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Sandstorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:40 am Red One on Prime. The Rock's latest blockbuster, this one about Santa and the North Pole. 1st half is really good and rather clever, the second half is the final fight scenes of Ragnarök and totally spoils a good film.

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:45 am

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:40 am Red One on Prime. The Rock's latest blockbuster, this one about Santa and the North Pole. 1st half is really good and rather clever, the second half is the final fight scenes of Ragnarök and totally spoils a good film.

Utter bomb at the box office I believe.

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:45 am

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:40 am Red One on Prime. The Rock's latest blockbuster, this one about Santa and the North Pole. 1st half is really good and rather clever, the second half is the final fight scenes of Ragnarök and totally spoils a good film.

Utter bomb at the box office I believe.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:32 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:45 am

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:40 am Red One on Prime. The Rock's latest blockbuster, this one about Santa and the North Pole. 1st half is really good and rather clever, the second half is the final fight scenes of Ragnarök and totally spoils a good film.

Utter bomb at the box office I believe.

Although, to hear Amazon tell it, that's actually not a big deal. It was content (my use of content rather than film) developed for the streaming platform that they belatedly decided to try a theatrical release with . Ultimately, its purpose and value come from being a somewhat big ticket item in the streaming library and how many people will watch it in the coming years.

It's not quite the same as the old "we'll make it back on video/dvd sales", but content created first and foremost to live on a streaming platform doesn't need to do numbers at the box office in the same way and that is the execs think about it.

That said, I would welcome its bombing doing something to curtail the number of soulless action flicks starring Dwayne Johnson. Maybe a fraction of that money could be reallocated to more interesting projects...

Biffer wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 3:34 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:32 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:45 am

Utter bomb at the box office I believe.

Although, to hear Amazon tell it, that's actually not a big deal. It was content (my use of content rather than film) developed for the streaming platform that they belatedly decided to try a theatrical release with . Ultimately, its purpose and value come from being a somewhat big ticket item in the streaming library and how many people will watch it in the coming years.

It's not quite the same as the old "we'll make it back on video/dvd sales", but content created first and foremost to live on a streaming platform doesn't need to do numbers at the box office in the same way and that is the execs think about it.

That said, I would welcome its bombing doing something to curtail the number of soulless action flicks starring Dwayne Johnson. Maybe a fraction of that money could be reallocated to more interesting projects...

Yeah, but while that's a fine story for stuff around the £100million budget, this was more than twice that. And there was an advertising push on it that you don't normally get for streaming focused stuff.

Biffer wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 12:05 pm Christopher Nolan's next film announced - grek legend epic The Odyssey.

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:39 pm Call me a big kid if you like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the new Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant stuff.

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:39 pm Call me a big kid if you like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the new Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant stuff.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 1:18 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:39 pm Call me a big kid if you like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the new Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant stuff.

Ditto.

I enjoyed "Lee", more so than my wife who was a bit, "meh" with it.

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:39 pm Call me a big kid if you like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the new Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant stuff.

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:07 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:39 pm Call me a big kid if you like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the new Wallace and Gromit. Brilliant stuff.

Watched it last night. Loved it!

Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:17 pm Anora - good, but doesn't live up to all the hype imho. It's a bit too long, and often has an unfortunate Uncut Gems vibe.

A Real Pain - really enjoyed this one. I'm not familiar with Kieran Culkin (didn't watch Succession) but he's bloody brilliant.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:40 pm

Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:17 pm Anora - good, but doesn't live up to all the hype imho. It's a bit too long, and often has an unfortunate Uncut Gems vibe.

A Real Pain - really enjoyed this one. I'm not familiar with Kieran Culkin (didn't watch Succession) but he's bloody brilliant.

He's really good, just brings huge charisma to any role he's in. His short appearance in Fargo is excellent.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:54 pm Saw Nosferatu last night. Solid piece of slow burn gothic horror, but given Eggers pedigree I expected a little more.

Out of morbid curiosity I watched 2018's The Predator at the weekend. Bar a couple of mildly amusing jokes and interesting kills it's tonally uneven trash that has studio interference written all over it.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 9:23 am Gene Hackman and his wife have died in their home

Biffer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:17 pm

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 9:23 am Gene Hackman and his wife have died in their home

Details coming out on this a really awful. Hackmans wife passed away due to an infectious illness unexpectedly and Hackman died a week later, probably unaware that his wife was lying dead in the house due to his advanced Alzheimer’s.