The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

[VinylGuy]

Alright folks, movie of the year is settled.

[tommy]

It's going to be a great fall, even without Dune 2

[BurtReynolds]

https://www.vulture.com/article/rotten- ... ating.html

In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley. Critics who had seen early screenings had published 13 reviews, seven of them negative, which translated to a score of 46 percent on the all-important aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes — a disappointing outcome for a film with prestige aspirations and no domestic distributor.

But just because the “Tomatometer” says a title is “rotten” — scoring below 60 percent — it doesn’t need to stay that way. Bunker 15 went to work. While most film-PR companies aim to get the attention of critics from top publications, Bunker 15 takes a more bottom-up approach, recruiting obscure, often self-published critics who are nevertheless part of the pool tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. In another break from standard practice, several critics say, Bunker 15 pays them $50 or more for each review.

Daisyheads on suicide watch.

[BurtReynolds]

I did randomly decide to check out the reviewers on rotten tomatoes a few weeks ago, and it was enough to put me off the whole site for good. Their bar for what qualifies as a critic is pretty much non existent now. Just make a blog and write a few reviews and you're in. Doesn't matter if anyone reads them or not.

[Jorge]

I did randomly decide to check out the reviewers on rotten tomatoes a few weeks ago, and it was enough to put me off the whole site for good. Their bar for what qualifies as a critic is pretty much non existent now. Just make a blog and write a few reviews and you're in. Doesn't matter if anyone reads them or not.

Isn't there a minimum readership threshold?

[BurtReynolds]

Nothing concrete, and it was loosened recently in the interests of diversity (because of course), and they've added over a thousand new critics. The article suggests the real reason might be to get more positive reviews.

[Jorge]

Well, it was always nonsense anyway

[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]

[The Argonaut]

I like to imagine Jeff Nichols going to his trailer at the end of day one of shooting and calling up Chris Nolan or Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu or George Miller in a panic. "Tom is doing a weird voice! Should I let him do the weird voice? Will people like the weird voice? Please help."

[VinylGuy]

Austin butler does not look like a gang member. I could probably steal his phone in the street

[Stickman]

[Stickman]

[E.H. Ruddock]

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/e ... brams.html

JJ Abrams rebooting Krull

[Ms Harmless]

got to admire the imagination behind a title like "The Killer"; so intriguing, I wonder what it's about?

[Ms Harmless]

I'm cautiously optimistic about this one!

[BurtReynolds]

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/exclusive-krull-reboot-jj-abrams.html

JJ Abrams rebooting Krull

JJ Abrams needs a boot up his ass.

[epilogue]

Hahahaha JJ Abrams fuck that guy!!!

[oasisfan35]

Hahahaha JJ Abrams fuck that guy!!!

I knew you'd come around.

[epilogue]

Hahahaha JJ Abrams fuck that guy!!!

I knew you'd come around.

White dudes, amirite?