Eric the IF

Han go to bed.

Apple 1. The Invisible Man 2. Scoob! 3. Sonic the Hedgehog 4. Knives Out 5. The High Note 6. Heat 7. The Gentlemen 8. The Way Back 9. Like a Boss 10. Jumanji: The Next Level Amazon 1. Scoob! 2. Trolls World Tour 3. Bloodshot 4. The Greatest Showman 5. Knives Out 6. Jumanji: The Next Level 7. Bad Boys for Life 8. The Gentlemen 9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 10. Fantasy Island

Guess it's my cue then. That's right, I'm in charge of The Amazing History of Box Office Stories. From 2002 to the present. With no box office to talk about, might as well take a reprieve from the horrors and atrocities of the world and discuss the good ol' days when we actually went outside. I can't give an exact start date on when we'll kick things off again, but I know it will be soon, and I hope to finish this off before the year is over. The only thing I ask of you are requests. Like Baumer, I'm going to take requests on films outside the top 10. If there's a story from 2002 that you want me to talk about, share it right away. I already have movies I'm interested in talking about, but I want to know some of your inputs. Just share them below, and I'll look at the ones that seem most popular. And yeah, that's it. Hope you guys like what you see! Oh and Black Lives Matter

Not really sure if cop propaganda is the movie we need right now 🤔

Heat’s in the top 10 because it’s on sale to own for $5. If it was at its usual prices, it wouldn’t have even cracked the top 100. Knives Out’s also $3 to rent and Invisible Man just became available for $6 to rent. iTunes’ charts get mad impacted by sales and price cuts. By comparison, when Emma and The Hunt became $20 rentals, I don’t ever remember them cracking the top 10, and if they did it was brief. I only ever saw them in the top 20 at most, and then went lower until they became available for purchase/rental. Then they found a place there. Never Rarely Sometimes Always didn’t even make it into the top 20 IIRC. Granted those movies were in a more crowded VOD marketplace, but the fact The High Note is in the top 5 when it had little going for it, would have likely opened sub-10M in a normal environment, and us in the Telegram chat thought it was destined to fail at its $20 price point...yeah it’s not amazing, but it’s way better than most of us thought, and I think is pretty okay

And really, getting into the top 3 on Day 1, and staying in the top 5 isn't that bad for a small movie w/ zero starpower. I honestly didn't think it would end up this high since this was still a $20 rental and didn't have family viewing. Of course, we still don't have a way to measure VOD sales which is trash AF. Somebody get around to pressuring these companies to reveal these sales to us.

https://deadline.com/2020/06/unaffordable-90-day-theatrical-window-is-history-as-leverage-tilts-towards-studios-post-pandemic-analyst-1202948071/

Apple 1. The Invisible Man 2. Scoob! 3. Knives Out 4. The High Note 5. Sonic the Hedgehog 6. Heat 7. The Gentlemen 8. The Way Back 9. Bad Boys for Life 10. Jumanji: The Next Level Amazon 1. Scoob! 2. Trolls World Tour 3. Bloodshot 4. The Greatest Showman 5. Knives Out 6. Bad Boys for Life 7. Jumanji: The Next Level 8. The Gentlemen 9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 10. Fantasy Island

Of course not.

I also recommend people support city bail funds. The great Matthew A. Cherry has plenty of links below

Moderation Only talk about Taika and his tweets and how it relates to Love & Thunder and its box office. Talking about Taika and his tweet through the context of the current protests going on in the United States is not okay. Please go to the politics thread if you want to discuss things in that way.

Apple 1. The Invisible Man 2. Scoob! 3. Knives Out 4. The High Note 5. Sonic the Hedgehog 6. Heat 7. The Gentlemen 8. The Way Back 9. Emma. 10. Jumanji: The Next Level Amazon 1. Scoob! 2. Trolls World Tour 3. Bloodshot 4. The Greatest Showman 5. The High Note 6. Knives Out 7. Bad Boys for Life 8. Jumanji: The Next Level 9. The Gentlemen 10. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Well maybe this thread shouldn't have popped up again in the first place. I don't know if you remember this, but simply put, the debate over the movie's reviews turned toxic real fast during the film's release. It basically turned into a culture war here on the forum, with fights over "woke critics", American critics, and critics in general. It became unbearable to read, and made things uncomfortable and mad toxic. As a mod, it's my duty to throw out the garbage, and make this forum fun and non-toxic. If I didn't stop this, there was going to be mudslinging, and there was going to be a lot of bullshit garbage clogging this thread and possibly seep into the rest of the forum. It was already getting there by Firepower being a sexist ass again. And simply put, there's nothing to add to this debate anymore. The movie came out, it made its money, it got its awards, most people here have seen it, they've given their inputs on the movie and the debate on its critical reviews, nothing has come out of it for months. Really, what else is there to talk about with this movie and its reviews? The forum would be better off if this shit was nipped in the bud. And if people are still so desperate to whine about woke critics and how American film criticism is dead or whatever the fuck, they can go somewhere else.

I'm telling the posts above to shut up. This critics debate over Joker has gone on long enough, and I don't want it to pop up again.

Moderation No. Shut the fuck up.