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Posted on 12/31/2017 12:53:21 PM PST by Rummyfan
Hollywood can't wait to turn the calendar page to 2018.
The new year must be better for the film industry than the previous 12 months. Here are just a few reasons why 2017 proved so painful to Hollywood:
WeinsteinGate A very sad summer box office season Streaming's increasing stranglehold on our attention spans Some very high-profile movies that did more than underachieve. They flat out flopped Here are five 2017 releases that epitomize the latter. Each hit theaters with reasons for optimism. They all slunk away from view with their cinematic tails between their legs.
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How they narrowed such to only 5 is mindblowing given there were far more than 5 that flopped.....
#mindblown
Does the guy on the left get everyone Coffee?
Number One for the 2018 fail list, The Post.
The DVD screeners are all coming out now, movies that they want to consider for Academy awards. Most of them are so boring I won’t even download them for free. Movies like The Disaster Artist, The Florida Project, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name. If that’s the best they can come up with things aren’t looking good. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actually sounds interesting and I might give it a go one of these days if I’m really bored.
We also liked Molly's Game - I liked it more than my husband. We also saw Darkest Hour - it was wonderful and Gary Oldman ought to get an award for phenomenal acting. Looking forward to the one about the horse soldiers, the raid on Entebbe, and the Clint Eastwood apparently starring the real guys who saved the people on the train in France.
Also: Mother!, Suburbicon, and Downsizing.
Hollywood is in a real bind now. They invest so much money in hopeful blockbusters that a few missteps could ruin them.
They need to hire Roger Corman. He’s a cheap bastard but most of his movies are actually entertaining.
“The Disaster Artist, The Florida Project, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name.”
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I think the “The Disaster Artist” was pretty good - though if viewers aren’t knowledgeable on then context/background I can see where they might not care for it.
“I, Tonya” is pretty good, too. Funny movie.
I got about seven minutes into Baywatch before I had the urge to projectile vomit.
Another script written with all the finesse of a small gathering of 13 and 14 year old boys with stacks of Playboy magazines under their beds.
Seldom has a moving lived down to my expectations so spectacularly.
In truth, I had hoped it would be somewhat entertaining, at least enough to allow me to watch more than seven minutes.
I almost never reject a movie once I’ve started watching. I want to see if there’s any redeeming value.
I may go back and watch it at a later date. On the night I tried, it was unbearable.
“looking at the list of scheduled movies for next year, pretty bad. The Marvel movies will do well”
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To me, any Marvel movie is a flop. Marvel shoulda stuck to comic books - those I could sometimes tolerate.
1. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Who would want to see another rehash of the King Arthur legend?
2. mother! The controversial storytelling style turned off way too many moviegoers.
3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The source material is effectively unknown outside of Europe, and even then many said the adaptation failed to be faithful to the original French comic book Valérian et Laueline.
“They need to hire Roger Corman. He’s a cheap bastard but most of his movies are actually entertaining.”
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There ya go. He shot 3 films in as many weeks in Puerto Rico in the early 60s. Certainly not classics, but good fun anyway. My favorite of that three is “Last Woman On Earth”.
THE ROGER CORMAN PUERTO RICO TRILOGY:THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH (1960), CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1960), BATTLE OF BLOOD ISLAND (1960)
http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/rogercormanpr1960.htm
A older movie that is well worth watching, but few have, is “The Culpepper Cattle Co.”. A 1972? movie.
It is better than “Unforgiven”, for all that like westerns.
I think you can even watch free on youtube.
Thanks for the heads up on “Valerian”, it’s on my watchlist. Your background info was helpful.
Each of those movies earned five stars on my “No Thanks!” scale of 1 to 5.
I tried one of them, and got what I deserved. I watched seven minutes or so, and turned it off.
He shot Little Shop of Horrors in 3 days. He’d rented studio space and finished a movie early. Not one to waste a nickel He had it written and in the can about that fast.
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