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    You answered your own question: despite being a sequel MPR felt very much like a soft remake of one of the most beloved Disney moves ever. Given Jungle Book and BatB's success there was little reason to think it wouldn't be huge. As I said in a previous post, there's gonna be a lot of Monday morning questerbacking on MPR's box office, but almost none of that was being said before the fact.
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    Meh at that Aquaman number, though I'm sure legs will be good going by reactions on here. I was, like many others, totally wrong about MRP. I can't remember the last big movie whose hype was such a given only for it to stumble right out of the gate.
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    Yup. This franchise is running on the fumes of one well-liked star vehicle from 21 years ago. Sony's insistence on its resurrection is increasingly bizarre.
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    Or, in the case of the first two, don't worry if the movie's nothing special as long as it has good songs.
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    I don't think I've ever heard a Brit suggest going for tacos. Good job, guys!
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    There's gonna be a lot of Monday Morning Quarterbacking with this film, isn't there?
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    Can't watch as I'm at work but I'll go ahead and assume it looks like the most Sony film ever made.
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    It begins...
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    Horrendous cover, even by EW standards. I starting to think expectations will go so low for this it might end up being a pleasant surprise.
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    Reviews are actually better than I expected, insofar as many that like it seem to really like it. (A few seem to really loathe it too, which is intriguing.)
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    Holy shit at BR. I hadn't been following it at all but that WW total is crazy.
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    Heard a song on the radio today. 'Imagine that' I think? Blunt has a nice voice and seems to nail the character but the song itself was totally unmemorable. If that's the number they're using the push the movie then a future musical classic this ain't.
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    Actually ended up seeing this due to a family outing. It's totally unforgiving of those who, like me, hadn't seen the first, which is something the Potter films were a lot better at. Really, though, it's just a goddamn mess. Also, try as he might, Eddie Redmayne's character is just a flatline.
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    ^ page not found. Guess they put it up too early. What did they say about the movie?
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    Did an algorithm write this post?
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    It's a good movie but it does often feel like McQueen's art-house tenancies are in direct conflict with Flynn's genre instincts. Which is a shame because the heist elements we get are really well done. I wasn't surprised to learn that it was a british miniseries before this - there's so much plot you could easily spread it out over a number of episodes, probably to its benefit.
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    No-one is allowed to be surprised by this.
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    Why bother? A complete lack of originality didn't hurt Beauty and the Beast. People aren't flocking to these films for anything new.
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    "I'm warning you, Chris, if this movie fails we're only giving you 8 more chances." - studio exec
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    There was an article a while back on white male privilege that focused on the many chances Hollywood kept giving Armie Hammer despite his near constant series of flops. I have to think it's even more true of Chris Hemsworth. Sure, Thor 3 was big but at this point the MCU could have a hit film starring a chewed-up tennis ball. That's not really a diss on Hemsworth, by the way: my suspicion is he's like Colin Farrell - a likable character actor trapped inside a leading man's (incredibly ripped) body.
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    I said before that this movie would hurt Hardy's career and I was wrong. It looked terrible, and by many accounts is terrible, but his name above the title got it to that OW number. He's now the number one idiosyncratic action star.
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    I wouldn't count on a massive Republican backlash. Trump fans hate Bush and the Iraq legacy as much as liberals (even though many probably supported it at the time).
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    It's a bit weird that Bale and Rockwell sound exactly like their characters while Steve Carrell just sounds like... Steve Carrell. Anyway, looks fun. Political satire might be dead thanks to Trump but it still feels like a good time for a semi-humorous Bush administration critique. Will likely catch it at the cinema (damn you, staggered UK release date).
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    Bombs away. I like steampunk though, so it's kind of a shame.
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