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whoops forgot about A Wrinkle in Time, sorry everybody. i still say Ghostbusters 2016 was a success because it made some kind of profit, small as it was, owing its Paul Feig-led woke marketing campaign. the problem is that studios want all the money, not just some of it, so Sony pulled the plug on more sequels like they planned because the profit wasn't big enough it certainly set the standard for what we're seeing now, though Blockade posted:They tried that with Annihilation and nobody saw it. turns out they only give a poo poo if they know it'll make money. who knew get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 14:13 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Breakfast All Day posted:its bc its propaganda to prime people to think capitalism-but-with-women-oligarchs is good and feminist, when its just the same old tired poo poo and not feminist
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get that OUT of my face posted:whoops forgot about A Wrinkle in Time, sorry everybody. i still say Ghostbusters 2016 was a success because it made some kind of profit, small as it was, owing its Paul Feig-led woke marketing campaign. the problem is that studios want all the money, not just some of it, so Sony pulled the plug on more sequels like they planned because the profit wasn't big enough i'd say it was torching the brand value of ghostbusters for a pittance
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speaking of white privileged feminism, peep the 2018 holiday gift guide for the Philadelphia feminist. you'd better believe luxury clothes and Lindy West's "Shrill" are on the list
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Lest we forget, there was that big Papa John's product placement in Ghostbusters 2016.
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Jonathan Fisk posted:the second one sucks but the first is hardly boring I never saw the second one but the first guy richie sherlock holmes rules, tho yea it's an action movie with some nice sherlock flavoring and not a mystery movie lol
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super sweet best pal posted:Lest we forget, there was that big Papa John's product placement in Ghostbusters 2016.
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get that OUT of my face posted:remember Jack & Jill? no
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get that OUT of my face posted:remember Jack & Jill? suicide requests are banned
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Toplowtech posted:Yeah, at best/worst you could say it's a really small privileged part of feminism centered around white bourgeois women who concentrate on really weird fights like the "not enough streets are named after women" gap or the "lack of women in super capitalist and well paid job category" or manspreading, aka everything vaguely feminist in the loosest possible way that isn't defending the abortion right or fighting for ERA. It's just been called White Feminism for a while now. Using high-profile platforms to go exclusively after the softest possible targets and usually failing even at that.
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Call it liberal feminism, because they think "white feminism" is just feminism but racist and they're not racist because they follow some black woman on Twitter who is paid to say "slay kween that's tea"
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i prefer to call it "woke feminism" or "wokelib feminism" because there are a fair amount of WoC in media who subscribe to it as well. cough cough Roxane Gay i'm not looking forward to post-election pop culture either. if we get four more years of Trump, it's going to be more of the same- looking for empowerment and political meaning in giant multimillion dollar Hollywood movies and church-like "comedy" series and specials. if Warren or Harris win, we're probably going to see a lot of back-patting woke feminism, most of which will be white and will make for extra cringeworthiness if Harris wins. if Bernie wins, i can see much of the industry making a shift similar to JK Rowling, although there will be some who won't go along and could very well be shunned by critics as a result i'm not sure what the worst case scenario is, frankly
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I'm going to request that you never post about this subject again because you are incredibly annoying about it lol
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truly terrified about the conspiracy of women writing gift guides and getting box office bombs made
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an actual dog posted:truly terrified about the conspiracy of women writing gift guides and getting box office bombs made
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amy pascal is a big fuckup who got fired as ceo of sony pictures and yet failed up into her own production company, is super lean in and said that the pay gap at sony pictures is really about women not asking to be paid more, and clearly uses a paper thin veneer of wokeness to cover her bullshit but lets talk about twitter users instead lol
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get that OUT of my face posted:i'm not sure what the worst case scenario is, frankly I'm going to help you out here and let you know it's going to be equally as bad no matter who is president
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President Bernie will put an end to superhero movies. This is my strong belief.
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Toplowtech posted:No the really terrifying thing is how loving seriously we were supposed to welcome a loving GHOSTBUSTER remake with a snl cast. the cast for 2016 was fine, where do you think the cast of the original ghostbusters came from lol
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it's called "attempting to change the subject after a page-plus worth of posts on one topic" and that blog post is a good example of woke white privileged feminism that focuses on consumerism as a way to feel good about oneself. it's not egregious but it countsan actual dog posted:I'm going to help you out here and let you know it's going to be equally as bad no matter who is president
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Paladinus posted:President Bernie will put an end to superhero movies. This is my strong belief. Just donated another 30
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Toplowtech posted:Yeah, at best/worst you could say it's a really small privileged part of feminism centered around white bourgeois women who concentrate on really weird fights like the "not enough streets are named after women" gap or the "lack of women in super capitalist and well paid job category" or manspreading, aka everything vaguely feminist in the loosest possible way that isn't defending the abortion right or fighting for ERA. Not enough streets named after women. Love it and stealing it when I explain white bougie feminism
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Paladinus posted:President Bernie will put an end to superhero movies. This is my strong belief. low key think improving the life of the average person may actually decrease their demand for big budget escapist power fantasies.
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get that OUT of my face posted:fair point, try not being condescending about it next time though never
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Equeen posted:low key think improving the life of the average person may actually decrease their demand for big budget escapist power fantasies. 
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market research for movie goers is increasingly showing that people aren't going to movies anymore just to go to the movies, like if they just want something to watch they're streaming something. the thing that gets people into theaters are big events, and that means remakes and sequels and this movie is so important. its really pushed out comedies, and if your drama isn't an oscar play it's not getting made. maybe if people had money and time going to the movies just to chill would be a more possible thing? maybe these subscription things will change how movies get made? idk lol but the only movie I've seen in a theater for like a year was that apollo 11 documentary
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Peanut President posted:bring back westerns
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an actual dog posted:market research for movie goers is increasingly showing that people aren't going to movies anymore just to go to the movies, like if they just want something to watch they're streaming something. the thing that gets people into theaters are big events, and that means remakes and sequels and this movie is so important. its really pushed out comedies, and if your drama isn't an oscar play it's not getting made. really its just that nice TVs and streaming have made so many options available that there's no need to go to the movies unless it is, like you said, an "event" style movie like Marvel or Star Wars where the cultural zeitgeist will be all abuzz for it
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Peanut President posted:bring back westerns we had a singing cowboy movie last year
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There is a slow but steady trickle of at least passable westerns. I want to say the latest wave started with the remake of True Grit ten years ago but I don't actually follow westerns closely, so I might be wrong. In any case, you have your Tarantino's homages like Django Unchained and Hateful Eight, you have stuff like Bone Tomahawk with some new twist on the genre, and you even have Deadwood: The Movie. Not the worst decade for westerns, to be sure.
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it owns how everyone has completely forgotten about red dead redemption 2 in the same way they immediately forgot about avatar
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Paladinus posted:There is a slow but steady trickle of at least passable westerns. I want to say the latest wave started with the remake of True Grit ten years ago but I don't actually follow westerns closely, so I might be wrong. In any case, you have your Tarantino's homages like Django Unchained and Hateful Eight, you have stuff like Bone Tomahawk with some new twist on the genre, and you even have Deadwood: The Movie. Not the worst decade for westerns, to be sure. Slow West is pretty good; it's basically an E/N thread set in the 1800s.
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an actual dog posted:it owns how everyone has completely forgotten about red dead redemption 2 in the same way they immediately forgot about avatar wrong I’m probably gonna start playing it again it was a rad game. there’s just so many games coming out these days that if you’re not a battle royale you don’t have much staying power
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Equeen posted:low key think improving the life of the average person may actually decrease their demand for big budget escapist power fantasies. the original super hero comics started during the great depression lol
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an actual dog posted:it owns how everyone has completely forgotten about red dead redemption 2 in the same way they immediately forgot about avatar it was good actually
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I dont think people forgot its just we work off such a shifting news cycle and new releases that unless youre one of the top multiplayer games people won't remember you more than a month.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I dont think people forgot its just we work off such a shifting news cycle and new releases that unless youre one of the top multiplayer games people won't remember you more than a month. yeah there's a reason every big name game these days has to be a 'live service' with constant updates or DLCs or the like in order to keep the game in the news cycle for years
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