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Wednesday Star Wars TFA ACTUALS - 38,022,183
Spidey Freak replied to Dementeleus's topic in Numbers and Data
I think more people use it than Insta. Also, there are other features like file sharing and group texts. -
Why is this still happening? At least Batfleck and Lego Batman can coexist because their respective tones are like night and day(with a Bat symbol shaped hole in the sun).
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If I were ever going to look into Sith Lording as a career option, I now know where my Imperial Centre will be.
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When SW7 is setting records, Disney wouldn't/shouldn't want to shift $$ to miserable little TGD. Every little penny is making history!!
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Those directors gave the world Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. They should get to be Rulers of the Free World if it were up to me.
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The "hostile fandom" water is talking about is only online and is just a loud minority really. They are known as "Gatekeepers" and they bitch and moan about "PC agendas" promoting women and minority characters in sci-fi and other fiction. I'd say they are as influential as those #BoycottStarWars racists. These BO numbers are proof of how effective that group was. Yups, at the end of the run the gender breakdown will be far more even than that for opening night.
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Of course women are going to watch it. But most women fans of SW fall in the casual or new fanbase who are less likely to rush for opening night is all. LMAO at the trolling insinuating the franchise is sexist because of opening night audience breakdown or that women are sexist for not watching it ASAP.
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The internet was made for defenders of Slave Leia to call Twilight "trashdom".
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How is Noctis faring? Last I heard he was rushed to the ICU connected to the FIVE EXTRA HOURS drip.
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Rhymes with Smellymentos?
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We have already had Arthurian and Greek Gods related full-length features directed at children before. If Prince of Egypt could be made into an animated feature, then the more fantastical and epic scope of Hindu mythology easily translates to the medium (it has been done before many times before BTW, including this marriage of Hindu mythology with superheroism). And things usually get offensive when you don't have someone from the culture playing a major role in production. Pixar had/has the benefit of Sanjay Patel's services, so as SST proved, they are less likely to be culturally insensitive. A near silent short doesn't really come close to doing all the moving parts of such a complex story justice IMO.
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I actually think it suffered because there was too much depth and richness that had to be squeezed into one single short. They were forced to pick just three gods from millions in the Hindu pantheon, and had them do one stunt each (with no other show of individual characteristic), and also tie them to a whole other plot of generational and cultural gap between father and son. And they had to do all of it with almost zero dialogue! It is like trying to stuff a comic geek version of Bend It Like Beckham! meets Percy Jackson into a blender to produce a near silent short and keeping fingers crossed that it has the same impact. Folks are still going gaga over it tho. I guess Lava really reduced expectations.
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The situation with Winnie the Pooh was different. It wasn't a dump job by any means (and it has a 90% RT to prove it). Someone thought it would greatly thrive as counterprogramming to DH2... and was proven wrong. That and it was the last breath for a major Western studio produced hand drawn film.
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Weekend Est #s - MJ 11.3, Sea 11, TGD 10.5, Creed 10.1
Spidey Freak replied to Avatree's topic in Numbers and Data
So this is what the calm before Rapture feels like. -
I think this is it.
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And it would be poignant if Rocky Balboa was the character he ultimately won for playing after all! But would the Academy care for all that? Hopefully.
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It's hilarious to see Creed and Assassin's Creed be the two threads at the top of the forum.
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I don't know about a lot. Those 3 movies between Joy and IO are pretty big competitors. And bear in mind that often the Academy nominates just 7-8 movies in total for BP. If all of those films are battling it out just for one slot (or none if just the Top 7 are chosen) then IO's chances still remain marginal at best.
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I agree that it would take a major upset for IO to lose BAF now. But BP nom almost a lock? Nope. The BP nomination qualifiers have changed since Up and TS3 received their nods, making it harder for a "commercial" movie to get a nom. And unless they cancel each other's chances, either one or both of The Martian and Fury Road are much more likely candidates to receive the nom for the commercial movie over IO.
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The BAF nominations tend to tick certain boxes, 1 stop motion, 1 hand-drawn, 1 foreign etc. provided movies of sufficient quality that satisfy each of those boxes exist in any given year. While yes, they are looking for technical innovation, they also tend to heavily favor diversity in the mediums and techniques used as well as the production houses that create the movies while compiling the nominees. Which is the reason I was highly sceptical of two CGI movies from the same studio getting nods in the same year. The fact that TGD received a lukewarm critical reception and is giving a disappointing BO performance makes things only more difficult in its case. The MU snub is a pretty big exception to dismiss, even if the selection process isn't a rigid algorithm. Especially since it was the last Pixar movie before this year, making it very relevant to a discussion about TGD's chances at a nomination. At least to me, that shows the nominations tend to favor diversity in mediums, techniques and in the particular case of the 2014 nominations, studio diversity among the nominations, rather than simply "technical quality" as an objective unit of gauging a movie's worth. Speaking of which, that just underlines the silliness of the BAF category in the first place. Unless a movie is using indisputable groundbreaking technology, how do you compare the technicality of a stopmotion picture to a hand drawn feature and a CGI film? But that's a discussion for another topic altogether.
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That was Damienroc's theory actually. I had pointed out that while that could be a valid reason for BH6 winning, it didn't explain why Lego was snubbed from the nominations altogether. Just a year earlier, MU was snubbed from the noms too, and in that year, it was generally considered to be the most technically superior animated movie. So that flies against the face of that hypothesis. I'm more in the camp of "Academy elitism being the reason for Lego's snub". Regarding TGD, I wouldn't be surprised if it is just 3 noms this year or if it gets snubbed for The Boy and the World and Shaun the Sheep. I've always maintained that both Pixar movies getting BAF noms was an uphill battle and now the Academy has two good excuses to snub TGD. Of course, I may still be wrong.
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Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad are definitely the unsung heroes of this. Kudos to the script too for giving the love interest an interesting backstory and ambitions of her own.
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Wow, Sly gave such a warm and graceful performance!
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MOANA | 394.6 M overseas ● 643.3 M worldwide
Spidey Freak replied to kayumanggi's topic in International Box Office
Moana is a musical.
