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  1. Sal
    Oh please. Lucas crapped all over the EU himself with the stuff in the prequel trilogy and the EU writers just had to roll with it. It's not the first time someone in charge of the movies has decided to completely ignore the work of the folks who did EU content. The EU has never been sacred if the people at the top decided they wanted to do something else.
  2. Sal
    Not sure what to make of Variety's prediction for this weekend. It feels way too low. Of course it's only 2pm on the west coast and Coco is doing the best numbers in that area.
  3. Sal
    I mean I love Star Wars, but let's be honest here... very few of the Star Wars movies have had good pacing, so that being an issue doesn't shock me at all.
  4. Sal
    They have a consensus after 47 reviews? They can't be expecting too many to come out for this film if that's the case.
  5. Sal
    I didn't think that studios could go after things with less actual content than Seuss stories, but they managed with this film. I mean the book it's based on is only 36 pages long and most of that page content is illustration. In fact, the 1938 disney short pretty much just read the book over the animation. There's really not much to The Story of Ferdinand.
  6. Sal
    I had a club for this that got shut down. I'm still glad it looks to be happening.
  7. Sal
    Epic was a mess of a movie. It was like they couldn't figure out what story they actually wanted to tell.
  8. Sal
    When the main actor is a white man, I'm not sure casting a bunch of latino actors in minor roles is really all that enlightened. Coco definitely had stronger Latino representation. But that's not even really the point, since Ferdinand takes place in Spain and Spain=/= Latino so what does the director being Latino (from Brazil, which is one of the Latin-American countries that is NOT Hispanic) have to do with anything anyway?
  9. Sal
    Agreed. I'm very curious how this will play compared to Moana
  10. Sal
    How is Coco doing in NM? It's the state with the highest % of Latino population.
  11. Sal
    I had a club for that lol. It was shut down but was supposed to be reopened as Coco over 250m Dom. Ah well.
  12. Sal
    That estimate for Wonder's three day is higher than its opening. Loving that number.
  13. Sal
    Honestly, it's amazing that this is opening in China at all given the themes.
  14. Sal
    It's a reference to the changing attitude, not the changing people. People feel way more bolstered in expressing support for racist/sexist/etc opinions in an open way, which includes verbal harassment and physical violence. Most of what's changed is that people now think it's perfectly fine to do things because the people in power support those opinions. Two years ago, they might have been a bit more wary about being open in their bigotry.
  15. Sal
    I'm really sad now that the mods didn't go ahead and rename my Coco club to Coco over 250m the way I was asking.
  16. Sal
    West Coast also has the highest Latino population in the US, so if it appeals to this audience, we should see it reflected when West Coast numbers come in
  17. Sal
    Gonna chime in and say my hispanic family was never in a huge rush to see movies, especially on a work night. A lot of latinos work a lot of hours so it's more of a 'watch when you have time' thing. Though sometimes my family would just drop me off at the theater, that doesn't usually fly as well with 10-12 year olds these days.
  18. Sal
    On the plus side for Coco, Ferdinand doesn't have the massive marketing blitz that Sing had last yer.
  19. Sal
    Well, as long as it doesn't get terrible WOM, it's definitely going to pass TGD. But I figured that was the case anyway. TGD was awful.
  20. Sal
    Coco's tuesday preview: 2.3m
  21. Sal
    I love that the real number is higher than the trolling number. We were going to go see it at the previews but there was a misunderstanding and several of us didn't realize the previews were on the tuesday not the wednesday. So we're just going to see it tonight.
  22. Sal
    Bird is pretty arrogant too, but what can one expect of a man who was so rich that his family got him personal training from disney animators at 14 and then paid his full tuition to CalArts years later because he just wanted to go even though he already had a job in the industry. The real problem with Bird is that he's just out of touch with portraying characters who aren't white men.
  23. Sal
    Well, it's not currently on his twitter and doesn't look anything like the content of any of his other twitter posts.
  24. Sal
    No one was expecting this to break to 300-400m though. There was a fair sized contingent of people who didn't even think this would hit 200m because it's featuring Latino characters and concepts that some hardcore Christians would find uncomfortable talking about with their kids. As much as Mexico is a catholic country, it doesn't mean their holidays, especially dia de muertos are really accepted as 'christian' in any way.
  25. Sal
    I don't think most people who would actually go see a movie about a latino kid in the land of the dead would be looking at a conservative site like Drudge for info.
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