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    5 hours ago, Deep Wang said:

     

    It also seems like a weird thing to add in a movie that already has immortality science with the whole "back up your save and upload it to a new body."

     

    Is that really immortality though? A clone with your memories is a lot like you but without the actual transfer of consciousness your original mind is still gonna kick it.

     

    $80m did seem low for something supposedly paying for everything though lol

    A2 WEEKEND THREAD | 134.1M DOM OW | Thurs 17m / Fri 36m / Sat 45m / Sun 36m

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    Just now, Alligator Zatt said:

    I swear I thought I was spot on because I never actually researched USA’s demo. Genuine question, these demos consider mixed race what, white? Black? I always imagined if you consider mixed race + black the situation was similar here in Brazil and the US. I’m kinda baffled at the numbers, I did know that the Latinos was the biggest minority, but kinda imagined that the black demo would be higher.

     

    As far as I know, it'd all be self reported so it's whatever people identify themselves with.

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    BOT in the Multi-Verse of Madness: Countdown of the DEFINITIVE Top 250 Movies of All-Time (2022 Edition)

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    Number 10

     

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    "Hold my nuts"

     

    About the Film

     

    Synopsis

     

    A man gets his nuts held

     

    Its Legacy

     

     

    From the Filmmaker

     

     

     

    Why It's Great

     

    Critic Opinion

     

    "It’s not every day that you can say, “Shaquille O’Neal was the best actor in that movie.” And yet that may well be true in the case of “Uncle Drew,” a genuinely unusual exercise in screen comedy directed by Charles Stone III that features Mr. O’Neal and several other N.B.A. superstars, both retired and active.

    The movie is a spinoff of a series of viral Pepsi ads in which the Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving, made up to look older, took much younger street basketball players to school. Pepsi is also a producer of this feature, which helps account for its character.

     

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    The story line involves the hapless amateur coach Dax (Lil Rel Howery), who has his team usurped by a childhood rival (Nick Kroll, laying on a lot of “in your face” schtick that’s more annoying than he might have intended). He’s told to find the aged court legend “Uncle Drew,” here fleshed out to feel like a homage to the real-life street-ball legend Earl Manigault. Mr. Irving’s crusty codger insists on filling the roster with back-in-the-day teammates played by Mr. O’Neal, Reggie Miller, Chris Webber and Nate Robinson.

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    The old-age makeup applied to these performers is — and I suppose this was entirely deliberate — unrealistic. The outlandish hairpieces and facial prosthetics produce an effect somewhere between TV sketch comedy and Kabuki theater. As conventionally unconvincing as the enterprise has to be, the movie tries to tug at the heartstrings with its suggestion that in these old men Dax has found a new family.

    At the same time, possibly because of the soft-drink-company sponsorship, “Uncle Drew” has a bland undertaste. The comic dynamo Tiffany Haddish, as Dax’s mercenary ex-girlfriend, seems tame here. Through it all, though, Mr. O’Neal, playing a martial-arts instructor harboring an old grudge against the title character, quietly but steadily builds the most complete characterization in the movie. It turns out, he’s learned an acting trick or two since the ghastly “Kazaam.”

    - Glen Kenny, New York Times

     

    Public Opinion

     

    "There's nothing redeeming about this movie.  It's rarely funny, horribly scripted and if what you came to see is some awesome basketball being played, even that is directed with such pedestrian flair, that it took me out of the movie.

     

    I liked nothing about this.

     

    3/10"

    - @baumer

     

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    The Poetic Opinion

     

    Factoids

     

    Previous Rankings

     

    #11 (2021)

     

    Director Count

     

    Steven Spielberg (5), James Cameron (3), Alfred Hitchcock (3), Stanley Kubrick (3), Christopher Nolan (4),  Martin Scorsese (3),  Ridley Scott (3), Brad Bird (2), John Carpenter (2), Francis Ford Coppola (2), David Fincher (2), Spike Lee (2), Sergio Leone (2), Hayao Miyazaki (2), The Russos (2), Robert Zemeckis (2), Andrew Stanton (2), Peter Weir (2), Billy Wilder (2), Roger Allers (1), Paul Thomas Anderson (1), John G. Avildsen (1), Frank Capra (1), Charlie Chaplin (1), Brenda Chapman (1), Joel Coen (1), Wes Craven (1), Michael Curtiz (1), Frank Darabont (1), Jonathan Demme (1), Pete Doctor (1), Stanley Donan (1), Clint Eastwood (1), Victor Fleming (1), William Friedkin (1), Terry Gillam (1), Michel Gondry (1), Steve Hickner (1), Peter Jackson (1), Rian Johnson (1), Terry Jones (1), Bong Joon Ho (1), Gene Kelly (1), Akira Kurosawa (1), John Lasseter (1), David Lean (1), Richard Linklater (1), George Lucas (1) Sydney Lumet (1), Katia Lund (1), David Lynch (1), Michael Mann (1), Richard Marquand (1), Fernando Meirelles (1), George Miller (1), Rob Minkoff (1), Katsuhiro Otomo (1), Jan Pinkava (1), Makoto Shinkai (1), Vittorio de Sica (1), Isao Takahata (1), Quentin Tarantino (1), Guillermo Del Torro (1), Gary Trousdale (1), Lee Unkrich (1), Gore Verbinski (1), Orson Welles (1), Simon Wells (1), Kirk Wise (1), Kar-Wai Wong (1) Charles Stone III (1)

     

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    Decade Count

     

    1930s (2), 1940s (4), 1950s (6), 1960s (7), 1970s (9), 1980s (11), 1990s (20), 2000s (19), 2010s (11)

     

    Country Count

     

    Japan (6), Italy (3), UK (2), Australia (1), Brazil (1), China (1), Mexico (1), Spain (1), South Korea (1)

     

    Franchise Count

     

    Pixar (6), Ghibli (4), Star Wars (3), Alien (2),  The MCU (2), WDAS (2), Avatar (1), Back to the Future (1), Before (1), Blade Runner (1), Dollars (1), E.T. (1), The Exorcist (1), Finding Nemo (1), The Godfather (1), Hannibal (1), Halloween (1), Incredibles (1), Jurassic Park (1), The Lion King (1), Mad Max (1), Middle Earth (1), Pirates of the Caribbean (1), Rocky (1), Scream (1), The Shining (1), Terminator (1), Thing (1), Toy Story (1), The Wizard of Oz (1) Uncle Drew (1)

     

    Re-Weighted Placements

     

    i don't know

     

     

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    Box Office New Zealand

    in International Box Office

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, The Dark Alfred said:

    I want NZ$14m to happen for TGM. Any holidays coming up the next couple of months that can give it a boost?

     

    It's the school holidays right now, but other than that it's a bit of a drought till Labour Day in late October.

    WEEKEND THREAD: No one went to the Danger Zone :( 145M JWD, 51.8M TGM, EEAAO reaches 61 DOM

    in Numbers and Data

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Yandereprime101189 said:

    Ya'll keep saying they should have had Glen Powell's character from Camp Cretaceous in the movie. . .but he's not an action hero in the show. He's a cringey goofball.

     

    But then again Season 5 is around the corner. He hasn't been in it since Season 1, he's supposed to be back. So maybe he lives....or gets eaten.

     

    glen powell has infinite range and can do whatever is required of him by the script

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