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One of the possible effects of PVOD availability for movies still in theaters is that it makes Hi-res torrents of those movies much more widely available and easier to illegally download. To what extent exactly, I couldn't say

Wow, nearly 5 million above estimates. What a jump!

Likely? Their combined gross is way above a billion already

Didn't Apocalypse Now ĝet a somewhat muted response when it was released? Movies are too quickly deemed masterpieces or failures these days

Ghostbusters 2 is not a good movie and it feels like it was made for all the wrong reasons. But Peter Macnicol's performance is hilarious.

His next project should be Rendezvous With Rama, and if you've read the book, you can tell it is absolutely up his alley, particularly in terms.of visual depictions

Actuals for overseas gross were considerably higher than the estimate, so it does make up for the domestic overestimate

Dune should've crossed 400 million WW by now, no?

That sentence doesn't make any sense. He's either the most nominated Director of all time or the most nominated living Director.

It will pass the OW for Dune Part One. It's a great success

Not even Oppenheimer managed to reach a billio If this reaches 700 million, it would be an absolutely stellar result

That's not true at all. They're. at most, divisive, whereas Brian Herbert's nd Kevin J Anderson's stuff is downright despised by many. To put both bodies of work in the same conversation as if they were, in any sense, comparable, is a silly exercise. They are galaxies apart quality wise.

There is nobody in the world I trust less yo handle anything Dune related than Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Their books are abominations, absolutely horrible, and they sure have been trying to milk the story dry (they have written something like 20 Dune books or more). If any of them has any active, decisive, creative input in a Dune project, it will suck

I loved the movie, I'm still haunted by it days after seeing it. As a huge fan of the book (I have read it 6 times), I was on board with pretty much all the changes made and I really do think they serve the story being told in a cinematic format. There's one small change that didn't sit so well with me, though, although it might be considered quite minor. It concerns the nature of Paul's threat to the Emperor and the Great Houses, to destroy Spice production by nuking the spice fields. In novel, has many of you now, he threatened to destroy the whole Sandworm lifecycle, and therefore the spice itself, by pouring Water of Life into a Pre Spice Mass. This would obviously require quite a hefty dose of exposition and lore dump to explain the exact nature of this chain reaction and I can, for that reason, understand why it was simplified. But still, the book version felt much more like universe-shattering threat than nuking the spice fields (which I reckon would drastically, but temporally, disrupt spice production, but not destroy it definitely). Just a small gripe. I would have also love to see some glimpses of the Spacing Guild in this, but Denis knows he will doing Dune Messiah in the future, so I'm sure he's saving some of that stuff for the next movie

You're so vain

I was equally stunned by that opening sequence Such striking imagery and involving atmosphere

Yeah, I really don't get what Villeneuve is getting at. Even a movie that probably had a bit of influence on this, like Lawrence of Arabia, while visually absolutely spectacular, still had, in my view, one of the greatest scripts ever written

Oppenheimer is a not a high-concept, action heavy typical Nolan joint. It's a bio pic of one of the most important figures of the 20th century, made by one of the most popular and influential directors in the world, who on top of it has an aura of being well overdue on Oscar recognition. It's the very definition of a potential Oscar frontrunner even before anyone actually saw the movie. With the critical and popular reception it had, plus the stagerring box office results, it's probably the biggest Oscar shoe-in since Return of the King. And I'm kinda lukewarm on both movies. The only hurdle that would have prevented Oppenheimer from becoming a true Oscar contender was if the quality and reception weren't there

Is there any doubt that Oppenheimer will win the Oscar for Best Picture and Director? It's one of the biggest shoe-ins in the last few years.

As long as I love the movie and it racks up a bunch of nominations, I'll be happy. As the nomination and voting process works, it's almost more prestigious (note the almost) to be nominated than to win

At what time does the review embargo lift tomorrow? Later tonight right after midnight or is there another specific time frame?

Two singles available from the soundtrack: And the OST tracklist: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240215811726/en/Dune-Part-Two-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack-Music-by-Hans-Zimmer-Available-February-23rd Tracklist Beginnings Are Such Delicate Times Eclipse The Sietch Water of Life A Time of Quiet Between the Storms Harvester Attack Worm Ride Ornithopter Attack Each Man Is a Little War Harkonnen Arena Spice Seduction Never Lose Me Travel South Paul Drinks Resurrection Arrival Southern Messiah The Emperor Worm Army Gurney Battle You Fought Well Kiss the Ring Only I Will Remain

Arrival was Sci Fi, took itself very seriously, had the same director as this one and got stellar reviews pretty much across the board. The critic pool has become much more varied in the last decade or so, I really don't think there's as much genre bias as it used to

The Paris premier is tonight, correct? Should we expect some social media reactions later tonight (as unreliable as they tend to be)?

Oh, I agree, I really don't see how something like that could be achieved