Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. To make Gandalf truly diverse they would need his nippes to be showing through the suit and for him to have a black boyfriend. Or maybe they will make Gandalf the black boyfriend.
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  2. None of these women are men in real life. They all dress like pretty girls and expect to be treated as such.
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  3. She can be defeating by being in a good film.
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  4. As a man I will speak for my wife and say it is stupid. I my wife loves when I speak for her and make decisions for her.
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  5. Chapek tried to change things but was unable to.
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  6. It is a very dull film like the Thor movies. When Marvel do serious drama type movies they are boring and when they do comedy light hearted movies they entertain. Ironman, Captain America 1, Spiderman, Ant-Man, Dr Strange and Guardians are all fun movies and people loved them. All their other movies are boring and dull and Black Panther got hyped because rich white liberals who are really racists loved virtue signalling.
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  7. The 1990s had Goodfellas, Millers Crossing, JKF, Unforgiven, Reservoir Dogs, Tombstone, Leon, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Seven, Heat, Life is Beautiful, Shawshank Redemption, Brave Heart, Truman Show, American Beauty, Fight Club, Fargo, Donni Brasco, Goodwill Hunting and True Romance. And probably many more I am missing.
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  8. Radiation signature matching is complicated but I would imagine based on their technology they could easily identify such.
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  9. Jai does a good job in most roles he plays. Seems to really have nailed down the bad guy role which is one of the hardest to do in movies.
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  10. Now imagine a 90 year old man who is gender neutral playing the hot girl in a film.
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  11.  @waynedas873  The film is about female empowerment. It is about the feminist overcoming the nasty boyfriend and showing him who was boss. Her little smile at the end says it all.
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  12. America was put there to spout nonsense about having two moms and how food should be free.
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  13. They run around with pouty faces, ass doubles and cover up. And look like student activists that men would not even notice when they enter a room and makes them mad.
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  14. At one point he was when Marvel were making good entertainment before they decided it was better to focus the story on lecturing people about American having two moms and how food should be free.
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  15. I think they would be mad to go down that route. Make a stand alone Superman and a stand alone Wonder women with cross over but do not make affleck Batman movies because it will cause so much confusion in the minds of the movie audience. Affleck is a great actor and director and they should be getting him to make $20 million production movies and turning them into hits. Warner needs a stand alone Batman world and keep it seperate from the other content. Batman can be its own thing as it is very well established. Their recent Batman film made $800 million at the box office and the next film will probably push $1 billion. If they can find a way to overlap that Batman with the Joker movie they can really bring it in.
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  16. Obi-Wan Kenobi is the same as is Boba Fett. They have ruined the key characters but let us be honest those new movies are not real Star Wars movies. They are plastic cheap knockoff copies.
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  17. Know imagine Bautista with fake female breasts and a beard. That is what we were all thinking.
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  18.  @jean-baptistedupont5967  Most of the critics are college graduates who got overlooked for academic positions that want to pretend they are intellectuals. The second type of critic are those who were too stupid to graduate college that want to pretend they are smart but do not realize that the failed academics look down on them.
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  19. Scarlet has not hit the wall and it does not apply to her. She has been married three times and has a child. Nothing normal about her really just a typical modern starlet that will get forgotten about.
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  20.  @brianhenry152  Brian you do not seem to understand the point that is being made in the original comment. It is unlikely that Snyder was really fully in charge of the film. There more than likely was a director of editing that changed the whole movie.
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  21.  @lennon7575  That $200 million would only allow them to break even and that would have be $200 million in the US. Outside the US that $200 million would have a lower return to the studio and US distributors.
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  22. Miss James Marple I love the sound of that.
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  23. Fraser is not making a comeback people. He is 53 years of age, overweight and is facing an industry that is in collapse. The film industry is dead and you people have to just accept it. There is no turning this around. We are now entering an expensive capital market period with very high levels of inflation. There is not going to be any money to make the films that people are used to. Most theatres are not going to be able to withstand this. We have never seen anything like this before. The destruction of the theater industry, really bad movie production and a digital theater experience that is inferior to a film celluloid theater of 25 years ago. Imagine playing a video game console that is inferior to a SNES.
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  24.  @beckyenglish4783  I seen it on IMAX and it was amazing experience. I think one of the best films in last 5 years (big budget films that is). Just go in with no expectations and watch it.
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  25.  @brianhenry152  The whole industry is now run by executives that have no knowledge of films at all as they are not filmmakers. If you think what I said only applies to Snyder then you would be mistaken. The vast majority of modern entertainment is like that with very few exceptions. Some directors have managed to dribble their way around the system to produce good films but you will just as easily find that same director making an absolute dud later on. Now maybe Snyder had complete control of the project but I doubt that to be the case as it is unlikely that he made the project with his own money. What Snyder did with Army of the Dead is just an industry standard film by todays executives. It is identical to the theatre release of Justice League.
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  26. Disney is now controlled by political ideology.
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  27. I actually paid to go and see Ghostbusters at the cinema with my wife and children. We were all mentally stunted because of it. My daughters choice of films are dreadful but thank goodness they are learning.
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  28. Imagine a movie with Tom, Brad, Leo, Keanu, Arnie, Sly and maybe a cameo from Bruce.
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  29. But he was not broken he was a stupid character. I cannot believe for one moment that a Jedi would crumble as easily into being that stupid.
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  30. The director has no control of these projects. Many of them have been fired for trying to make a movie. Some directors reputations have been destroyed by this. David Fincher's reputation was destroyed by Alien 3 and he had no control over any of the process on tha film.
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  31. The affinity stones story was good and built towards something. Now they have to start all over again only this time LGBTQAP++ is the
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  32. I truly never understood what the guy with the cutter was suppose to be doing? He just stood around looking muscular. I suspect the pilot was there to promote lesbian culture or something like that.
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  33. Race swapping is shallow and the audience can see it. If it is a unknown character people do not mind especially if the actor is good. I did not mind Samuel L as Nick Fury.
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  34. Modern movies are so boring and so out of touch that the vast majority of people simply do not go anywhere near a theater. It has got so bad that the core audience of the industry is teenagers.
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  35. She clearly is an adult character. Chances are they had different writers involved where one wanted a more mature style character who was suppose to be smart and cleaver and the other wanted a corn action character and they got fused into one very confused story.
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  36.  @reyskywalker5395  Do not ask me why I wrote that.
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  37. I was a fan of the original three movies as a child and like the prequels when they came out.
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  38. Welcome to the new world of Disney productions. We already seen it with Star Wars and should have expected it to filter into everything else they do. Once it is realized within Disney the corporations that they have destroyed their brand it will be too late.
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  39.  @Samuel0043  He was not falling apart he was stupid beyond belief. I have met hundreds of WW2 vets who have been through the ringer and none of them were like Obi-Wan. When a man breaks there is no hiding it and it is nothing like Obi-Wan who was just making horrible decisions due to bad writing.
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  40. Top Gun did nothing for the industry as a whole. It may push Paramount to being a major studio again but I feel they still have it in them for destruction as they will make bad decisions down the line. The next decade is going to make the great depression look like a cake party.
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  41. The trailer of the eternals looked like a UN corporate video about how they intend to bring justice to the universe. Real scary stuff.
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  42. Over 50% of the democratic party congress voted against the civil rights act. The last Democrat Senator who was KKK was 2010.
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  43. @Adwig25 W Then why would you complain about him ranting about SJW when he does not do that most of the time. His issue is with poor standards in movies such as the writers have no real world experience and coming straight out of college.
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  44. Ian Fleming was also military intelligence and had formulated plans on how to destabilize countries.
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  45. People are changing so much that they are staying away from theaters in droves.
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  46. Those that love the message may very well be a consumer but they make up less than 1% of the population a whole. Seeing thousands of them marching down a street does not mean that they are significant within a population. Even those marching on the street may not even support the message and are marching for a one narrow reason.
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  47. At least Tom was entertaining in the role and it was he who got the movie produced so we would not have seen it otherwise. The first Jack Reacher film was good the second film was terrible.
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  48. You could only imagine what Amazon could have achieved if it went out with $500 million found some creative people and says go and make a completely original high fantasy tv show. I am sure they could have shot the whole thing in IMAX 70mm and actually built Gondor for real and life sized dragon for every cast member as a gift.
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  49.  @LaBarata12  I am not sure what age you are but if you are a young person who realizes what the world is you will run rings around young people today. Never in a single age has machiavellian philosophy been so potent and important. The main cultural force today has labelled Machiavelli ideology as evil or sinister when it was just a blueprint for a chaotic period during the Renaissance. Person has to train their mind to be assertive and like all training it works best when it is repeated daily as a form of training. I would suggest reading Marcus Aurelius Meditations as a starting point and Machiavelli. This is not the firs era of weak men and it will not be the last.
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  50. JJ had zero control over the film.
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  51. I thought it was overrated but better than all the other nonsense out there.
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  52. There was no such thing as promiscuous women in the 1980s.
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  53. The original Star Wars is not as good as Unforgiven but it is still fantastic entertainment and has had a bigger cultural impact.
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  54. They will destroy the film if Shuri is Black Panther. She was a boring annoying character in the film. Pretty to look at but that was about it.
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  55. I do not think there is any real criticisms. It was the perfect movie to watch and I loved it. I think today's world there is this desire to criticize everything. I like you went into with no real expectations and was blown away like I was with Blade Runner 2049. He could have take the story in different directions and tried different things but I happy with that attempt.
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  56. She sat out WW2 with 80 million deaths, sat out communist ethnic cleansing with caused over 150 million deaths and she allowed the communists to gain nuclear weapons that they used to threaten the world with.
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  57. Michael Bay's transformer movies make far more sense and they tend not to be pretentious either.
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  58. Warner DC new Batman and Joker theme is amazing. They really need to stick with that but they need to liven Batman up a little bit for the next movie and have the gotham still have that manky horrible dark theme. There seemed to be a real menace to Gotham that was not capture before.
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  59. You have to understand the culture of modern studios. They are being dominated by people that have as much creative abilities as a local blue haired busker on the street. They just strum that guitar with the same two cords over and over and whine like crazy. The idea that they would make a $20 million movie that is about characters is as alien to them as it is to CNN reporting the news from an independent perspective.
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  60. WHY Hollywood is full of Marxist activists and their primary goal is to pull down western culture and to do that they need to unhook people from the culture. The easiest way to do that is to destroy what the people hold dearest.
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  61. @Espy The directors are not incharge of the films. They are just glorified camera supervisors. They have absolutely no decision making in the films. Many of them are fired and they are sidelined after the shooting takes place. I have spoken to several directors of modern corporate studio films and they hate the process but it is the only gig in town.
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  62. He has a solid directing background but that movies must have been a nightmare to direct with all the executives fighting it out for their controlling interest.
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  63. The characters also speak like they have ADHD and just ramble out piles of nonsense for no other reason than some cheap bit of humour. When they made Dredd in 2012 it was a brooding tough character and if they made it in 2023 he would be a weak troubled character and he would be the sidekick to some strong female character that is always angry.
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  64. The problem with the new Rings of power series is that lots of causal people will watch it and it probably will be well made even though it will not have the soul of middle earth. I suspect it will be a show that has record numbers of viewers and will be good entertainment for those that do not have any knowledge of the Rings.
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  65.  @Shadowxx98  The modern movie industry is based on a cycle of reshoots. Normally what would occur is that the first version would be so bad they would go back and shoot again and produce a particular edit. They would go through several cycles of that before they get to the release version. They are so devoid of creativity that they cannot produce a first quality cut as the whole emphasis is on the message. The problem with this reshoot process is that the studios do not have the money they once had. Easy finance is not there to be tapped into anymore. It is the reason why there is a glut of large scale studio films going to streaming that are sub standard affairs.
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  66. No they will have success but that success will be a poisoned well. They have a brand that many switched off people love but when they make a few stinkers people will stop going to the films. They are already making up excuses claiming that they are focused on the Chinese market which makes no real money and is all fake figures. Disney is sitting on $50 billions worth of debt and over the next 5 years that is going to triple and they will be trying to hide it all. AT&T and have already got rid of Warner because their debts are going in the same direction.
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  67.  @StupidAnon-gn8ih  It does not matter what journalists say. I seen Logan with my own eyes and the film is about logan getting a little girl who is illegal across the wall. I am sick of hearing that stuff in our media news never mind it being in a $100 million dollar comic book movie.
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  68. It will not be believable and you just know they are going to use the movie to push politics. They are remaking the tv show the wonder years and guess what it will be about a black family in Birmingham Alabama. The left are obsessed about race so expect Indiana Jones to be mocked in the film about being white.
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  69. And it went on to gross 1.5 billion and reignite the love for Marvel who see the errors of their ways and everybody is excited for the next Marvel movie. But alas that is not what happened and many of us have no idea what the next Marvel movie actually is.
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  70. They were adults at a children's movie. It would be like T. E. Lawrence watching 1001 Arabian Nights and deciding that he does not want Columbia Pictures anywhere near his book.
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  71. Reagan was a great president.
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  72. The last Star Wars film was Revenge of the Sith.
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  73. That did slightly bother me when you consider what he did earlier. But maybe his whole desire for revenge at the end of his life just pushed him over the edge right at the end.
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  74. And it was trash.
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  75. She feels an extra from Rovers Return Inn that never seems to actually talk to the other characters. They must be blow-ins.
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  76. She is just going with the wind. We hopefully are about to see cinema be reborn and Hollywood to have a revolution that brings in new films.
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  77. Bond is a perfect role model.
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  78. They are already claiming it is a massive success but in reality the studio's cannot hide their financial performance. Next year there finances will not look good.
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  79. He is good but it can cause confusion in the audience having several batmans out there. It would be better to make it clear that he is an older version of Batman but the new Batman movie clearly presents the film in the current age. So confusion is abound in the audience. Affleck is a talent director and actor so giving him $20 million and saying go get em son would really be their best option.
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  80. It is a fantastic movie but it is one that is based on personal taste.
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  81. Antman is good as well because Paul Rudd is good in it.
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  82. None of these directors are really in charge of the productions. The next batman film is going to be terrible at best. There are already rumours about the production. All of this is a race to the bottom.
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  83. At least America has two moms.
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  84. If they wanted an Obi-Wan story they could have put him in a new story that had nothing to do with the original story. Maybe he is out there trying to build up an underground and stumbles across some other amazing story. They have a whole Galaxy to work with.
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  85. That was Rocky 6 that did that. The son was also a cuck that looked like he should have been working in a hair saloons.
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  86. It has a very mature style about it in terms of dialog. And the characters actually feel like they were really well crafted.
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  87. Snyder more than likely was not in control of the film. Editing and special effects is were modern films are decided and it is unlikely that he had control of that section of the process. Casting was probably not down to him and he would have nothing to do with the script rewrites.
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  88. The problem is that Guardians was released when Marvel was just starting to get really popular and people loved the characters in that story. And that was seven years ago. The issue they have today is that they have told the end of the world story line so many times that people are sick of it and they expect it to be now in every Marvel movie and they are releasing these movies when there is numerous other big budget action movies telling the same story. Audiences are tired of the big budget boring movies with the same generic story only this time the women in films are not as good looking as they were in the older movies.
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  89. This is part of a greater political movement to shame people.
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  90. It has nothing to do with feminism and has everything to do with films pushing political ideologies. Can you imagine what the new Batman film is going to be like there are rumours floating around about it.
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  91. Season 2 was terrible. It is just a repeat of season 1 with a Nazi racist unimaginably named Storm Front. Amazon have just turned a good show into a political platform. I thought the whole of season two was disgusting and I will not watch anymore of The Boys.
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  92. No. What the hell are you talking about. On a side note it was an interpretation of lesbian dance theory.
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  93.  @No1name234no  DO you think it would make 1 billion today?
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  94.  @joaquinbarboza3223  James Mangold destroyed the last Wolverine film. It was nothing more than an exercise in anti Trump politics. Imagine paying $150 for a day out with the family to watch that trash. I even brought along the kids friends and they all gave me funny looks after.
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  95. Well do most of you know know that she just pulled out a lightsabre first aid kit?
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  96. Foreign box office performance does not mean the studios see that much money out of. In America the studio probably gets a 50-50 share but internationally they are lucky if they get 20%. If it is a film by a small studio they will probably get 10% from the box office.
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  97. I bet you Indiana has a daughter who will take over from him. She maybe a lesbian interracial feminist archaeologist who knows nothing about history. Spielberg will not care as long as making the film secures him finance for his next film which will be probably about the republican party being evil.
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  98. The acceptance fight scene was about showing that he could live with their culture.
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  99. Dialog was fine.
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  100. Origins was far better than logan. At least Origins was a proper comic book movie that was entertaining. Logan was nothing more than a party political broadcast.
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  101. Warner has several franchises that could turn them very profitable, some great directing talent like Affleck and resources at the studio level to make their own productions without them being outsourced.
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  102. So you thought Reva killing hundreds of people and then at the very end deciding to do the right thing and not kill an unconscious child was good?
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  103. What you are saying in terms of a new merger is playing a part but it really comes down to the fact they are carrying about $14 billion of debt on a market cap of about $43 billion with revenues of about $13 billion per year. There is no space at this point for them making mistakes and their main franchises really need to be handled with care. They need to build out their Batman franchises and they also need to do a series of smaller $20 million movies that are character driven and based on good writing rather than over the top special effects budgets and 20 different reshoot cycles of new version edits. The idea that fans would show up to watch a DC movie based on the quality rather than some overarching Marvel storyline would be so much easier to achieve and capable of dealing with the odd mistake. One mistake in an overarching plot can bring the whole house down. They have thousands of characters and stories they can build all could be living on the DC logo and quality.
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  104.  @hogghug  It will only be better if they have good management. Their problem to date is that they do not have creative management at the helm in their studios. Most of what is produce is really outsourced with them acting as a glorified distributor. If they can make a series of movies at the quality level of Dune but at a smaller scale they could become very popular and very profitable. Paramount has been very successful in the meantime and may soon be the market leader. Disney is in the middle of complete brand destruction.
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  105. I have never heard of her.
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  106. I think most people saying that it was strong and brave did not watch it.
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  107. Your nothing is thinking too much on entertainment content that is braindead.
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  108. It is easily the best modern superhero movie.
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  109. Not just that we have to assume that due to the artificial DNA they are based on that they could have mutations and lots of strange outcomes.
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  110. Spy kids made sense and children liked it.
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  111. At least with Batman Returns it did not have a bad overall movie approach. It made sense.
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  112. How on earth did Reva know anything about Leia to be able to set a trap. If she knew that could she not know where Obi-Wan was?
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  113. That is the worst excuses I have ever heard to excuse the character of Reva. What is next claiming that Hannibal Lecter as a doctor just decided to eat human flesh because he was a doctor that seen too much. So what is your view on rapists?
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  114. While it was underused he was good when he had screen time and was not a terrible bad guy and would have been better with more time.
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  115. The only female action fight film that is anyway acceptable and believable is Haywire. I am sure there is something else I am not aware of out there.
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  116. I did not think it was as bad is the review made it out to be but it most certain went nowhere and was like watching a left wing lesbian dance event.
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  117. It was still more fun that The Last Jedi.
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  118. How did Reva know about Leia from the beginning?
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  119. Remember when everybody used to think that Marvel was so smart. They really understood their customer and always did the right thing. It all seems like a distant dream.
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  120. It is far better than what Marvel produces now.
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  121. I suspect that Snyder really had no control of the movie. His name is just attached to the film.
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  122. Captain Marvel was a pouty face borefest.
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  123. It is not certain that K died at the end. It looks like it but we are not sure.
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  124.  @malloryg4251  Does feminism not support abortion?
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  125. @Koby Lynn That's what feminism is about teaching young women that they can symbolically burn men and society. Sure they are strong, intelligent, independent young women are they not?
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  126.  @KiwiinSpace  The film shows that women can symbolically burn men out of their life and the baby in their wombs. It is all about liberating and empowerment of the chains that young, intelligent independent young women are held back by.
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  127.  @thomaskilroy3199  You are only saying it is terrible because you hate women being free from the oppression of a unjust society. Feminists rejoice and burn it all.
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  128.  @codybarlik4524  Do not put down feminism it is teaching young women that they can burn out the baby out of their womb. These chains have held back women for the last decade. Obama almost succeed in free society from the chains of capitalism.
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  129.  @codybarlik4524  Male feminism is such a beautiful thing. Supporting those intelligent independent young women in their career choice to burn babies out of them is a noble and just thing.
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  130. 1) Sean Connery 2) Roger Moore 3) Pierce Brosnan 4) George Lazenby 5) Timothy Dalton 6) Daniel Craig
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  131. It is not just Marvel the whole film industry is on dangerous grounds. Just seen that terrible movie Free Guy started out well but got boring really fast. All most every film now at the cinema is about a big world ending event dressed in science fiction action.
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  132. The Joker movie was terrible. It was really depressing and extremely dark and not entertaining at all. It was like watching an art house movie late in the night expecting it to be raunchy and it is not.
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  133. Only simple people think it was a good movie.
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  134. I see it completely differently. I see it as a prime 35 year old Batman rather than a 21 year old starting out.
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  135. You may go and see it but the general audience will probably not. Marvel and Disney are in serious trouble and they may not even realize it yet.
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  136. It cannot be compared to GoT. I would compare it to Lord of The Rings when it first hit the theatres. If that Dune move version was released in 2001 it would have done $800 million. Hopefully this film reaches about $400 million and they will do more of them.
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  137. It was a dreadful movie at best. A disgusting end for such an iconic character.
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  138.  @mattmmilli8287  Unfortunately I had to sit through the movie for the full 2 hours of the movie. It was not a patch on The Wolverine.
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  139. Same here was the best big budget movie I have seen in 5 years. Probably since Blade Runner 2049.
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  140. The problem with alternative times lines is most film audience will not understand timelines and why should they as they are not going to be sitting around thinking about it.
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  141. It was pure trash and anybody that thinks it is entertaining is talking crap.
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  142. It has an amazing cast.
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  143. The film was far better than any other modern film out there.
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  144. The idea of quotas started in Hollywood and thank goodness they are taking the concept to politics. That means no more worrying about politics women just get a free pass.
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  145. Was Lee Harvey Oswald far right?
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  146. Or that she could sit back and watch the horrors of WW2 being played out, ethnic cleansing in Communist China that killed over 100 million people. What sort of a moral compass has she?
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  147. I do not think it has anything to do with tax write off but that may be a story that gets circulated. Warner are now a new company with debt levels that are high and existing in a new expensive capital market were borrowing is about to get tight and expensive.
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  148. Back Adam is OK by traditional sense of a movie. When compared to modern entertainment such as the latest Marvel movies or Star Wars it appear to be a very good movie that would score an 8 out 10.
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  149. I am not convinced they are realizing anything to be honest.
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  150. Logan was dreadful.
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  151. Wanda Vision murderous lots of people and then in the last minutes decides to do the right thing. Who on earth thought that was a good idea.
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  152. There are lots of details like that in the show. Such as how did Reva know about Leia? Clearly who every is calling the decisions on this show does not actually care and is more interested in their own story.
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  153. It was the worst X-Men movie by a clear mile. It was so bad a movie that it is not a true X-Men or true wolverine movie.
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  154. It is not an X-men movie, not a Wolverine movie it was just a big pile of political nonsense. And the fact most people cannot see that is alarming.
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  155. I doubt cinema is dead and not going to come back.
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  156. The first movie was terrible at best. I must admit Wonder Woman's hair is beautiful.
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  157. Hopefully they are the "New Hollywood" that can lift things out of the doldrums. The only issue is that the studios are all up their eyes in debt and are being subsidized by other larger corporations that are just hell bent on pushing ethics in entertainment.
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  158. There is just too many nonsense moments throughout. How did Reva know about Leia which is effectively the whole basis of the show taking place?
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  159. Thor I am not excited about it is giving me the vibe that it will be a political mess if it is good that means the director is highly skilled and done an amazing film.
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  160. What makes you think Snyder created Army of the Dead or really had any control over the creative process?
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  161. They have a lot of if and and buts. The problem is there are many things they could have done but did not. They could have built a Gotham franchise from the Nolan movies but decided not to. They could have built out a fresh new Gotham universe but did not. The could have just done a series of movies on their own because Batman, Superman and Wonder women are already known characters that did not need some joined up franchise. The reason why Marvel did Avengers was because their characters were unknown.
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  162. I do not see it as a young Batman starting out. I see him as a prime Batman of 35 years of age.
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  163. It was horrible to watch. My whole family thought it was a disgusting standard of film. The whole emotional end of Wolverine was lost on all of us because the movie was so bad overall. The whole movie was about pushing politics.
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  164. You are talking crap at best. Western culture was creative and it gave the world medicine, communications, automotive transport, air travel, telescopes and so on. Films like Vertigo, Godfather, pulp fiction and so on were amazing and there was many others like them.
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  165. @Adwig25 W Let us guess you are an SJW.
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  166.  @darcezillious  You are assuming that the directors have complete control of these films and can actually make creative decisions. For example do the directors have decision over casting.
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  167. Zacks version was very average.
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  168. Man of Steel was the better of the DC movies but that does not make it great.
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  169. Those that are in power in the decision making do not actually care about diversity. What they care about it is changing culture.
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  170. Superhero movies do not need good acting.
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  171.  @cytorakdemon  Super man never committed murder. What are you talking about?
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  172. The broken man makes no sense at all. It is one thing for him to be depressed but he is just plain stupid.
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  173. What many of you do not seem to understand is that the vast majority of these modern movies are made by corporate executives that feel they have a right to produce ethical films.
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  174. What big name? Most of those that are under contract for the movie are probably going to be paid and with a promise of other projects.
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  175. Logan was terrible and not fit for such a movie series. It was so bad that I have give up on the X-men movies.
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  176. A small handgun round is not going to take a man down if he has the protective layer so the bullet does not penetrate an organ. Kinetic takedown force is not there in such small weapons. Now if they have a large cal it is a different issue.
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  177. I cannot even tell you want the next Marvel movie is and I am sure to be not the only person who is like that.
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  178. Reva is like the Scarlet Witch killing hundreds of people and doing the right thing at the very end of a terror campaign saying I will just do the right thing not killing anymore people and now I am the hero.
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  179. Netflix just buy the rights to it they did not make it.
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  180. Her character was terrible.
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  181. What happens is the movie gets written, shot, reshot and rewritten, edited shown and then starts the process all over again. Hence why none of the scenes make any sense. Some of those involved in doing the reshoots and edits have no idea what is going on with other acts in the films.
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  182. Atomic Blonde was terrible. If you want to watch a good female fight movie watch Haywire which as good scenes.
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  183. Xmen is about to become X-binary. And I am not joking about that. look at how they made Jean Grey the centre of Xmen. And the character was played by the most boring actress on planet earth. Pretty too look at but not much substance.
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  184. It is a good show but the problem is it does not really feel like the Star Wars movies which is what we are really missing with Star Wars today. I really enjoyed it and hope there is a season two with some adventures. I am getting a little bit tired of the whole rebellion obsession though.
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  185.  @raulcasarez2150  You think he had full cut on the movie. You are deluding yourself if you believe that to be the case. Modern productions of the big budget varieties are not director led projects. If Snyder made that all by himself he needs to retire.
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  186.  @raulcasarez2150  It depends on who finances the movie and I am doubtful based on the state of the current industry that he got full cut on the movie.
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  187.  @TheEbbemonster  Shang-Chi does not interest me because it looks like a soulless Hong Kong rip of movie.
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  188. They made a mess of MCU in the last end story and it now has them in a pickle. They will need to use the multiverse to bring everything back on line and that will confuse the hell out of people. Think of Tenet over several movies confusion.
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  189. What do you mean it has many of the things we do not like about modern storytelling? ( I am just curious what you mean in the context of Andor)
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  190.  @derchozenvun83  Nothing wrong with masonry.
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  191. People spend about 60 hours of their week committed to the process of work. They then spend $100 taking their families to the cinema. It is very obvious that they want to go and watch likeable characters that are generally good. They are not interested in watching Hitler or some manly looking feminist on screen. Imagine paying money to go to the olympics to find out that all the performers are built like a fat moma.
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  192. I do not think Chris Rock knew anything about her condition and was just talking about the hair style.
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  193. You are overthinking the film. It is just a romp and a bit of fun.
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  194. Tim Burton made two over rated camp Batman movies. Hardly a shining light.
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  195.  @AdamEX1  They were average and embarrassing. That scene with the army of penguins was cringe. It was really a kids movie and it did a good job of that. Now because it was average for the era it looks like a masterpiece compared to movies today. The Batman 1989 movie had some stunning sets and the Gotham feeling was the closest to the comic books but the characters were pathetic and Batman simply did not match the comics. A kid in 1989 would have loved the Batman movie.
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  196. Scarlet Witch was the same she killed hundreds of innocent people and then just turns around and says I will do the right thing and not kill anybody else so now I am a hero.
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  197.  @randomindex  Boyd was evil and it really showed. He was a worthy nemesis for Raylan.
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  198. There is only so much juice that can be squeezed from an orange. Cinema audiences have been in decline for the last decade due to the low standards of content. Look at your local cinema and you will see that nearly every movie playing is some generic big budget science fiction action movie with the same story about saving earth from some big engineered catastrophe. It is like telling a farming story with the ending being about a plague of locusts every single time. It is like you can almost tell the ending of the film before you even step foot in the theatre. I just took my family to see Free Guy as it was the only thing that we could all watch and it was bloody awful.
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  199. New characters? What on earth have you been taking. These companies do not like to do anything that is new. They are run by lefties that want to take tried and tested themes and turn them into woke franchises that they then can take to their Napa Valley wine tasting holidays.
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  200. Not being finished with a rough cut would be enough when they have to then pumping in millions more. If the directors were just allowed to direct with no executive inputs they would end up with a better movie and costing a lot less. A certain actor recent told me that a movie he was in had hundreds of hours of shooting for just several minutes of screen time. He said that his shoots were so extensive that he believes a movie could have been cut from that alone. These 200 million movies do not have 200 million on screen.
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  201. Top Gun is Paramount and they also have the mission impossible films coming up. And they have a few other hits on their hands this year. But never underestimate these studio who are not just glorified distributors to screw things up
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  202. It would never make any money back so no imagination needed.
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  203. The people making these things probably sat around and thought that this was a good idea. At their bonding corporate workshops they were probably saying things like "great place to work great place to watch".
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  204. If DC had half a brain they would have built up their Batman/gotham universe. Instead they went and did the clueless thing that was rushed and stank of corporate pensioners in charge.
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  205. Everyone of these movie is about saving the world. Imagine every movie was a farming movie that always ended with a plague of locusts.
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  206. Do you really believe they spent $200 million on that film? In modern films the studio are lucky if they get to make $1 for every $8 of box office performance. Chinese market is probably like $1 for every $50 of box office. This is one of the reasons why there is a mad rush to move to streaming but they then have a problem that of struggling to make enough content to keep people paying the $10 per month. If you have Prime, Netflix, HBO, Apple and whatever else comes along you will soon be at nearly $100 per month.
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  207. Remember Shazam was made in a different era and its diversity felt like it was just tacked on but never got in the way. The next versions of the film may be a lot more aggressive and make it the foundation of the show and its entertainment will be replace with a really bad set of watery weak characters. Now countering what I am saying it has the previous director so it may still be good.
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  208.  @TheStarMachine2000  Shazam was not made in the thick of a woke movie industry. It was made before it went completely woke. Shazam is a remnant of a pervious movie industry.
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  209. The movie was crap at best.
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  210. Imagine Amazon for a lot less money got a good creative team together and made their own original show. It could be the next game of thrones or Star Wars. The sad part is they have no imagination.
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  211. Elizabeth Warren as a native American burlesque dancer.
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  212. They may not actually do that but the impression they have given to date is they will do that. Even at the end they were not calling captain america by his name they were calling him caps. Why did they not just build up falcon instead of using the character to push their political agenda?
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  213. It is not just Movies that are terrible but it also Music, art, industrial design and politics. Right now the west is in a period of low creativity.
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  214. While it maybe a thrill ride for you it does not appeal to the general cinema audience. Most Marvel movie fans would rather sit at home and watch the movie on their phones under the blankets at night time while their parents could not care that the child is on devices 24/7.
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  215. Vikings would never take slaves, eat them and torture them.
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  216.  @avk2762  Vikings had brutal ritualistic practices. https://sciencenordic.com/forskningno-society--culture-sweden/vikings-abused-and-beheaded-their-slaves/1435805 https://www.medievalists.net/2020/03/cannibalism-icelandic-sagas/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-vengeance-of-ivarr-the-boneless-4002654/
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  217. Most of you simply do not have a clue as to what is going on here. AT&T who owned Warner let it go because they were $180 billion of debt even though the company is only worth $130 billion. Warner simply does not have any money and on top of that they are now in a period of expensive capital and high inflation. Warner and Disney may not even exist at the end of this decade and what we are about to see is going to make the 1930s depression era look like a summer camp. China is about to fail and their leadership know this which will prompt them to do desperate things. There is not going to be a global cinema market at the end of this decade.
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  218. They did not need to read the comics to have an understand of the tone and how to make a movie.
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  219. They have a whole bloody galaxy to explore for story and what do they do they go back to the main story and try and insert a new women into the story.
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  220. I think the characters and their individual stories are boring. Baptista character was ok and I could tolerate that. The whole story arc with the smuggler being the good girl and the security officer being the bad buy is boring as hell. The other characters make no sense at all. What on earth was the guy with the cutting machine suppose to be other than muscular?
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  221. I suspect the directors had very little control of the movie and that executives really were shaping it hence why modern big budget films are so bad.
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  222. AT&T is $180 billion in debt and clearly decided to off load one of their liabilities. The studios have destroyed the movie industry at both the theater and rental level of the industry. Every step that they have made has been one disaster to another disaster. They first of all participated in the destruction of the theater industry, Then blamed the streaming industry that they then all go into and destroy. They have not produced a film star in 25 years even though there is lots of talent out there that could easily be built into a movie star.
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  223.  @l3ucl1  I think Latinx means gender neutral latinos. I could be wrong though.
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  224. It was a stupid corny story for simple people that get entertained by simple stuff.
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  225.  @firesnakex8  No the multiverse is going to get very confusing especially for the casual movie fan.
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  226. The movie was a big pile of crap.
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  227. You would be better moving into the movie business and trying to team up with like minded producers and directors. Start with lower budget movies but make the projects character and story driven. People are crying out for this type of productions.
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  228. Nope. They need to keep Batman simple. If they want to do say a TV show where those that watch understand it is not part of the wider DC movies that would be fine. In the way that Marvel destroyed their key franchise with end game they really have nowhere else to go. And with their new determined message they will sink even faster.
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  229. I took my whole family, Children's friends to the first Wonder Woman film and we all pigged out on lots of food. It cost me a lot more than $15 and it was one of the worse movies I have ever seen. I would not have minded if the children liked it.
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  230. Those characters were more comedy and people understood that they were not real but if they were it was how you would imagine them. Similar to a superhero with powers.
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  231.  @tankwfw  90s sitcoms were aimed at trendy apartment living adults not children. They appealed to the grown up fantasy of independence that was abound in the 1990s. Friends was one of the biggest and was very popular among college students. And the key draw for the male audience was the beautiful women. For women the draw was the glamourous women in the sitcom. Those shows were more about entertainment just as shows were before that. People of that era knew they were entertainment just as they could watch a 1960s Rom Com and know it was not a reality.
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  232. If Disney just made female orientated sitcoms people would be happy but instead they are trying to convince a group of teenageers that middle aged women are fun which might be true for teen boys in certain ways but not in a family entertainment show.
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  233. I sort of liked he Kingdom of the Crystal Skull but found one character a little bit annoying.
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  234.  @MrTimberwolfsden  What you did not figure out the movie was about Trumps wall or illegals travelling into America. I paid nearly $200 to take my family out for the day to see Logan expecting that it would be a proper comic book movie and what we were subjected to was a party political broadcast, and telling us about logan needed to be in end of life healthcare and them being chased by a man with a metal arm that could do absolutely nothing. It was a useless movie at best. Horribly overrated. That's what I am talking about. And I get enough politics on the news and tv without it being in a "Xmen" movie.
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  235. They love using the whole PTSD nonsense that has permutates modern culture. Most servicemen who were in war did not have PTSD they had other psychological conditions.
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  236. The movies are probably not finished.
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  237. Maybe it is like feminists today pretending that women are not allowed to vote, work or challenge me. It is like the way they ignore Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir pretending women have never been in power before. Most of them probably never heard of Elizabeth 1st.
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  238. Wonder woman has super powers so she is not a normal women.
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  239. You can still find good movies and good tv shows but you really have to search for them.
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  240. Not sure how they push that one.
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  241. Logan was terrible.
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  242.  @dhilipans5412  It is a comic book character who is associated with the x-men. How would you feel if you went to a batman movie and he was sick the whole time and the joker was getting counseling and Batman was all about trying to save the planet from plastic in the ocean. DO you think you would feel cheated about that. Or how about you watch a Rocky movie and the whole experience is about car safety. Tell me how would you feel about that.
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  243.  @dhilipans5412  I used the example of batman to say people would be unhappy if they went to a batman movie and it was not really a batman movie but was something else. Just as people were very annoyed about The Last Jedi and it being a vehicle for people to use for politics and in that political movie journey they produce a crap movie. I have no problem with a little bit of politics in a movie providing it is a good bit of entertainment. Imagine you went to see Ford Vs Ferrari and it ended up being a whole movie about Carroll Shelby heart condition. Or you go to see top gun and the movie was to focus on the politics of a particular country the whole way through and they only stepped in a fighter craft for 3 minutes. Logan is everything that is wrong with modern movies. I was so pissed by the film that the emotional ending was lost on me when it should have had a big impact. And it turns out I am not the only person who realized this about Logan. Or how about you go to see Walk the Line and you find out the movie is about Elvis and then it just shows Cash dying at the end.
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  244. Who ever is in charge of CW is responsible for this direction in their shows.
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  245. They have the original 35mm prints without the CGI. I dream some day of seeing them in a theatre on 35mm film projector.
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  246. I would assume in season two that there will be an adventure where he learns from the spy master.
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  247. It is a movie for modern simple people.
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  248. I bet you the guy who Steve Trevor was in loved the experience but no man will ever admit to that.
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  249. I never seen those movies so guess what I could not care and do not see him in that light at all. Which is great for me because If I see a film he is in an like it I will go and watch. I could not get the whining about Affleck either.
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  250. There is nothing wrong with the actors and actresses and probably nothing wrong with the writers. The real issue is who gets to call the creative shots on the show.
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  251. Plus the 1980s were sexist.
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  252. His films are dark and nihilistic. He may have been more suited to doing a Batman movie with one condition Batman does not kill. It would have been a winner in that genre but that is not what they did. Superman was not a good fit for him.
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  253.  @julianseguin2748  Nihilism in the context of philosophy is the rejection of philosophy. It can involve the deconstruction of the human experience. In the context I stipulated it was to imply darkness which is the more intended use of the word in everyday life. I would have considered that you would have at least understood that.
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  254. I do not think they have run their course. What has run their course is the big Studios. They are all producing films that the public are not interested in. Theatre audiences have been in decline for the last decade just as the Oscars audience has been in decline. Remember when people would know who the oscar winners were. Well in the last 5 oscars I cannot tell you who won them never mind who was nominated. I can remember the Oscar winner from from 1995 but cannot remember who won 2015.
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  255. The first movie was terrible as well.
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  256. No. They made the film realized it was crap started again and brought in different characters. Making their main villain as a means to attack Donald Trump is not exactly original either.
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  257. The problem with your theory is that they will probably cause the collapse of society before that happens. Western birth rates are now at population failure levels.
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  258. Eternals looks like a UN corporate we build the world video and Guardians was a fun movie that was all built on word of mouth as in people seeing it loving it and telling everybody. Eternals trailer actually looks boring so you can only imagine what the movie will be like.
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  259. The reason why these films are so bad is down the fact that there are too many decisions that are being made too many people. Most of these modern films tend to have different directors at different stages. There was a particular movie that was made not that long ago by a very accomplished director, there was a trailer put out that really hyped the film the producers of the film then decided it was a good idea to get those that made the trailer to then come in and shoot more scenes and direct a new cut of the film. Guess what happened everybody hated the movie.
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  260. How about a torso with no head. Would probably have better acting than most of modern Hollywood.
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  261. Did not like Jessica Jones, Luke Cage nor Iron Fist. Daredevil and Punisher were good.
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  262. Some of the best films of the 1990s were Unforgiven, Casino, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, LA Confidential, Seven, Shawshank Redemption, 12 Monkeys, Braveheart, Good Will hunting, Heat, Life is Beautiful, Fargo, Miller's Crossing and a numerous other films.
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  263. You may be looking forward to it and wanting to see them but the films will not be as good as the previous generation of films. And when that happens it will damage the brand over the long term. Trust me when these brands are damaged they never recover. Look at Terminator and Aliens. Two stellar brands that were destroyed by poor films. There is only so much a target audience can take.
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  264. You can bet there was a good version of the movie somewhere but the monstrosity of Disney came in and butchered it.
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  265. This is the culmination of a film industry that is obsessed with big budget save the world story while at the same time using the movie to push ethics.
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  266. They really messed around with the power.
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  267. Where is my sick bag. That is the corniest crap I have ever read.
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  268. I am not convinced by Gunn at all.
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  269. Sometimes a move can be too slow but no way would that apply to Dune.
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  270.  @jasongaudreau2075  Sorry but it was not a main direction of the character.
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  271. You must have really simple tastes. The movie was terrible at best and was pushing politics.
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  272. I am looking forward to Antman and Dr Strange but everything else I have no interest in at all.
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  273. I suspect they do not have the money to finish the movies.
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  274. The film was fantastic. Not a perfect Batman character but the film was great. Hopefully we will see a proper Batman in the next film.
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  275. Gunn is not the right man and will make a mess as well.
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  276. The character Duncan (Momoa) sacrificed himself for the greater good. A lot was happening so it may have been underwhelming for you that is why it was such a great movie. His death was not cheap and it actually saved the lives of those that he was trying to protect.
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  277. Warner may not have the money to make the films. They did not make massive layoffs in HBO max for the fun of it.
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  278. He did not have PTSD. Adults do not develop PTSD under those circumstances. It is a nonsense writing tool for poor creativity. The vast majority of troops who see warfare do not develop PTSD and have other types of psychological conditions.
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  279. If you believe these modern films cost 200 million to make you are naive as hell. None of these films are anywhere near the budgets that are being marketed. Many of these films actually do not have the budget required to make the movies and there is always fights in the background trying to secure funding. The actors in many of these films get paid very little money for the amount of crap they have to put up with. Many actors end up in debt trying to live a PR lifestyle that they cannot actually afford. Special effects have become so efficient and widespread that their cost have massively come down to the point that cheap TV shows can now do it.
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  280. Modern popular society lacks creativity. It is not as easy as flicking a switch and making great movies again.
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  281. My take is they did not have the money to finish these new movies that do not have the chops to make any sort of success. What was screen tested was incomplete movies that were hastily edited. The industry to date would just reshot and re-edit the movies into a new product after several rounds of executive internal competition. Warner is now out on its own and away from the protective shell of AT&T.
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  282. Iron Man 3 is where it started to really slip up.
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  283.  Vancla  Everything I said was true more or less.
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  284.  @theeshyguy  The movie industry does not actually work like that. Funding is normally provided by a production company that then dictates the film. $80 million rarely comes without conditions.
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  285.  @yewtewbstew547  For him to be leading man he needs the right type of role that suits his stone cold acting. You could imagine him playing a revenging character or being on the road to redemption. Very rarely do those films get made today.
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  286. The Multiverse will confuse the hell out of casual moviegoers and will be a real turn off for them. The end of Avengers makes no sense. SO all the characters that died still went through that horrible death and their replacements are not really them and from an alternative universe. Imagine that happened to your love one and then a carbon copy arrives well guess what you are going to instinctively know it is not your love one.
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  287. Do any of you remember what Scarlet said about Benicio del Toro.
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  288.  @Peglegkickboxer  The books or comics are not canon. The original six movies are canon. Their approach was simple either have George Lucas produce the latest three movies or if he was not available to do that just do three complete new movies that could be a thousand years earlier or later.
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  289. I did not think it could look anymore stupid but CW surprise people again. How on earth does that network make any money?
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  290. Why on earth would Jason Momoa repulse you at all? That makes no sense.
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  291.  @BWMagus  It had nothing to do with explosions and CGI. The movie was terrible. What was so special about the movie? There was a bad guy with a metal arm that did not actually do anything other than show off his metal arm. Logan was useless at best. The whole border wall story was really about protesting Trump. It was a depressing move the whole way through and not a real Wolverine movie. It was trash. They could have done the whole sad death of Wolverine and made you feel something for him without all the other trash. It is the worst of the X-Men movie even worse than Dark Phoenix which says a lot for the movie.
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  292. The director is not really in control of the movie.
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  293. Part two will still be Dune.
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  294. It says more about the character of the modern celebrity than it does about being a celebrity.
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  295. No there is a power struggle going on with in Disney. The left wing force is strong there.
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  296.  @BilltheFifth  Do you think the woke culture cares about that?
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  297. She is such a powerful socialist feminist.
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  298. It was a very average film that was better than the theatrical release but that was it.
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  299.  @cr0wN_  Such a rating has no meaning to the quality of a film. It is average at best. Nothing special about it.
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  300. @Mike Demirdjian I have not seen the movie but the trailer does not give the 1980s vibe. It is some sort of neon style they are presenting that looks more like 1970s glam not 1980s.
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  301.  @talltroll7092  Men are the biggest market segment of comic books. It is men who buy comic books and read them. It is also the same with video games, science fiction tv shows and so on.
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  302. Black Panther was an ordinary film but it got released when Marvel was at its height. It did over 1.3 billion at the box office and if they were to release that movie today it would do anything close to it.
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  303. What on earth has that got to do with DC movies?
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  304. No Way Home and Doctor strange are the films that people are interested in because they recognise the characters and know what they will get. The other films people have a deep down feeling that they will be telling some trashy story.
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  305. An executive of Warner said that after the success of Dune that they intended to focus on the quality of the entertainment rather than raw box office. The problem with all of this is that Warner has financial issues in terms of not having the capital variable to them to make new content. They did not drop these new films because they dislike the idea of woke they simply do not have the money to finish them. If they use that money it will mean nothing having it for other films. They now have to choose wisely.
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  306. You are the typical book fan that thinks that everything can be covered in a movie and that the medium can be presented in the same fashion. No movie that has been adapted from a book can be a carbon copy because what is your head does not relate to what can be in a movie.
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  307.  @gabornemeth288  I do not agree it has to do with effects. Not everything that is in a book is suitable for a movie experience not because it is not important nor not good. It sometimes can distract from the main narrative of a movie. Some books that have been adapted to a movie something completely change the story to make it fit into a 90 minute theatre experience. Typical book fans sometimes think that it can include everything or that sometimes they have a better narrative to cover. When I was younger I used to think the same way in regards to films based on books and later realized it is not that simple. Many movie productions get it really wrong.
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  308.  @evocatimedia  Anybody who has read Dune would realize that it is not a simple single coherent story and would realize that when making a movie you would have to develop a narrative that the movie can communicate. A film only has 90 minutes to 210 minutes to create that story in the context of a film. Let us be realistic a movie is a visual experience and a book is a much deeper descriptive experience. Books can give details that a movie can never do and a movie can present visuals that no book can ever do. Dune 2021 is a perfect movie of the book even the mighty David Lynch found it impossible.
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  309. Does anybody know what Kylo Ren's purpose is. We now what the Emperor and Vader wants but have no idea what Kylo wants. Snoke seems to be even more useless. How on earth did he get to do what he did if he could not even foresee what Kylo Ren was attempting.
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  310. This movie proves that Hollywood is now more interested in making politics than actual entertainment. If Hollywood survives most of these films will be forgotten about.
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  311. Replicants are based on human DNA so who knows what sort of things can come out of that.
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