Weekend Thread...Friday numbers (Deadline) HF: 6M| BBM: 5M| PD: 4.2| LLL: 3.97 (PG 18) - NOT THE PIRACY THREAD (OR THE POLITICS THREAD)

[JonathanLB]

Yeah @WrathOfHan let me go all the way to the review thread to watch people falling over themselves to praise a lousy boring pile of crap. Hmm no I think this forum doesn't ever make me go too far for that. I'm sure it's less than 5 minutes before I hear how much someone's LOVES Manchester By the Boredom or Craplight. What I meant is people with normal taste in movies - people who like movies where things happen - won't be into Silence.

[dxmatrixdt]

Not that bad.  I have not seen this but from what I have read this is a pretty good score.  In fact, this might even be the best score I have seen in my entire life.

 

LIVE BY NIGHT (2017)

[Moviedweeb]

3 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

I just answered this in the SILENCE thread.  I don't think it's inaccessible or even an arthouse movie, but it's about a topic and subject matter that don't exactly have wide appeal.  

 

Very true

[DAJK]

Monster Trucks tonight at my theatre: $9.9M OD

 

edit wait nvm that rounds up to 10M

Edited January 14, 2017 by DAJK

[tonytr87]

17 minutes ago, JonathanLB said:

Yeah @WrathOfHan let me go all the way to the review thread to watch people falling over themselves to praise a lousy boring pile of crap. Hmm no I think this forum doesn't ever make me go too far for that. I'm sure it's less than 5 minutes before I hear how much someone's LOVES Manchester By the Boredom or Craplight. What I meant is people with normal taste in movies - people who like movies where things happen - won't be into Silence.

 

Wow. So you're avowedly anti-intellectual? 

 

Must be a Trump supporter. 

[filmlover]

Just now, tonytr87 said:

 

Wow. So you're avowedly anti-intellectual? 

 

Must be a Trump supporter. 

He is.

 

Moving on.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Huppert was great, but I have to be honest, Elle didn't do too much for me.

[filmlover]

I'm seeing Patriots Day tomorrow. I'll tell Michelle Monaghan you said hi, @Telemachos.

[tonytr87]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

I'm guessing the tragedy at the center of Patriots Day was way too recent to be dramatized on the big screen for most people.

 

It's also not enticing films buffs like myself because it looks like yet another treatise on heroism instead of a complex look at terrorism. I decided not to see it as soon as I saw that clip where the police interrogator tells the woman "you ain't got shit, sweetheart." Talk about simplistic good v evil bullshit. 

[AniNate]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

I'm guessing the tragedy at the center of Patriots Day was way too recent to be dramatized on the big screen for most people.

 

With all the "Fuck 2016" and general depression about the current political climate, I think people are jaded with stories about terrorism. It may be respectful, it may be well made, but I think everyone's just sick of it now.

[filmlover]

Just now, tribefan695 said:

 

With all the "Fuck 2016" and general depression about the current political climate, I think people are jaded with stories about terrorism. It may be respectful, it may be well made, but I think everyone's just sick of it now.

I think the timing is the biggest issue. Even in our rapidly moving pop culture age, April 2013 wasn't that long ago.

[DeeCee]

I can see why people had a problem with Collateral Beauty. It's not totally bad but it is fairly sappy and contrived for my taste. 

[tonytr87]

2 hours ago, Fancyarcher said:

 

Well in the case of Silence, Paramount did sorta screw-up it's awards campaign since screeners were sent so late, which can partly be blamed on how long it took to edit the film in post-production.

 

Scorsese didn't care about awards or box office this time around it seems.

[Rman823]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I'm seeing Patriots Day tomorrow. I'll tell Michelle Monaghan you said hi, @Telemachos.

Why not make it a double feature and see Sleepless too. Not everyday you get twice the Monaghan. 

[filmlover]

Just now, Rman823 said:

Why not make it a double feature and see Sleepless too. Not everyday you get twice the Monaghan. 

Sleepless looks like crap so no.

[tonytr87]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

I think the timing is the biggest issue. Even in our rapidly moving pop culture age, April 2013 wasn't that long ago.

 

It's certainly one of the shortest turn-arounds I've seen. Shorter than Deepwater Horizon or the one-two punch of United 93 and World Trade Center. Hollywood doesn't seem to realize that time makes a big difference. Think the difference between all of those Iraq/terrorism flops five years after 9/11 and then Zero Dark Thirty/Lone Survivor/American Sniper all of which were released more than a decade later. 

[Rman823]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Sleepless looks like crap so no.

I was joking anyway. Looks like a typical January dump release didn't even realize she was in it until earlier this week. 

[Rman823]

2 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:

 

It's certainly one of the shortest turn-arounds I've seen. Shorter than Deepwater Horizon or the one-two punch of United 93 and World Trade Center. Hollywood doesn't seem to realize that time makes a big difference. Think the difference between all of those Iraq/terrorism flops five years after 9/11 and then Zero Dark Thirty/Lone Survivor/American Sniper all of which were released more than a decade later. 

One of the things that really helped Patriots Day was having some of the survivors tell their stories at the end of the movie. It was very inspirational. Seeing stuff like that makes it feel like more than just cashing off a tragedy. 

[franfar]

PATRIOTS DAY (2017)

That's great! Too bad the movie will bomb

[grey ghost]

What has the more interesting look at the Japanese relationship with imperialism.

 

Silence or The Man In the High Castle?