The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

[epilogue]

The Road isn't a bad movie. It's just a bad adaptation.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm with you, Burt.

[BurtReynolds]

The Road isn't a bad movie. It's just a bad adaptation.

Why?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Stickman]

[JuanHamm]

I've seen the trailer for Hypnotic a few times now and it looks so bad. It looks like the type of movie that should be going straight to Netflix.

[Jorge]

I really wanna see it

[JuanHamm]

I really wanna see it

Why's that?

[Jorge]

It looks fun

[JuanHamm]

Oh ok. I hope you enjoy it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

I miss the box office news wrap-up from box office mojo.

Also, I think superhero fatigue might actually be a thing finally.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Finally

[Farmer John]

I miss the box office news wrap-up from box office mojo.

Also, I think superhero fatigue might actually be a thing finally.

If that's the case, then why am I excited by the news that Krypto the dog is going to be in Superman: Legacy?

[The Argonaut]

I miss the box office news wrap-up from box office mojo.

Me too. IMDb seems to not really care about making that site useful anymore. The all time adjusted numbers aren't being update anymore either, it seems. It used to be a really great, basic, focused site but IMDb just doesn't seem to be paying attention to it. They bought it and then forgot it, it seems

[spike]

I miss the box office news wrap-up from box office mojo.

Also, I think superhero fatigue might actually be a thing finally.

Marvel just needs their new slate of heroes to catch on. Not sure they have actors with enough rizz though. And the one that did, Rudd, was taken down by a terrible installment.

Time will tell I suppose.

[BurtReynolds]

Despite being one of the most popular Marvel series, Guardians 3 only took in $114 mil this weekend, compared to $142 mil for part 2. It's not entirely fair to compare the two, but it did fall slightly short of expectations regardless. I see nothing else in Marvel's lineup except Spider-man that is even close to the same popularity.

[BurtReynolds]

I miss the box office news wrap-up from box office mojo.

Me too. IMDb seems to not really care about making that site useful anymore. The all time adjusted numbers aren't being update anymore either, it seems. It used to be a really great, basic, focused site but IMDb just doesn't seem to be paying attention to it. They bought it and then forgot it, it seems

yeah I think the guy that ran it isn't even there anymore.

[Jorge]

Despite being one of the most popular Marvel series, Guardians 3 only took in $114 mil this weekend, compared to $142 mil for part 2. It's not entirely fair to compare the two, but it did fall slightly short of expectations regardless. I see nothing else in Marvel's lineup except Spider-man that is even close to the same popularity.

Good word of mouth will keep this one strong for a couple of weeks. At the very least, it won't have the monumental fall-off that Ant-Man 3 had (precisely due to negative word of mouth)

[bada]

Despite being one of the most popular Marvel series, Guardians 3 only took in $114 mil this weekend, compared to $142 mil for part 2. It's not entirely fair to compare the two, but it did fall slightly short of expectations regardless. I see nothing else in Marvel's lineup except Spider-man that is even close to the same popularity.

Good word of mouth will keep this one strong for a couple of weeks. At the very least, it won't have the monumental fall-off that Ant-Man 3 had (precisely due to negative word of mouth)

When you factor in ticket inflation which is sharply up over the last few years its pretty clear that Marvel has lost part of the audience. If they went by a tickets sold metric it would be incredibly obvious. I don't know if its superhero fatigue or if its Disney cause Lucasfilm and Pixar are struggling as well at the box office and TV ratings. Used to be a license to print money. Oversaturation is my guess and a string of underwhelming products. There's probably some taking the audience for granted. They'll watch anything with this label on it type of thing. GOTG 3 is one of the few recent releases I'm interested in from them I might see it next weekend. Indy V scares me to death but I'm at least curious. After that I don't know what they got worth getting excited about. The Little Mermaid remake will probably go a long way in finding out how much trouble they are in. If that underperforms it'll be a disaster.