Simple Torture wrote:Here’s a fun game to play each year: does anyone know the highest-grossing movie released in 2023 that’s not a sequel or based on an existing IP?
Hint: it’s the #9 highest grossing movie of the year, only non-IP movie in the Top 10.
Babylon?
Nope.
tragabigzanda wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:Here’s a fun game to play each year: does anyone know the highest-grossing movie released in 2023 that’s not a sequel or based on an existing IP?
Hint: it’s the #9 highest grossing movie of the year, only non-IP movie in the Top 10.
Knock at the Cabin?
Or maybe 65.
Nope, and I believe Knock at the Cabin is based off a short story (although that’s a bit different than being based off an already existing big-budget IP).
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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- yeah, i dont see it being a huge mega success. Mostly because it seems the reviews are not strong and so fat im not seeing a very well done hype machine. I guess they are going to have a strong box office but thats about it. Its also a difficult movie to sell to kids or teenagers.
There's a bit in the Indy trailer where Mads, Harrison Ford, and Phoebe W-B go around saying "you stole it", "and then you stole it", "and then I stole it", capped with a super smug "it's called capitalism", so I'm not going to feel at all guilty about torrenting that one. Their rules!
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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tree_ wrote:Did you guys know it's called a blockbuster because people lined up around the block, like, busting the block?
Oh, okay. I guess the image I had in my head was, a movie that's so successful that it blows up (or busts) cinder blocks. But now that I think of it, that doesn't make much sense
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
