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[filmlover]

6 minutes ago, Webslinger said:

Roland Emmerich is a strange case in that he has basically been coasting off of Independence Day's success ever since. If you look at the rest of his output, nothing else even comes close to Independence Day's level of box office success, even in spite of the fact that the $300 milestone - while still big and certainly not attainable for every film with a nine-figure budget - is now far more attainable for event films. It even seems like most people have forgotten the fact that his much-maligned Godzilla remake fell far short of the sky-high expectations back in its day.

He's really only notable for being the only gay foreigner to make a $300M+ studio hit.

[WrathOfHan]

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I'm not even feeling The Purge either. Where's the marketing for it? Weird, given that the Election Year theme seemed perfectly timed to coincide with the looming threat of a Trump presidency.

Like we were saying earlier, marketing peaked a looooooooooooong time ago.

[Ethan Hunt]

I think all three films will be in the same ballpark but hopefully one of them will manage to surprise us

[The Panda]

IDR deserves to tank like it is.  It's not even an inspired failure of quality.  It didn't even try, which was what was so frustrating.  It literally might have been the laziest big studio movie of the decade

[Dementeleus]

1 minute ago, The Pandaren said:

IDR deserves to tank like it is.  It's not even an inspired failure of quality.  It didn't even try, which was what was so frustrating.  It literally might have been the laziest big studio movie of the decade

 

It seemed like it was gonna ramp up to something. And then it slowly just kinda withered and died. 

[Webslinger]

Meh, I wouldn't even call Independence Day: Resurgence the worst long-delayed sequel of 2016. It's certainly not a passable movie, but it's still better than the nigh-unbearable Zoolander 2.

[MikeQ]

26 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

 

Because

 

 

 

Which is in keeping with Roland Emmerich's last film, 'Stonewall', which was also a terrible, whitewashed, piece of garbage film that pushed real life people of colour to the sidelines. Can you tell that I'm so over this director?

 

Peace,

Mike

[The Futurist]

2 hours ago, sfran43 said:

 

It s Jurassic World all over again.

 

An unremarkable film is getting an insane box office run.

 

Nostalgia ...

Edited June 25, 2016 by The Futurist

[superweirdo87]

6 minutes ago, The Pandaren said:

IDR deserves to tank like it is.  It's not even an inspired failure of quality.  It didn't even try, which was what was so frustrating.  It literally might have been the laziest big studio movie of the decade

 

Your flopnation club may or may not succeed. Bourne, GB, and Star Trek all have a solid shot at 150M in my book. But, you considered ID-R a longshot and a lot of people were hesitant to join because of it. And yet, it may be one of the movies that did not make it across the finish line.

Edited June 25, 2016 by superweirdo87

[filmlover]

What truly baffles me is why Charlotte Gainsbourg chose this to be the blockbuster in which she slummed for a paycheck in. Even Juliette Binoche in Godzilla wasn't this random.

[BourneFan #1]

Cloverfield was really damn intense. I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch it.

[marveldcfox]

29 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I guess this means Emmerich won't be able to continue to afford those extravagant pool parties he throws at his mansion every weekend. 

wow, didn't know that! He is Brett Ratner, ay? Maybe he should become a producer rather than continue as a director.

[filmlover]

Just now, marveldcfox said:

wow, didn't know that! He is Brett Ratner, ay? Maybe he should become a producer rather than continue as a director.

Except at Emmerich's parties, no women are allowed.

[The Panda]

5 minutes ago, superweirdo87 said:

 

Your flopnation club may or may not succeed. Bourne, GB, and Star Trek all have a solid shot at 150M in my book. But, you considered ID-R a longshot and a lot of people were hesitant to join because of it. And yet, it may be one of the movies that did not make it across the finish line.

 

The only reason that club might actually fail now is because I thought X-Men's legs would be worse.  So it'll be just barely unless one of the three you mentioned can break out.

Edited June 25, 2016 by The Pandaren

[DeeCee]

9 minutes ago, Free State of Tele said:

 

It seemed like it was gonna ramp up to something. And then it slowly just kinda withered and died. 

The ending made me think of this movie. 

 

 

[Ryan Reynolds]

B cinemascore for IDR , not good

[WrathOfHan]

7 minutes ago, superweirdo87 said:

 

Your flopnation club may or may not succeed. Bourne, GB, and Star Trek all have a solid shot at 150M in my book. But, you considered ID-R a longshot and a lot of people were hesitant to join because of it. And yet, it may be one of the movies that did not make it across the finish line.

It's too late, Apocalypse crossed 150M

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

The ending made me think of this movie. 

 

 

I saw Evolution in theaters. 15 years later, I still want my money back.

[Dementeleus]

3 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

The ending made me think of this movie. 

 

 

 

There was some straight-up MST3K-level shit going on. Just with better VFX. 

[Webslinger]

5 minutes ago, BourneFan #1 said:

Cloverfield was really damn intense. I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch it.

 

I never get motion sickness, and yet I felt like I was on the verge of barfing by the end when I saw it on its opening night. Then again, I saw it at a theatre that had been open since the mid-70s (that stayed open until about five years ago) that didn't have stadium seating, so even every seat in the biggest auditorium (which had 225 seats, tops - and that's not a whole lot in older auditoriums that packed seats as close together as possible) was relatively close to the screen.