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1 hour ago, justnumbers said:
Some of the posts I read here, I imagine the posters crying, drowning in alcohol, lying down on the floor with all sorts of pills surrounding them. Thinking about if Jesus exists. Probably talking to him already. Questioning if angels have a dick or vgn.
Wake up. Don't let yourself be weak, WEAK!
Things are just bound to get better weather your brain shows it or not. It may take some time again like in 2022 but it's just going to happen. Yall let everything get to you Way to easily.
Fuck it, suck it, wake up.
Dont worry as soon as the trailer for Jurassic World 7 drops ill be much more optimistic about the box office and its inevitable saviour
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6 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:
Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the weekend where we all kind of realize at once that the bottom fell out and it's not coming back. I had hope as of two weeks ago. Did a whole post on it. Now I'm just in acceptance stage. I think it's all probably winding down and we are about to see things collapse "slowly, then all at once" over the next year or two for this industry as we know it and love it. That's how it usually goes. It's just so incredibly bleak. I wish the boards weren't so depressing. I wish I personally wasn't so depressing in how I post on them. I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel at this point for the box office anymore. Even with all the bad over the last two years, this month is the first month where I do not see any light.
At this point, im just gratefull for every movie that does still get made and released because in the not so distant future (maybe by the start of the 2030s), i actually think new movies will only be made for streaming services (in other words: all new movies will suck) and cinema is dead.
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I was depressed because the box office is dead.
Then i decided to see Furiosa because ofc one has to see Furiosa.
I really like the film, though its ofc not the same level as Fury Road (nothing really is)
I go to the forums to see how the movie is doing.
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We need more mad men and crazy persons to direct movies.
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Hard pass for me personally since ive kind of hated Season 1 for many reasons.
I hope ofc that those who look forward to it will enjoy it.
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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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Frieren is very good.
Is it the best anime of all time? Nope, there is some heavy recency bias going on with that right now, but its certainly one of the best fantasy anime series in recent years.
I think its also a great show for non-anime fans who maybe want to try out the medium.
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22 minutes ago, Ryan Reynolds said:
almost a decade ago
No way lol Fury Road didnt came out a decade ago ...
*checks calendar*
oh ...
Fuck man.
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10 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:
I'm getting DnD flashbacks
Still makes me sad that movies run. Deserved much more.
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7 minutes ago, excel1 said:
I would love to see a Christmas set JW film released around Christmas. No joke, this is the next big thing.
Barbie 2 should be an Christmas film.
Funnily enough, the first Jurassic World is actually set in Christmas time.
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2 hours ago, Legion Again said:
Wasn’t this largely expected back in early April? Anyway figure I’ll quick project som finishes:
Dune 285
GxK 199 ( @Brainbug’s club going down to the wire, Apes weekend probably makes or breaks it)
KFP 195
GBFE 115
If theres a god, GxK will reach 200M!
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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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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
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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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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Rare time where a prequel (Oppenheimer) ranks higher than the original (Godzilla Minus One).
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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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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.
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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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46 minutes ago, MrFanaticGuy34 said:
Any previous Monsterverse film in the franchise you’d wish/want to see a theatrical re-release of?
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33 minutes ago, Avatree said:
Season 1 was solid, but there was quite a striking difference between the two timelines. One timeline was fun and engaging and had great characters, and the other timeline was pretty boring. It did get better towards the end of the show.
I agree and i hope the modern characters dont get so much focus in Season 2.
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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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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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9/10, goofy movie.
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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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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Spoiler Thread
in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Posted · Edited by Brainbug
This and Fury Road will make for a very enjoyable double feature.