I do understand this is very unfair of me, but her association with Noah Baumbach, and especially his recent movie White Noise, undermines this assertion.
Agreed. This is the key
The Schumer version definitely wouldnât have hit it just right. I probably should have emphasized that part more.
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Was it that bad? The trailer looked great, then I saw the reviews and have put off seeing it.
This isnât really true. No one in the industry thought the movie would bomb, they just thought it had no realistic chance of making its money back because it was so much higher budgeted than any other movie that had previously existed and was way outside of what had been done at that time budget wise.
A-titles in that era were usually in the mid-$60 million budgets to the very top ones having a production budget of a little over $100 million, with most big A-titles having production budgets of $80-85 million. Titanicâs was $200 million and rumored to be higher at the time with me seeming to remember all overages above $200 million coming directly out of Cameronâs pocket. Thereâs a quote on wiki from him saying he wrote two separate checks to Fox, saying they didnât force him to do it but they were happy he did. I do not buy it wasnât a stipulation.
If Fox thought it would do extremely well, they wouldnât have sold the domestic distribution rights to Paramount in the hopes of recouping some of their production costs. They just knew, at that time, asking a movie to make $400 million worldwide to break even wasnât an easy ask. Only 24 movies had made $400 million worldwide prior to Titanicâs release. They figured if they were going to make money on the movie their best bet was internationally. If they thought it was the other way around, they would have sold the international distribution rights to Paramount instead. They were right and both of them laughed all the way to the bank while sweating every day coming up on its release.
If it bombed it would have likely destroyed a significant portion of the industry and its success set a horrible precedent of whatâs come since, insanely high cost productions that need to be saved by their international grosses because so few movies make a ton of money domestically. $400 million domestically is still good for number 45 all time ($400 million is number 346 internationally, with only 24 of those movies coming before Titanicâs release), showing how hard it still is for movies to make a ton of money outside of international grosses.
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I feel like it could it could have been great if theyâd taken Amy Schumer Barbie in a direction like Legally Blonde, which was an EXCELLENT subversion of ultra femme stereotypes. But right reports are that weâd have gotten something more like Legally Blonde 2.
They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix) is fun. Stylistically interesting - had a slightly grainy look that made it look a little older, sort of like a blacksploitation film and was clearly designed to be quasi-present day, but not a specific year.
Itâs a comedy/mystery/intrigue movie with clear social commentary. The leads are all great and obviously Jamie Foxx playing a fast-talking pimp is always going to be a winner.
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Im a sucker for this series regardless of the fact that a majority of them are just bad, but im very optimistic for this. The plot sounds perfect for a Saw movie.
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Absolutely savage.
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I donât mean weird as is surprised it is popular. I mean weird as in itâs a metaphysical existential movie steeped in gender theory and riddled with 50 year old movie nerd references. Itâs also somehow a pink explosion of girl power mega marketing centering a doll. Oh ya and multiple dimensions!
Itâs a genuinely weird weird movie.
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Talk to me
Australian horror movie about some spirit summoning gone wrong.
Went into this expecting a fun horror time, instead this was a very dark and accurate representation of how depressing being a teenager can be. Nothing groundbreaking and I thought the final act was weaker, but still a decent addition to the âfeelbad movieâ genre (also the âhorror but actually itâs about traumaâ one) .
(saw this in theaters, with some teenagers chatting non stop which was annoying. this quieted down as the film went on which I guess must mean it was effective)
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Oh man, if that is what the movie is, a lot of people are going to HATE it.
The advertising is making it seem like a fun/interesting/scary supernatural romp. It does not seem to indicate in any way a deeper psychological darkness.
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It was astonishingly bad imo. I watched the last half just because I couldnât believe what I was seeing.
It was also super super weird so I guess itâs not impossible that part just missed me completely and some people might have been into it?
Ah you know it all makes sense when you find out the directors previously worked on The Babadook and brought that director over as their producer for Talk To Me.
The directors have a bunch of old videos up on their still active and instantly bizarre YouTube channel.
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It definitely has some scary moments (at least in a theater), and some dose of supernatural (which youâre allowed to not take as a metaphor for something else), but not in a really novel way imo, and yeah I would also have preferred more fun, but it is what it isâŠ
So Iâll take the âgoodâ, that at least it allows to connect to some real human experience (the lead actress was also good, or at least very well casted for the part).
How was my boi Zoe Terakes 
He was a goddamn delight in Wentworth (super serious British prison show like the anti-OitNB).
Marvel is currently imploding the MCU from within, but I would show up for a midnight screening of Ironheart.
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Also good ! I thought it was pretty cool that there was a nonbinary or trans character without it being made into a plot point (and tbh I only noticed because when the other characters say âtheyâ the French subtitles translated it as the gender-neutral pronoun âielâ which I do not see very often)
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NFW okay that is wonderful to hear about the French translation very nice very nice
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@RiskyFlush , you should make a new thread.