Cinema

The Covid Cinematic Wasteland

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Looks like Disney is going to bend the knee and remove the man-on-man kiss scene from the Eternals for the Muslim countries because they know they're going to hemorrhage money on this dumpster fire. This coming after they said a week ago they were refusing to do so.

The Rotten Tomatoes audience score is sus as hell. Half the comments look like a YouTube spambot wrote them. There's no way that the audience is enjoying this.

Critics score is down to 48% with the "Top Critics" filter dropping it to 40%.

I don't know from Eternals, other than extremely lightweight ads.

Are you saying that they only remembered to include the majority populations of gays, lesbians, trannies, and forgot the token straight person?

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021 6:46 AM

Nah. At least as far as I know. There's one gay male couple is all I heard. An entire rainbow of colors of characters that were race swapped too.



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Sunday, November 14, 2021 11:23 AM

Saw Venom 2 in the theater. Went ahead and watched the first one from 2018 before I did.

I was pleasantly surprised.

Not as good as Deadpool, but the first one was probably better than Free Guy. The 2nd one wasn't as good, but it was about what you could hope for in a sequel.

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Friday, December 3, 2021 8:01 PM

Anybody see Ghostbusters?

My old man and brother did and said it was "entertaining" but that was about it. Kind of what I expected out of it.

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Sunday, December 5, 2021 2:26 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Anybody see Ghostbusters?

My old man and brother did and said it was "entertaining" but that was about it. Kind of what I expected out of it.

Trying to, but haven't made it yet.

Looks like I missed Last Night in Soho. Nothing else showing worth watching, last week.

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Sunday, December 5, 2021 12:28 PM

I would have seen it in the theater had I gone to visit this time. I'll watch it when it's out on video.

I did watch the 2016 version, and it wasn't nearly as bad as a lot of people said it was. It just wasn't good either. If it weren't for all of the gross publicity surrounding it for so long, I don't think anybody would even remember it even happened anymore.


The new one sounds like it was at least a step in the right direction, but I think they probably missed the mark and made it geared toward kids with just enough nostalgia in it to be something that adults can watch with their kids.



I think people forget that the original Ghostbusters wasn't a kid's movie at all, especially by mid-80's standards. It's hard to imagine that after the cartoon became so popular and the remake was so watered down from the original.


It was really a horror movie first, with adult humor 2nd. Most of the jokes went over kids heads when the watched it in the 80's, and it starred some of the edgiest comics of the times, with one of them getting a blowjob from a ghost in between scenes where he was smoking cigarettes.

It seemed, at least to me, that I was getting away with something when I watched it at 6 or 7 years old. I doubt very much that any kid who watches Afterlife is going to have that same feeling.


But at least I don't hear anybody claiming it's woke, despite the lead kid being a girl.

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Thursday, December 16, 2021 7:57 PM

Reports now say Millions of dollars in coronavirus relief aid, and covid stimulus support funding now provide lifeline to hard hit movie theater industry in Wisconsin

Global Box Office Projected To Reach $33B In 2022: Analysts
https://deadline.com/2021/12/global-box-office-projection-2022-33-bill
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Hollywood is starting to embrace TV as a better way to adapt video games after a history of movie flops
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-starting-embrace-tv-bett
er-184549301.html


Time for Asean films to shine
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/2228399/time-f
or-asean-films-to-shine


South Korea webtoon firms leverage low-cost stories with potential huge upside
https://www.asiaone.com/asia/south-korea-webtoon-firms-leverage-low-co
st-stories-potential-huge-upside


Japan's "Drive My Car" Nominated at Golden Globe Awards
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021121400008/

Squid Game, Hellbound: will South Korea displace Japan as the new cultural superpower in Asia?
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3158409/squid-game-hell
bound-will-south-korea-displace-japan-new-cultural


‘Woke’ West Side Story was ‘quite the flop’
https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/national/woke-west-side-stor
y-was-quite-the-flop/video/a4edc9a5bb7626a2d55d8841f9eefb83


I might try watching the Asian horror films again, I enjoyed some like the Japanese for example The Ringu franchise.

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Friday, December 17, 2021 6:07 AM

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Hollywood is starting to embrace TV as a better way to adapt video games after a history of movie flops
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-starting-embrace-tv-bett
er-184549301.html




I don't care what anybody says... Super Mario Bros. was a great flick.

Young me didn't appreciate it and knew that it hardly had anything to do with the source material, but when you look back at the early Mario games you have to admit it's not like they had a lot of source material to work with.

And the story behind the movie is probably even more interesting than the movie was itself.

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Monday, February 21, 2022 12:54 AM

Video game movies can be dumb but I caught super Mario again some years back and it was a funny movie Dennis Hopper super weird in it playing the lizards.

Not sure what is up with Hollyweird these days

However South Korea film and tv makes money, Spider-Man No Way Home made a lot of money

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Sunday, April 10, 2022 8:58 PM

Still happy with indie and foreign film


Cinema is back because Spider-Man made money

and a new Batman


Opening $134,008,624
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/date/2022-03-04/

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/



Top Gun taking forever to release, Morbius fails but I read it was just a bad film, another Minions/Despicable remake, will anyone of significant number watch the new Avatar or ‘The Flash’.

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