Mandalorian
Sounds like a cross between a mandarin orange and a DeLorean automobile
I watched the first two or three Star War films , that was so long ago, seems like it was in another galaxy, far far away.
Obsession showtime in my area theatre is 7:15 tonight. Planning on date night with my her.
I’ve NEVER seen a Star Wars movie.
I’ll take a bit of pride in saying that.
I think we are just a few years away from ordinary people making films in their garage with AI that are more successful than big movies from Sony or Paramount or Disney. The DIY stuff I see on YouTube is more heartfelt than anything the big studios are doing.
I am not the target audience for Grogu, and certainly not for Obsession.
Still, I did go see Project Hail Mary and enjoyed it.
May Disney die. And I loved that the called them groomers.
$112,368,604 - Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu $78,357,650 - Obsession
Embarrassing for Disney, but a good article would include the actual numbers.
I well remember the indie, low-budget horror flick “The Blair Witch Project.” What a stinker that was! One of the worst films ever made. And it had all the same hype. It was so bad I still remember it 27 years later!
After that was another horrible indie dystopian stinker, “The Road,” which was ten years after stinker “Blair Witch.”
I tend to remember stinkers more than good films, maybe because I resent falling for the hype and wasting my money and time.
A cheap horror movie that makes a lot of money may help studios get back to real story telling, even if they use the medium of superheroes and Star Wars and other pop culture to tell that story.
There is no reason that good stories can’t be told.
I thought a real good Marvel story to make is where a Skrull, which are shape changers, and can assume the identity of anybody and the Avengers have to figure out which one of them might be the Skrull.
One of the movies that DC cancelled, which should not have been cancelled, was the Aquaman offshoot, The Trench. It might have been a great horror type story line showing how they went from being Atlanteans to the horror monsters that live in the Trench.
What Disney did to Star Wars is just disappointing.
In a few weeks Disney’s Toy Story franchise hits the theaters.
Have zero clue what it’s competing against, but if that doesn’t lead at the Box Office, that would be a shock.
They may have killed their Star Wars franchise, but some of those fans are probably also Toy Story fans so they’ll get them then.
And apparently they have something called Bluey in their stable that apparently is widely popular with little ones on TV so that’s a potential to milk it at movie theaters in the future.
Iron Lung, Obsession, Backrooms...
YouTubers can make them better, faster, for far less than Hollyweird.
Hollyweird is screwed.
We saw Pressure yesterday, great movie, very well acted and worth the time to see it. No wokeness at all. However it did downplay a bit the relationship between Esienhower and Kate Somersby.
Garbage in; Garbage out
I had to look up Obsession on IMDB. It reminded me a little of “Fatal Attraction” without the supernatural element, just an unhinged woman. The trailer didn’t tempt me to want to see “Obsession.” If I had to pick between the two, I would pick Mandalorian. But it ticks me off that I can’s read user reviews anymore unless I log in.
Cheap horror flicks have always. been the way for Indies and fledgling filmmakers to get established. John Carpenter probably made HALLOWEEN for $100K, and look what happened there.
As for THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU, reviews have been overwhelmingly negative and frankly the STAR WARS canon has (more than) run its course. Disney killed it a decade ago.
The Star Wars mess is over and done with. When Darth Vader went spinning off into space at the end of the original movie, it was done, finished over with. The end.
That's just another Wednesday in dizzy town.
I think the Supergirl film is also going to bomb. The actress Milly Allcock looks too much like a teen dude. Flat chested and squirrely feminine.
I also expect the The Odyssey film to bomb. Having a repulsive looking Helen of Troy and Ellen Page freak pretending to be a male spartan warrior. Good riddance to Hollywood. /spit
another low-budget, but brilliant production values, sci-film, “Companion”, is the only new film that i’ve found to be worth watching ... very intriguing story set in the near future with many twists and turns ...