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    Frieren: Beyond Journey's End | Post JRPG Depression: the Anime | Free on Crunchyroll in May, no account needed

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    14 minutes ago, Daxtreme said:

    on that subject, do you have recommendations in the fantasy genre? I've been out of the game for a while

     

    Part of the problem with that question is that theres such a ... mixture of generes within the broader "fantasy" one itself in Anime 😅 for example, the vast majority of fantasy-themed shows are actually Isekai anime, a genre where most of the time a teenage boy from Japan gets transported into a fantasy world with (or sometimes without) some kind of special power. Its power fantasy essentially and most of it is honestly trash (though i do enjoy my trash from time to time)

     

    I would personally recommend the following ones:

     

    For good, non-Trash Isekais, id say theres Re:Zero, That Time i got reincarnated as a Slime, KonoSuba (a parody of the genre), Mushoku Tensei, Overlord and The Eminence in Shadow (though that one is borderline also trash and also kind of a parody)

     

    For "pure" Fantasy shows besides Frieren there is actually only Made in Abyss on the top of my head that i recently watched. Some would probably put shows like Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen or Solo Leveling into Fantasy as well, so its maybe a definition thing like i said.

     

     

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    Weekend Numbers | estimates | 15.01M CHALLENGERS | 7.73M UNSUNG HERO | 7.22M GODZILLA×KONG: TNE

    in Numbers and Data

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    30 minutes ago, cannastop said:

    Yeah but IPs have to come from SOMEWHERE...

     

    Exactly. My go-to modern example is John Wick: Of course those movies are hevily influenced by earlier action movies, but the first John Wick was still an original film that introduced the character and world to audiences. Now John Wick has become one of the biggest pure action movie franchises of this century.

     

    None of that would have happened without that first original movie. Just like with every other big franchise.

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    Weekend Numbers | estimates | 15.01M CHALLENGERS | 7.73M UNSUNG HERO | 7.22M GODZILLA×KONG: TNE

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    36 minutes ago, John Marston said:

    Ok I found this article talking about DVD sales in 2004  and some of these numbers are insane. Movies like Shrek 2 and ROTK making over 300M in DVD sale make sense  but some of these other numbers are wild and random. Master and Commander made 134M on DVD sales? I guess that's why they talked about a sequel. Man on Fire made $123M? No wonder Denzel still kept commanding large paychecks. Open Range made $129M? Haunted Mansion 2003 made 125M? American Wedding made $166m? Maybe studios should dump streaming and go back to making people have to buy or rent a phsyical copy

     

    Year End 2004 Top Money Makers (variety.com)

     

    Streaming made everything worse for all partys involved except most customers: The extremely lucrative DVD/Blu-Ray market was destroyed with only collectors now buying them and streaming is still (as far as i know) a moneyloser for all studios.

     

    So they ditched a golden moneymaker to have a moneyloser instead. Peak capitalism right there (yes thats irony).

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    Weekend Numbers | estimates | 15.01M CHALLENGERS | 7.73M UNSUNG HERO | 7.22M GODZILLA×KONG: TNE

    in Numbers and Data

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    Just now, Gokai Red said:

    Just a friendly reminder that it was this weekend 5 years ago (same calendar configuration too) that Avengers Endgame premiered and broke a bunch of records. I wonder when we'll get a movie that can top that opening weekend, which is currently the longest held opening weekend record. 

     

    Not in the next 10 years at least. Inflation needs some time to give another movie a chance.

     

    And that is if cinemas even exist when Inflation would theoretically reach that threshold. If we're talking 20 years+ then maybe there wont be simply enough movie theaters to support that kind of opening.

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    Weekend 4/19-21: ABIGAIL 1 mil previews

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    1 minute ago, Cmasterclay said:

    There's just too many options in the world now for movies to be a time and cost-effective option for most people to spend three hours. By the way, I also think that most sectors of entertainment, art, and culture have the same problem - not just complaining about movies. The sheer amount of options and content is creating a circular firing squad where nothing can thrive. And "Option excess" isn't just a cultural issue - it's also drained our public schools of students as they go to charter and online options, it's drained our storefronts of shoppers, it's drained our public spaces of the community and investment needed, which is why virtually every downtown in America is flirting with becoming giant outdoor shuttered homeless shelters right now (that's not designed as an attack on the unhoused, to be clear). We weren't meant to be this glug glug glug with options to stay home and live online. It is breaking our politics, commerce, and cultural institutions. It's a pandora's box that got opened too far. Anyway, this is only tangentially about box office anymore. I think after 30 years of no smoking and drinking I need to start getting high. Shit is too bleak baby.

     

    Hey i would agree with you. I also think that the invention of the Internet and all other technologies that came and come with it will one day doom us all.

     

    After all, we are (mostly) hairless monkeys that are a bit more intelligent than our chimpanzee cousins. We are essentially group animals that thrive in social environments where you can speak with, interact with and ultimately of course F** others of our species for the overall health of the whole species. In the Internet world where more and more people consider their online life more essential than their real world-life, thats all slowly crumbling.

     

    The Internet is one of the biggest social experiments in the history of the human race and were all a part of it, not knowing how its gonna unfold in 5, 10, 20 years time. But i for one am not that optimistic that the positives outweigh the negatives.

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    Weekend 4/19-21: ABIGAIL 1 mil previews

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    1 hour ago, AJG said:

    Between M3gan, Exorcist and Abigail, I have to wonder why Universal are so invested in movies where little girls kill people.

     

    On that note, its also a trope of ghost/haunted house horror movies that usually little girls get posessed and do the spooky things/kill people.

     

    Ive read somewhere that one explanation for this trope is that little girls represent basically the most innocent form of human beings as a whole and twisting that perception into something murderous like little killer girls leads to people finding the murders more disturbing than when it would have been done by a grown woman or man for example. I dunno how much sense this makes honestly, but ive always found this theory interesting.

    The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread

    in Box Office Discussion

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    12 minutes ago, DAJK said:

    Honestly sometimes I can have toxic positivity when it comes to the box office ("oh it'll all be fine!") but seriously, if this movie disappoints in a big way I'm going to go on a big "original movies are dead" rant. 

     

    Yes, I know this isn't technically "original" but for all intents and purposes, for 99% of the GA it is. Great reviews, the biggest stars on the planet, a great hook/concept and fun trailers. 

     

    At this point, im sadly convinced (for a long time actually) that the GA doesnt want originality.

     

    They want familiar franchise fare fabricated for feel-good consumption where you dont need to think very hard or be challenged by anything. And i dont blame them, movie tickets are more expensive than ever and i would be personally a total hypocrite to complain about the GA when ive seen GxK 5 times by now and will probably see the new Jurassic World movie 20 times next year ...

     

    Wait ... maybe im the problem ...

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    Weekend Numbers | actuals | 15.54M GODZILLA×KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE

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    21 minutes ago, Eric Atreides said:

    @Jake Gittes brought up an interesting point where the Monsterverse movies are arguably like Fast and Furious where people will likely go once for some goofy dumb fun, but they aren't really all that rewatchable (for certain people. Hold your horses @Brainbug, I know you're special). F&F aren't the leggiest films out there.

     

    The Fast and Furious comparison fits imo and one thing thats also playing a role here i think is the fact that the MonsterVerse/Godzilla actually has quite a big fanbase nowadays. 10 years ago there were like 187 Godzilla fans worldwide (the 2014 movie was extremely hyped among the whole GA, it wasnt pushed by a massive fanbase), but now in 2024 Godzilla is more mainstream than ever and the fanbase gut much bigger, so logically that would mean frontloading for the movies.

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    Weekend estimates | 31.70M GODZILLA × KONG: TNE | 10.10M MONKEY MAN | 9.00M GHOSTBUSTERS: FE | 8.36M THE FIRST OMEN | 7.85M KFP IV | 7.20M DUNE II

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    3 hours ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

    I was confident in it from the start. I think people are really underestimating how good Minus One was for the franchise. Yeah, the fans are up in arms about all the unfair critical comparisons. but that movie brought Godzilla back into the spotlight in a big way. And that's not even counting the restored goodwill the first Kong crossover brought upon the character. The trailers have also performed consistently well on YouTube and the like.

     

    The second trailer actually has more views on YouTube than the first. Thats a rarity among big blockbuster trailers and says a lot i think.

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    Weekend estimates | 31.70M GODZILLA × KONG: TNE | 10.10M MONKEY MAN | 9.00M GHOSTBUSTERS: FE | 8.36M THE FIRST OMEN | 7.85M KFP IV | 7.20M DUNE II

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    9 minutes ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

    I was just wondering if you'd seen the movie or not. I actually preferred this to the last one, which I loved too. But the last movie had a messy, uneven story that was clearly heavily reedited after how poorly King of the Monsters fared. This one flows a lot better, and has a more consistent, even tone than the last one. There's also so much great visual storytelling here, with long stretches of setpieces without any dialogue or actual actors at all. And yet you can tell exactly what story is being told in them. That's what makes this one especially good to me. Skull Island has finally been topped for me, and this is now my new favourite. Onward to more movies!

     

    I especially liked the adventure-themed middle portion of the movie and yeah, it reminded me a lot of Skull Island. This movie just knows exactly what it is and wastes not a second pretending its something different.

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    Weekend estimates | 31.70M GODZILLA × KONG: TNE | 10.10M MONKEY MAN | 9.00M GHOSTBUSTERS: FE | 8.36M THE FIRST OMEN | 7.85M KFP IV | 7.20M DUNE II

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    I FINALLY got to see GxK and i unsurprisingly loved it!

     

    This is the movie where the MonsterVerse finally abandons all ties it its realistic roots (yes, GvK was somehow a bit more "grounded" than this one) and goes full Showa-ish fantasy bullshit that is really fun in my opinion. They fully comitted to this route and i can very much respect that.

     

    What really suprised me was Kong and how good he functions as a protagonist. Godzilla is a glorified grumpy buddy but it works, especially towards the end. The fights are phenomenal in their stupidity. The humans were tolerable, Dan Stevens was the clear highlight.

     

    Overall, id say this is the same level as GvK for me but for a bit different reasons. Cant wait to watch it again and cant wait to watch it after drinking a bit of good old german beer.

     

    9/10, masterpiece.

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