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[–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This benchmark comes with a caveat because ticket sales weren’t adjusted for inflation.

You know, you're the journalist writing the article. You could have just done that math for us instead of writing the parenthetical caveat

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    “If you don’t see ‘The Odyssey’ in Imax, you aren’t seeing it in the way that Chris Nolan intended,” says the company’s CEO

    Translation "please don't pirate this movie. I know everyone prefers to just watch it at home in their underwear to having to deal with those kids in the back talking and the risk of getting long covid. But, please, think of our million dollar salaries."

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    Fuck the chuds who thought it'd flop because of Elliot Page and a black Helen of Troy.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    right wingers have always got thier panties in a wad over ELLIOT page because he transitioned.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Bad actor even before transition and very small even when they where female so kind of odd to be a soldier and when people thought he was Achilles.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    In Troy (2004) Achilles effortless defeats a much larger and heavy warrior through seer skill. I've never anybody claiming that his size makes that scene bad or unrealistic.

    I will hold my judgment until I see the movie.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Achilles was an immortal demi-god. Do you even Greek mythology?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It'll do fine, it still won't make it a good movie (nothing to do with that) it'll be a typical Hollywood pander film, big visuals, little substance. Oppenheimer was praised for being a mediocre piece of crap.

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  • [+] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I've seen plenty predicting it was going to be a massive flop. Not professional reviewers, just "anti-woke keyboard warriors"

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    https://thefederalist.com/tag/odyssey/

    Second article expects a disaster, the top one saw the box results and walked back

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    I liked it, but I found it visually disappointing. No gods except Athena, Sirens boring, Hades boring, Circe boring (except the transformation scene, that was sick).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    My brother just said I should go see it, and said almost everything was practical, even the cyclops

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (12 children)

    And yet, $250 million budget for practical effects. Could have saved money on CGI, which is a bonkers thing to say.

    Unless the movie is Star Wars or Avengers: Endgame or Avatar, nobody should be spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a movie. Dune 2's budget was $190 million, for a sci-fi epic, with a proven audience. This is just a fantasy story.

    Making the budget on debut is incredible lucky, but it might still be considered a "flop" because of the extra $200M or whatever of marketing budget.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    with a proven audience

    Christopher Nolan is his own brand that has a proven audience. In a sense, Universal paid handsomely to poach him from Warner Brothers, and giving him big budgets is part of that deal.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    And he has yet to disappoint or not make money so it's working fine. It already made over $260 million globally and the weekend isn't even over yet. It will absolutely still be the biggest movie to see for the next several weeks so it did it's job. Sometimes I feel like there isn't one thing on Lemmy that people can't find something to complain about! I can't wait to see it still, but there were no good seats at any theater near me when i finally decided to go. Next weekend it is!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Lemmy is just full of contrarians because it's not-reddit. I've learned to just accept it at this point.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    Yeah it's like how Australia was originally a penal colony for Britain...

    Many people are here because they were banned from Reddit. For better and for worse.

    Those of us who voluntarily came here back during the API bullshit are old hat at this point.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (3 children)

    The whole internet is full of contrarians. I don't know why so many movie-goers are so determined not to enjoy anything

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    There's an xkcd pointing out that it's a lot easier to hate something everyone else likes, than to love something everyone else hates, and that honestly really changed the way I view popularity and contrarianism. I respect contrarians who can love what is hated but I'm totally dismissive of anyone trying to criticize what is popular.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I think this is a good time to say that I really enjoyed Mercy. I don't get what people's problem with it was. I think it's a cool writing challenge to tell a story with the limits of a character having to investigate the crime from a computer with a time limit and I think the movie did a good job telling a story with those limits. I thought it was exciting to watch. And, since I turn my phone off in the theatre and can't check the time, I liked that the movie periodically tells you roughly how much time is left. I also love that we are watching the story unfold in real time, with no time skips.

    I will say though that the villain's motivation was kind of dumb. He could have just brought forward the evidence of his brother's innocence and discredited the AI judge. If the court wouldn't hear it, he could have made it public. It was completely unnecessary to frame another innocent man for murder

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Anytime I look up a forum thread of a movie I'm watching/wanting to watch (spoiler-free), at least half of the comments are "this movie was trash and you should feel bad for liking it."

    And the other half feel the need to justify why they liked it to the half that hated it for reasons they literally can't put into words (if they do it's always the most contrived/overused excuse in critiquing).

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Still annoyed by the armour not invented until hundreds of years later, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Well actschually, the Cyclops was most likely a dead elephant, but why care about the details, Nolan clearly doesn't.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Its fantasy...

    Imagine if someone in a thousand years found starwars and people got shitty because we didnt have real light sabers yet

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I have no problem with that. My problem is that it is fantasy set in a real time in human history, and it deviates from that source it is based on. It is an adoption of a great work of art and it fumbles with the details.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    What was the budget + marketing for this movie?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I really want to wait so I can go to an IMAX to eTvh this film. Any recommendations or arguments against it?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Nolan to chuds:

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Matt did not read the script.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know what that means. He said in an interview that he didn't. He just said "yes."

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    But he read it after accepting the job. Right?

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  • It was a pretty short clip. He and some other big name actors apparently made fun of Robert Pattison because he wanted to read through the script before giving an answer. He said he and the others just said "yes" the moment they got the call.

    I'm sure he read it eventually--at least his lines, but I have no idea of the timeline.

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