I think the lack of CGI, and how real it all felt, also mattered.

To me, Top Gun: Maverick exemplifies something we get very rarely these days: A competent, well-made, well-acted, and well-told popcorn movie.

Its the racist water department. Defund da water department!

Black cities have Black mayors. Racism is not to blame for all of your problems.

Apparently, she forgot that she had filmed scenes for the movie *so hard*, that the movie itself forgot she was in it.

It’s undoubtedly hype.

I can buy that investment in the technology to make these films is pushing $1bn, but that’s spread over anything up to three films. The basic expenses won’t change.

A global BO of anything close to $2bn will comfortably cover the production costs of every movie and anything after that will be…

And I’m really glad to finally find out where that number came from, genuinely thanks for that, as I was utterly befuddled why everyone kept mentioning that 2 billion dollar mark as the goal.

All of this and the addtional information in the comments. Clinging to the 2 billion estimate is really weird as not only is it based on an old comment, the actual production cost estimates are much lower than that number would warrant. There’s no way Avatar 2 isn’t going to turn a massive profit already on its own.

Yeah, this has been one of the weird things as if you just go to the Wikipedia page, it lists the budget 350-460 million. So I’ve been baffled by how many people just blindly accept that the movie needs to make 2 billion worldwide to break even. Like the production cost estimates are quite public out there.

Everything I can find about this says that the budget for 2 isn’t even $500 mil, it’s just Cameron saying that it has to be one of the top grossing movies of all time to turn a profit and then articles saying ‘Well that means it has to make $2 billion!’ 

I’m fairly sure that the “it needs to make $2 billion to break even!” is a combination of misunderstanding and just flat out misinformation. He made a comment on how it had to be the “third or fourth highest grossing film” almost a decade ago. People keep referring to the CURRENT box office leaders instead of those…

Yeah, I really wish articles would start clarifying whether the figure they’re talking about is purely the budget for this movie, or if it’s the overall they’ve spent filming this one, the next one, and according to what he’s said, part of the fourth one.

If a movie has to make twice its budget to break even, it should have already done it. Where is this other hidden billion dollar expense?

Holy shit.

Holy shit. That kid can fucking SING. Wow. Can’t deny excellence.

Yes, I’ve seen that buzzfeed post about employers not wanting to allow for weather and wondered how many people had died from behavior like that. This is a clear example- she should have been able to leave early or call out and then she’d likely be with us today

Of course, if her employer had say, let her leave earlier since there was a state of emergency declared far earlier than evening then maybe she wouldn’t have gotten stuck in the first place.

Didn’t the Holocaust target homosexuals, Catholics, “mental defectives” and others? Are these considered “races”?

Old was terrible. It had some great actors and they were asked to deliver their lines in a flat, dead manner and to behave just like real people don’t. Also, all of Shymalan’s recent films before that were bad too. Why would someone see one of his films? Why does he have the budget to make them? It makes no sense.

I’m with Schrader. The anachronisms in fashion, makeup/hair, substances, etc really stand out in the trailer. This weekend I saw a headline with the question “How Historically Accurate is Babylon?” and sure enough, the entire thrust of the article was “the title is a play on Hollywood Babylon and Fatty Arbuckle is…