Box office talk!
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Kinda crazy that Oppenheimer was that high.
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yeah, it is. A huge win for Nolan i guess, specially after Tenet.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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A little unfair to compare to Tenet in terms of box office, as it was extremely affected by the pandemic
But yeah the hype is off the charts and the box office numbers are incredible
But yeah the hype is off the charts and the box office numbers are incredible
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Yeah I don’t consider Tenet a box office flop just because of its numbers.
Nice to see Nolan will continue to work with huge budgets no matter what kind of movie he is doing.
Nice to see Nolan will continue to work with huge budgets no matter what kind of movie he is doing.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Had Tenet been released in theaters in a normal season, it would've flopped
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Impossible to knowThe Argonaut wrote:Had Tenet been released in theaters in a normal season, it would've flopped
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Tenet was a bad movie. Why would people pay one billion dollars to see a bad movie?Jorge wrote:Impossible to knowThe Argonaut wrote:Had Tenet been released in theaters in a normal season, it would've flopped
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Why is it called a box office? Cause it’s an office shaped like a box?
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Yeah Argo we will never know that, wtf
Let’s keep this conversation in this universe we know and don’t try to do some marvel multiverse shit on us
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Aren’t virtually all offices shaped like boxes?
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I think Tenet's problem wasn't that it was a bad movie, but that it was a little hard to follow. That may have turned some people off from rewatching it in the theater a second time, or telling others not to bother because it is too hard to follow.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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meh, it was pretty bad.E.H. Ruddock wrote:I think Tenet's problem wasn't that it was a bad movie, but that it was a little hard to follow. That may have turned some people off from rewatching it in the theater a second time, or telling others not to bother because it is too hard to follow.
I've seen it three time and am still not quite sure I fully understand it all. And I think about time trave a lot!
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Except Robert Pattinson amiritetragabigzanda wrote:Hard to follow was the biggest problem. But it also lacked an emotional core. Even if the mechanics made easy sense, I’d still struggle to care about anyone in the movie.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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