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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| July 5th, 2016 at 12:52:40 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | If it came to movies right now, I'd find a foreign film or a film from the last twenty years on Prime Video ... or The Tunnel Series... IF I could ever remember when it is on. I think a grade B 1950s thriller would be a better movie than a super box office hit of today with Spider Zombies and Tits. |
| July 5th, 2016 at 1:29:38 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
Spielberg is in the enviable position of picking and choosing the films that he enjoys making. This includes working with folks of his choosing. Tin Tin, A.I., and even B.F.G. are personal projects that only he could make. He gets on board as Executive Producer when he needs to replenish the fundage. Transformers is the best example of that. Sort of like how the football team in the NCAA funds the women's cross country team. |
| July 5th, 2016 at 3:24:49 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
As a filmmaker, Mr. Spielberg will be fine. Warner Bros./Time Warner Ready Player One is based on a very popular novel and will probably play to audiences young enough to devour the book and old enough to cling to its 80s-era nostalgia. The film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, is slated to begin production in summer 2016 and premiere in spring 2018. |
| July 15th, 2016 at 12:41:47 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 | Man, did I get hoodwinked last night. 'In The Valley of Elah' with Tommy Lee Jones. Started off great, he's retired military and his Army son is missing. Jones starts looking and soon finds his son is dead. It goes on and on with twists and turns, and he finds that his Christian raised son was turned into a drug addict and torturer in Iraq. Wtf, where is this going. We find at the end that it was his best friend in the Army who stabbed him 46 times because they had an argument about something and were both drunk. Iraq had turned them into savages, apparently. I then realized this was a Hollywood anti Iraq anti Bush movie. My first clue was Susan Sarandon playing the mother. I had to laugh, what a waste of 2 hours. The premise was ridiculous, I should have read the negative reviews like I usually do. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 19th, 2016 at 6:29:52 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 | Ghostbusters has been out for 5 days and worldwide has only made back half of it's costs. That's not good, they have make a couple hundred million more to make a profit. Tt gets a 5.2 rating on IMDB, which is really really bad. Look at the first page that comes up in reviews, all are 1 or 2 stars: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/reviews?ref_=tt_ql_3 If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 19th, 2016 at 6:36:20 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 13466 |
Have you been living under a rock? There was a weird online campaign amongst nerds living in their mom's basements to give Ghostbusters bad reviews on every site. Lots of man-babies were angry about four female Ghostbusters. (Also, they were probably angry about never having touched a female before in their real lives). Many of those negative reviews were up before it even came out. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| July 19th, 2016 at 8:30:36 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22938 |
People do strange shit. It's kind of scary. You could be a target of a cruel online hoax, and 5000 random people will volunteer to hunt you down before the real facts get out. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| July 19th, 2016 at 8:42:49 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Horror and Vulgarity is where the money is. Conjuring #2 and Deadpool box office revenue in 4 days, compared to high budget films like Ghostbusters, The Legend of Tarzan , and Alice Through the Looking Glass Conjuring #1 cost $20 million production, and sells $42 million in tickets in three days just in Northern America Conjuring #2 cost $40 million production, and sells $40 million in tickets in three days just in Northern America Conjuring movies have very good reviews by critics.  |
| July 19th, 2016 at 10:02:13 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
The reviews for Ghostbusters is no 'hoax', the BO numbers speak for themselves. And just read the negative reviews, they go into great detail about why it sucks so badly. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 20th, 2016 at 4:49:12 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Four full Days Northern America $50,925,548 Ghostbusters (2016) | Production Budget: $144 million $46,582,405 The Legend of Tarzan | Production Budget: $180 million $44,817,191 Independence Day Resurgence| Production Budget: $165 million $33,507,621 Alice Through the Looking Glass | Production Budget: $170 million $22,716,809 The BFG | Production Budget: $140 million Budgets are too high for these relatively banal sequels, remakes and children's movies. The number of films with over $100 million budgets just grows every year. I guess they are hoping to tap into an international market that is familiar with the characters. |