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kswiston said:
It looks like we might hit 1k posts this week. We were close last week as well. Last year, this weekend earned less than 200 posts.


I guess Jennifer Lawrence is going to disappear for a bit after X-Men. She mentioned in an interview that she doesn't have anything scheduled to film in the next two years.
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So Red Sparrow, then Dark Phoenix, then maybe one or two small things in 2019 (since things like that can come together quickly)? I think she has a couple endorsement contracts (and if she doesn't, I'm sure she can get them), so taking a while off probably wouldn't have a real large effect on her.

Edit: Also in things I remember: Jennifer Lawrence doesn't have a social media account, IIRC. I wouldn't be shocked if that was something she did if she took that much time off to help keep herself in the public eye.
 
kswiston said:
It looks like we might hit 1k posts this week. We were close last week as well. Last year, this weekend earned less than 200 posts.


I guess Jennifer Lawrence is going to disappear for a bit after X-Men. She mentioned in an interview that she doesn't have anything scheduled to film in the next two years.
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It's not the length of the thread, it's the ratio of posts about movies vs. posts about Brosnan.
 
MHWilliams said:
Alternatively, and let me float this your way: Folks just want the goddamn thing thing they paid for. If you spend $15 and some change to go see a thriller, coming out of a satirical comedy is going to cheese you off.

You can swerve me on Netflix, Hulu, or Crunchyroll, since I'm paying a sub for a whole bunch of content. For $15, you better show me at least what the trailers promised.

Even IT may not be a horror movie, but folks paid to see a scary clown and the film delivers on that front.
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kswiston said:
It looks like we might hit 1k posts this week. We were close last week as well. Last year, this weekend earned less than 200 posts.


I guess Jennifer Lawrence is going to disappear for a bit after X-Men. She mentioned in an interview that she doesn't have anything scheduled to film in the next two years.
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Don't know if I would want a Singer X-men movie be the last taste of me people will have for 2 years
 
GhaleonEB said:
It's not the length of the thread, it's the ratio of posts about movies vs. posts about Brosnan.
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We went 70 posts without bringing up Bronson before your combo breaker!

hodayathink said:
So Red Sparrow, then Dark Phoenix, then maybe one or two small things in 2019 (since things like that can come together quickly)? I think she has a couple endorsement contracts (and if she doesn't, I'm sure she can get them), so taking a while off probably wouldn't have a real large effect on her.

Edit: Also in things I remember: Jennifer Lawrence doesn't have a social media account, IIRC. I wouldn't be shocked if that was something she did if she took that much time off to help keep herself in the public eye.
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Ya, she is fine with 2 films for 2018. When you become the "it" actress/actor, you risk burnout pretty quickly, unless you are an exhibitionist type. I don't think Jennifer Lawrence is. We like to chew up and spit out celebrities.
 
kswiston said:
We went 70 posts without bringing up Bronson before your combo breaker!



Ya, she is fine with 2 films for 2018. When you become the "it" actress/actor, you risk burnout pretty quickly, unless you are an exhibitionist type. I don't think Jennifer Lawrence is. We like to chew up and spit out celebrities.
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I do think she likes being in front of the camera, but I also think she's savvy enough about her career to realize that laying low might be a good thing to do right now (especially if Red Sparrow doesn't do well). I still believe the social media thing, though (definitely Instagram, possibly Twitter). It'll be a way for her to stay in the public eye without being in tabloids or having to promote a movie.

Edit: She's also managed to weather a pretty big PR storm and come out looking fairly clean on the other side, so I don't worry to much about her being consumed by celebrity culture, at least yet.
 
Just got out of It. It was fucking packed. I saw it last Saturday as well, and it was seriously way more busy this weekend. It is also playing on three standard screens, one luxury, and one imax. Curious to see the weekend numbers.
 
I don't think I'll ever stop being confused on first read of reactions to the movie It. Always takes a second reading to realize what movie anyone is talking about.
 
Saw It tonight. Glad I bought tickets with my phone and just had to scan it at the theater or I would have been in the box office line well past the trailers. Theater was packed full and the crowd was pretty into the movie.
 
GhaleonEB said:
It's not the length of the thread, it's the ratio of posts about movies vs. posts about Brosnan.
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Who could possibly hate Brosnan?

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A truly magnificent man.

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I finally got around to finishing the last two seasons of Boardwalk Empire. It's a shame that show never found much of an audience.

Early 20th century mobster movies haven't been doing that well in the theatres in recent years either.
 
kswiston said:
I finally got around to finishing the last two seasons of Boardwalk Empire. It's a shame that show never found much of an audience.

Early 20th century mobster movies haven't been doing that well in the theatres in recent years either.
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I think there was a bubble pop of sorts at the turn of the century. The Sopranos was basically a eulogy for that era in retrospect.
 
That final season is weird. Definitely too bad it never found a bigger audience so that it could have reached that point naturally instead of the weird time jump.
 
I checked out of Boardwalk when the weird soapy relationship drama shit started taking over and treading water. Plus they kinda ruined Van Alden. Which was a shame.

If it had become the Chalky White show at some point, I'd have stayed tuned.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Please post spoiler free impressions after in here. Then hit the spoiler thread.


JLaw is really damn good in this too. Really damn good.
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Got out:

  1. People eventually showed up. Many of them were drunk (there was a couple in front of me who kept using their phones throughout the previews; thankfully they put them away once the movie actually started).
  2. The other people in the theater were mostly older; at 20 I was probably the youngest person there, and I got the feeling the people who were there weren't there thinking it was horror, but because they expected some sort of masterpiece.
  3. Everybody in the theater laughed at how the movie ended. There was one guy laughing to his friends about the NYT review as I was walking out--apparently that review stated it created a new genre? Either way that guy thought that was hilarious, calling the movie a "comedy."
As for my impressions, I didn't really feel strongly about it in any meaningful way, nor did the movie compel me to think deeper about its themes or allegories, except for somewhat disliking how it ended--will post about that in the spoiler thread.

The marketing was absolutely criminally misleading; not in that it did a movie a disservice by not allowing the right crowd to know what it is, but that the audience was made to expect one thing it was not remotely. I think it deserves to bomb for that reason alone--merits of the movie aside, you went as far as you could to trick people into giving you their money and thus you deserve as little success as possible.
 
Hero_of_the_Day said:
That final season is weird. Definitely too bad it never found a bigger audience so that it could have reached that point naturally instead of the weird time jump.
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Ya. Having a prominent character setting up plot points at the end of Season 4, and then just being dead in Season 5 because he historically died during the period of the time jump was weird.

I liked the stuff with Nucky's past in S5 though. The guy they got to play Nucky in his 20s did a great job.

Bobby Roberts said:
I checked out of Boardwalk when the weird soapy relationship drama shit started taking over and treading water. Plus they kinda ruined Van Alden. Which was a shame.

If it had become the Chalky White show at some point, I'd have stayed tuned.
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Season 4 was pretty Chalky White heavy.
 
Saw mother! tonight and want to know what studio exec thought it would be a good idea to try to market it as a mainstream horror movie during the Halloween season.

I knew what I was getting into but the rest of the crowd was completely unprepared.
 
RoboPlato said:
Saw mother! tonight and want to know what studio exec thought it would be a good idea to try to market it as a mainstream horror movie during the Halloween season.

I knew what I was getting into but the rest of the crowd was completely unprepared.
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really should've been marketed more of a indie pensive-ish movie and pitched right during awards season. it would've limped to some small chunk of change at the box office, but slowly make its money back through digital and home video due to possible oscar buzz.

instead they had the bright idea that if they hit the right people just right, they can have a massive OW, and while WOM would be destroyed it'd be enough to coast to break even. that was a complete misfire and now they won't even get the home video sales thanks to toxic WOM.
 
Biggest-Geek-Ever said:
I'm always kind of surprised that, when a movie is released that isn't similar to the marketing, the general reaction was audiences is vehement hatred. I can understand feeling like you've been "conned" of your money, but what weirds me out is most people don't even want to meet a film halfway and consider it on its own merits.

That applies to films that aren't even close to as weird as mother! The Witch was pretty hated for a similar reason too.
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General audience seems to absolutely hate surprises. If the movie is way more than just a 2 hour version of the trailer, people freak the fuck out. It's dumb but also kind of hilarious!

Spring Breakers, Drive, Neon Demon, mother!, The Fountain, The Witch, It Follows, Antichrist, The Mist. I'm sure there are more divisive great films :D I bet the directors love when there's such opposing and emotional opinions on a film rather than a unanimous liking of their work, especially Danes like Refn and Lars von Trier.
 
The moment I'm thinking of:

Fake Georgie gets shot in the head, falls down, and in the midst of his convulsing - his body spits out giant Pennywise legs as the clown manifests IT's form
 
hodayathink said:
I do think she likes being in front of the camera, but I also think she's savvy enough about her career to realize that laying low might be a good thing to do right now (especially if Red Sparrow doesn't do well). I still believe the social media thing, though (definitely Instagram, possibly Twitter). It'll be a way for her to stay in the public eye without being in tabloids or having to promote a movie.

Edit: She's also managed to weather a pretty big PR storm and come out looking fairly clean on the other side, so I don't worry to much about her being consumed by celebrity culture, at least yet.
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What PR storm? I feel like I missed something
 
So It's 2nd weekend would have also set the September box office record, and by a healthy margin.

Heck, this 2nd weekend is what the tracking had for its first weekend.
 
Is Mother as bad as It Comes at Night?

I was enjoying It Comes at Night until the last third of the movie where it completely shits the bed. Such a bad ending that it has spoiled the whole movie for me. One of the worst I have seen in recent memory and the title and the trailer don't even make sense in the context of the movie.

If Mother is like that, well then screw it too.
 
DarkLordMalik said:
Is Mother as bad as It Comes at Night?

I was enjoying It Comes at Night until the last third of the movie where it completely shits the bed. Such a bad ending that it has spoiled the whole movie for me. One of the worst I have seen in recent memory and the title and the trailer don't even make sense in the context of the movie.

If Mother is like that, well then screw it too.
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The descriptions and reactions made it clear the film would not appeal to me, so I went ahead and read the plot on Wikipedia. I'd have been pretty angry had I see that, so I'm glad I didn't.
 
GhaleonEB said:
The descriptions and reactions made it clear the film would not appeal to me, so I went ahead and read the plot on Wikipedia. I'd have been pretty angry had I see that, so I'm glad I didn't.
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Wait what about the ending of It Comes would be anger inducing?
 
Finally watched Alien: Covenant.

I usually get hot with people for saying a big budget film was trash and one of the worst films they've seen this year... but that was trash and one of the worst films I've seen this year.

Teeeible opening. Really bad effects. Incredibly stupid characters. Fassbender looked like his soul was dying on screen.
 
Make sure to go watch the YouTube films to figure out what the heck he was doing on that planet and why "holy crap is that charred corpse James Franco?"
 
Shauni said:
What PR storm? I feel like I missed something
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Extremely public privacy violation. I feel like there are ways that whole thing could have gone badly for her professionally, but nowadays it's mostly forgotten, even with the fact that, IIRC, she made a pretty insensitive offhand comment about the whole thing.

Edit: Though, now that I think about it, no one seems to have really had their career affected by it.
 
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