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Mr. Canucklehead said:
Is there a story connected to this that I’m missing? (Haven’t seen the movie)



I think there is a broad point here about studios missing the mark with audiences and churning out some soulless, unimaginative and formulaic movies rather than venturing into new or uncharted territory.

I think the horror genre has actually had this figured out for a while. The movies are low budget and usually lovingly made and passionately acted, and they make bank for their studios. Not billions of dollars, mind you, but still handsome profits.

The rest of the industry should be taking notes.
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100%. Studios like a24 and Neon have gotten really good at that and are now the cream of the crop, in fact, for horror films. They get it. A24 has stumbled a bit as of late though as their stock has risen. They're starting to become more mainstream and the product has suffered.
 
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Personally I’m tired of going to the movies and seeing the same 2-3 Marvel movies with the same plot every summer. I can’t believe people still eat them up. i liked brave new world there I said it

“It’s true the market has become over saturated” - Anchorman 2
 
I eat up marvel movies because I was a huge comic book fan growing up and remember debating cast choices with friends, so now to see the movies actually made is pretty cool.

We need more Jon Berthnal punisher in our lives.
 
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I think Marvel was actually on a pretty insane run of quality from Iron Man through to Avengers: Endgame. There weren’t many (if any) clunkers in that time. The MCU has been a bit of a hit and miss at best, a discombobulated mess at worst, since.

The negative impact it had, IMO, was in other studios trying to rush in and make their own “cinematic universe”. The DCEU, the Wizarding World, the Dark Monsters (or whatever it was called). It suddenly felt like everything had to be a cinematic universe.
 
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DCU is at a huge disadvantage having Superman. The entire plot of Justice League was just “we need to find Superman”. Yawn. It’s like Michael Scott improv where he always just has a gun. I enjoyed Ragnarok and Infinity War. Nothing can touch Nolan’s Batman.
 
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I'll never forget being in China in 2018 and literally everywhere I went, there were ads for Infinity Wars. In the streets. on the bullet train, on billboards leading up to the Shaolin Temple... shit was crazy.

IW and Endgame are the reason for the absolute clusterf*** of crossovers/collabs/multiverses we have in many movies and popular media nowadays. TBH I hate it, it's like everything is starting to converge into being one big slop made up of established IPs.
 
Jyrki said:
I'll never forget being in China in 2018 and literally everywhere I went, there were ads for Infinity Wars. In the streets. on the bullet train, on billboards leading up to the Shaolin Temple... shit was crazy.

IW and Endgame are the reason for the absolute clusterf*** of crossovers/collabs/multiverses we have in many movies and popular media nowadays. TBH I hate it, it's like everything is starting to converge into being one big slop made up of established IPs.
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It's crazy how China just fell off the map as a massive market for Hollywood movies. They were a fast growing market in the 2010's and were even making more on some movies than the domestic market (movies like Fast & Furious and Transformers for example). Chinese grosses for Marvel movies would add a few hundred million bucks to the overall gross. Then covid hit and nothing makes money there, at least from Hollywood.

Now they just fully embrace their own films. Ne Zha 2 just set the record for biggest gross in a single market. It's now over $2 billion from China alone.
 
Jay26 said:
It's crazy how China just fell off the map as a massive market for Hollywood movies. They were a fast growing market in the 2010's and were even making more on some movies than the domestic market (movies like Fast & Furious and Transformers for example). Chinese grosses for Marvel movies would add a few hundred million bucks to the overall gross. Then covid hit and nothing makes money there, at least from Hollywood.

Now they just fully embrace their own films. Ne Zha 2 just set the record for biggest gross in a single market. It's now over $2 billion from China alone.
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Is this true from a financial standpoint? I live in China and Inside Out 2 was massive here.

Edit: just asked some locals, apparently foreign movies are not advertised as much since covid, and have limited access to theatres. Called 排期 (páiqí). Additionally, some Chinese felt Ne Zha2 was not fairly treated in America and there was also some backlash from that. Movies like Captain America had very high prices (with a number that sounds like stupid people, ie only stupid people will buy a ticket) in some theatres, or were even "scheduled" for show times after theatres were closed (movies for ghosts).

The marvel movies were massive here but after endgame interest waned.
 
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Frostage said:
Is this true from a financial standpoint? I live in China and Inside Out 2 was massive here.

Edit: just asked some locals, apparently foreign movies are not advertised as much since covid, and have limited access to theatres. Called 排期 (páiqí). Additionally, some Chinese felt Ne Zha2 was not fairly treated in America and there was also some backlash from that. Movies like Captain America had very high prices (with a number that sounds like stupid people, ie only stupid people will buy a ticket) in some theatres, or were even "scheduled" for show times after theatres were closed (movies for ghosts).

The marvel movies were massive here but after endgame interest waned.
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This is interesting info, thanks.
 
It feels like not many people are talking about it, but The Pitt is a pretty damn good show.

Fast paced medical drama centred around a single ER shift in the post-covid world. Really ramps up after episode 7.
Fully recommend it if you're fine with fake medical gore/blood/needles/etc.
 
Nuckles said:
It feels like not many people are talking about it, but The Pitt is a pretty damn good show.

Fast paced medical drama centred around a single ER shift in the post-covid world. Really ramps up after episode 7.
Fully recommend it if you're fine with fake medical gore/blood/needles/etc.
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All in one shift for the whole thing? That’s different.

Better than the new hit show “Chicago Dog Catchers” or “Chicago Tax Accountants”.

There is a deluge of these shitty workplace dramas.
 
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Nuckles said:
It feels like not many people are talking about it, but The Pitt is a pretty damn good show.

Fast paced medical drama centred around a single ER shift in the post-covid world. Really ramps up after episode 7.
Fully recommend it if you're fine with fake medical gore/blood/needles/etc.
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i think the pitt is the best thing on television in years. it starts off a little rough but the last few episodes have been incredible
 
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credulous said:
i think the pitt is the best thing on television in years. it starts off a little rough but the last few episodes have been incredible
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Resident Alien is my pick for the very same. It's brought to market by a Family Guy writer, so I didn't expect a lot...but it's got a lot of heart in it. Filmed in Ladysmith, BC...home of Pamela Anderson and other mountains, too. Plus I'm developing a huge crush on Alice Wetterlund.
 
Reverend Mayhem said:
Yeah, I gotta say man I was pretty f***in' hammered last night. I got no alibi for that.

Raty plays a veteran game? I don't know. I got nothing. Disregard all my responses to that.

I love that you kept the receipts. Makes me look like a bigger ass than I am.

I mean that, as well. :) God I'm dumb.
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I assume you are in your 30's now?

This has been quite possibly the longest week of my life which is weird because this is the fastest year of my life.
 
SeawaterOnIce said:
I assume you are in your 30's now?

This has been quite possibly the longest week of my life which is weird because this is the fastest year of my life.
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Sadly, yes, I have reached 30.

Talk about long years...I got divorced, changed jobs, moved, all in the same year. I still think last season was God throwing me a bone to stay alive. The 60-hour weeks were draining me and then going home to someone who would rather see you dead?

Mental.
 
Reverend Mayhem said:
Sadly, yes, I have reached 30.

Talk about long years...I got divorced, changed jobs, moved, all in the same year. I still think last season was God throwing me a bone to stay alive. The 60-hour weeks were draining me and then going home to someone who would rather see you dead?

Mental.
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At least you got out of there before you had children?
 
SeawaterOnIce said:
At least you got out of there before you had children?
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That's my saving grace, but I wanted children. She didn't. Still kinda sore about that.

IDK. Still kinda makes me sad to think about that opportunity lost but I wasn't ready to be a husband. Just ready to be a father. Who doesn't want a little mini-me to f*** around with and teach em about life? That's the simple joy of it all.

I really don't have answers to those questions. I'm just some 31 year old with skin cancer. Wear your sunscreen.
 
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