Red Mosquito

spike 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.

Babylon?

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.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Is it one of those weird Jesus movies that only gets promoted at mega churches ?

BurtReynolds wrote:I looked it up.

Quite a few in the top 20 though.

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.

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Is it one of those weird Jesus movies that only gets promoted at mega churches ?

No; I’d say Knock at the Cabin is the closest guess so far, genre-wise.

epilogue wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Is it one of those weird Jesus movies that only gets promoted at mega churches ?

No; I’d say Knock at the Cabin is the closest guess so far, genre-wise.

Please let it be Cocaine Bear...

BurtReynolds wrote:Thank you, tree.

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.

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.

tree_ wrote:Did you guys know it's called a blockbuster because people lined up around the block, like, busting the block?