what else could WBros have blown 200m on instead?
MOS 2 (Chris McQuarrie directing)
Afflecks Batman movie
Lethal Weapon 5
Blade Runner 3
Well I for one am glad they "blew" it on this.
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MOS 2- They are working on 2 different Black Superman projects. Henry Cavill's contract is apparently up. Sucks, absolutely love him as Supes
Affleck Batman movie - Been wanting one since BvS. But reportedly, The Flash will be his last appearance & they'll 'reboot' the universe
Lethal Weapon 5 - Richard Donner was working on it but sadly, he's gone
Blade Runner 3 - Sadly, the amazing BR2049 bombed
P.S. I absolutely loved The Suicide Squad & I'm glad they 'blew' 200m on it.
I read Cavill isn't done and will be in Black Adam at the Rocks behest
Donner may have died but Mel or Shane CBlack could direct LW5
Even though BR2 bombed it was hailed a masterpiece and created alot more fans so they could still try doing a BR3 and it could do slot more $
From a cost-benefit analysis? four or five small budget films that follow a proven formula. It looks like the era of big budget films is coming to an end, at least for the time being.
I'm quite happy if that does happen to be the case. Things had gotten way out of hand before the pandemic
Films like Transformers 5, Jurassic World, etc. never needed to exist. Or Pirates of the Caribbean, which is currently the most expensive film ever made whether you adjust for inflation or not. I never saw it, so I can't really comment on its quality, but it's sitting pretty at 33% on RT
When the term "blockbuster" was coined, it was not meant as a pejorative. But when I think of "blockbuster season", I think of a deluge of offensively bad films and of the artistic decadence of American culture. And I've felt this way for more than 10 years
I don't expect American cinema to go back to the 60s/70s, but at least having much more constrained budgets may force studios to exercise some creativity in how they go about setting up their shitty tentpole movies
It's not that we don't need blockbuster films. We just need good ones.
Movies like Jurassic Park, The Mummy, Lord of the Rings, The Rock, Terminator 2 and Independence Day have provided me with some of my very best, most memorable cinematic experiences.
The first Pirates of the Caribbean was good. And I enjoyed Jurassic World as well, though it's not a classic like the first film.
I love a good popcorn movie, when done correctly. The problem is that we haven't gotten a lot of good ones in recent memory.
I agree, generally speaking. I love good big-scale movies too
But no, fuck Jurassic World all the way to hell. Fuck everything about it
The main character is a guy who has bonded with velociraptors?! OK?! That should be a whole fucking movie in itself. Velociraptors, these big extinct fucking reptiles that supposedly behaved like ancient wolves? A human being has TAMED them?
We're just supposed to nod our heads and say "yup, he's velociraptor guy" and that's it? That completely loses sight of what was supposed to make Jurassic Park a magical concept in the first place
I don't give a shit about this stupid guy and I don't give a shit about the uppity bitch that he's supposed to fall in love with. They're just spoon feeding us Romancing the Stone and The Mummy again and we're supposed to call that a "trope" that we like and we accept it, when in reality I fucking don't. It was cool the first time, but don't fucking repeat it! And the kids. I hated the kids in the first movie and they're just doing it again because nostalgia is supposed to be automatically a good thing?
Oh, and the "bad guy" dinosaur is supposed to be bigger and we cheer this time when the t-rex shows up. Completely flouting the way that any biological food chain would actually work. A movie that was once innovative in its allusions to real biotechnology has been dumbed down to the point that we cheer for giant shark dinosaur eating giant land dinosaur
It's cancer. It's the price that we paid, like 20 years later, for paying money to be delighted and entertained by Spielberg and Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough. IMO it's like they're punishing us for paying money for a 50% stupid concept and the punishment is a 500% stupid concept
THE GUY AND THE BITCH...🤔
JURASSIC WORLD IS A BIG DUMB VERY ENTERTAINING FILM...CHRIS PRATT'S BOND WITH BLUE AND THE RAPTORS AND THE T-REX LENDING A HAND WERE AWESOME.
Fuck "Blue". I only watched the movie once when it came out, I wouldn't watch that shit again
But I remember it swooping in near the end like your dog if you were being attacked. What an insult to a mysterious, extinct species of animal to make it the storytelling equivalent of a bony CGI dog! Dogs are notoriously fucking stupid, with all due respect to dogs. I'm sure that it would take decades if not centuries to "domesticate" (aka stupefy) velociraptors to the extent that we've bred stupidity or "loyalty" into dogs
And the big shark dinosaur just jumps up and SWALLOWS the fucking big GMO dinosaur on cue. In reality, even a shark or other water-based alpha predator would take AT LEAST like 30 seconds to assess the situation and formulate a plan of attack and THEN act. Not saying that it has the intelligence to sentiently form a plan, but like instinctively as a real predator would
And we CHEER for the t-rex. That's right. We cheer for a species of animal that we have never actually seen, even on TV, but we cheer because it was the bad guy in the first 2 movies and now it's the hero. Ok. I guess we are just children being sat in front of a TV and forced to watch shitty cartoons now
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS RAISED CHICKENS FOR YEARS AND A FEW SPECIAL HENS WHO BECAME LIKE DOGS...I ENJOYED WATCHING THE BOND BETWEEN MAN AND MY CHICKEN'S ANCESTORS...AS FAR AS SOMETHING WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS LIKE...I SAW A LOT OF SIMILARITIES.
shareYeah, and I'm sure that we mammals are all the ancestors to some fucking rodent that would bury its ass into the ground like a coward
Your chickens were probably like most other products of animal husbandry. Again, with all due respect to your chickens and all other modern chickens because they never chose that life, but they are probably stupid as fucking FUCK
There is no bond between man and dinosaur. Dinosaurs would just be very awkward around humans the same way scrappy predators around the vast wilderness are. At worst they would just fuck you up like sharks. But mostly they would probably just ignore you. They certainly would not be you friend
Blue was nobody's friend. Blue was a fucking killer whale that was bullied and corralled into obeisance like that big whale that fucked everybody up in the documentary Blackfish
YOU RAISE SOMETHING FROM BIRTH...SOMETIMES THINGS ARE DIFFERENT...NOT EVERYTIME...BUT SOMETIMES...THE FAMOUS MAN/LION STORY COMES TO MIND...RAISED IT...RELEASED IT...YEARS LATER...THAT FUCKING LION WAS HAPPY TO SEE THAT MAN...OUT OF HUNDREDS OF ADMITTINGLY STUPID CHICKENS I HAVE RAISED...I HAVE HAD MAYBE A HALF DOZEN THAT WERE SPECIAL...PRATT AND BLUE IS THE MOST COMPELLING THREAD IN TWO PRETTY STUPID FILMS.
shareI don't doubt the bond or intelligence of you and your chickens. But the point is that chickens were purposely directed over centuries from their dinosaur roots to their stupid, egg-laying, fatty-thighed current state. They are as loyal and docile as a particularly cool baby
But most babies are not particularly cool or loyal or docile. They scream and rage and fuck shit up and then become normal for a tiny bit and then become adults and go back to their old ways. That is the same for most domesticated animals
Blue would only be semi-domesticated and so would act much more like a captive chimp or tiger and, amidst chaos, would probably go feral and fuck up everybody in sight and chomp Chris Pratt's little dick off
>Velociraptors, these big extinct fucking reptiles that supposedly behaved like ancient wolves? A human being has TAMED them?
I mean, wolves are supposedly the first animals we ever tamed...
No. We just arent seeing the picture anymore. Most of the income for a movie now comes from streaming, not theaters. And streaming has a much longer talk (theaters bring in money quickly, then it tapers off, streaming takes a longer time to accumulate). Since we dont have the streaming numbers because they are apperently a state secret we literally cannot know if a movie bombed or not anymore.
But yes, mid-budget movies tend to be much more profitable in terms of ROI.
something original?
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