What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
March 4th, 2018 at 1:02:55 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Just saw The Italian Job for the umpteenth time on cable. Fundamentally its a good movie though it loses direction from time to time. I just hate the hijacking scene wherein the van driver in order to save his life drives right off the top of the dam into icy water. Yes, clearly it is a good move. It is his only way to get even a slight chance of living thru the ordeal. Perhaps its even a master stroke of genius and courage, but do they really have to be so cheap in the filming that they use an obviously empty vehicle? Can't they at least put dummies in the vehicle particularly animated dummies so it looks real and the startled passengers react to what is happening. I mean why be cheap? Its a critical scene and they are saving only a few bucks by being cheapskates. A well planned caper and an action movie is fine but the 'action' has to sensible and it has to appear to be realistic. |
March 4th, 2018 at 1:26:00 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
But it has yet to make a profit.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 4th, 2018 at 2:13:26 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12536 |
EB learns the hard way that there is a large difference between "flop" and "yet to make a profit." “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
March 4th, 2018 at 2:39:16 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Yeah, remember Casablanca. It never really made all that much money until fake rumors about its being a cult classic were started and that it was being played on college campuses everywhere. After the rumors, the movie sure took off. I'm sure that despite The Post's somewhat anemic title and somewhat anemic opening box office take, it will return a decent profit. Just going to take awhile. |
March 4th, 2018 at 3:23:00 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
From user reviews, a lot of people found it too long and too boring and too many preachy speeches and too much of Streep's 'fat cow ass.' Their words, not mine. I'll never see it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 4th, 2018 at 3:41:00 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12536 |
I'm not sure how Steven Spielberg will recover from this devastating blow.... “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
March 4th, 2018 at 4:15:06 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11803 |
I have not seen it yet but want to Waiting for the reasonable priced stream Looking forward to it Hope its as good as "All the Presidents Men" Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 4th, 2018 at 10:08:32 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Most of the true calculations are far too difficult to do. While the movie "It" made 9X it's production budget from domestic box office, and 11X it's production budget in foreign box office, it is assumed that other costs are easily covered . "Justice League" made almost as money as "It", but it is presumed to have lost hundreds of millions. The unofficial "break-even" is traditionally when domestic box office is higher than the production budget. "The Post" earned $80 million domestically on a $50 million budget. |
March 5th, 2018 at 10:11:07 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | I saw "The Post" yesterday. Good, not great. Captures the fact that ordinary people can be caught in extraordinary events. And it made me want to learn more about the whole Pentagon Papers affair. Oh, I knew the gist, and also much of what was in the papers (Barbara Tuchman lays much of that out in "The March of Folly.") It also got me thinking about different times and mores. As the saying has it, the past is a foreign country. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
March 5th, 2018 at 12:43:43 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | The most memorable thing about the Pentagon Papers was the suite taken at the NY Hilton and how so many people from the NY Times gave out cover stories but were hiding right there in midtown manhattan and not off in language school or whatever their cover story was. |