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[The Whispering Monk]

Can you translate what @ATP has said because I didn't understand anything

I believe he's saying that Hollywood believes they are the only real source of entertainment and there is nothing else out there. So we have to watch what they produce and smile and thank them for whatever they want to shove in our faces.

 

[ATP]

@The Whispering Monk glad you enjoyed my take on it.

Now...a favor...

Can you translate what @ATP has said because I didn't understand anything

Sorry for being unclear.
Basically:

I believe he's saying that Hollywood believes they are the only real source of entertainment and there is nothing else out there. So we have to watch what they produce and smile and thank them for whatever they want to shove in our faces.

This.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[Husky_Khan]

Red Letter Media did an amusing video discussing something they coined as "WatchBait" which is cheap poor quality often horror movies that have certain titles which read like Clickbait.

They use combinations of public domain words such as "Amityville" and "Exorcism" or "Shark" "Ouija" and "Titanic" etc.

These movies tend to be even worse then say... Asylum level films or your classic idea of a SciFi movie of the week or B-Movie schlock. Like amateurishly student film bad... But using clickbaity words, intriguing derivative covers/movie posters etc they can fill out the libraries of various streaming services and hopefully get those clicks.



It's a pretty funny and interesting commentary video IMHO.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Red Letter Media did an amusing video discussing something they coined as "WatchBait" which is cheap poor quality often horror movies that have certain titles which read like Clickbait.

They use combinations of public domain words such as "Amityville" and "Exorcism" or "Shark" "Ouija" and "Titanic" etc.

These movies tend to be even worse then say... Asylum level films or your classic idea of a SciFi movie of the week or B-Movie schlock. Like amateurishly student film bad... But using clickbaity words, intriguing derivative covers/movie posters etc they can fill out the libraries of various streaming services and hopefully get those clicks.



It's a pretty funny and interesting commentary video IMHO.

As long as they are not as the garbage that comes out of Netflix and Disney and so forth... I rather watch "watchbait" than the movies of those companies.

In the meantime...It's a remake (by French crew and cast) of the Japanese movie. Not hopeful but at least it doesn't look insulting to fans like certain companies do.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Ok here is a likely not very good Latino Horror movie I am going to watch :



It's a shame that the Iberoamerican horror scene is rather anemic as the Italian one (THOUGH the Italian one can count on the 1950s to 1980s/1990s FOR MOVIES), both in literature and other media.

 

[TheRejectionist]

https://collider.com/best-low-budget-horror-movies-reddit/#39-let-39-s-scare-jessica-to-death-39-1971

 

[Husky_Khan]

Oh boy Oh boy!

After seeing Mattel's success with Barbie, Hasbro is going to foolishly explore how to make film IP with such iconic toy brands like PlayDoh, Nerf, and something called Transformers.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Their direct involvement is bound to turn it into a rousing success.

 

[Blasterbot]

pretty sure that some of those were already in the works. play-doh movie huh. I'm imagining something like Gumby. as for NERF? just get a bunch of kids hand them about 3000 dollars in nerf guns give them a fun arena to play in. alternately make an animated show where they take nerf wars very seriously.

 

[Husky_Khan]

pretty sure that some of those were already in the works. play-doh movie huh. I'm imagining something like Gumby. as for NERF? just get a bunch of kids hand them about 3000 dollars in nerf guns give them a fun arena to play in. alternately make an animated show where they take nerf wars very seriously.

Or maybe it'll be like the new Gran Turismo movie?



They'll recruit a bunch of tween aged NERF Gun Players to train to see which one can become a Tier One Special Forces operator and serve on the frontlines in high risk direct action missions?

 

[Husky_Khan]

I saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.... PART ONE!!! in theaters today. Since it has already been out for like a month we were able to get the theater pretty much to ourselves. I used to be pretty hot and cold on Mission Impossible films and missed out on the middle ones and wasn't too hot on Tom Cruise much either. But after hearing about how good Fallout was, I went back and saw all of them from three onward and they were pretty decent overall and just got better and better I suppose.

These movies are still kinda feeling like Tom Cruise movies as opposed to a franchise type of film but they're so well made and entertaining and engrossing and Dead Reckoning I guess just improved on that formula that's worked out so well for them. Even though I'm basically seeing a star vehicle, it's a film I'm still thoroughly entertained by and it delivered on the action and manageable humor and tech and drama and character bits and our favorite dwarf being fawned over and tenderly caring for all manners of strong sexy spy babes and the like.

The real neat concept is as a spy thriller, it's use of an artificial intelligence as the primary plot point is something that could so easily be cringe or poorly done as well as something I've seen countless times before... but it's done far better here. There's no cringey hacking scenes or poorly set up or otherwise formulaic artificial nemesis or overreaching scifi nonsense. The artificial intelligence plot is well done and neat and really enhances the story but the core of the film using that for making a simply great and well told and crafted spy thriller movie.

Lots of spy thrillers dealing with artificial intelligence and hacking... Eagle Eye, Fast and the Furious 7, Black Hat, Live Free and Die Hard etc but this one did it pretty well. Keep in mind its not an in depth exploration of hacking or artificial intelligence like some Isaac Asimov novel or Mr. Robot, but its use as a focal plot point was well done.

So yeah, overall it was a good solid spy thriller. Certainly better than the latest and last Daniel Craig offering for the Bond franchise.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[PsihoKekec]

Production Hell are his most amusing videos.

 

[TheRejectionist]

DIRECTOR

Jeff Rowe

CO-DIRECTOR

Kyler Spears

PRODUCERS

Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg James Weaver Marie Balland Lukas Williams

EXEC. PRODUCERS

Josh Fagen Adrianna A.J. Cohen Ramsay McBean Julien Meesters

WRITERS

Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg Brendan O'Brien Dan Hernandez Benji Samit Jeff Rowe

ORIGINAL WRITERS

Kevin Eastman Peter Laird

CASTING

Adam Richards

EDITOR

Greg Levitan

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Kent Seki

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Yashar Kassai

ART DIRECTION

Arthur Fong Tiffany Lam

VISUAL EFFECTS

Chris Kazmier Nicolas Benoit Sarah Simon Victor Hareng David Carrière Tanguy Gourret Florent Razafimandimby Etienne Metois Matthieu Rouxel Martin Scalzotto David Marquis Jean-Paul Suau

COMPOSERS

Trent Reznor Atticus Ross

SOUND

Mark A. Mangini Michael Semanick Christopher Bonis Jacob Flack Chelsea Body Alex Gregson Kevin Jung

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)​

Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office	$101,199,073	Details
International Box Office	$36,968,642	Details
Worldwide Box Office	$138,167,715
Further financial details...

1. Summary
2. News
3. Box Office
4. International

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:	$28,007,544 (27.7% of total gross)
Legs:	3.61 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:	73.2% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:	$70,000,000 (worldwide box office is 2.0 times production budget)
Theater counts:	3,858 opening theaters/3,950 max. theaters, 3.7 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO	$101,199,073

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists​

Record	Rank	Amount
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 701-800)	782​	$101,199,073​
All Time International Box Office (Rank 2,301-2,400)	2,378​	$36,968,642​
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 1,301-1,400)	1,344​	$138,167,715​
All Time Domestic Box Office for Remake Movies	41​	$101,199,073​
All Time International Box Office for Remake Movies (Rank 101-200)	107​	$36,968,642​
All Time Worldwide Box Office for Remake Movies	59​	$138,167,715​
All Time Domestic Box Office for Digital Animation Movies	99​	$101,199,073​
All Time International Box Office for Digital Animation Movies (Rank 201-300)	222​	$36,968,642​
All Time Worldwide Box Office for Digital Animation Movies (Rank 101-200)	146​	$138,167,715​
All Time Domestic Box Office for Super Hero Movies	85​	$101,199,073​
All Time International Box Office for Super Hero Movies (Rank 101-200)	106​	$36,968,642​
All Time Worldwide Box Office for Super Hero Movies	98​	$138,167,715​

See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Or maybe it'll be like the new Gran Turismo movie?



They'll recruit a bunch of tween aged NERF Gun Players to train to see which one can become a Tier One Special Forces operator and serve on the frontlines in high risk direct action missions?

I noticed Gran Turismo seems to be the first completely decent feature movie Neil Blomkamp has done SINCE 2013.

AND IT IS NOT EVEN SCIENCE FICTION! IT'S A RACING MOVIE BASED ON A SONY IP! AND IT'S WELL RATED AND REVIEWED ?!?!?!?

I haven't watched Demonic because from a mile away you could understand it was garbage...

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[TheRejectionist]

Next (likely but not certain) guilty pleasure of mine :

 

[Husky_Khan]

Next (likely but not certain) guilty pleasure of mine :

Hopefully it's watchable entertaining.