Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers

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I didn't ask for a download link, nor did I ask what the name of the movie was.

If you've seen it, feel free to answer the question.

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Your question was "Have you watched the Chinese movie that's at number 1? I'm wondering what a Billion Dollar Chinese movie looks like."

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I wasn't even talking to you in the first place, so let's get that right out of the way from the start. I would never have a real conversation with you about anything because you are a piece of shit human being and I do not care what your opinion is on any topic.

I asked Jaynes if he has seen it. He tends to watch a lot of foreign films, and a lot of the time he watches foreign animated films.

Here in this moment, just as it's been every single moment of your life wherever you were, your presence is superfluous and not desired by anyone else.

Please shut the fuck up and see your way out of this conversation.

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Shut the fuck up.

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Shut the fuck up.

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Hollywood makes mostly movies for children and 6ixStringJack will never understand that. He thinks movies are made to offend crotchety Trumptards.

How The Electric State Author Reacted To The Netflix Movie’s Major Change In Tone Revealed By Joe Russo

“We felt like the message was the most important for the six- to 18-year-old range – that generation that's immersed in technology.”

https://screenrant.com/the-electric-state-tone-change-books-joe-russo-
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The movie was made for children, which explains why it was instantly forgettable. The Electric State, now on Netflix, is a $320 million adaptation of Simon Stalenhåg's graphic novel about a girl who, joined by an intelligent robot, searches for her brother across a retro-futuristic, dystopian America.

How to Make an Instantly Forgettable, Very Expensive Movie

The Russo brothers’ Avengers films took hold of popular culture, but the directors have yet to repeat that kind of success.

By Shirley Li | March 19, 2025, 10 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/03/the-electric-state
-netflix-budget-russo-brothers/682090/

Joe and Anthony Russo, better known as the Russo brothers, have enjoyed two of the most lucrative careers in Hollywood. The bulk of their success comes from the features they’ve co-directed for Marvel: Three of those projects, in which they helped turn comic-book characters into icons and “cinematic universes” into a standard practice, are among the 50 highest-grossing movies of all time. Two of them—Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame—made more than $2 billion at the box office globally. Apart from James Cameron, they’re the only directors to have crossed that milestone at least twice.

Judging by their filmography since Endgame, though, it’s unlikely that the Russos will do so for a third time—at least, not without the Avengers. The astronomical budgets the pair have commanded over the past half decade have not yielded Hulk-size cultural footprints: Netflix, which began green-lighting expensive movies to help build its own franchises, stated that the Russos’ $200 million spy thriller The Gray Man topped its most-watched list for two weeks. But neither the film nor Ryan Gosling’s assassin protagonist has lingered in the public memory. Citadel, the Prime Video series the Russos produced, is one of the priciest shows ever made, at more than $300 million for its first season. Conceived by an Amazon executive, Citadel was meant to kick-start a “global franchise,” but it barely made an impression with viewers; in its first month of availability, the show never entered Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming rankings. Without Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Russos’ work has become formulaic and ephemeral. Ambitious studios, it seems, can’t simply buy their way into the zeitgeist.

Yet here the Russos are again, with another exorbitant attempt to establish a new blockbuster series. The Electric State, now on Netflix, is a $320 million adaptation of Simon Stalenhåg’s graphic novel about a girl who, joined by an intelligent robot, searches for her brother across a retro-futuristic, dystopian America. Some of that money has evidently been put to good use: The visual effects are seamless, the robot designs are genuinely cool, and the set dressing is meticulous. The cast, too, is stacked: Holly Hunter, Colman Domingo, and Brian Cox pop up. Their roles, though, are so absurdly small that they suggest heavy reshoots and excised footage.

Hollywood studios granting massive funds to directors who have made box-office hits is a common practice—especially for projects that appear likely to return on the investment. But the Russos have become unusually adept at demonstrating the creative limitations of those piles of cash. Companies have made clear their desire to generate fresh cinematic universes, and Stalenhåg’s book is an excellent starting point for an expansive film adaptation: His evocative artwork explores lands tha

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Shut the fuck up.

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Hollywood makes mostly movies for children and 6ixStringJack will never understand that. He thinks movies are made to offend crotchety Trumptards.

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I guess you'd know. You're the guy illegally downloading every one so you can fill your head with the trash.

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Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Worldwide Box Office: Crosses $486M+, Becoming Jim Carrey’s Highest-Grossing Film Ever

https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-worldwide-box-o
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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Shut the fuck up.

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Hollywood makes mostly movies for children and 6ixStringJack will never understand that. He thinks movies are made to offend crotchety Trumptards.

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I guess you'd know. You're the guy illegally downloading every one so you can fill your head with the trash.

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90% of movies were crap before Trump was born. It was the law then and still is:

In 2013, philosopher Daniel Dennett championed Sturgeon's law as one of his seven tools for critical thinking. "90% of everything is crap. That is true, whether you are talking about physics, chemistry, evolutionary psychology, sociology, medicine – you name it – rock music, country western. 90% of everything is crap."

A 1946 essay Confessions of a Book Reviewer by George Orwell asserts about books: In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be "This book is worthless ..."

It came to him that [science fiction] is indeed ninety-percent crud, but that also – Eureka! – ninety-percent of everything is crud. All things – cars, books, cheeses, hairstyles, people, and pins are, to the expert and discerning eye, crud, except for the acceptable tithe which we each happen to like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Nicole Kidman’s New Prime Video Movie Is Like Don’t Worry Darling if It Made Even Less Sense

As a tiny train disappears down a dark tunnel, we hear their two voices in unison as they deliver the teeth-grindingly annoying final line: “Sometimes I wonder, was it even real?” (Was it all a dream? Nope. It was a crappy movie. 90% of all movies are crap.)

By Dana Stevens | March 28, 2025 2:27 PM

https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/holland-nicole-kidman-movie-prime-vi
deo-ending-explained.html

As a straight-to-streaming feature with big-name stars that’s barely been promoted by its own studio — Amazon declined to provide critics with screeners, and searching for the movie on Amazon the day it dropped, I had to type the title all the way down to the D — Holland exemplifies a depressing trend in the current entertainment industry. It appears to be relying on name recognition to garner an initial burst of curious viewers before word gets out about what a dud it is. Holland’s script had been kicking around Hollywood for nearly a decade before being picked up by Kidman’s production company. It should have kept on kicking. https://www.amazon.com/Holland-Mimi-Cave/dp/B0CTMPF2FD/

Free download https://psa.wf/movie/holland-2025/
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Metascore 42 out of 100
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/holland/

28% Tomatometer / 20% Popcornmeter
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/holland

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Holland-(2025)#tab=summary

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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But do they know that movie directors don't go to the cinema? Do they know that directors prefer to watch movies on TV, avoiding the theaters, the over-priced tickets, the long commute to theater, the smell of the crowd, the fake butter on popcorn?

David Cronenberg: ‘I Don’t Find the Cinema Experience All That Great’

In a conversation with Jim Jarmusch, the king of body horror explained why he's not particularly nostalgic about theatrical exhibition or celluloid film.

By Christian Zilko | April 20, 2025 12:00 pm

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/david-cronenberg-doesnt-ca
re-about-movie-theaters-1235116842/

Don’t count David Cronenberg among the auteurs carrying the torch for theatrical exhibition. Speaking to Jim Jarmusch for Interview Magazine, the body horror legend explained that he doesn’t see communal movie-going as an inherently superior way to watch his films. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/david-cronenberg-by-jim-jarmusc
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“I only see movies in real theaters every once in a while, mostly at film festivals, and I’ve found that the projection isn’t always so great,” Cronenberg said. “I remember being in Venice onstage with Spike Lee and some others. He was talking about the Cathedral of Cinema, the whole religious aspect of it. And I said, ‘Spike, I’m watching “Lawrence of Arabia” on my watch, and there are a thousand camels there. I can see every one of them.’ I was joking, but what I meant was, I don’t find the cinema experience all that great. Maybe it’s because I’m older. I don’t feel that communal thing.”

Cronenberg’s thoughts on technological evolutions in filmmaking and viewing are consistent with much of his filmography, which often deals with the need to embrace change or risk being left behind by nature. He expressed similar thoughts about celluloid film, saying that the convenience of working with digital cameras outweighs any visual benefits that might come from shooting on film

“I do find that people talking about streaming can be very passionate in the way that we were passionate in the movie theater after we saw a film. So it’s different, but I don’t think it’s worse,” he said. “I also don’t miss working with film. The cutting and editing was a nightmare for me. It was very restrictive. You have so much more control now. And of course, we are control freaks to a certain extent, if you’re making a film.”

Cronenberg’s latest film, “The Shrouds,” is now playing in theaters. The film, which follows a widower who processes his grief by placing his wife’s body in a live-streaming coffin, was labeled a Critic’s Pick by IndieWire’s David Ehrlich following its premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

“Inspired by the loss of the director’s wife, ‘The Shrouds’ is a grief story as only David Cronenberg would ever think to shoot one,” IndieWire’s review read. “Sardonic, unsentimental, and often so cadaverously stiff that the film itself appears to be suffering from rigor mortis, as if its images died at some point along their brief journey from the projector to the screen. And really, what else would you expect?”

The Shrouds
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-shrouds/
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt20212786/
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Shrouds-The-(2024-Canada)#tab=summar
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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But do they know that movie directors don't go to the cinema?

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