevity and popularity of the MCU currently for a number of reasons. I can't find a single case, in the history of media, where oversaturation has ever benefited anybody. That in my opinion is far more damaging for The Marvels' box office than it potentially not getting IMAX.

Disappointed Dance the Night isn't at the top of the pack. That's my personal favorite song from the soundtrack.

Bro the IMPACT

I hate that this is what the plot will likely be.

#74 John Wick: Chapter 2 538 points, 13 lists "You wanted me back... I'm back!" Box Office: 174.3M Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Metacritic: 75 Awards: 1 Golden Trailer Award and 1 nomination, 1 Empire Award nomination, 1 Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Award nomination Roger Ebert's Review: N/A Its Legacy: Elevated John Wick from cult classic to major action franchise. First of the series to feature Laurence Fishburne. Continued Keanu Reeves' resurgence in popularity. Gave Lance Reddick a paycheck. Commentary: Again, this was distributed by WB in the UK. It counts. My countdown, my rules. After John Wick proved to be a solid hit in theaters and on home video, a sequel was set for release. And with Lionsgate impressed by what they saw, they offered Leitch and Stahelski more money and greater opportunity to expand the world and characters only teased in that first movie. And it paid off tremendously. Not just at the box office, which doubled from its predecessor, but also creatively. With more money put into the production, this allowed grander setpieces, slicker action, and a slew of awesome character actors, including Common as a hitman against John Wick who frankly steals the show. There’s also Laurence Fishburne for that oh so sweet Matrix connection, Italian actor Franco Nero, and Swedish actor Peter Stormare. And also Ruby Rose I guess. All of this meant we got a dynamite actioner that took everything great about John Wick and made it bigger and better than ever. From there, you know the rest of the story. Two more sequels, tons of spin-offs all in the works, and John Wick as a franchise becoming one of the most popular and iconic franchises in action movie history. And Chapter Two played a crucial part in all this happening. Showing there was more to the concept than the one movie and even today many fans cite Chapter Two as the best of the franchise. I was one of them at least until Chapter 4 released, but I still love this movie either way. And so do many, many more.

#75 After Hours 526 points, 12 lists "What do you want from me? What have I done? I'm just a word processor, for Christ sake!" Box Office: 10.6M Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Metacritic: 90 Awards: In Competition for Palme D'Or and Best Director win at Cannes, 1 Golden Globe nomination, 1 BAFTA nomination, 2 Independent Spirit Award wins and 3 nominations Roger Ebert's Review: ""After Hours" approaches the notion of pure filmmaking; it's a nearly flawless example of -- itself. It lacks, as nearly as I can determine, a lesson or message, and is content to show the hero facing a series of interlocking challenges to his safety and sanity. It is "The Perils of Pauline" told boldly and well." Its Legacy: One of Martin Scorsese's few forays into comedy. First De Niro-less picture of Scorsese's since Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Features a jamming soundtrack with Joni Mitchell and Robert & Johnny. Later became the title of a Weeknd album. Gave Griffin Dunne a paycheck. Commentary: Gotta be honest, I didn’t expect this to rank so high here. When I did my Scorsese countdown, it was on the lower end of the totem pole. Yet now, without giving too much away, it got ahead of a few notable Scorsese WB productions...though not all of them of course. And you can probably guess what movies still got ahead of it. But yeah. After Hours. This famed comedy of errors from Martin Scorsese was not a hit when it first came out and was often ignored within Scorsese’s greater canon. But a film this bizarre and hilarious was bound to get a following. And sure enough, it has. It’s a simple story about a guy trying to get back home after a long day at work. But what follows is screwball shenagians, madcap insanity, and sharp satire about the evils of capitalism, all framed around a peculiar protagonist played by Griffin Dunne. Perhaps since my 2021 Scorsese countdown, After Hours has earned an even bigger audience than before. Those who respond to the film’s insights into the working man and the wacky screwball situations. And while it will never be on the level of Wolf of Wall Street, After Hours will always be appreciated as a classic and a wonderfully bizarre and unique piece of Scorsese canon.

Uno is a horror movie. If you don’t say “Uno” in time, you die! 😈

You're the main event of the summer.

Really dude?

#76 The Conjuring 520 points, 13 lists "The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow." Box Office: 319.5M Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Metacritic: 68 Awards: 1 Critics Choice Award nomination, 1 Empire Award, 1 MTV Movie Award nomination, 1 People's Choice Award nomination, 1 Saturn Award Roger Ebert's Review: N/A Its Legacy: Revived the horror genre from found footage silliness. Showed the value of horror as a worldwide franchise. James Wan's biggest box office hit at that time. Spawned The Conjuring Universe, the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time with consistent hits. One of the biggest hits of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga's careers. Gave Wan gigs for Furious 7 and Aquaman and a powerhouse producer for major horror hits. Gave Joey King a paycheck. Commentary: James Wan’s career is something to behold. Not only did he direct the highest-grossing films of two major movie franchises, but he created three of the most popular and iconic horror franchises of all time. And the biggest of them all comes from Warner Bros., in a film that, in a way, saved horror films. In 2013, the horror genre was plagued with low-budget found footage silliness. They were made for pennies and made a profit after opening weekend. Sometimes they were good, but mostly they were schlocky, mediocre garbage that was rushed out to get teenagers who wanted cheap scares. So in a way, The Conjuring was a breath of fresh air. A film with money put behind it, with actual star power in front of and behind the camera. It was handsomely-made, well-shot, well-choreographed, and that was all you needed for the film to stand out as something exciting and new at that time. Plus the film had a cool true story angle, looking into the real-life couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, and was hyped up as being so scary that no cuts could have given it a PG-13. And sure enough, people loved it. To an absurd degree. It had one of the biggest horror openings ever, legs were impressive, and both horror fans and general audiences had a great movie they could all get behind. With it earning worldwide records, The Conjuring not only established the groundwork for future blockbuster hits like Get Out, A Quiet Place, and most notably It, but also created a massive shared universe. So many sequels and spin-offs were made off this humble little movie. And with over $1 billion in box office grosses, it’s the biggest horror franchise in history and has shown zero signs of slowing down anytime soon. We’re getting The Nun 2 in a couple months from this writing and Conjuring 4 is now in the works. And it was James Wan’s distinct vision and understanding of good scares that gave us such a landmark title within the horror community. One that is still shaping and influencing things a whole decade later...weird to say this movie is a decade old now.

Quorum Updates Gran Turismo T-16: 25.61% Awareness Strays T-23: 28.84% Awareness The Hill T-30: 14.41% Awareness The Exorcist: Believer T-79: 23.47% Awareness Five Nights at Freddy's T-93: 30.8% Awareness Captain America: New World Order T-366: 42.67% Awareness Haunted Mansion T-2: 56.17% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 89% chance of 20M, 72% chance of 30M, 44% chance of 40M, 33% chance of 50M Known IP Awareness: 100% chance of 40M Talk to Me T-2: 24.2% Awareness Final Awareness: 12% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 25% chance of 10M A Haunting in Venice T-51: 18.04% Awareness T-60 Awareness: 21% chance of 10M Sequel Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Expend4bles T-58: 27.67% Awareness T-60 Awareness: 56% chance fo 10M, 28% chance of 20M Sequel Awareness: 67% chance of 10M, 33% chance of 10M

Hold your hourses mah boi. I never said Swordfish missed the list.

Wait for it...

This is now being sold as this month’s Happy Meals. Like I know there were likely issues from the last minute delay, but I just saw it while getting my breakfast and I got a chuckle out of it.

This really was their summer 🥰🥰🥰

Because that's what this movie needed to exist. I know there's a lot of discourse about "why do movies cost so much????", but the problem is that if you slash movies and their costs down, that causes a lot of cut corners. You lose an important setpiece, you lose certain actors, and so on. So you end up with a cheap-looking product, and cheap doesn't always mean good, or in a worst-case scenario, you're like the new Spider-Verse movie and you overwork and abuse your crew members. And frankly, considering that Hollywood is exposing itself more and more as an awful place where capitalist pigs will happily lay off their workers at a moment's notice, mock people who want livable wages, and are more than fine with crunching and overworking their VFX workers who are forced to deliver crappy CGI because there's no time to get it all done, I think a little extra money to give better production values and more time for the people making your movie is just fine, even if the greedy studio execs have to pay extra. Plus there's so much stuff that happens from greenlighting to release. A pitch for a reboot of a popular Disneyland ride with a fun ensemble cast and spooky VFX sounds like a good pitch to me. They didn't know in 2020/2021 that audience attendance was going to shrivel up like it has and that Barbie and Oppenheimer would be big news and that the film would only recieve mixed reviews. If studios had a magic 8-ball that told them what would happen, then no movies would bomb. And frankly, at this point, because moviegoing is in the toilet minus one or two breakouts per year, these studios should probably accept that blockbusters will have to exist as loss leaders from now on. And just for kicks, let it be known that the 2003 Haunted Mansion, when you adjust for inflation, is about $150M. Even if a good chunk of the 2003 film was Eddie Murphy's salary, that's still only a $10 million difference. And while that film is a piece of crap, that film also looks very expensive.

Reviews are finally coming in (some critics jumped the gun I guess), and they all basically read as "it's fine I guess". They are all praising Lakeith though, so that's good.

#368 - The Replacements (56 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #41) #367 - Oh, God! (56 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #45) #366 - Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (56 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #18) #365 - The Blind Side (57 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #52) #364 - Femme Fatale (57 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #50) #363 - Twilight Zone: The Movie (57 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #34) #362 - Empire Records, Independence Day (1983) (57 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #44) #361 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (58 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #72) #360 - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (58 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #72) #359 - Rosewood (58 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #43)

Well if you hit the report button and give an explanation as to why we should give Zatt warning points, that can solve your problem. All the mods have lives and jobs and other things to take care of outside of this forum. And now that we are the busiest we have ever been, with 20,000+ posts the past two months alone, it's almost impossible to check every single thread at every single time. Hitting "Report" doesn't mean we will always give Zatt warning points, since we can and sometimes will disagree on a report, but it's better than throwing a fit and being all "WHY ISN'T HE BANNED????????" And if you think that is still not enough, then you're more than free to @ me specifically and say, "hey, Zatt's being a problem because XYZ. Can you give them warning points?" It's a lot better than what you're doing right now bruv.

#377 - Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (50 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #10) #376 - Lady in the Water (50 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #8) #375 - The New World (50 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #6) #374 - Splendor in the Grass, The Terminal Man (51 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #50) #373 - Seargeant York, Death in Venice, The Outsiders, Time After Time (53 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #48) #372 - The Legend of Tarzan (54 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #47) #371 - Kimi (56 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #82) #370 - Storks (56 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #57) #369 - War Dogs (56 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #72)