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10 minutes ago, LOGAN'sLuckyRun said:
TBH, I think it's doing ok. I just wanted you or someone here to talk to me.
everyone is talking and I feel left out. I have no friends IRL and it's lonely with me in my room all day.
I don't think anyone on this site really likes me bc I say stupid shit but i only do it to get someone to notice me bc I'm tired of feeling insignificant and useless
I can't get anyone to talk to me here
Jesus Christ, I'm going to bed
I feel that. Talking to people is hard. You seem to be doing fine. Folks like you, that's something.
When you have depression or anxiety, it seems like social media and forums and stuff can just make it worse because it's easy to feel like you're not being noticed. If you also have a hard time beginning conversations it gets worse.
That's why I'm a lurker on here. Starting conversations is too hard and when you try hard and still get no response it's even worse than just not trying, I guess.
Feeling invisible sucks. Though it might help to spend more time on smaller threads where you're more likely to get responses from dedicated fans?
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We're on page 30, so come on 30mil!
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I don't think Disney cares enough to fudge Wrinkle to 100m. I mean really, why should they care?
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4 hours ago, aabattery said:
395 isn't low lmao.
Yeah really. In what universe is 395 a low estimate? It's high for an animated film, high for a superhero film and on par with the first one's adjusted box office.
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On 4/14/2018 at 12:24 PM, slambros said:
SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO
Fun Academy
1,685$350,000
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$350,000 / 1*bangs head against table*
Edit: to anyone who might be worried, I'm not actually banging my head against the table; that's just a joke. I just think that the gross is extremely sad, especially for a film with a 90% RT.
A 90% RT is not that impressive when so few critics even bothered to review it. The only people who reviewed it were probably already interested enough in either the story or the fact that it's a movie in this particular vein that they were likely to give a favourable review anyway. I'm still amazed this movie was released in theaters at all, especially given that the studio has produced virtually nothing before.
I do still stand behind my statement that there's not a lot in this movie they couldn't have done far cheaper with a real dog though. Even horrible dog movies tend to make money as long as they don't cost a ton. Beverly Hills Chihuahua grossed 94 million on a 20 million budget and that movie's budget was insanely high for an animal film. It also was very firmly into rotten territory on RT. A better comparison might be Air Bud. It made only 27m, but its budget was 3m.
A live action Sergeant Stubby could have had a modest budget of between 5-10 m and probably made back its production and a little bit more. With a 25m budget, I'm not sure it'll even recover what it cost to make.
Also on a side note, it looks well reviewed but its average rating is only a 6.6 on RT and a 56% on Metacritic. I think this is kind of a case of a studio that didn't make the wisest choices. They shot themselves in the foot by not having Stubby talk, because talking animals appeal more to kids. I personally am not fond of historical event based movies using talking animals, but it makes for much better funny trailer material for the kiddos than a more straightfoward war-movie type look...
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Despite the fact that it has such a low budget, Sgt Stubby isn't going to make anything. If the studio really wanted to make money, they would have used a real dog and saved themselves about 40 grand of the cost.
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This only stands a chance because IW moved. I think people forget that the first Incredibles didn't do as well as several other Pixar movies. Plus a lot of the appeal was that there weren't a lot of superhero movies at the time (at least not good ones) so it got a boost from that. I think it'll do well but I still think it'll go under JW. Its only advantage is having so few family movies over the summer.
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2 hours ago, Barnack said:
Inflation does not change the money purchasing power you pay (you make as much more money at work), you are not stopping going to theater now even if it cost 12 times more than in 1963 at face value to buy a ticket.
Theater ticket price didn't change that much over time and probably will not that much in the future either (except for the dinner/long chair experience/4D stuff):
The fact that wages don't increase equal to inflation costs does make it harder to buy tickets though.
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9 hours ago, Fullbuster said:
I have hope it will hold, panthers can't bear snow after all xD
A panther is a melanistic leopard.
Leopards can absolutely live in snow and some are adapted just for it. Who knows, it may best Frozen despite the chill. 
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10 minutes ago, Ledmonkey96 said:
Without having any idea what the movie was beyond it's name I assumed it was going to be a kind of Dark Comedy about a Vietnam Vet or something.
It seems to be a rote 'based on a true story' animal film... but animated.
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Saw Black Panther again tonight and got a trailer for an animated movie I didn't know existed. Sgt Stubby. I've never even heard of Fun Academy and this seems to be their first film. Sadly it just looks boring. It seems to be basically a dog in a weird situation movie (ie: Air Bud, etc) but animated instead of live action. They might have saved money and time by just filming real actors and a real dog.
Does a thread for this even exist?
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Poor Gael though. He tried. They really should have gotten the kid to sing it though. Gael admitted himself that he's not a singer. The two songs he did in the movie had a vocal coach on hand.
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4 hours ago, Goffe said:
This is opening here everywhere date-to-date with the American release. Smart. No will one will be compelled to pirate it.
Meanwhile, I still didn’t have the chance to see Phantom Thread.
I don't think it's opening in America on the American release date. I still have no evidence this exists. Does it actually have showtimes there?
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I still can't find any evidence that this is actually playing anywhere. It's certainly not around here and searching a few zip codes on fandango turns up nothing.
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4 hours ago, Treeing Me Apart said:
The new Star Wars films are far more diverse than Black Panther. Main character is a female, the two secondary leads are black & south american "latino", plus other supporting mexican, black, women actors. There's also an age difference in the cast of 41 years, compared to 35 years in Black Panther.
I have many angry things to say about Discovery and their so-called 'diversity' but unfortunately I can't without massive spoiler tags. But even that aside, shows have to be held to a different standard than movies because a show like star trek gets five times the amount of time to be with the characters than we do in a movie. Also with a lot of sci-fi shows with diverse casts there's never any actual cultural influence in terms of diversity and the characters basically read like they wrote a white person and cast a poc for the role anyway.
Edit: for some reason I read "Star Trek" instead of Star Wars, but the point about there not being any cultural diversity still stands. I'm glad Star Wars has more actors of different races, but none of them actually seem to represent any earth culture involving those races. And this is coming from someone who has liked all of the new Star Wars movies to some degree.
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I'm not sure why so many folks here seem to be against Charles Martinet doing the voice for this. He's still a professional voice actor and Mario isn't his only role. If it needs to be toned down a bit for the movie, I'm sure he's perfectly capable of doing so.
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2 hours ago, Heat Vision said:
I remember when everyone was saying Coco was going to smash everything lol
lol, that's some revisionist history right there. Most people didn't think it would even hit 200 million.
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19 hours ago, Brainbug said:
Ehhh...thats way too far for me. Im big on animal rights and im very happy that circuses are mostly a thing of the past today, but the industrial killing of 6 Million innocent people cant be compared to even the worst things circuses have ever done.
Dont want to derail the thread with this though.
Agreed that comparing animals to the holocaust is wrong, but barnum had significant human rights violations too, considering he got his start by buying a black woman as a slave after slavery had already been abolished.
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57 minutes ago, MaxAggressor said:
Movie Distributor Gross Change Thtrs. Per Thtr. Total Gross Days 1 (1) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Sony Pictures $2,186,086 -38% 3,801 $575 $254,005,329 22 2 (2) Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Las… Walt Disney $1,744,275 -26% 4,232 $412 $578,595,635 27 3 (3) Insidious: The Last Key Universal $1,373,090 -38% 3,116 $441 $34,930,695 6 4 (4) The Greatest Showman 20th Century Fox $1,324,529 -30% 3,342 $396 $81,464,445 22 5 (6) Darkest Hour Focus Features $797,270 -18% 1,733 $460 $30,470,347 50 6 (7) Molly’s Game STX Entertainment $693,401 -25% 1,608 $431 $16,247,332 17 7 (5) Pitch Perfect 3 Universal $652,490 -33% 3,458 $189 $88,370,165 20 8 (8) The Shape of Water Fox Searchlight $521,946 -14% 804 $649 $23,275,147 41 9 (9) All the Money in the World Sony Pictures $453,172 -18% 2,123 $213 $21,479,017 17 10 (11) Coco Walt Disney $344,600 -30% 1,894 $182 $193,232,987 50 11 (10) Ferdinand 20th Century Fox $306,756 -38% 3,156 $97 $71,767,344 27 12 (12) Lady Bird A24 $287,496 -7% 562 $512 $34,965,087 69 Coco finally had a daily gross more than Ferdinand after beating it's PTA pretty much every day for two weeks. Good for it.
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15 hours ago, BK007 said:
I actually agree with this. That's the one thing that irks me a little in a movie that it is otherwise excellent. Just the convenience of it all.
I will say it makes a bit more sense than aforementioned event in another movie, given the location it's taking place and the circumstances of the event happening at the time. But it does seem convenient about the exact timing.
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On 12/29/2017 at 10:14 PM, Poe Blankeron said:
One of Pixar's finest masterpieces. There are small quibbles here and there, but none of that matters because how real these characters are and how humanity can be found within this tale. An emotional rollercoaster and an utterly beautiful film. Easily one of the best of the year and a future animated classic. It'll will rightfully be remembered and cherished by generations to come. A+
So, about that nitpick?
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4 hours ago, Morieris said:
Share the nitpick!
Pretty sure he can't share here because it might be spoilery, but he did say he reviewed it in RTM thread.
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I love how it conveniently glosses over how Barnum got his start by buying an old black woman, using her as a side-show exhibit until she died and then made a ton of money holding a live autopsy of her body for the public.
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54 minutes ago, Poe Blankeron said:
I know y'all can see my review in RTM but I just wanna say here how much I adore this film. It sneakily made its way up from #6 of the year to my #1. I've seen it four times and cried more every time. I legitimately think it might be Pixar's best directed film ever. The script is so tight too, and barring one nitpick, I find it absolutely enchanting and perfect. I regret doubting it earlier this year, because Unkrich, Molina, and everyone at Pixar really made something special here.
Wish it was doing better domestically, but those WW numbers are still fantastic. I can't get mad about this movie; it's too good.
I'm curious what your one nitpick was.
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That's why I'm a lurker on here. Starting conversations is too hard and when you try hard and still get no response it's even worse than just not trying, I guess.
Leopards can absolutely live in snow and some are adapted just for it. Who knows, it may best Frozen despite the chill. 
THE Incredibles 2 | June 15, 2018 | NO SPOILERS!!!!
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The first one certainly wasn't making a great effort to appeal to poc. It's basically an allegory for how classism is positive and only has a non-white character because Samuel L Jackson just decides he wants to be in movies and it happens.
I love Pixar films and I've seen every single one in theaters and I will not be seeing this.