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Have you seen the movie?
I thought it was mostly amazing, unlike anything ever made. Especially the middle hour.
The middle hour in high frame rate 3d is the best thing I've ever seen. Best experience of my life. Seen it 3 times. Will go again.
Closest I'll ever get to swimming with whales. That's good enough for me.
Also the last hour is the greatest action ever. That counts too.
Nice to see you haven't changed. Still rotten and ugly and miserable. You are truly a cunt through and through.
Fuck you.
I definitely remember him saying something like that in an interview. He essentially said that a lot of the technology and capital costs that were assigned to the first Avatar movie would be reusable in the sequels. So it wasn't fair that so much cost got assigned to the first Avatar movie and that it really should have been amortized over the cost of future movies as well.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I assumed it was a typo or a weird edit that mangled his point.
Bottom line is that he's doing a lot of heavy lifting trying to make something that's successful seem not successful. Strange thing for him to do.
well, i think you're being more than a bit disingenous here. the other possibility is that you just don't know what you're talking about, and that would mean your username is a lie.
because you surely know that no one expected this to perform like no way home or any marvel film, which open massively and show standard blockbuster declines. & the poster above me has nicely explained that this film is going to surpass the marvel films from this year by a good margin.
wow opened slightly below expectations. a bit. but not much. maybe because of weather. maybe because people were holding out to see it on premium screens with good seats. maybe because they weren't sold on it.
whatever reason, what we do now know is that it's holding very nicely and is shaping up to be quite a success. it will pass $400m domestic sunday. we'll see how well it runs in january. i'm not nostradamus, but i wouldn't be shocked it if bumps up against $600m domestic. but even if it doesn't, it's still a pretty smashing success, one that was not guaranteed at all.
you are saying one thing that is more or less true, in that when you are the sequel to the biggest movie ever made, there are expectations. but it's also true that this is 13 years later and lots and lots of people were very skeptical of how an avatar sequel would perform. there were many saying that this was a movie no one wanted and that it would likely land with a bit of a thud. a person with the username filmbuff would know that surely.
so if avatar ends up around 1.8b or whatever, then some people will say 'didn't meet expectations.'
that seems uncharitable and cynical to me.
i think that more accurate take would be that a film that ends up somewhere in the top 15 all time domestic gross list (maybe higher) & probably the 6th or 7th (maybe higher) world wide gross list can't really be called an underperformer.
it's doing the business quite nicely, i reckon.
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1608933896313524224?t=1ZHr24eSCeW5fq8WsX1-kQ&s=19
It just posted the largest domestic daily grosses of the year for tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
In what universe does that translate to not putting up great domestic numbers? Those are the best numbers of the year. If the best isn't good enough then what is good enough?
The $2b number was always silly, a bit of puffery based on one off the cuff comment. Even high end estimates with production cost of $450m plus promotion will put it in the black at $1.4b or so.
Cameron himself has corrected it.
https://youtu.be/hilYs1pmfOE
He's amended that.
https://youtu.be/hilYs1pmfOE
Will you change your tune now?
Past performance suggests you will not.
The idea that this movie needed to make $2b to be in the black was always absurd.
It's going to pass $1b today.
I don't see how it doesn't bump up very close to $2b in the end. Maybe more, maybe a little bit less, but in that area.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTA8uQJu-Nb_wyayu40Bid6z4eWk4BSS9YvFQ&usqp=CAU
i called an actress a hot tamale in one of my reviews on letterboxd last week. if that's racist, then i'm happy to be one.
tattoos on girls get me horny
i believe the difference there is that all episodes of the terminal list were available immediately, meaning the entire series could be reviewed.
for obi wan i believe only the initial two episodes were open for review, & then additional episodes were reviewed upon release.
i believe that explains why the reviews are structured differently for those series.
I believe that is because all the individual reviews are attached to specific episodes.
Go to the episodes to find those reviews.
this is streaming on tubitv.
it's pretty fun!
https://tubitv.com/movies/664050/hey-stop-stabbing-me?start=true
65% on metacritic. that's a pretty solid number for a mainstream horror movie. not effusive praise, but tepid's not the right word.
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-black-phone
but it's still a thing that's in the movie, & it's still annoying & really kinda offensive to me. i won't go see it because of that.
that's a fair point, but i'll give the movie credit for at least not being obnoxious about it. aside from a few little moments in that bar scene perhaps, there was no sneering female condemnation of men, not dialogues about toxic masculinity, no diatribes about privilege.
that sort of diversity quota stuff is annoying, but at least this was done with a light touch.
"Despite this, Disney Plus is actually losing the company money at a greater clip than it was before. Disney says this is thanks to higher costs for production, advertising, and technology. Those costs seem unlikely to go down, and raising prices, like Netflix did, could cut off its subscriber growth. All that put together makes it obvious why Disney is looking at creating an ad-supported tier sooner rather than later."