Knows what makes a good movie.
Posted on 08/17/2023 8:07:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The live-action, woke-AF remake of “Snow White” looks like it’s going to be Disney’s next big-budget flop — and it also looks like the struggling studio already has someone primed to take the fall.
To give you an idea of how insane Hollywood budgets are, even a blockbuster success can lose money. The new Indiana Jones drove this lifelong, diehard fan away — and I wasn’t the only one. “Indiana Jones and the Diaper of Dysentery” needed to earn nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS before showing a profit (as the Critical Drinker explained last month) but after seven weeks is still south of $400 million. For a franchise that was built on shooting fast and shooting cheap, Disney’s Lucasfilm division went unjustifiably nuts with Indy’s budget.
Even crazier, according to Variety, Tom Cruise’s new Mission: Impossible might lose money, too, despite selling millions more tickets. “After falling short of expectations,” Variety reported, Indy and Mission: Impossible “could lose nearly $100 million in their theatrical runs, according to sources familiar with the financials of similar productions.”
Of the two, Mission: Impossible could return some profit — it could go into the black somewhere north of $600 million — but nothing like Paramount hoped for based on its budget and Cruise’s star power.
“Snow White,” due out next spring, won’t cost $300 million to make and market (I don’t think), but if the early buzz is anything to go by, Disney has yet another stinker on its hands.
But if someone could be a fall guy… someone too young and inexperienced to speak in public without a script… someone like “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler. Tongues were set wagging, and not in a good way, when Zegler was cast in the role.
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From 2018, and illustrative...
https://www.businessinsider.com/dwayne-johnson-china-what-is-box-office-fraud-2018-7
A regular analysis of this crappola is done by a YTube Brit dude — see his Disparu line of videos. Fantastic!
Except that the character was named Snow White because "her skin was white as snow." Movie studios used to cast actors who looked like the characters they were playing. They still do if the character is black (imagine the screaming protests if they cast a white actor to play Black Panter). If the character is white then they either rewrite the characters as black, gay, transvestite, or all of the above.
Maybe they can call this movie Sand Brown and the Seven Woke, Diverse, Non-Binary People.
Fraud in multiple directions.
Everything from China seems to be lies.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a worthy effort.
Not just China.
Let’s put it this way, if I had money coming from the Cruise movie or the Indy movie and had issues with the reported gross, I’d take a good look at what when on after the Barbie movie was released.
𝘔𝘺 40 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮.
I’m about your son’s age, and I saw it last night with a lady I’m currently seeing. I didn’t take it as what the Critical Drinker, or some others reviewed it to be. There are jokes aimed at both sides, but at time you can see the feminism that went into the writing at times. A fair amount of the jokes in the movie were humorous, some juvenile. Some of the jokes at men’s expense to seem to be a bit harsher than others. I was surprised to see that the main Ken actually got something of a character arc, as did Barbie, and a few of the other characters (to a lesser extent IMO). I don’t think it was terrible, but I don’t think it’s going to be something I’ll actively look to view again in the future. If you should go to see it, just go to a matinee.
I’ll also note that Will Farrell’s character, and the fact he was in the film as all was just strange. He wasn’t the same Will Farrell we know from Anchorman, SNL, Talledega Nights, Elf, Step Brothers, that people are used to. I don’t doubt he could take serious roles, but his character, his place in the movie just made little sense, and it doesn’t really feel like he should’ve been there for much more than maybe exposition.
Knows what makes a good movie.
Black hair and blue eyes is the Galway Girl ...
Sold! What am I buying again?
“Coal Black and de Sebbin Dwarfs” was far more respectful of, well, everything related to it than this present Disney Corp abortion seems to be.
Based on what I have seen and read, it seems like it started out as a extreme matriarchy, switched to an extreme patriarchy, and then ended a moderate matriarchy. Is that a fair assessment?
“Pretty girl”
There were some pictures on another thread where she didn’t look very attractive. I guess it depends on the angle. Her personality doesn’t look very pretty at all.
Guess again - the numerous reshoots (likely with more to come) have very likely already put that effort well north of $300 million. Most of this script really needs a rewrite but that isn't likely during a writers' strike that doesn't look to be ending anytime soon. Whoever thought turning Snow White into an obnoxious girlboss, kicking the love interest aside, and turning the dwarves into Magical Creatures that look like something from a homeless camp in Portland should have been fired long ago but now they're stuck with both actors and script.
Zegler's interviews - there were several dating back more than a year - are cringe-worthy bleatings of an entitled arrested adolescent who gets her politics from the backs of cereal boxes, but there's a lot more wrong with this project than a prima donna brat. Still, her laughing about the possibility of a fellow cast member - the replacement for the Prince, "Jonathon", played by Andrew Burnap - having his entire part cut from the final print was malicious and unprofessional. If they do get to a reshoot things might seem a little icy in the cast canteen...
Adult women are going in droves
Snap out of it. This will NOT be a hit. This is a dumb movie from a really dumb corporation, it won’t earn a dime in profit.
I also saw BARBIE this week. I went expecting to hold my nose, but in the end found it entertaining in a popcorn way.
You’re right about everything. A lot of the humor was juvenile or sophomoric, but I enjoyed watching the development of both main characters. However, a lot of the plot just didn’t make sense. (How did Barbie & Ken even get out of jail — twice?)
The supporting cast was annoying — not to mention they were reeking of hurray-for-diversity hires. With the exception of Goslin & Ferrell (whose role seemed weird), all the men (i.e. other Kens) were extremely effeminate.
The writing seemed a bit confused, as I wasn’t sure if the intention was to be anti-masculine, rather than anti-male. I found myself on Team Ken (Gosling), and his transformation into the Marlboro Man The patriarchy might have been a bit of a mess, but the matriarchy (and I’m a woman) was nauseating.
On my way out of the theater, I was asked by two very liberal middle-aged women (this is NYC) what I thought of the film. I told them I preferred Ken, and explained that I was “conservative.” They looked at me like I had leprosy.
I’d say that it’s fair.
LOL, I only found out about The Critical Drinker 3-6 months ago...I go there all the time now!
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