Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 3)

I assume she’s already got multiples of fuck you money. Her films have literally grossed more that anyone else’s ever.

Based on how terrible a person he is probably 20 or 30

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Lists like that are so misleading. Get in 5 Marvel movies and that’s close to 10 billion right away. I’d be curious to know what my filmography has grossed because it would be a lot lot and I’m a nobody.

Her top 10 is 10.2 billion and 7 of those are MCU. She’s only top billed in one of her top 10 movies…Jurassic World Rebirth. Two of those were uncredited cameos lol.

If I counted right, my top 10 is just shy of $10 billion worldwide. Pretty easy to do when doing work for the first 6 Harry Potter movies and audio fixes on Titanic.

As the article notes, this is not a new position from her. She’s just doubling down. Doubt this one additional interview has a meaningful effect. As stated in the article, Javier Bardem is another Woody defender and he has continued thriving.

It would have to suddenly stick to her to a surprising extent to meaningfully bring her career down.

https://x.com/StephenKing/status/1995571576557928776

I felt that way about Raging Bull until I eventually rewatched it. Firmly convinced that it’s a banger now.

Why do you have cake next to your name?

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I nominate this for the most nunn post of the year. I’d make a new thread but I don’t want it retitled “I only come here to participate in this forum”.

Because the makers of this app don’t know that html title attributes don’t bubble up to users on mouseover when they have children.

Been pretty curious about that myself!

My best guess was that it was tied to me joining the site, so it’s my account’s birthday or some bullshit Iike thar?

it means he’s got a thicc juicy ass in modern slang

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I am just pointing out that she’s so outrageously successful professionally that it’s a bit late to threaten her with a lack of work. She’s got to have well north of $100 million in net worth at this point, so she doesn’t need the money. And she’s such a bankable star that she’ll always find projects if she wants them from some studio that will gladly take the heat to make several million dollars.

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Shocked he didn’t go with The Shining.

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Variety is the current leading industry trade magazine. If it’s in there someone is trying to hurt her regardless of past comments.

Actually that tracks:

BTW still the best first post in UP history:

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I 100% agree she should have f*** you money. It’s just that lists like those are extremely misleading and don’t characterize the person’s true impact on the movie (I’m basically irrelevant in the movie industry but could go toe to toe with her numbers in my example).

Samuel L. Jackson has been in a ton of great box office winners and in many of them he had big or leading parts while in many others he didn’t. Get in a few Star Wars and MCU movies and you’ll get a number like that. As the second highest grossing movie star, he’s not walking in saying he wants $20 million and 10% of the gross. He probably has reasonable salary demands for the roles he chooses.

Tom Cruise except on rare occasions is the lead but probably the vast majority of his total comes from MI and Top Gun.

The bigger impact of the article is on people who might work with her not wanting to anymore. People in the industry do get soft blacklisted that way. It ending up in Variety is showing someone is very pissed off at her right now. I did work for two of her movies, including her best one 8 Legged Freaks.

This list shows her as doing better in the rankings when you count only lead or important ensemble roles. Once you throw in cameos and smaller stuff, she actually slips a bit [and Stan Lee smokes everybody]. So, it’s not like she ran up the numbers solely by playing an extra in a lifeboat in Titanic or something.

Also, part of the reason she made so much is because she asks for what she is worth (and the studios agree), and Disney had to back up the truck when they played around with The Black Widow release during Covid.

I referred to that list and 2 of her top 10 were uncredited cameos. She was only top billed in one of the 10 movies. Her highest billing in MCU in the top 10 was 2nd. Usually she was 4th or 5th billed. If you consider there to be 5 or 10 leads in a movie, fine. But usually when there are a bunch of leads playing together it’s an ensemble cast.

As has been the case throughout Hollywood history, the ‘stars’ of the movie are usually the first two billed. There are lots of fights who should be in those positions, especially when the roles are similar in size and scope.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly gets all the heat in that category and I have to admit i also figured hey I’ve seen it why venture into the rest of them but holy shit For a Few Dollars More is an absolute banger and I’m ashamed it took me this long to watch it. Better.

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Aporia (2023)

This gets a :+1:

But it also gets a wut.

Judy Greer’s character is a single mom grief stricken over the loss of her husband.

Then she discovers her neighbor has invented a time machine with one catch. It’s only strong enough to send a single particle back in time. You know what you can do with a single particle you can send back to any location at any time? That’s right, it’s an assassin’s wet dream.

So the two of them begin their careers as serial killers by sending back particles to murder the people who wronged them. Judy Greer starts with the person who killed her husband. Even better, sending the particle back before the accident means her husband will now be alive. With this proof of concept, they begin finding reasons to keep killing new people.

They have to be careful because killing the wrong person can have unintended consequences. Which of course ends up being the problem they face.

It’s fun and sappy and a little predictable but hey, it tried something new.

I’m somewhat making fun of the movie by calling them serial killers. That is not at all the tone of the movie. But like, that’s basically what happens.