Posted on 12/06/2017 1:12:22 PM PST by EdnaMode
I liked Chips. It was definitely funny.
The only other flick I really want to see is the new Churchill one.
I'm so happy that Suburbicon bombed....
Thank you - I’d forgotten about that one.
I kind of wanted to see A Cure for Wellness. It was gone from the local theater before I got the chance.
Most of those films were pretty low budget, so the losses were not that bad and some of that will be made up by overseas and cable fees.
I was looking for some really big budget bombs.
Next time you get a chance and it’s on TV or Cable watch, “The Red Tails”. The movie about the Tuskegee Airman,by George Lucas. It was a farce and and a insult to those men. It used every stereotype out there to portray those men.
“For the most part those movies were made on the cheap.”
yeah, except for suburbicon, most of those lost only a few million, and i would hardly call losing a small amount of money on a cheaply made film a “big bomb”.
How did I miss CHIPS? Was eric in the cast. Tell me he was. I saw the one with the all black cast, chocolate chips.
CHiPs - every body is doing it.
Loved HIDDEN FIGURES. Great movie that is worthy of awards. Rent it if you haven’t seen it.
The movie was/is over rated hype and was made so many decades after so the real men who compromised our space program couldn’t come out and call BS. Hollywood always likes to wait until nobody can call out their lies then they try to change history.
When you have a top 10 box office bombs, they take the lowest 10. How could they print 20 when they are only doing a top 10?????? I think you didn’t read the article. Not to worry, it happens hear a lot.
I am surprised “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” did poorly.
Different cast. That made the difference. I think people enjoyed the original cast and wasn’t accepting of change.
Good grief. It was a true story. The whites were assholes. The only decent one was the one that knocked down the sign. It was ridiculous that the whites made her run a mile to the bathroom. And yes, it was TRUE.
lol. It has made 576 million world wide. You guys act like they don’t keep the foreign money....they do. Most movies make their money overseas now. I doubt highly they lost 100 million.....
“Employing dramatic licence in this way is typical of Hollywood – but, crucially, in this case events could not possibly have happened that way. Harrison’s “white saviour” outburst comes after realising Johnson has been wasting valuable computing time rushing between the white and black sections to use a segregated toilet. Yet Nasa abolished segregated wings in 1958, and Johnson says she used the unlabelled “white” toilets all along, first by accident, later in defiance...
...Vaughan was indeed the first black supervisor at Nasa, as seen in the film, but took up the role 13 years earlier, in 1948. Similarly, Jackson was Nasa’s first African-American female engineer, as the film claims, but also achieved this earlier, in 1958.”
“Katherine Johnson herself denied experiencing the treatment the film shows her receiving. “I didn’t feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research…You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job…and play bridge at lunch. I didn’t feel any segregation. I knew it was there, but I didn’t feel it.” Likewise, Jackson only recalled one instance in which she felt disrespected, and the man involved subsequently apologized when he realized that he was in the wrong...
...While the film suggests that the white computers earned more than the black computers, the truth is that the two groups were paid the same, but that their pay was 40% less than the equivalent male pay, even during the NACA period.
So I think that the real problem with the film, at least for me, is that it was trying too hard to make its point about segregation, a point it could only make by misrepresenting the degree of segregation at NASA. Instead, the real story in the material seems to be the way that NASA was excluding women of talent from important roles.”
https://aelarsen.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/hidden-figures-laudable-lies/
According to what I read, they have to earn $700-$750 million to break in (double what they spent on the film’s budget and marketing).
A lot of malaise -- not necessarily a bad thing for a semi-European film -- and then some kind of buried evil at the end that seemed too cliched and unconvincing.
I only saw a few minutes of Unforgettable. It seemed like one of those persecutor and victim Lifetime TV movies -- warmed over Fatal Attraction.
Lifetime churns out ten or twenty a year. Why anybody would rent or screen or go to a theater to see one is beyond me.
I agree whole heartedly. I like good movies, but after 100 years, there must be 500 great movies that I have yet to see. Why waste good money on a newly made dud, when you can see a Hitchcock film that you haven’t seen for next to nothing?
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