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DeimosRising posted:I love this guy. He also said that Patriot's Day had one of the best shootouts in movie history There was literally nothing memorable about that movie. Not even the goddamn Trent Reznor score. It just came and went.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Was that his April Fools joke this year or what First off, mea culpa, the title is Patriots Day and he got it right, unlike me. Secondly, I think you'll find that Peter Berg kicks rear end
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Actually Peter Berg is a right wing nut and mediocre director
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Casimir Radon posted:So for GitS did the lesbian stuff from the trailer actually happen? I left for a few minutes to pee. Not much more than what you saw in the trailers. Major basically touched her face a lot trying to come to terms with her own humanity (or what is basically left of it), prompting the "what are you?" response from the prostitute. End scene.
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Ammanas posted:Actually Peter Berg is a right wing nut and mediocre director Action films are reactionary, it comes with the territory.
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And Berg's films are far from corporatist or upper class screeds. Take Hancock's homeless hero, contemptuous portrayal of for profit healthcare and subsistence goods, and inter racial relationship parable, or Friday Night Lights and its melancholy view of collapsing small town economies and social structure, or The Rundown's abhorrence for extractive industry and colonial adventure.
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DeimosRising posted:And Berg's films are far from corporatist or upper class screeds. Take Hancock's homeless hero, contemptuous portrayal of for profit healthcare and subsistence goods, and inter racial relationship parable, or Friday Night Lights and its melancholy view of collapsing small town economies and social structure, or The Rundown's abhorrence for extractive industry and colonial adventure. Yeah, hes a trump voter. The Kingdom was an ode to the clash of civilizations
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Mierenneuker posted:Not much more than what you saw in the trailers. Major basically touched her face a lot trying to come to terms with her own humanity (or what is basically left of it), prompting the "what are you?" response from the prostitute. End scene.
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Ammanas posted:Yeah, hes a trump voter. The Kingdom was an ode to the clash of civilizations And Bulgakov was a monarchist. I don't follow the connection between his (putative) politics and quality of his films. Not that anti extractive industry or pro inter racial relationship are positions I associate with Donald Trump, let alone the (insufficiently radical but not wrongheaded) suggestion that subsistence goods and medicines and should literally be given away for free.
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Battleship was a good flick.
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Patriots Day was good, though I liked Deepwater Horizon more. Lone Survivor was dope, too.
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Also, on top of what Deimos said, the shootout scene in Patriots Day is legitimately incredible. Berg is conservative in the same sense as, like, Armond White - meaning he's basically a socialist.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Battleship was a good flick. Yeah it was
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:How is that dude gonna do one perfect movie and then disappear completely? It's not fair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film)
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Also one of my ten or so favorite films, ever. I have tragic taste
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I like The Rundown but the best Peter Berg movie is easily Wes Craven's Shocker.
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i'm from boston. movie sucked rear end. from the perspective of the tsarnaevs would've been way better.
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It was fine. The Watertown shootout and the whole time the Tsarnaev's had that guy hostage were the best parts.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i'm from boston. This explains a lot.
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DeimosRising posted:And Bulgakov was a monarchist. I don't follow the connection between his (putative) politics and quality of his films. Not that anti extractive industry or pro inter racial relationship are positions I associate with Donald Trump, let alone the (insufficiently radical but not wrongheaded) suggestion that subsistence goods and medicines and should literally be given away for free. Do you mean the interracial relationship that's inherently destructive to both parties and everyone around them eternally and can only be solved by the black man leaving for the moon so the white people can be happy together?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This explains a lot. wasn't aware bostonians were known for not liking bad movies.
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They are much more famous for being the biggest assholes in all fifty states.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:They are much more famous for being the biggest assholes in all fifty states. I dunno, the ones who were in the end of Patriots Day seemed all right.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I like The Rundown but the best Peter Berg movie is easily Wes Craven's Shocker. Its also Mitch Pileggi's best movie too. Eminently quotable.
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Catfishenfuego posted:Do you mean the interracial relationship that's inherently destructive to both parties and everyone around them eternally and can only be solved by the black man leaving for the moon so the white people can be happy together? That's not what happens in the movie. It's bad form to work backwards from a conclusion. That's how we end up with a thread called Racist Movie about a film that no-one had actually seen, in which people are currently struggling to reverse-engineer studio bookkeeping from Wikipedia figures and Rottentomato audience response aggregate. Because they can't think of anything more to write about.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It's bad form to work backwards from a conclusion. boy howdy.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Edit: nvm Was it about SMG or about Bostonians being assholes, cause you ARE an rear end in a top hat it's just in a loveable way
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DeimosRising posted:Was it about SMG or about Bostonians being assholes, cause you ARE an rear end in a top hat it's just in a loveable way I don't think it's deniable.
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Ghost in the Shell is projected to earn $20m for the weekend compared to $50m for BOSS BABY. Guessing that is probably not a good sign for the movie.
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Leavemywife posted:Who figures these projections and how do they do it? Studios and theater chains have their own people who project based on similar films released at similar times and test screenings, and dudes with websites do the same.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Studios and theater chains have their own people who project based on similar films released at similar times and test screenings, and dudes with websites do the same. The Box Office Mojo ones are usually based off returns. Sunday will always be a slower day as well, since people are hungover from partying Saturday night, got to do chores, go to church, and get ready for work or school, so they don't have a lot of time for movies, so there's always a major drop. GITS took in $7.6 million from Friday (and Thursday night showings) but only made $6.7 million Saturday, a 12.5% drop in ticket sales (which is unusual, most movies go up slightly). Based off that and the Sunday slump, they predict a 30% drop.
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Yeah, the internal projections are usually not known to the public but by Sunday you can do the math based on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to estimate what Sunday and the total weekend will end up being.
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parallelodad posted:Who says original pictures can't be hits?
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I'm fairly certain that Boss Baby's success comes from Alec Baldwin and his Trump impersonation on SNL. It's like the perfect zeitgeist. I'll admit, I hadn't even given that movie a look until a commercial played in the background at work one day this week and heard his voice, then read on IMDB to confirm it.
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Young Freud posted:I'm fairly certain that Boss Baby's success comes from Alec Baldwin and his Trump impersonation on SNL. It's like the perfect zeitgeist. SNL rerun last night was the one he hosted this season, coincidentally
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