What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: ams288

From Variety:

Ok. I get it the dueling movie studios make it harder, but it would have been easier to use a fake mustache (or to delay the reshoots; it's not as though there's a launch window or something).

Film makers put entirely too much faith on CGI. Next they'll begin casting Marilyn Monroe and James Dean again.

Quote: Nareed

Film makers put entirely too much faith on CGI. Next they'll begin casting Marilyn Monroe again.

Royalties for all that time she said she spent on her knees.

Quote: Fleastiff

Royalties for all that time she said she spent on her knees.

Can you imagine what sexual harassment
she had to put up with in the 50's? There's
a woman with a lawsuit against CNN because
a male staffer told her she'd look good in
a bikini. Traumatized for life, she is..

Holy crap. Just got out of Justice League. Superman's CGI mouth is just awful and extremely distracting. Thankfully it's only in a few scenes (the scenes that Joss Whedon had to reshoot). The very first shot of the movie is a flashback with him talking to the camera and it's by far the worst scene in the movie for his fake-looking mouth.

This shot is from closer to the end of the movie, doesn't even do justice to how awful it looks when he talks.

AS usual, this boils down to either:

1) It seemed like a good idea at the time.

or

2) Here, hold my beer.

Ticket sales are really far off from their peak

Estimated Ticket Sales (USA and CANADA)
1978 Superman WB 57,358,100
1981 Superman II WB 38,915,700
1989 Batman WB 62,954,600
1992 Batman Returns WB 39,236,600
1995 Batman Forever WB 42,306,000
2005 Batman Begins WB 32,228,800
2008 The Dark Knight WB 74,463,500
2012 The Dark Knight Rises WB 57,581,800
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice WB 38,260,600


Big Budget Marvel Team films have been much more profitable than DC.

Production Budget|
$220 million| Marvel's The Avengers: May 4, 2012 Domestic: $623,357,910 + Foreign: $895,455,078= $1,518,812,988
$250 million| Avengers: Age of Ultron: May 1, 2015 Domestic: $459,005,868 + Foreign: $946,397,826= $1,405,403,694
$250 million| Captain America: Civil War: May 6, 2016 Domestic: $408,084,349 + Foreign: $745,220,146= $1,153,304,495
$250 million| Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: March 25, 2016 Domestic: $330,360,194 + Foreign: $542,900,000 = $873,260,194
$300 million| Justice League: November 17, 2017

Quote: Pacomartin

$300 million| Justice League: November 17, 2017

Oof. If that really is an accurate amount, it's money down the drain. The movie looks like crap. Cheap-looking CGI throughout.

"Fifteen dollars. That is what it cost me to see Justice League. Fifteen freakin’ dollars, and about 20 minutes in I was thinking to myself just how much I would rather be at home watching Van Helsing on Netflix, which is a B-grade Walking Dead with vampires instead of zombies, but still superior to the $250 million pile of crap unfolding through those stupid 3D glasses. And Netflix only costs me $10 a month."

lol

Quote: Evenbob

"Fifteen dollars. That is what it cost me to see Justice League. Fifteen freakin’ dollars, and about 20 minutes in I was thinking to myself just how much I would rather be at home watching Van Helsing on Netflix, which is a B-grade Walking Dead with vampires instead of zombies, but still superior to the $250 million pile of crap unfolding through those stupid 3D glasses. And Netflix only costs me $10 a month."

lol

If you didn't block AMS
You would know the movie sucked and saved 15.00
lol

Quote: ams288

Oof. If that really is an accurate amount, it's money down the drain. The movie looks like crap. Cheap-looking CGI throughout.

I still plan to see it tomorrow evening. I have on loan a Blue Ray of Wonder Woman I can re-watch as antidote on Sunday :)