Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers
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UPDATED: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 01:06
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Mentally disordered people like yourself in the audience are another reason why movie theaters do less and less business.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I was too busy getting a handy during Gladiator to remember how it ended.
I accept that.
40 year old me would have loved an opportunity to kick 20 year old me's ass.
Meanwhile, watch any teen/college comedy from that era and that's what we were all supposed to be doing back then.
I blame Stiffler's Mom for all of society's problems.
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Quote:Your kind never understand “Ninety percent of everything is crap”, an adage known as Sturgeon's law, which was coined by American science fiction author and critic Theodore Sturgeon.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, watch any teen/college comedy from that era and that's what we were all supposed to be doing back then.
I blame Stiffler's Mom for all of society's problems.
Origin
Sturgeon first published the phrase in the March 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction. He used it to defend science fiction from critics who derided it for its low quality.
Explanation
Sturgeon observed that most work in other fields was also low-quality, so science fiction was no different. He believed that it was pointless to single out science fiction, and that the same could be said about anything, including Hollywood movies.
A moral to draw from Sturgeon's law is that when criticizing a field, genre, or art form, you should focus on the good stuff, or leave it alone.
Philosopher Daniel Dennett championed Sturgeon's law as one of his seven tools for critical thinking and reviewing cinema. Ninety percent of all Hollywood movies are crap and should be avoided.
https://www.google.com/search?q=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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Originally posted by second:Quote:Your kind never understand “Ninety percent of everything is crap”, an adage known as Sturgeon's law, which was coined by American science fiction author and critic Theodore Sturgeon.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, watch any teen/college comedy from that era and that's what we were all supposed to be doing back then.
I blame Stiffler's Mom for all of society's problems.
Origin
Sturgeon first published the phrase in the March 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction. He used it to defend science fiction from critics who derided it for its low quality.
Explanation
Sturgeon observed that most work in other fields was also low-quality, so science fiction was no different. He believed that it was pointless to single out science fiction, and that the same could be said about anything, including Hollywood movies.
A moral to draw from Sturgeon's law is that when criticizing a field, genre, or art form, you should focus on the good stuff, or leave it alone.
Philosopher Daniel Dennett championed Sturgeon's law as one of his seven tools for critical thinking and reviewing cinema. Ninety percent of all Hollywood movies are crap and should be avoided.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sturgeon%27s+law
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
My "kind"? WTF are you even on about now dude?
I've never argued that most of Hollywood movies weren't crap. I've also said a few dozen times they were crap before your woke cultists got their grubby little paws into everything too.
You don't even know what you're arguing about half the time. You just get off on being mad at somebody.
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Great night for NosferatuFilm. Should hit nearly $7.8m on Saturday. Could be a dark horse for multiple categories at the TheAcademy
https://x.com/empirecitybo/status/1873215466577248627
Oscars. Heading for $125m+ domestic or better if that happens
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Quote:6ix, what I mean by "your kind" is that your kind see the whole world as a conspiracy, a plot, by some elite or by dark forces in government or by illegal aliens or by bankers, to offend them, to take advantage of them, to oppress them, to murder them. For your kind, the world is a Hollywood movie you alternatively hate, fear, and are bored by. You hate Hollywood. You hate the movie and a majority of the audience sitting with you. You want your money back. You want somebody like Trump to take over and give you the kind of movie you like. And you want the ticket price to be free. Fundamentally, "your kind" 6ix have a wacko misunderstanding of the entire world around you and never will get a decent idea about what to do with yourselves before you die of stupidity and over-indulgence. Everything you write, 6ix, convinces me your kind are a bunch of snotty-nose lost children wandering around in the dark movie theater, crying for Daddy Trump to save them from the boogieman in this horror show they got lost at.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My "kind"? WTF are you even on about now dude?
I've never argued that most of Hollywood movies weren't crap. I've also said a few dozen times they were crap before your woke cultists got their grubby little paws into everything too.
You don't even know what you're arguing about half the time. You just get off on being mad at somebody.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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1) There is another Bob Dylan biopic. The lead actor spent 5 years learning how to be a convincing Dylan impersonator, learning the piano, guitar, and harmonica but since the studio spent $70,000,000 it won't make a profit because who wants more Bob Dylan?
https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+dylan+biopics
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Complet
e-Unknown-A-(2024)/Im-Not-There/Rolling-Thunder-Revue-A-Bob-Dylan-Story-by-Martin-Scorsese-(2019)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
2) Here is another biopic about a different singer. In the style of Planet of the Apes, the very real and still alive singer is impersonated by a chimp. That's a highly creative change from the usual human actor impersonating the still alive Bob Dylan, for one example. I'm pretty sure being highly creative will not mean being highly profitable.
Plot: Better Man tells the life story of pop singer Robbie Williams, but with Williams portrayed as a CGI-animated chimpanzee because, as he puts it, he always felt "less evolved than other people."
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Better-Man-(2024)#tab=summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Man_(film)
If Hollywood stopped making all movies except for Avatar 3, 4, and 5 the world would be a better place.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Great night for NosferatuFilm. Should hit nearly $7.8m on Saturday. Could be a dark horse for multiple categories at the TheAcademy
https://x.com/empirecitybo/status/1873215466577248627
Oscars. Heading for $125m+ domestic or better if that happens
I didn't watch it, but I did see that Critical Drinker made a video recommending this movie.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, what I mean by "your kind" is that your kind see the whole world as a conspiracy, a plot, by some elite or by dark forces in government or by illegal aliens or by bankers, to offend them, to take advantage of them, to oppress them, to murder them. For your kind, the world is a Hollywood movie you alternatively hate, fear, and are bored by. You hate Hollywood. You hate the movie and a majority of the audience sitting with you. You want your money back. You want somebody like Trump to take over and give you the kind of movie you like. And you want the ticket price to be free. Fundamentally, "your kind" 6ix have a wacko misunderstanding of the entire world around you and never will get a decent idea about what to do with yourselves before you die of stupidity and over-indulgence. Everything you write, 6ix, convinces me your kind are a bunch of snotty-nose lost children wandering around in the dark movie theater, crying for Daddy Trump to save them from the boogieman in this horror show they got lost at.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My "kind"? WTF are you even on about now dude?
I've never argued that most of Hollywood movies weren't crap. I've also said a few dozen times they were crap before your woke cultists got their grubby little paws into everything too.
You don't even know what you're arguing about half the time. You just get off on being mad at somebody.
You're such a creep dude.
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Quote:You haven't stopped smoking, have you? Don't have a career, do you? I am around you goddamn worthless Trumptards all the time. (Half of Texas is Trumptard) You guys are the most fucked up people I have known. If your kind could rationally and dispassionately compare yourselves with mentally stable, productive human beings, you would knows this. But you can't know this, for it would destroy you. I have seen the end of enough Trumptards to be certain the self-destruction is enviable once you get a clear look at yourselves for long enough. Now for something happier!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're such a creep dude.
Buy a ticket! Hollywood needs your charitable donation to a good cause: making them rich.
The evil pirates are undercutting Hollywood’s theater ticket sales.
The latest example would be a movie for children that opened December 20th:
Sonic.the.Hedgehog.3.2024.1080p.TELESYNC.x264.COLLECTiVE
Bittorrent Link: 2D5210F939CF07155F5672C6239A7111D0830BE0
https://x1337x.cc/torrent/6298722/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-3-2024-1080p-TELE
SYNC-x264-COLLECTiVE/
Metacritic rating: 59
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/sonic-the-hedgehog-3/
Tomatometer rating: 88%
Popcornmeter rating: 96%
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sonic_the_hedgehog_3
Grosses
Domestic (65%)
$137,552,146
International (35%)
$74,000,000
Worldwide
$211,552,146
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl886211329/
Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” . . . cost $122 million to produce. Buy a ticket so Hollywood can profit.
https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/holidays-box-office-mufasa-so
nic-3-100-million-1236261080/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yup. Creep.
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