Toyboy
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Something else Scorsese said in one of his responses was that it bothers him that people will spend time watching 2 hours' worth of short YouTube clips... -
I would say JAWS, only because it was more family-friendly, then the nuclear blast of STAR WARS just completely changed every expectation of what box...Leave a comment:
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I guess what I'm wondering is how is it that this film, which is a collection of elements that even in 1981 would be considered box office poison, managed...Leave a comment:
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Looking at 1981 you see that the number 2 film at the box office that year was ON GOLDEN POND, beat out only by RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK but doing better...Leave a comment:
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Here's another crazy thing - looking at 1979, BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY was on almost 1,000 screens and was the 23rd biggest box office hit for...Leave a comment:
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I expected that to most likely be the case and in doing what I did - removing those MCU and DC films - I was alternately attempting to show that even...Last edited by Toyboy; 06-13-2022, 04:24 PM.Leave a comment:
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Something interesting I noticed looking at the Box Office Mojo numbers by year: the amount of theaters/screens
In 1979 the largest number...Leave a comment:
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Tying this into your descriptions of fun, raucous crowds I recall seeing the first AVENGERS movie on the big screen in a packed house and seeing and hearing...Last edited by Toyboy; 06-13-2022, 03:16 PM.Leave a comment:
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That's a valid point, for sure. Some of the conversations I've seen people have about the MCU stuff on social media has made me wince....Leave a comment:
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Having just read his entire piece I will say that he could have done a better job of separating a single studio's output from a general trend in filmmaking...Leave a comment:
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At the Alamo Drafthouse chain they make a HUGE deal out of silencing your phones and not talking, but because they have a full menu that you can order...Leave a comment:
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I realized that I never read the full quote from Scorsese to get the context and intent of his statement and in searching for it I found his follow-up...Last edited by Toyboy; 06-10-2022, 03:52 PM.Leave a comment:
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That's absolutely part of it for me....Leave a comment:
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Something I didn't address in my initial post is the assertion that filmmakers such as Scorsese and Coppola have made that superhero films can't be classified...Leave a comment:
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Somebody in Humongous' crew is a fan of Moebius and/or Metal Hurlant
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The reason I started this thread was because so many of the reactions I was seeing just felt knee jerk, so I'm glad to be getting some thoughtful discussion...Leave a comment:
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Here's my take on that - Noah Baumbach's A MARRIAGE STORY was announced to be streaming on Netflix at the same time Netflix gave it an incredibly meager...Leave a comment:
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No thank you.Leave a comment:
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In the KI77 song "Anything for my Baby" I always hear Paul saying "Ron O'Neal" when he sings "crawl or kneel"Leave a comment:
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I'm giving the Crackpot Cinema podcast a re-listen and in their John Ritter episode they're discussing THEY ALL LAUGHED and Bogdanovich, tying in Cassavetes...Last edited by Toyboy; 06-08-2022, 02:23 PM.Leave a comment:
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