Theprophet
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3 hours ago, ChipMunky said:
Since I've proven a few times that David and I are close personal friends, I'm not surprised he announced this today.
Yeah well I'm personal friends with Tom Skerritt
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11 minutes ago, Barnack said:
You gave a link to an comicbook.com blog post that is using the exact same wikipedia page.
Well that's embarassing
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29 minutes ago, terrestrial said:
why do a quote if its already obvious thats a troll? (hint look up who tries to get a new account up after getting perma-banned here at BOT too)
I'm new. I'm not troll savvy
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9 minutes ago, Aadcfan said:
SO BAD NEWS FOR YOU ALL WHO WERE OVERPREDICTING THIS MOVIE
TODAY IT'S TIME FOR REALITY CHECK
Presales in NA are very bad. Ask @Deep Wang if you don't believe me. OW less than 120M.
Presales in SK falls down. It is doing very bad in SK.
Presales in China underperform.
Next time please predict a movie wisely.
Which movie?
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10 minutes ago, Pure Spirit said:
pretty sure Apple and Amazon are not franchises as all stores are company owned
According to google, Subway is actually the worlds largest franchise, Mcdonalds being second. Surprised me
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18 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:
On the shelves of everyone who still buys DVDs? Sure I guess.
Lets not pretend BR wont be more popular than The favourite in 10 years time. Its a huge crowd pleaser
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4 minutes ago, Hatebox said:
I would - bring it on! 😈
With all the shit James Bond has gotten lately over its treatment of women, i dont think having Bond beat the shit out of a female as the climax would go down smooth 😂. And he couldn't lose the fight because that would be far fetched. A smart female Bond villain would work instead. Lena Headey would be good
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11 minutes ago, Darth Lehnsherr said:
The Cameron Fanboys (do you guys have an official title for your group?) have jumped on the Pokemon train to derail the MCU after Alita failed to do so unfortunately.
I think Cameron fanboys are just called 'General Audience'
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7 minutes ago, Hatebox said:
It's the same as World Is Not Enough though - a Bond girl who's revealed to be bad in a final act twist (and even then her motives were sympathetic). An all-out female villain would be a nice change. For a series that is hyper responsive to current trends I'm surprised it's taken so long.
It would only work if she was a genius with her own male henchman because we wouldn't want Daniel Craig having a fist fight with a female villain during the climax
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1 minute ago, MrGlass2 said:
Before the first live-action Pokemon movie, let's remember how some of the current franchises began, domestically:
Star Wars
Star Wars: $220M (first run)
DC
Batman The Movie: $1.7M
Marvel
Howard the Duck: $16.2M
Detective Pikachu could make 10x more than all of them combined!
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Screw Gravity, It will take something truly special to top Interstellar
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1 hour ago, Hatebox said:
Well, Malek might be alright. He does have a certain bug-eyed intensity.
Without wanting to sound all woke maybe this would have been a good film to have female primary villain for the first time? (No, the World is Not Enough doesn't count.)
Casino royale should count though. Best female character in a bond movie and technically she was the villain with the best motivations of the series
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4 minutes ago, Cappoedameron said:
Nope, still Pokemon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Also that doesn't include the latest for Pokemon as that article does not include the revenues it received at the end of 2018 which included a brand new game and a total of 800 Million Dollars from Pokemon Go.
Good try though.
Wikipedia? Lol did you just ignore what I said? Marvel combined is bigger, the list shows that
Anyways I really don't care, technically McDonald's or subway is the biggest franchise if we really want to reach, but this is a box office forum and in terms of box office Pokemon doesn't even make the list
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54 minutes ago, Cappoedameron said:
Actually the king of franchises is Pokemon. A simple google search would reveal that.
"Pokemon's place at the top is helped by the list makers considering Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe different "franchises" instead of part of the overall Marvel brand. If all of the Marvel properties on the list were combined under one entity, they'd beat the Pokemon franchise by about $2 billion."
So technically Marvel is bigger 😉
Also I was under the impression this was strictly box office
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48 minutes ago, Rebeccas said:
The Favourite will be showing up on Best of Decade lists, BR will not..
And BR will be on everyone's DVD shelves
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On 2/25/2019 at 6:01 PM, Rebeccas said:
Anthony McCarten is literally a best actor whisperer at this point. I guess we should pencil in The Pope as our winner next year.
Green Book's win is going to age very poorly. Pretty much every film in the line up except Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody will be better remembered. Its has the lowest metacritic score of any Best Picture winner since Crash (both have 69!).
I fail to see how a movie like Bohemian Rhapsody which earned 850m through the power of amazing WOM will be less remembered in 10 years than the likes of The Favourite and Blackkklansman which really haven't made much of an impact anywhere. Judging from social media Green Book's win has been better received than last years winner. The people who dislike it are just a lot louder but clearly part of the few and not the many.
Also metacritic scores doesn't mean much, look at BR, the critics got that very wrong
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34 minutes ago, eddyxx said:
You mean like how the DC fans talked shit for years before The Avengers? SHH's batman boards were basically unreadable.
What's hilarious is DC fans and Marvel fans all watch marvel movies, and they will all watch DC movies when they get back on tract with quality too. Its literally Comic book fans arguing amongst themselves.
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5 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:
Avatar franchise average ww gross is $2.78b and about to rise
Star wars in bigger in US and UK than Avatar was though. Not sure about other western countries though
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A franchise war thread
Star wars is the franchise king for western audiences. Only franchise film here with a movies in the top 20 adjusted. 5 movies actually, thats unreal and shows it stands the test of time.
Right now Marvel is the franchise king worldwide with a larger chunk of pie coming from non western audiences.
So it's a tricky one
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1 hour ago, Slave Animal Rights said:
not everybody agrees
I think if someone needs a movie to tell them what's wrong and what's right then something's gone wrong with the upbringing of that person. There are certain films however that make me more aware of certain situations, an example of that would be Spotlight. It's just crazy to think a movie like Green Book would fuel racism. Sure it pokes fun at certain stereotypes but that doesn't mean people will go around offering fried chicken to every black man they come across.
37 minutes ago, Macleod said:If you don't believe in the power of movies, then why are you even here? I guess just for Box Office?
I love movies and have always had a strange fascination with box office, writing in forums has never been my thing though, I'm a newbie
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20 minutes ago, Macleod said:
Exactly. You and 85% of the Academy. Otherwise it would have been in the running for Best Pic, too. It displays more humanity and love and respect to its African American protagonists than nearly anything else this year, and is technically top-quality filmmaking, too, creative and storied in its influences and choices.
I don't really have time to watch everything. If it's the movie I think it is, it looked liked Fruitville Station
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1 hour ago, Slave Animal Rights said:
Green Book was an excellent movie that we all wanted to see rise to the very top even in the awards circuit.
But it isn't the movie we wanted to see breaking history against 4 other nominations.
The one we want to win is usually the other film that stands out more (and breaks more), then the one that gets the most thumbs up
Unfortunately Green Book winning could add resentment and fuel racism, as opposed to it loosing and helping to end racism
Films dont add or end racism. They are just films
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13 minutes ago, rukaio101 said:
Okay 1) Congratulations on completely missing the point and subtext of Black Panther, 2) Congratulations on completely missing the point and subtext of Killmonger's character, motivations and arc, 3) it takes a really 'impressive' person to look at Killmonger's actions in the CIA where his job was specifically mentioned as deliberately destablising African nations for the CIA's gain and go 'Hey, white people gave him the opportunity for a really great job, guess that means racism can't be that bad!', 4) if you're complaining that people keep making you feel guilty for enjoying Green Book, then have you considered that maybe it's the film's fault for having stupid stuff in it? Oh, and finally, 5) Congratulations on missing the point and subtext of BlacKkKlansman.
Person: "Hey, maybe being 'feel-good' shouldn't be the priority when telling stories about real-life racism?"
Futurist: "YOU WANT US ALL TO LIVE IN VENEZUALA, YOU COMMUNIST!"
Seems like a reasonable leap to me.
Why can't it be feel good? why must every movie about racism focus on the absolute worst of it, most of whom alive now had no part of? what is that really going to achieve?
To be given that CIA job in the first place he will have needed a high tier of education and opportunity before being set out on their missions. The film didn't even bother to show how he was oppressed in any way. But anyways I'm not going to sit and argue with you about 2 films i liked, i dont see the benefit in it. If you didnt like Green Book? cool, that's your opinion. i didn't see anything stupid with Green Book, everyone around me loved it, social media for once is actually saying the oscars got it right for a change, i guess there always going to be a few haters with loud opinions, luckily most people wont listen to you and get on with enjoying what they want to enjoy. The only backlash I've actually seen on social media with Green Books win is with a few people that felt Bohemian Rhapsody deserved the award.
So again, congrats Green Book on a deserved best picture win, certainly better than last years winner in my opinion.
Just seen your Anime Avatar, all makes sense now
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10 minutes ago, rukaio101 said:
You're right. We really need more movies that focus on the feel-good side of racism. Because that's what's truly important, right?[/sarcasm mode]
Im sorry but this is just plain bullshit. i watched Black Panther and accepted white people all being labelled colonists, unable to even share an opinion in the world of Wakanda. I enjoyed and jumped on the 'villain was so great' bandwagon despite him literally having no reason to want to give 'the oppressed' the tools to fight for themselves. I ignored the fact that it was killmongers own kind that killed his father and left him an as orphan whilst white people gave him the opportunity to work for the CIA (which takes high qualifications to accomplish, something oppressed people wouldn't have) and i was able to put these nitpicks behind me and see the movie in cinemas twice and have a great time.
Now for the love of god let me enjoy Green Book without feeling guilty, please. We have come a long way in 50 years, there's still a further way to go and i enjoyed watching a movie which deals with more relevant racism we see today than films like Black Klansman which are really just highlighting how terrible a very tiny fraction of society is.
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91st Academy Awards - Discussion thread - RACISM IS OVER, THANKS GREEN BOOK
in And The Winner Is...
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I can't agree with this because I live in the UK therefore I witness so many people simply say 'it was a really good film'. It's not like Mamma Mia, it's not a musical. Can't people just accept that audiences simply thought it was a good movie?