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These days they produce a boat load of merchandise for every character. There will be a few items that will be hard to find (some Black Series figures) but most of the stuff released on Force Friday will still be around.
Even bigger ticket items priced at $150 or more see discounts of more than half. $200 Legendary Yoda was sitting on shelves until they tried to clear it out for $50 or less. $200+ Kylo saber hit $50 at Wal-Mart.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I'm more interested in that dope as fuck Disney Castle. Now that's something I can see asking for Christmas.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
If I see that Sphero Artoo ever dip to $50 at any point I'll snatch that up in a fucking second.
(Artoo is my favorite character. Or was, I'm leaning towards Rey now)
(Artoo is my favorite character. Or was, I'm leaning towards Rey now)
WhiteRabbitEXE
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ugh, R2 is such a fucking Mary Sue. Flying around and shit, always saving the day better than everyone else just cuz, he didn't train for any of that that
I looked that up. $350. Phoniciple is dedicated to his Lego hobby.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
It's almost like he was built for it.
That is barely scratching the surface of what is upstairs on display.
In fact, just added more to my massive halloween display.
Gotta sacrifice a few virgins.
And when I first started the display in 2015 I had a homage to The Fog in it.
BB-8 has dropped close to that price at times.
I wonder if these toy companies will adjust inventory this time around and not go as heavy like they did with TFA. Seems like supply eventually outstripped demand to the point of needing massive sale prices to move product.
Phon has legendary status in the LEGO Community thread.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
This time definitely seemed a bit tamer compared to TFA. We now have new Star Wars characters and ships to get every year.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I think I want to live in PhoncipleBone's home. Or are you like Will Ferrell in Lego Movie and going to ruin all my fun?
Also, mother! receives an F cinemascore.
Also, mother! receives an F cinemascore.
OrangeAtlas
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Nah, just the angle makes it look that way.
Here is one of him more normal.
As someone who grew up in the Bionicle era these things kind of fascinate me, but I can never bring myself to buy a not-LEGO non-action figure.
The Double Toasted video about Sphero BB-8 pretty much sums up how we all secretly feel about those little guys.
Wow. That's a rare achievement.
There have only been a handful of films in Cinemascore's history that received an F grade.
The list from a few years back: Killing Them Softly, Bug, I Know Who Killed Me, Dr T. and the Women, Wolf Creek, Darkness, The Box, The Devil Inside, Silent House and Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
I don't know if further films have joined that pantheon, besides Mother!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I fucking love Killing Them Softly.
God Cinemascore is the most useless goddamned thing.
God Cinemascore is the most useless goddamned thing.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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A few of those films really are beyond terrible, but I quite like Wolf Creek, Bug, and Killing Them Softly (which is probably the most baffling F grade).
I haven't seen it, so I'm kind of curious how Dr. T and the Women pissed off audiences so much. Does Richard Gere go on a homicidal rampage at the end?
I haven't seen it, so I'm kind of curious how Dr. T and the Women pissed off audiences so much. Does Richard Gere go on a homicidal rampage at the end?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Is Mr. T and the Women a remake of the Richard Gere film, Dr. T and the Women?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's a pretty plotless film.
It's just Mr. T walking into random houses and shouting "HEY WOMAN"
And then a woman turns around like "Yes?"
And he says "HEY WOMAN"
And then they just stare at each other for a couple seconds.
Then the woman nervously tugs at her collar.
Then Mr. T leaves
By the end of the film he has 48 women.
It's just Mr. T walking into random houses and shouting "HEY WOMAN"
And then a woman turns around like "Yes?"
And he says "HEY WOMAN"
And then they just stare at each other for a couple seconds.
Then the woman nervously tugs at her collar.
Then Mr. T leaves
By the end of the film he has 48 women.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
And these Cinemascore motherfuckers gave it an F.
Shit was at the least a solid F+
Shit was at the least a solid F+
More_Badass
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It's more of a indication of marketing and expectations than any impressions of quality
WhiteRabbitEXE
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I have literally no response to that.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Magnificent, isn't it?
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Sure, let's go with that.
Typo!
Wasn't "I Know Who Killed Me" Lindsay Lohan's attempt to fix her trainwrecked career before she descended to joke territory?
broncobuster
Banned
I really liked Killing Them Softy but I get it. I imagine they hear "Brad Pitt is a hitman!" and were blindsided by what it's about. Same with Solaris; "George Clooney is an astronaut!"
Bobby Roberts
Banned
But even then it doesn't actually do what it's supposed to do.
It's just useless as a metric for measuring basically anything, much less using that data in a useful manner.
It's a bullet point for fluff stories about opening weekend.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Basically. Your boilerplate blockbuster will get a good score. But if you start playing games with the marketing and people don't get what they expected, the reaction will be very harsh. I think in the age of Youtube/Twitter/Facebook, studios should be very careful about clearly misleading marketing. All I heard about It Comes At Night when it came out was different variations of "The commercials lied." Word just spreads so fast these days.
Discotheque
Banned
Good man. Loved seeing gandolfini play somebody pathetic again as well
Ben Mendehlson and scoot mcnairy are really good at playing lowlives too and brad pitt has arguably never looked cooler than he did in that one
It's a shame dominik hasn't done a movie (not counting that really good Nick cave doc) since. Jesse James one of my favorite movies
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I honestly bet that last conversation in the bar between Jenkins and Pitt did it all by itself, if the rest of the movie hadn't pushed em in that directly.
That movie ends so fucking perfectly.
That movie ends so fucking perfectly.
Discotheque
Banned
Fuckin pay me...was what the audience imitated as they walked to the counter and demanded refunds haha
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I was looking to see what other F films there are, and the answer is a lot: http://www.listal.com/list/cinemascore-films-got-f
I double-checked them on cinemascore.com, and they all got Fs. I wonder why so many of these were never reported in like, any articles I can find.
Also, I've seen waaaay too many of these movies. Including Fear Dot Com which I haven't thought about in 10 years.
Yes. It's fucking terrible.
broncobuster
Banned
Ben Mendelsohn is a mess of a man in the movie, sloppy and gross, but at the same time really charming and affable. By chance I saw Killing Them Softly and Starred Up in the same week and became a big fan of the guy.
I saw a number of articles suggesting that there were only 8 films with the rating, but some had different lists. I combined them, but I guess I missed 8 more.
18 through 2014 is still pretty uncommon.
Horror seems to be by far the easiest genre to get low scores in though. Animation is the hardest to get poor scores in. You could literally have talking shit up on the screen and get a solid B on Cinemascore.
Discotheque
Banned
Check out animal kingdom if you haven't. He's also a piece of crap in there too
And I like bug. Michael Shannon and Friedkin are dope. Often tends to be an interesting time when plays are adapted to film. Shannon is one of the new gods imo.
OrangeAtlas
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The Wicker Man is the punchline of Nic Cage's career by this point, but I can't imagine what the feeling must have been like buying a ticket and going in to see an actual real movie and getting that.
I always wonder how much money Nic Cage's entourage leached out of him at his peak in the 90s. The guy had no impulse control.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I always thought it was basically just him. I dont' think he ever had much of an entourage. He just bought a bunch of dumb shit, didn't he?
Like, he went on a huge comics collecting spree or something like that.
Like, he went on a huge comics collecting spree or something like that.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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In my experience, horror seems to be the only genre where people won't try to convince themselves the movie they paid hard money to see wasn't terrible.
It's also really weird that Disaster Movie is the only Friedberg and Seltzer movie on that list. I'm not going to find out, but I'd be interested to know if it's really that much more offensive than Meet The Spartans or Date Movie.
It's also really weird that Disaster Movie is the only Friedberg and Seltzer movie on that list. I'm not going to find out, but I'd be interested to know if it's really that much more offensive than Meet The Spartans or Date Movie.
I've watched the film with the DVD commentary, and two things stuck with me: Cage apparently demanded rewrites constantly based on what he thought a "real cop" would say, and Leelee Sobieski was down to get punched as much as possible.
OrangeAtlas
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As someone who's only seen a few of their movies, I feel confident saying Disaster Movie is the absolute bottom of the barrel in every regard.
Superhero Movie's not bad. Leslie Nielsen's a treasure in that movie.
We thinking the same for ScarJo?
The Still Hungry Games Cuz.
Maybe, but ScarJo had all that Lucy hype, and GITS bombed, but not only that bombed with extreme fuckery attached.
JLaw doesn't have any fuckery attached. Yet, so i can see her getting a few more shots. Not that many because she is getting a little long in the tooth for hollywood. I wouldn't be shocked if Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie are already stealing roles from her
Absolutely is. Plus a B in CinemaScore language is basically an F.
hodayathink
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ScarJo is probably gonna go back to supporting roles in blockbusters and leading indie movies for a while. That Avengers money is enough that she doesn't have to chasing leading roles.
Cara Delevingne shouldn't be stealing roles from anyone.
hodayathink
Member
You get an F by generally not delivering what the audience was expecting to see. Bad movies get it by being terrible, good movies get it by basically lying to their audience before they get into the theater.