Movie Thread

Kids wanted to watch the new Transformers Rise of the Beast last night.

Didn't hate it. Good action- new characters that made the movie pop a little more. Didn't care for the initial social commentary at the beginning, but the tie in at the end was cool.
 
Saw Oppenheimer in 70mm today. Holy **** it should win all the Oscars. Cillian deserves best actor, Downey supporting actor, Blunt supporting actress, sound design, adapted screenplay, director you name it. It was a nearly flawless film
 
zitothebrave said:
Saw Oppenheimer in 70mm today. Holy **** it should win all the Oscars. Cillian deserves best actor, Downey supporting actor, Blunt supporting actress, sound design, adapted screenplay, director you name it. It was a nearly flawless film
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Phenomenal movie and I'll pretty much leave it at that. I'm an American history buff (mostly political history) and knew of Oppenheimer and his work (and some of the controversy that followed him), but this is an example of how a biographical picture can be presented in a way that is much more than that.
 
50PoundHead said:
Phenomenal movie and I'll pretty much leave it at that. I'm an American history buff (mostly political history) and knew of Oppenheimer and his work (and some of the controversy that followed him), but this is an example of how a biographical picture can be presented in a way that is much more than that.
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Wish someone had the balls to do a movie on Von Braun.
 
Watched Barbie the other night. It was way more interesting than I expected.

I'm not surprised that some men like Ben Shapiro find it threatening.
 
Barbie up to 750 Million globally, Oppenheimer approaching 500M. Oppenheimer isn't in China yet, though I doubt that will matter.
 
zitothebrave said:
Barbie up to 750 Million globally, Oppenheimer approaching 500M. Oppenheimer isn't in China yet, though I doubt that will matter.
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This is cutting against the idea that people aren't willing to go to the movies anymore. People are willing to go, they just need good content.
 
striker42 said:
This is cutting against the idea that people aren't willing to go to the movies anymore. People are willing to go, they just need good content.
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You got to adjust for inflation, but even still, it's been a solid year for theatrical releases overall for just about everyone except Disney. But as we know, Disney scores a lot more than others off of merch, so they should make up much of that there.
 
I think post-Endgame there was a huge superhero fatigue.

Other "franchises" have underperformed recently.

John Wick has done well. But people have just wanted good movies to go watch. Nolan usually delivers. The calendar for movies this summer had been absolutely stacked. Big release after big release.
 
striker42 said:
This is cutting against the idea that people aren't willing to go to the movies anymore. People are willing to go, they just need good content.
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Which always has been the key. That and Warner's moronic simultaneous release fiasco were why films were struggling. When people could just wait like a month tops to see it on streaming, people had no reason to spend money to go to a theater and risk getting COVID.
 
Carp said:
You got to adjust for inflation, but even still, it's been a solid year for theatrical releases overall for just about everyone except Disney. But as we know, Disney scores a lot more than others off of merch, so they should make up much of that there.
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Guardians slayed. If it had a better lead in than Antman it would have been a billion dollar film.

Wakanda forever and Multiverse of Madness killed in the box office last year too.

I don't think Disney has been taking as many Ls as people think. THey just went from being the most dominant force to not, and I think Disney+ is a healthy part of that. Though they are slower to release than anything else.

What's sad to me is Disney really bungled haunted mansion. Like why the **** is it coming out in July, it would have played better in September. It also is coming out between Barbie and TMNT. It's bad marketting, it will have IMO a similar issue to the D&D movie where it's release will hurt it.
 
zitothebrave said:
Guardians slayed. If it had a better lead in than Antman it would have been a billion dollar film.

Wakanda forever and Multiverse of Madness killed in the box office last year too.

I don't think Disney has been taking as many Ls as people think. THey just went from being the most dominant force to not, and I think Disney+ is a healthy part of that. Though they are slower to release than anything else.

What's sad to me is Disney really bungled haunted mansion. Like why the **** is it coming out in July, it would have played better in September. It also is coming out between Barbie and TMNT. It's bad marketting, it will have IMO a similar issue to the D&D movie where it's release will hurt it.
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Antmam was a flop. Little Mermaid did mediocre at best, but is widely viewed as a flop. Indy was a megaflop. Elemental is also performing mediocre. The only hit so far is GTG3.
 
zitothebrave said:
Guardians slayed. If it had a better lead in than Antman it would have been a billion dollar film.

Wakanda forever and Multiverse of Madness killed in the box office last year too.

I don't think Disney has been taking as many Ls as people think. THey just went from being the most dominant force to not, and I think Disney+ is a healthy part of that. Though they are slower to release than anything else.

What's sad to me is Disney really bungled haunted mansion. Like why the **** is it coming out in July, it would have played better in September. It also is coming out between Barbie and TMNT. It's bad marketting, it will have IMO a similar issue to the D&D movie where it's release will hurt it.
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They also bungled Haunted Mansion by letting it be PG-13. You're not going to make up with teenagers what you lost with little kids for a movie like that. Disney has been it's own worst enemy. Just mistake upon mistake.
 
I think you can pretty much guarantee The Marvels will have a mediocre showing as well. Aside from Spiderman, Black Panther 2, Loki, and Wandavision, the MCU has been extremely mediocre to bad after Endgame. I wasn't super impressed with Dr Strange 2, but it was solid I guess.
 
Carp said:
I think you can pretty much guarantee The Marvels will have a mediocre showing as well. Aside from Spiderman, Black Panther 2, Loki, and Wandavision, the MCU has been extremely mediocre to bad after Endgame. I wasn't super impressed with Dr Strange 2, but it was solid I guess.
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Ms. Marvel is a fun show. I do wonder how they'll be able to balance the tone of that show with that hero with the much grittier need for Captain Marvel.
 
zitothebrave said:
Ms. Marvel is a fun show. I do wonder how they'll be able to balance the tone of that show with that hero with the much grittier need for Captain Marvel.
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I couldn't even make it completely through Ms. Marvel. Very mediocre. It wasn't nearly as bad as She-Hulk though, which was just awful. I made it maybe 3 episodes into She-Hulk before I had bow out.

I haven't really gotten into Secret Invasion yet. Not because it isn't good, I just haven't made time for it yet. I've watched like 2 episodes, and it's been solid, yet unspectacular. So far, I would put it above The Falcon and Winter Soldier, but below Moonknight, which I really enjoyed. And of course, Hawkeye, Wandavision, and Loki are easily the top 3 MCU series so far and it's not remotely close, imo (assuming we're not counting the Netflix shows as MCU).
 
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Carp said:
I couldn't even make it completely through Ms. Marvel. Very mediocre. It wasn't nearly as bad as She-Hulk though, which was just awful. I made it maybe 3 episodes into She-Hulk before I had bow out.

I haven't really gotten into Secret Invasion yet. Not because it isn't good, I just haven't made time for it yet. I've watched like 2 episodes, and it's been solid, yet unspectacular. So far, I would put it above The Falcon and Winter Soldier, but below Moonknight, which I really enjoyed. And of course, Hawkeye, Wandavision, and Loki are easily the top 3 MCU series so far and it's not remotely close, imo (assuming we're not counting the Netflix shows as MCU).
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I liked Ms Marvel, but I don't believe we are the intended audience. The show was clearly trending younger than 25-40 White Male. I agree for me it's not on par with Hawkeye, Wandavision and Loki. But I think at a minimum it looked good. I cannot say the same for Secret Invasion. VFX get really wonky later on.

It is not better than Falcon and the Winter Soldier. At least that moved and set something up. That's my biggest gripe with Secret Invasion, it seems more like poor closure than continuing a story. And it wasn't proper closure either. It was like a comic book story that was being told on the side about something that didn't matter.
 
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