There’s at least five movies on this list that should be ahead of it, maybe 10-15.

The consensus was right. It’s a really cool looking movie, but it’s not very good.  I’d put it on the list somewhere for the dedication to practical fx and the visuals, but nowhere near the top.

I think the difference is that people consider themselves fans of “horror movies” as a genre. It’s part of some people’s whole identity in a way that “comedy” just isn’t. Like, who’s got Will Ferrell’s face tattooed on their arm the way people do Freddy Kreuger?

And let’s be honest, there’s no comedy stars making $20M a movie any more.  You can probably count on one hand the stars making that kind of salary now.  Even RDJ isn’t going to pull that kind of money unless he’s back in the Iron Man suit.

While that is the mindset, that doesn’t mean that it’s still not fucking dumb.

If a producers takes 100 million dollars and makes 5-10 movies at 10-20 million dollars each, unless that producer is just absolutely shit at choosing projects, they’ll have at least a couple that double their budget, maybe even land as…

You’re not wrong (other than maybe about the Rock— he definitely provides a boost to good movies, and he chooses movies that suit him well, but I don’t think he can push a movie to a good opening solely with his name. I don’t know if there’s any stars left who do that.)

I love the major and minor leagues reference here— I use that frequently on this topic. But I do need to quibble a little- there’s plenty of people making the single and double A level movies.

Yeah, but this is not that. We’re not talking about an actor struggling to enunciate because they’re overcome with emotion.

It would take almost zero effort to install a text bar above every screen.  It’d work the same way translations do for opera performances.

It’s no more my job to have an answer to that than it is Taylor Swift’s.  That’s kind of my point.

When we as a society give so much more control over opinions to celebrities and “influencers”, this is the obvious outcome. Here you have politicians asking a pop star to delay a concert to effect change that they have complete control over.

You don’t have to do rewrites to use existing footage.

Trump outright hates his fans. He’s said as much. But he loves hearing people cheer for him, and he knows it’s the closest he’ll ever get to being respected by the people he does want respect from (ie, NY elites).

In this case, it had nothing to do with directors.  From everything I’ve read, it really is just a case of someone being hired for a job they shouldn’t have had, being almost unimaginably negligent.

Basically, there are clauses in most showrunner contracts (supposedly, since heaven knows I’ve never seen one) that allow the contracts to be broken under “force majeure”; ie, “act of God”, which for some reason a strike falls under. The time on that is supposedly 90-100 days.

Don’t forget that streaming is a far inferior way to experience a movie, both in image and sound quality.

There is absolutely no excuse for it.

Good.

Notably missing: the fact that we coincidentally just passed the 90 day mark, when its assumed most of the force majeure clauses in the bigger contracts go into effect.

Understandable enough.  I mean, we’ve obviously seen much bigger “mistakes” (if you want to call it that) from PR departments in big corporations.  I just thought it was a strange situation that no one had really remarked on.