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November 21st, 2014 at 12:20:56 AM permalink
beernuts
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I'm going to see it this weekend!
January 13th, 2015 at 11:21:40 AM permalink
TheCesspit
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Finally saw it at the IMax here, for $4 (with my yearly pass that gets me as many 45 minute IMax documentaries as I care to watch). Definitely the best film I've seen in IMax format, with the big space scenes shot really well, and not too much jerky action camera when at a more human level... Pacific Rim and the 1st Hobbit film were really hard to watch in such a big format when the action went side-to-side.

Plot was relatively predictable, but it still made me think. There were several pieces that made me jump and one scene that may have had some onions being cut in the cinema...
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life
January 13th, 2015 at 12:20:44 PM permalink
Ayecarumba
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Quote: TheCesspit
Finally saw it at the IMax here, for $4 (with my yearly pass that gets me as many 45 minute IMax documentaries as I care to watch). Definitely the best film I've seen in IMax format, with the big space scenes shot really well, and not too much jerky action camera when at a more human level... Pacific Rim and the 1st Hobbit film were really hard to watch in such a big format when the action went side-to-side.

Plot was relatively predictable, but it still made me think. There were several pieces that made me jump and one scene that may have had some onions being cut in the cinema...
Were you okay with the two "spinning" scenes?
January 13th, 2015 at 12:33:44 PM permalink
TheCesspit
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Quote: Ayecarumba
Were you okay with the two "spinning" scenes?


Yep, they were fine for me.
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life
January 13th, 2015 at 12:37:26 PM permalink
Ayecarumba
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Quote: TheCesspit
Yep, they were fine for me.
Maybe it is just me... I couldn't watch it, and it wasn't even on an IMAX screen. I guess I'll never get to be an astronaut.
August 22nd, 2016 at 10:01:32 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Holy Crap! Just saw this on Prime. One
of the worst sci-fi movies ever made.
I watched 2 hours and FF'd thru the
last HOUR. What a stinking mess.
How anybody sat thru this in a
theater is amazing. 35 pages of
of one star reviews. THIRTY FIVE!
But tons of good reviews.

The first clue is it made 70% of it's
money outside the US, they'll watch
anything. Cornball swill, that's this
movie.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
August 23rd, 2016 at 6:00:07 AM permalink
Pacomartin
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Quote: Evenbob
The first clue is it made 70% of it's money outside the US, they'll watch anything.


Interesting hypothesis. Let's look at this year's films (although some of them are new), ranked by percentage of box office made overseas.

The first group (>90% overseas) is basically foreign films of little or no interest in the USA and Canada. This includes the god-awful Chinese family films.

The second group (>70%, <90%) is British films and films that flopped in Northern America. There is some pretty good arguments for your hypothesis in this group.

A lot of the films in third group (>50%, <70%) are just failures. Ditto for the <50% group, although that includes films aimed at minority groups in the USA.

The hypothesis seems pretty valid.

Overseas  % - Name - Studio -	Worldwide $ millions -	rank
100.0%	Monster Hunt	FR	$385.30	13 (Chinese)
99.6%	The Monkey King 2 in 3D	CL	$193.70	28 (Chinese)
99.6%	Detective Chinatown (Tang ren jie tan an)	CL	$125.80	34 (Chinese)
99.4%	The Mermaid (Mei ren yu)	Sony	$553.80	9 (Chinese)
98.6%	The Little Prince	EOne	$97.60	43 (Canadian; but intended for release on Netflix a few months later)
98.3%	Ip Man 3	WGUSA	$156.80	31 (Hong Kong)
93.3%	Sultan	Yash	$84.10	48 (Indian)
...
89.1%	Warcraft	Uni.	$433.50	12
86.4%	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	FoxS	$33.80	66
80.7%	Ice Age: Collision Course	Fox	$315.60	19
79.7%	Now You See Me 2	LG/S	$320.90	17
78.6%	Gods of Egypt	LG/S	$145.70	32
73.8%	Alice Through the Looking Glass	BV	$294.50	20
73.2%	Independence Day: Resurgence	Fox	$383.70	14
72.7%	The Brothers Grimsby	Sony	$25.20	68
72.4%	Kung Fu Panda 3	Fox	$519.90	11
71.4%	X-Men: Apocalypse	Fox	$542.70	10
71.1%	Me Before You	WB (NL)	$194.30	27
70.8%	The Huntsman: Winter's War	Uni.	$164.60	30
...
69.0%	The Angry Birds Movie	Sony	$346.70	16
68.2%	The 5th Wave	Sony	$109.90	38
68.1%	London Has Fallen	Focus	$195.70	26
67.9%	The Conjuring 2	WB (NL)	$318.90	18
66.6%	Zootopia	BV	$1,023.20	2
65.8%	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Par.	$239.30	22
65.8%	Eddie the Eagle	Fox	$46.20	60
64.6%	Captain America: Civil War	BV	$1,152.30	1
63.9%	The Legend of Tarzan	WB	$347.80	15
63.1%	The Divergent Series: Allegiant	LG/S	$179.20	29
62.2%	Dirty Grandpa	LGF	$94.10	44
62.1%	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	WB	$872.70	5
62.0%	The Jungle Book (2016)	BV	$955.50	3
62.0%	The BFG	BV	$141.80	33
58.2%	How to Be Single	WB (NL)	$112.10	36
55.9%	Money Monster	TriS	$93.10	45
54.4%	Suicide Squad	WB	$575.40	8
53.6%	Deadpool	Fox	$782.60	6
52.4%	Hail, Caesar!	Uni.	$63.20	55
...
49.5%	Jason Bourne	Uni.	$278.80	21
48.7%	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Uni.	$107.90	40
48.5%	The Secret Life of Pets	Uni.	$674.00	7
48.5%	Zoolander 2	Par.	$56.00	57
47.8%	Finding Dory	BV	$915.90	4
47.1%	The Finest Hours	BV	$52.10	59
44.2%	The Boy (2016)	STX	$64.20	54
41.7%	Lights Out	WB (NL)	$110.20	37
40.5%	Ghostbusters (2016)	Sony	$208.10	25
39.6%	Central Intelligence	WB (NL)	$210.30	24
37.8%	The Witch	A24	$40.40	63
36.4%	Star Trek Beyond	Par.	$231.10	23
35.6%	The Shallows	Sony	$84.60	47
33.4%	10 Cloverfield Lane	Par.	$108.30	39
32.9%	My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2	Uni.	$88.90	46
29.3%	The Forest	Focus	$37.60	64
29.2%	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Fox	$64.50	53
26.9%	Ride Along 2	Uni.	$124.20	35
25.3%	Pete's Dragon	BV	$57.50	56
23.9%	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	Par.	$69.40	52
22.8%	The Purge: Election Year	Uni.	$102.40	42
19.9%	Risen	Sony	$46.10	61
19.8%	The Boss	Uni.	$78.60	49
19.4%	Bad Moms	STX	$106.30	41
18.7%	Race (2016)	Focus	$23.50	69
16.2%	Miracles from Heaven	TriS	$73.60	50
16.0%	Nerve	LGF	$42.60	62
8.4%	Sausage Party	Sony	$71.50	51
1.8%	Barbershop: The Next Cut	WB (NL)	$55.00	58
August 23rd, 2016 at 7:25:47 AM permalink
ams288
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Quote: Evenbob
Holy Crap! Just saw this on Prime. One
of the worst sci-fi movies ever made.
I watched 2 hours and FF'd thru the
last HOUR. What a stinking mess.


Translation: EvenBob didn't understand it and got frustrated.
“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman
August 23rd, 2016 at 11:36:32 AM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Pacomartin

The hypothesis seems pretty valid.


Interstellar barely made back the production
costs in the US. Reading the reviews, people
walked out on the turkey in the middle of it
in droves. It was an hour too long and had
a convoluted story. Overseas I think they'll
watch anything from the US.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
August 23rd, 2016 at 11:59:18 AM permalink
ams288
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Quote: Evenbob
Interstellar barely made back the production
costs in the US.


It goes without saying that Evenbob is not an expert on anything a film's box office success or failure. But here are the facts regarding Interstellar's profitability:

Quote:
According to our experts, at the end of the day those studios will net out $47,161,000. That is a good return — cash on cash return is 1.09


http://deadline.com/2015/03/interstellar-profit-box-office-2014-1201389442/
“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman
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