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13 hours ago, reddevil19 said:
Sure, but... let's not start this bit. Even movies that time have held up as true undisputed masterpieces would probably get some mixed or bad reviews nowadays, with the critical landscape being what it is. Don't focus on this.
We'll know soon enough, but this looks to be one of the strongest critical receptions of Nolan's career, and also looking to deliver huge numbers, especially for a 3 hour biopic with on-screen banging but no fisticuffs. Strong early contender for a few Oscars, so it will stay in the public consciousness for a long time and probably get an award re-release (especially if the strike is over and they can get the likes of RDJ, Blunt and Murphy out there to push them hard). Hell, any year that didn't have Scorsese with a winner would probably see this as the huge favourite going into the Oscars, making the inevitable wins by the small, newcomer-directed flicks that much more painful lol.
Again, it could end up collapsing at the box office in its second weekend, but PLF demand makes that unlikely. So it pretty much looks like an uncontested win for Nolan and Uni.
My comment has less to do with his opinion of Oppenheimer than it does the fact that I already hated the guy.
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2 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:
The whole thing is kind of embarrassing for China. That time period was part of their "Century of Humiliation." I don't think they like the fact that their #1 rival at the moment was also the country that played a major role in defeating Japan. It's an inconvenient truth in history for the Chinese government.
It's so funny how paranoid they are about their image.
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53 minutes ago, TomThomas said:
He's crazy most of the time, not really surprised.
Every year his top 25 is half a series of overly subtle indies I've never heard of...and I pay attention to the smaller films too. NY critics have a reputation for being pretentious and he may be the worst of them.
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1 hour ago, Arlborn said:
I honestly don't know what your definition of break out is, but I do know that Harley Quin was huge around Suicide Squad, she definitely had a big impact with that role, it was all the rage back then for Halloween, etc etc. In fact, I doubt she would even have gotten this Barbie role without that huge mainstream success from Harley Quin.
Yeah, I recall Harley being the main draw. They reduced the Joker's airplay as the marketing campaign got closer to release.
Nevertheless, it's certainly inarguable that Robbie didn't become a draw in her own right after that movie. It speaks to the difficulty of movie stars drawing on their own these days given that an actress of her caliber and beauty couldn't ride such huge exposure to become THAT kind of star. Here's hoping Barbie does the trick.
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I think we need to sit back and take stock of the insanity that is Oppenheimer possibly opening to 60 mil, even 40 mil is absurd for this subject matter.
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23 minutes ago, eeetooki said:
Give him a comedy book or something. While I love Dunkirk and will probably love Oppenheimer, I don't want to watch war movies anymore.
Why would he make a comedy? He's not a comedy director.
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50 minutes ago, MikeQ said:
Terrific reviews. It looks like we’ll also get glowing reviews for Oppenheimer, and maximizing the potential for a box office explosion this weekend. Very exciting!
While it’s early, with these strong reviews (with a high average rating), Barbie is maximizing its chances of being nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. The film looks like it will have that combination of being “smart”, a box office bash, and having cultural impact, that the Academy often loves to recognize. That Greta Gerwig is the name director behind it helps, too, as does some buzz behind Gosling, etc. Not a sure thing by any means, but its chances remain strong.
Peace,
Mike
I'd be concerned with the Academy snubbing it in the same way they snubbed the '07 Transformers for Best VFX, only in a much bigger way. Then again, this is a different Academy, so who knows.
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5 minutes ago, ListenHunnyUrOver said:
Dark Knight is kind of a slog.
Says nobody.
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This ended up 5th in my franchise rankings. Very good action film, but quite a bit more flawed than the last two movies. Very confused by the choice to not shoot in IMAX after Fallout so successfully revolutionized IMAX action scenes. If the reports are true, not sure why Cruise was upset about losing IMAX screens if there's no actual IMAX footage.
As for the numbers, not bad. Not certain why tracking had it a bit higher, but averaging together the 3-day and 5-day numbers here gives it a 62 mil OW. A bit higher than Fallout. So strange that this franchise always opens under 70 mil. You would think at some point it'd be able to reach the same heights as Fast & Furious or Bond.
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39 minutes ago, DAJK said:
(Older) Gen-Z here and, anecdotally for how I’ve felt and how my friends feel, the whole “social media destroying attention spans” in in-part to blame. If I wasn’t so into movies, I’d find it hard to concentrate on a film for 2+ hours without stopping (based on how I watch movies at home). A lot of people my age say they DONT go to movies because staff enforce phone policies, and they “can’t be off their phones for 2 hours” which scares me. And at the same time, a lot of older people say they don’t like going to movies because staff DONT enforce phone policies. I’m genuinely curious how the next few years turn out.
You should tell your friends they're addicts.
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13 minutes ago, Austin said:
We/They are brainrot by social media (tiktok/youtube/instagram) and can only watch videos that are short or appeal to their ADD. Idk, it is weird to me that my generation doesn't watch movies unless they are conventional and on streaming.
I thought this too, but supposedly Gen Z is the biggest moviegoing demo post-COVID.
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19 minutes ago, dudalb said:
Oh, I think they are in the wrong here and I fully support the actors and the writers, but it is a bit more complex then "they are a bunch of greedy fucks". you can say that about people in general, frankly.
They literally had an anonymous voice out there telling the public their endgame was to bankrupt working people. Spare me. This isn't fucking complicated.
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12 minutes ago, dudalb said:
Wow, that is an intelligent comment.
You disagree that the AMPTP are greedy fucks?
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Fuck these wealth goblins.
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What's up with Gen Z not digging action movies?
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11 minutes ago, rayjulio said:
reading the review, i'm sure this will get great reviews in rt probably 85-95% range but reading that majority agree that this is the most dense nolan movie and also runtime is 3hr is a bit worrying to me for audience reception
domestic market and europe audience like or still watch drama or biopic multiple times but for asian audience this probably isnt on their taste. sad because this is have great time to opening in south korea and potential to breakout if audience reception is great.
If it can open 50-60 mil OW domestic it's assured a profit. Hell, even if it opens to 40 mil and drops off to make only 110 or something, that's still enough with global numbers added.
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36 minutes ago, stonehenge said:
Alexis Roux:
"2 grandiose hours, where the epic and the intimate blend brilliantly, with Nolan's direction for once focusing above all on emotion.1 final hour that goes brutally off the rails: muddled, deceptively surprising and weighed down by clumsy dialogue."
Eric Vernay
"a host of stars play the turbo-HPI in a western setting: #Oppenheimer is a bit like Asteroid City with a bomb instead of an alien. For 2 hours it works, we have a film-brain with an atomic crescendo punctuated by beautiful sapio-sexual scenes, and then the film implodes."
Cyprien Caddeo
"#Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan's new cerebral kugel, in an unstable state between the tedious and the sublime.
It's a sensory rollercoaster, literally driven to the beat of an opera (yet without Zimmer).
3 hours is still a long time. Nolan's Babylon?"I mean...they are French.
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5 minutes ago, stonehenge said:
Well since TM only tracks positive/negative and not a scale of review, that's a very common scenario.
Joy Ride (2023) TM:92%, Average Rating: 7.5.
La La Land (2016) TM: 91%, Average Rating: 8.7.
A Simple Favor (2018) TM: 84%, Average Rating: 6.9
The Wolf of Wallstreet (2013) TM: 80%, Average Rating: 7.8.
Sausage Party (2016) TM: 82%, Average Rating: 6.8.
Jojo Rabbit (2019) TM: 80%, Average Rating: 7.6.
There are better examples, I'm sure, but I think it still shows my point which is that plenty of movies have a high RT score but a significantly lower average rating than movies with a comparable RT score. Of course, I have no idea what will end up happening with Barbie and Oppenheimer (and I didn't mean to pretend like I did), but Barbie *seems* like the kind of movie that critics would give a positive rating even if they don't think it's worthy of best picture. Oppenheimer, by contrast, has already stirred up plenty of Oscar buzz but has also had a few negative reviews, particularly surrounding the final act, so I think it's very possible that while it may end up with a higher average rating than Barbie, the RT score could be lower. But again, just a guess!What negative reviews? Those joke tweets about the sex scenes?
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I don't understand their desire to go past 8 movies. End it on an epic two-parter and call it a day. Cruise can't do it for much longer and people like me are jonesing to see him do drama again.
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Thinking 28 at the moment, but if Sound of Freedom keeps legging we could see 29.
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Based on the near sellouts I'm seeing for this Thurs through Sat opening weekend, I'm upping my prediction to 50 mil-plus. Curious why tracking is still pointing to 40-45.
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7 hours ago, abracadabra1998 said:
Do you have a source on that? I find that hard to believe if the movie has just a $100 million budgetThe 100 mil number has been steady since they started filming. That's the budget.
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Just now, Water Bottle said:
Girls trip did pretty well not sure how you define gangbusters.
I would define it as over 100 mil domestic. Jumanji movies don't count as they're also action/adventure. Ditto anything like Deadpool.
Good Boys and Sausage Party did well, but not over 100 mil domestic, although Party got very very close.
I would count Crazy Rich Asians. So that was the last one. Interesting that nobody who showed up for that showed up for Joy Ride.
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They both have already blown up. They're both stars. Everyone knows box office drawing power is not what makes you a star anymore, largely because not many stars can draw on their name alone.
And box office poison? That implies people actively avoid their movies, which I don't think is the case for a majority of actors.