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I mean, they're not prestige but these were both big blockbusters in the past couple of years. I'd hardly call that a dead career.
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In fairness, the $500m made by that movie were from people unaware how loving bad it was going to be.
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that should tell you how much goodwill the first movie bought because $500m is a lot for a movie i've never known a single person say they liked.
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I too like to declare an actress has killed her career because she was in a bad movie five months before Hollywood up and died
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Marin Karin posted:that should tell you how much goodwill the first movie bought because $500m is a lot for a movie i've never known a single person say they liked. Yeah, that's insane - IT 2 was loving garbage.
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Jul 13, 2020 05:41
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Once I decided it was going to be a comedy, I enjoyed it. The severed head scene was great, and you know it.
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 Can't stop thinkin' about the haunted Animorphs middle section of this poster.
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Vagabundo posted:Once I decided it was going to be a comedy, I enjoyed it. The severed head scene was great, and you know it. It was just as funny as the first one and I’m surprised anyone expected it to be anything else. If it was ultra serious I would’ve probably been in the camp that hates it. But I love the insane mess that it is.
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CelticPredator posted:It was just as funny as the first one and I’m surprised anyone expected it to be anything else. The bit early on, where everyone including Peter Bogdanovich because why not? shits on Bill Denbrough's writing should've been a dead give away. Bill Hader's dead-pan delivery of "oh, there he is" got a big laugh out of the theatre I saw it in.
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I'll admit, I loved the awkward, neurotic bathroom stabbing scene. A lot of the comedy fell flat for me, but I liked that one a lot.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Danger: Diabolik rules. To be honest, Danger: Diabolik was my only real exposure to that particular franchise. How's the other stuff (I know it was a Italian comic book originally and there was a cartoon made at one point)? Larryb fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Jul 13, 2020 12:53
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Vagabundo posted:Hmm yes, a film that made almost $500 million off a budget of $80 million, that got OK reviews. Oh word?
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Larryb posted:To be honest, Danger: Diabolik was my only real exposure to that particular franchise. How's the other stuff (I know it was a French comic book originally and there was a cartoon made at one point)? Italian comic made by two sisters in the 60's who are stil trucking to this day. It has more than 800 volumes so I'd assume some of 'em are complete bangers. Reading the wikipedia page, it seems that Diabolik birthed an entire comics genre in Italy. Way to go Diabolik!
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The amount of money a movie makes has no real impact on the quality. Since most the money is made on opening weekend and you pay before you see the movie
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That’s only remotely true for blockbusters
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Nah it’s true for most movies outside like Indy films
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CharlestheHammer posted:The amount of money a movie makes has no real impact on the quality. Since most the money is made on opening weekend and you pay before you see the movie Money has no intrinsic value in and of itself. We agree to use money as a store of value because that works much better than a system of pure barter, but there's nothing special about a "dollar" '.
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Arguing semantics about the purely symbolic value of money is fun. But I’m pretty sure that post was just trying to say that, for Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain, the critical reception and commercial performance of It: Part 2 was reasonable enough not to kill her career in the eyes of capitalists who make movies and also cast them. This seems different than the argument people think was made, which is apparently that dollars = goodness.
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Goodness equals goodness. I stan for angel in the morning vomiting leper’s
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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether a good movie is beloved by the audience because it is good, or good because it is beloved of the audience.
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More money = better than.
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Jul 15, 2020 13:37
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You're going to summon Misterbibs here.
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Chris Knight posted:More money = better than. Agreed. That's why James Cameron's Avatar is one of the best movies of all time and the sixteen sequels will form our new government.
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The cover for the new Criterion version of Parasite is ludicrously bad: The concept kind of makes sense, because it says "Parasite" in morse code but it looks awful on top of the original poster and it's incredibly esoteric.
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 Fun bit of new trivia: The Teds is an unrealized film collaboration between David Lynch and The Residents that never materialized outside of the Prelude to the Teds EP back in 1993. It's now getting a comic book adaptation in Italy for some reason?
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Almost Blue posted:The cover for the new Criterion version of Parasite is ludicrously bad: That'd be a cool slipcover over the regular cover that's just the OG poster.
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BonoMan posted:That'd be a cool slipcover over the regular cover that's just the OG poster. Yeah that would work great.
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Almost Blue posted:The cover for the new Criterion version of Parasite is ludicrously bad: The B&W cover they did was so much better https://twitter.com/filmdaze/status/1281733643002617858?s=21
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah that would work great. Man I remember when a lot of thought and effort went into deluxe packaging and having a nicely stocked DVD shelf was a thing.
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Criterion have just always been wildly inconsistent with their designs. Some are fantastic, some are just unjustifiable. The Dazed and Confused packaging has cutouts on it so that comes to mind given the topic, but jeez why can't one of my favorite movies ever get artwork that just isn't complete rear end. From VHS to Blu-Ray, it gets screwed over time and time again.
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At least it's better than their True Stories cover
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Gripweed posted:At least it's better than their True Stories cover What? I thought True Stories was fine except for that one time I put it back on my shelf upside down.
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Gripweed posted:At least it's better than their True Stories cover ...What's wrong with the True Stories cover?
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King Vidiot posted:What? I thought True Stories was fine except for that one time I put it back on my shelf upside down. No it's bad. Biff Rockgroin posted:...What's wrong with the True Stories cover? It's bad.
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Gripweed posted:
I don't know, maybe I'm blind to it because I still remember how horrible some of the DVD covers used to be. Plus the cover to Little Horses or whatever the gently caress that Lena Dunham movie was.
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The DVD cover was much better
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Xealot posted:Arguing semantics about the purely symbolic value of money is fun. But I’m pretty sure that post was just trying to say that, for Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain, the critical reception and commercial performance of It: Part 2 was reasonable enough not to kill her career in the eyes of capitalists who make movies and also cast them. I thought it was quite clear, and I'd assumed people posting in here would be well aware of the fact that the film industry is a money-driven one. I guess overestimating people in this thread will not be a mistake I'll be repeating in a hurry. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/neonrated/status/1283431033786884096?s=10
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POSSESSOR!
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