Posted on 06/28/2019 11:50:59 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
This weekend’s box office wiped out two franchises, cemented the failure of two others, and mercy-killed one of those woke entries only pompous critics adore. We’ll start with Men in Black: International, which is doing even worse than those already-dire predictions of $30 million. Deadline reports this stinker will open to a pathetic $25 million, which is less than half of what all three of its predecessors opened to. Even the 22-year-old original launched with $51 million in 22-year-old dollars.
As I mentioned in my review, MIB4 has no swagger, no sex appeal, and no laughs; just a confusing story, bad special effects, and a bland leading man who is treated like an imbecile because he’s white and hetero and we must now grovel before the woke.
But when I saw the trailer for this-third-movie-called-Shaft — you gotta be kidding me. This is like turning the James Bond franchise into a musical, or Tootsie 2 into a psychological thriller, or Caddyshack 3 into a monster movie
What in the world was Warner Bros. thinking?
A franchise about a “bad mother-shut-your-mouth” is now The Aging Bickersons.
John Shaft, the John Shaft (The Mighty Richard Roundtree), the original bad mother-shut-your-mouth is now Bad Grandpa?
There’s a fan base for this brand. Back in 2000, Shaft opened to $22 million and I would have happily stood in line to watch Roundtree take his iconic character into 2019, but that trailer was flat-out depressing.
Shame on everyone.
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Too bad about MIB. I have grown to like Chris Helmsworth and think he has done a good job developing the Thor character. He is much better than just a “comic book actor”.
Die, Hollywood, Die!.Die, Hollywood, Die!...Die, Hollywood, Die!...Die, Hollywood, Die!...faster, faster faster 1
No thanks to both movies. Enjoy.
Hollywood needs to come up with more original films. The last time I saw a movie was “The Mule” by Clint Eastwood. Need to make more movies like that rather than come out with remakes, sequels and prequels.
At some point, there was a female Captain eMatvel, though not widely known nor cared for. I didn’t bother to see the movie.
Actually, we don’t go see any movies anymore. They don’t fit into our budget.
*Marvel
I’m not sure how that got turned into something else...
Show business kids
makin' movies of themselves
ya know they don't give a f***
about anybody else...
I think that was the first song I ever heard with an F-Bomb in it.
They need to make another Indiana Jones film. This time with a black female lead. It will be box office gold!
The last really good movie I saw was Hacksaw Ridge. Excellent movie. Moved me to tears in a number of places.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it was the true story of a Seventh Day Adventist who enlisted right after Pearl Harbor, but wouldn’t carry a gun, wanted to serve as a combat medic, but not kill. Showed what he went through. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Thankfully, they made the movie before he died, and they were able to interview him and some of the men he saved before the credits rolled. Just so incredibly moving!
Mark
“Why do that? Why?”
Bcase those people out there live-in a will insulated bubble. In their fantasy world they and only they one what is needed for ALL the rest of us.
They actually believe if they produce a movie about anything it will be absorbed by us great unwashed as if it were a message from on high.
All movies are politically slanted left.
No thanks
#10 I looked up the show ‘Bless this Mess’ you mentioned.
I only saw a few minutes but it looks to be awful plus the the 2 main characters are hard on the eyes. The women is definitely no Eva Gabor.
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‘Bless this Mess’
https://abc.go.com/shows/bless-this-mess/episode-guide/season-01/03-the-return-of-short-shorts
The song came out in 1973; I don't think it ever got played on the radio, except perhaps on some college radio station, although I think even they would get in trouble with the FCC if they'd let that go out over the air back then.
I think the first time I heard it was in the '80s or even '90s, listening to Steely Dan.
Either way, Donald Fagen knew what he was talking about, even back then, 46 years ago. They do make movies for themselves, because there's no Sam Goldwyn to say "do it my way or you're fired."
And I'm perfectly sure Fagen is no Trump supporter.
One of the things that ended with the studio system.
I mean, that's what we're really talking about here. These movies are bombs because the Hollywood "in crowd" is making them for themselves, and the "in crowd" includes the people who provide the financial backing for the production as well as the creative types.
Their attitude seems to be "we make entertainment for people who think like us, and everyone else can go f themselves." The problem with that is that they are going further and further out into never-neverland, and their audience keeps shrinking and shrinking, and they tell themselves that's OK because the people who don't like what they're doing are just the deplorables and the bitter clingers and the Bible thumpers.
The MSM is doing the same thing, that's what Rush Limbaugh was talking about in his rant today (see The Democrat Party Is a Bigger Hate Group Than the KKK, if you haven't already).
There's a thing in control theory called a Kalman filter. It's a type of math-based filter that can do interesting things; it looks at an input and a desired output, and creates a mathematical model of the input, and as time goes on, it refines the model and uses the model to "kick out" inputs that are too noisy or too anomalous to be legitimate.
The Kalman filter has a problem, which is this: under certain circumstances, the mathematical model can become so refined that the filter kicks out everything real because nothing fits the model. For that reason, engineers add a little random noise to the process to keep the Kalman filter from refining the mathematical model too much.
In a way, that's what's going on with the MSM and the coastal elites and the deep-staters right now.
Pretty ironic. My long-winded and probably stupid reply #34 was intended for you, but I addressed it to myself.
It’s a perfect description of Hollywood.
I saw MIB1. I liked it. Tommy Lee Jones’s deadpan humor was classic.
But I never saw MIB2 and MIB3. Were either of them any good?
Really? I did Nilsson’s You’re Breakin’ My Heart at my middle school talent show.
She just doubled-down the other day on not visiting the White House.
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