Serpico Jones
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James Gunn must be sweating bullets looking at those BoP numbers.
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I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Chad Stahelski directed most of the reshoots.
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I’m really surprised at what a hack flop this turned out to be. The trailers were unwatchable garbage but I really thought the gullible masses would turn out. Guess not.
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4 minutes ago, AJG said:
The Joker didn’t stick close to the source material and made billions. The director is also not a seasoned geek friendly director, his most notable films were Hangover (and their garbage sequels) and Starsky and Hutch. Captain America and the last two Avenger movies were directed by the duo behind You Me and Dupree.Also the idea of sticking close to source material for comic book movies is also ridiculous. The audience that have ever read a comic book would be in the low single digits (and I’m certain most of them stopped reading comics in the late 1980s).
Being “close to the source material” for comic movies is waste of time and I probably think of dozens of great CBM’s that are incredibly disassociated with their source.Joker had a much lower budget. I’m still shocked by its success.
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1 minute ago, FunkMiller said:
Robbie was keen - not unreasonably so - to move Harley away from being the overly sexualised Joker sidekick, into something a little more three dimensional. I guess it comes down to how much of the character’s appeal stems from her popularity as a figure of the male gaze.
It’s not just Harley Quinn. None of the characters in this movie are anywhere close to what they are in the comics. Black Mask is a cold and calculating villain/mafia boss, in this movie he looks and behaves like Elton John on his day off.
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25 minutes ago, misafeco said:
Too early to open a WWW thread?
But seriously what went wrong?
Is the title of the movie too unclear?
Bad reception of SS?
Lame trailers?
Lack of proper marketing?
Are people starting to get tired of CBMs?
Bad Boys stealing the spotlight?
Not sticking close to the source material.
Giving too much control to an overrated actress.
Horrible marketing.
Could’ve used a more seasoned geek friendly director to excite the nerds.
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These early numbers are a disaster. Who’s idea was it to green light this? It’s nothing more than a Margot Robbie vanity project that has fuck all to do with DC comics. The early trailers were absolutely terrible.
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Test screenings for this have been great. Paramount has a huge hit on their hands.
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11 minutes ago, Darth Lehnsherr said:
How much studio interference was there in The Predator?
A lot. The entire third act was re-written and reshot.
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Predators cost $40m and looks cheap as hell.
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On 9/10/2018 at 5:12 PM, AndyK said:
Yep, instead of all agreeing "yep we had a problem but its sorted now...lets talk about the movie", we now have a situation where 3 people have probably ended their careers and the production is going to lose 10's of millions of dollars.
Good job everybody!
Who is the third person?
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The movie blogger community is sensitive to criticism that they behave more like Disney employees than actual journalists but this week has shown that that’s exactly what they are. You can tell they’re disappointed that they don’t have a Marvel movie to drool over and are instead stuck having to write about this “DC crap”.
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5 hours ago, jking123 said:
Its probably naive of me to think this but i think Disney will reverse their decision.Bautista,Joe carnahan and Selma Blair have already spoken out.I think with more explicit statements of support there may be a slight chance Gunn may be brought back.But i am probably not thinking about the bigger picture..Considering how fast they kicked him it really may be too late.
I don’t think they liked working with him, that’s probably the reason why they pulled the trigger on his ass so quick.
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Disney will find someone else to point the camera at a green screen and tennis ball and yell action. Directors are interchangeable to them because their movies are made on an assembly line.
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Jon Schnepp is dying. His fiancée just posted on Instagram that he suffered a catastrophic stroke last Thursday and is currently on life support. I hope he pulls through but it’s not looking good.
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Aquaman and Bumblebee have been testing incredibly well. Look for those two to hit big later this year.
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Don’t know if anyone’s posted this but Jon Schnepp has been hospitalized and is currently unconscious and fighting for his life. Really sad story.
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31 minutes ago, Quake said:
Actually its movie related. Jeremy and David both confirmed this
Sounds like it’s Batman related.
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Wonder Woman was much better than the first Captain America film. The film it’s closest to is Superman: The Movie, imo.
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16 hours ago, AndyK said:
Yeah Piranha II: The Spawning was such a classic.
He was fired from Piranha 2 after a week so it doesn’t count!
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James Cameron is a legitimately great filmmaker. His first four films are classics.
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12 hours ago, mathemetrics said:
about the first 20-30 min, my expectations had risen to placing this slightly above Rogue One, but Solo: Star Wars is my tenth favorite Star Wars films. It is still my favorite movie of the year by a long shot though.
It will be interesting to see what they do with the sequel.
There won’t be a sequel.
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I never thought I’d see a Star Wars film flop like this. Iger must be pissed.
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That Scott Mendelsohn piece has to be the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever read.
Weekend thread - Sep 11 to 13 | Tenet and Broken Hearts Club grosses are shielded from everyone. Is this the end of box office reporting?
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What a disaster.