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2 minutes ago, Big s said:

I just kinda feel a bit let down, even by the Keaton scene. The let’s get nuts scene was such a classic moment and now it’s like just a catchphrase. 

I heard it described as it being delivered with all the passion and significance of ordering toppings for his ice-cream...

DOA

Looks beautifully desaturated in those pictures, as it aught to be.  Will the final product retain that authentic -- to my eyes -- look?...

On 4/19/2023 at 3:19 PM, Old_Nash_II said:

Macacos, e dinossauros radioativos, me mordam...

Bixos escrotos, saiam dos esgotos... 

23 minutes ago, Big s said:

Paramount seems happy that it passed the expected amount that it was thought to bring in. Maybe there was something of a Merch deal or that factored in that I really don’t understand or something. The plumber was definitely the tough competition and took the nerd viewership away.

Who knows, maybe Paramount is just happy that one of their products didn’t infuriate its fan base 

More than likely, Paramount is engaging in face-saving PR BS in a bid for some damage control; or, as you posit, they're counting on other streams of revenue to recover most of the costs, eventually.  To be sure, there must be a lot of creative accounting going on this and the industry as a whole, but none of it negates the box office results.  Claims, announcements, and copes are cheap; the real tell on whether or not Paramount (their project bankrollers and shareholders) are truly happy when it is all said and done will be if they green light a sequel and/or a high-profile spinoff of some kind, and if it/they actually get made.  As always, time will tell, but I won't believe anything until it is irrefutably real.

This isn't to cast aspersions at the movie's writing, acting, directing, or production values as, by all accounts, it is decent and effective enough at what it's trying to accomplish, but nothing that will make any lasting impact on anyone but the most ardent fan of the source material, if that.  It is just the fickle nature of entertainment, and plenty of brilliant, ground breaking movies -- D&D:HAT definitely isn't one of them -- have failed to find an audience in their theatrical runs, only to find redemption and a modicum of success as well-loved cult classics.  Will this film find such a sunset?...

I think they should match in tone, hue and saturation; of course, they should not in refractivity and reflectivity... so, same but different?...

When you want them, they're nowhere to be found; when you don't...whatcha'doin'?...I'm gonna make myself comfy right here, can I help?... 

Over 2 weeks since release and, at 130.46M worldwide proceeds and down to 6th place - 7th domestic (Box Office Mojo, IMDBPro, 4/15/23), this thing is still over 200M away from breaking even.  I think it's safe to say that it's done and will lose a considerable amount of moolah for Paramount... likely, they knew it was going flop, which is why they chose to release it when they did.

1 hour ago, Mommar said:

"Lightsabers!.. Tie Fighters!... Borgses!...  Enterprises!.."

And all the idiots clapped.

 

4 minutes ago, Mog said:

It’s Fuke Mi and Fuke-quet! 

You win for the best post... 

4 hours ago, sh9000 said:

KC sent an email on Tuesday that my Advanced Rick x2 shipped.

Never got any direct response from KC but did get a shipping/tracking email from PayPal, and it's already through ISC New York.

Now to wait for the Dana Sterling to release... it's been an even longer wait (09/2020... sheesh! ).  I understand that the coof threw a monkey wrench into the works; however, I don't think I'll ever place another preorder with them and sit things out until stuff is in stock; their lead times have become atrocious.

The break-even industry standard is 2.5 x budget; therefore, at 150M, the movie needs to make 350-375M, profit would require something close or above 400M.  Could it reach those thresholds theatrically?... anything is possible, but it will require staying power.

Realistically speaking, John Wick 4 will have far more staying power, and Super Mario Bros premieres this Friday -- likely to dominate for weeks; so, despite an above expectation opening weekend and positive reviews in general, the likelihood that D&D:HAT will break even during its theatrical run is dubious and profitability is highly unlikely.  Time will tell, but it does not look good.

I have not received any communication from them, so I took it upon myself to reply to the original preorder confirmation email and send a message through their website.  Now, after 1.5 years, to wait some more...

Phew!  Thank heavens for another easy, regret free, pass; never cared for the WacDonalds clown of Valkyries... great news for those who do like it though.  Saving my pennies for the VF-5000G.

They should do The Iceman as well, to go with The Maverik; after all, 90+% of the work would already be done... it's a no-brainer.  BTW, went on their site and the figure isn't listed for preorder, yet.  I WILL NOT do Fakebook.

They're also likely trying to tie her to perfecting what would eventually become Snoke and the sequel trilogy, which, in my opinion, would be a bad idea; regardless, the studio is dead set on legitimizing that trainwreck, so my opinion, and that of millions of fans, is irrelevant.

4 hours ago, derex3592 said:

I'll just leave this here.....but yeh, I'm totally with the Drinker 100% on this. 

 

 

Yeah, he's on the money.  Other than The Bad Batch (I've read that Andor was good too, but it didn't attract enough viewers to justify its existence... bad timing following crap like BoBF and Kenobi), everything post TLJ has cultivated one singular outcome: apathy from the majority of long term fans, and failure to attract, in any significant numbers, the "modern audience" (individuals who, by and large, care nothing for the franchise past their Twitter echo chambers, and don't buy merchandize) that they've been obsessed in securing since Disney acquired Lucas Film.  Quite an anti-achievement, actually... to turn a license to print money cultural phenomenon into a moribund streaming service content with ever diminishing returns.

13 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Perhaps... though I suspect Star Trek: Picard's third and final season wouldn't get nearly as much praise that way.

It's not great, or even particularly good, television being about on par with Nemesis or Insurrection.  Much of the praise it's getting is a product of the two previous seasons lowering everyone's expectations significantly.

Yeah, as they say: hunger is the best sauce...  Star Trek fans have been starved of anything edible for so long that even a reheated bowl of instant ramen will look and taste like a feast.

3 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Kasdan is a hack writer and only got to where he is due to sheer nepotism. Nothing he has ever worked on has ever risen above mediocrity. His biggest success was writing for Dawson's Creek, the prototypical "CW" whiny angst teen melodrama  show which is basically what the Willow tv series became instead of the light hearted medieval adventure series it should have been. It needed more swords and sorcery adventure like the original movie and less talking about feelings in dark hallways.

 

If you think Jon Kasdan is going to improve in a hypothetical season 2 just because he gave us a couple decent episodes at the tail end of Willow's first season you'll be sadly mistaken.

100% This!  He was also one of the duo (double the hackery) who wrote Solo, and we all know how that money losing stinker turned out.  His parsing of the cancellation as an extended, pie in the sky hiatus, just strikes of heavy doses of copium and hopium being injected directly into the bloodstream... lots of that going around.

5 minutes ago, Mog said:

Guess the Wyrm wins. 😉

I'd hazard to say that fans of the now classic movie -- its characters, story, and quality -- are the true winners.

2 hours ago, Tking22 said:

I finished TNG last weekend and am excited to start on some new Trek, will probably do DS9 but I'm pretty interested jumping into season 1 of this because I'm still high on Picard lol.

You don't want to corrupt the favorable memory of what TNG became by the end with NewTrek... leave that stuff for dead last.

This!... Inquiring minds want need to know.

They also look backwardly anachronistic... as though the shipwrights and engineers had suddenly adopted a nostalgic late 23rd century design ethos.  It just does not jive with the aesthetic progression one would expect or that makes sense.