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Posted on 07/20/2026 8:02:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
There’s a short list of Hollywood directors who can turn practically anything into a massive global hit: Ryan Coogler, Greta Gerwig, James Cameron. But Christopher Nolan is in a class by himself. Of the eight movies he’s released since 2008, only one has failed to clear half a billion dollars at the box office, and even Tenet still managed to gross more than $300 million in the middle of a pandemic.
He turned a three-hour biopic about a nuclear physicist into a nearly billion-dollar smash, and with The Odyssey notching Nolan’s biggest opening weekend yet, with $264 million worldwide, it’s already well on its way to depositing another billion in the bank.
While Cameron and the Russo brothers (who have directed several of Marvel’s biggest hits) might edge out Nolan on sheer numbers, Nolan’s box-office run is more impressive in terms of frequency and variety: The Russos have avoided having flops on their record only by banishing their three worst movies to streaming, and Cameron has released just four movies in the past 30 years.
But Nolan has never gone more than three years between films, and although there’s no discounting the role the Dark Knight trilogy played in establishing him as a global superstar, he’s built his career largely without relying on franchise IP. His past 20 years might be the most spectacular box-office run in recent movie history. Not even Spielberg has a streak of blockbuster hits this long.
In other words: Only a fool would bet against Christopher Nolan. But the internet is full of fools. For months, credulous media outlets have been running with stories about the purported backlash to Nolan’s Odyssey, relying primarily and often exclusively on content sourced from Elon Musk’s X.
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“If only the world could get along as this ice cream cone.. Billy Paul wouldn’t have to kill so many people.”
Sturgeon’s Law: “Ninety percent of everything is crap.” That applies to everything, but is not an actual property of the universe, but an emergent property of consciousness. About 10% of everything earns the A grade, and what qualifies depends on what’s available. If Hollywood only put out block-busters, 90% of them would still be graded less than the best. Conservatives often direct their disgust at Hollywood, but it really should be directed at the degenerate paying audience, which is mostly womb-men. Hollywood is in the difficult business of finding that temporary fickle audience 10% of the time to stay in business. Except for the dirty money laundering tipping the scales of morality, they do a decent job.
In my early martial arts journey he was a legend. He used to do Tae Kwon Do or similar Korean martial art. That movie is as much as ‘Kung Fu legend’ as any of the other movies of that era. You triggered memories. Thanks
I could not agree more
Take away demand: whether for prostitution, (those who pay for it), rap music (those who buy/stream it), drugs (the consumers), woke trash from Hollywood (demand for trash), bad politicians (those who vote for poor choices), etc etc etc and = better things are allowed to flourish.
The issue is not the supply. The issue is the demand.
The moment demand dries up, supply dries up.
Take poaching of rhinos: the poor creatures get slaughtered, and the typical approach is arresting poachers. That is OK, but it is difficult to stop poaching that way. A rhino horn goes for between $4,000-17,000 per kilogram at the poacher level, and up to $100,000 per kilogram at retail. A single horn can be up to $600,000.
I am sorry, for that price there will always be a retailer in China willing to pay a poacher in Africa or India $7,000 to 10,000 for a horn, and that is life changing money for a poor villager. Even if you attest poachers, there will be others willing to take their place.
Go after the people paying over half a mil for those products (the demand), and it will dry up.
Same thing with drugs. Arrest all the street peddlers you want, and others come up. Arrest enough of the 35 year old Wallstreet traders (dying profession with HFT and AI, it still) and university girls buying that crap, and the demand goes down and supply eventually follows
The story is so compelling that it would have made money with midgets in the roles. The question is why? Why the departure from the book? The answer is wokeness. It’s across the street from me, I will see it, and report back to you all.
Billy Jack goes to Washington! Filibusters 'n everything.
a fool and his money are soon parted
Was “Oppenheimer” coordinated with Jennifer Granholm to “rehabilitate” a leftist lab director?
I imagine this film will do well internationally as well as domestically. It will make money. I’ll wait until it hits the streaming services.
I felt the same way - but four days in - it looks healthy.
Budget - $250 million
Four Day Box Office - $264 million
Four days include the one night Grand Opening in London, which might have been Zero Box Office.
Rule of Thumb for break even...
Two times (2X) the projected budget.
Break Even Estimate - $500 million
Not to disillusion anyone, but Tom Laughlin wasn’t really a martial artist. All the complicated kicks in the Billy Jack movies were performed by Bong Soo Han, a master of Korean hapkido, a sort of combination of Aikido and Tae Kwan Do. If you freeze frame the action scenes it’s not too hard to spot Master Han under the famous hat, doubling for Tom. That’s not a knock on TL, who was an accomplished athlete in his prime, but he was past 40 when he made these movies, and the reverse spinning heel kick would be challenging for even the best trained amateur.
“I’ll watch “Troy” again if I want to see a movie about the Odyssey “
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the 2004 movie Troy does not talk about or even cover the events of The Odyssey.
The movie Troy is a loose adaptation of Homer’s first epic poem, The Iliad, focusing strictly on the events of the Trojan War.
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