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3 hours ago, Dynaman said:

Streaming shows not doing great?  One not top notch season of Mandalorian and it is time to get out the old Eddie Murphy skit already?

Come now, it's not just The Mandalorian's third season that raises eyebrows, it's nearly everything, regardless of the caliber of the production or lack thereof:

• Pixar -- everything released on D+ has under performed;
• Marvel -- every show on D+ has had worse performance than the previous release;
• Lucasfilm's content draws fewer and fewer viewers since BoBF came out, and Willow was dumped off the platform because it was so bad it was worth more as a tax write-off than to renew it or to even keep in the library... that thing may end up being given the Arc of the Covenant treatment from the end of Raiders;
• Disney's Live Action necromancy/necrophilia of its own legacy content on D+ spectacularly fails.

As a result, the streaming service lost some 4 million subscribers and is currently running at a financial loss with profitability estimates being constantly updated to a future date that keeps getting further and further away.

1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

Given the amount of money their movies have made, that's not a statement grounded in reality at all.

Well, $890M in theatrical losses in just the past year, without even counting this latest flop... which will push that financial hole into well over $1B, would argue otherwise; if a movie costs $300M and earns $500M at the box office, it has lost the studio money... lots of it.  Let's face reality: Disney, as it currently exists, is where franchises, and IPs in general, go to die.

^ You have two films too many on your list ... there are only three Indiana Jones movies.  Number four was bad but mostly innocuous fan fiction, and number 5 is pure retched IP vandalism... just like the last two Disney so-called Star Wars sequel films, and BoBF, and Kenobi, and the Willow series...

Wow!  3 day weekend projected take of 60 million, 5 million domestic under worst case scenario, inclusive of Thursday's previews.  With a 300 million budget (likely closer to 330m once inflation, loan interest, reshoots, and ancillary costs are factored in + promotional expenditures, this thing is going to lose well over 200 million in its theatrical run, specially with MI7 just 2 weeks away... it needs to make almost 800 million, at the very least -- assuming a lowball 310m final cost -- just to barely break even, over 900m for even a marginal profit, and there is no conceivable way it will get anywhere close; it will be lucky to reach somewhere between 450 and 550 million worldwide.

7 minutes ago, GXPT2000 said:

So is the only change the new effect part and missing accessories? Any new markings?

 

I own the Arcadia one but I really do like the posing options on the Bandai one more. How are the joints on everyone’s Bandai 19 holding up? I like posing my toys a bunch but bandais looseness with most of their diecast figures scare me.

The Achilles heel (HA!) of the Arcadia are its ankle joints; the Bandai's are far superior.  Ultimately, both are great toys where your personal aesthetic preference will determine which choice is better for you; personally, I find Bandai's superior in most aspects, and the collapsing leg panels are a brilliant solution over the carved-out scoops to accommodate the arms in fighter mode that Arcadia employs.

7 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Whoever is in the next Expendables film, lol.

In the case of Lucasfilm, they're all out of IPs to ruin and legacy male heroes to Jake Skywalker; however, there's always exhuming those corpses and abusing them all over again, to ever diminishing returns... most fans are done.

Yeah.... NO!  This "thing" will most definitely earn its likely hundreds of millions of dollars loss at the theaters, and hopefully tank Lucasfilm for good in the process.  This is my personal opinion, of course, and more power to those who enjoy these movies -- why, I'll never fathom, but I'm not alone, as evidenced by the recent history of monumental flops from many studious that have embraced all these regressive post modernist tropes.

https://pursuenews.com/a-month-later-dcu-fans-mock-the-flash-movies-early-digital-release-in-july-short-theatrical-run-heres-where-to-stream-ezra-millers-dcu-film/ 

The following video's title is admittedly click-bait-y, but I found it to be a pretty good analysis of just why, not only Indy 5, but so many modern super expensive movies, are almost destined to flop, or at best break even or make middling profits in their theatrical runs.  The bloated price tags alone create hard hills to climb towards profitability, then you take the mediocrity, for whatever reasons, and he goes over many... which tend to drive away audiences, of so much of this content into account and instead of a hill to climb, they get a hill to die on.  Agree or disagree with the breakdown is rather moot; the box office numbers, as related to all the costs associated with these productions, speak for themselves and spell a coming reassessment of how these sausages are made.

32 minutes ago, Thom said:

Or, just trying to be humorous rather than thinking everything has to be a deep dive into a simple movie. Which was a good movie, though your miles may vary. Like it or not, it's not the end of the world.

Oh, I get the humorous reference and appreciate it... maybe my point came across as too serious or acerbic.  As for it being a good movie... mileage will most definitely vary, wildly so, since that assessment is entirely subjective, and people are totally entitled to like a, objectively or subjectively, bad movie or despise a, again objectively or subjectively, good movie.  It's all a matter of personal perspective and taste... one man's trash is another's treasure and vice-versa, and in the great scheme of things, entirely pointless to everyone except the studios, and their investors, pumping out money losings bombs, and driving once profitable IPs into the ground, in rapid-fire succession.

26 minutes ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Ha! I get that reference.😆

Referencing a great movie that sadly failed in its theatrical run, to cope with the mediocrity of a pointless, mostly crappy, movie that will go down in history as one of the worst money losing flops ever made.  That's the one positive aspect of a lazy, poorly executed, multiverse so-called plot:  It offers endless possibilities for alternate, actually good, stories to exist, even if the end result is that everything becomes completely inconsequential.

2 hours ago, Hikuro said:

So I guess is this even worse bothering? I just saw the new Spider-verse film and didn't honestly care for it all that much...probably because it's a two parter and I felt it was to slow yet rushed. 

Watch eventually, when it hits streaming or cable, or broadcast TV; that's what I'll be doing as, besides all the negatives reported everywhere, it is a pointless dead-end of a film since the DCEU, if it even survives... Aquaman 2 and Blue Beetle will more than likely suffer the same ignominious box office flop status, will be getting a complete reboot that will render everything in this series utterly irrelevant.

2 hours ago, Thom said:

That's how I'm consoling myself!! Somewhere out there there is another Keaton Batman instructing his mentor as Supergirl flies the skies.

He'd be the perfect old curmudgeonly Bruce Wayne mentor figure for a Batman Beyond theatrical foray...

21 hours ago, Big s said:

Probably that it was a Flash movie based around the worst Flash and starring a train wreck

And not only do you get assaulted with one annoying train wreck Barry Allen, but 2 annoying train wreck Barry Allens... 3 if you count the villain.  There is only so much revulsion a body can take before severe nausea takes over and projectile barfing ensues...

7 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

That perfectly applies not only to Indy 5, but to the whole of Lucasfilm as well, perhaps even Disney itself.

5 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Wait, did something happen in 2016 in the industry? That was... Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange... I guess on the other side was Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, (EDIT: there was also The Mummy a year later) which sucked, yeah, but they didn't exactly spell doom for the industry. Did something else happen, like a mass firing/layoffs or studio consolidation or something I'm not remembering?

I don't blame you wiping Ghostbusters 2016 off your memory... like splashing bleach on a nasty stain.  That's when fan baiting and vilification, and totally unsubtle agenda pushing, were solidified as "legitimate" tactics by studios, producers, directors, actors, and media shills; 2016 marked the onset of the industry doom, as you put it, that they've so arrogantly cultivated.  That's not to say that equivalent BS wasn't a thing prior to that year -- Fant4stic comes immediately to mind as the casting was specifically geared towards throwing ists, isms and phobes accusations at fans if/when it bombed... it did -- or that haven't been excellent flics then and since, but that's when the bad blood seed was planted.

The wholesale rejections by audiences and commensurate financial losses from flop after flop and resulting cutbacks and layoffs and firings are the inevitable results of their hubris, by going from humbly embodying the time-tested business motto of "The customer is always right", to the sanctimonious position that 'if the customer criticizes what we deem they should slavishly consume, then the customer is not only wrong but stupid, bad, or both'... the industry is reaping what they've sown.

Edit:  This video, under spoilers, does an excellent job of summarizing, from my perspective, what got us from there to here; if you have a different point of view, that's perfectly fine, but the current state of affairs speak for themselves:

39 minutes ago, Big s said:

Sorry it a 50/50 chance of which powers you get from the animal. It’s either gonna be hyper speed with quick reflexes or super snooze with the occasional knocking things off the table powers

Toxoplasmosis is a hell of a fickle vector...

1 hour ago, TangledThorns said:

RIP comic book films.

Hollywood should look at manga (again!) for new ideas and hopefully without screwing it up.

 

Hollywood (with precious few exceptions), post 2016, with legacy IPs???... Methinks thou dost ask too much of hacks who cannot deliver anything of the sort.

26 minutes ago, Big s said:

Since it’s dial of destiny, it should be one with an old man dropping his fancy watch 

I, for one, can't wait... 

2 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

What gif you gonna choose when the Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny box office results come in? lol

The same one would apply, wouldn't it?  Or perhaps the one with the two steam locomotives running into each other...

55M 3-day weekend, domestic -- 64M with the extended 4 day... well bellow the already worst case projections.  Second weekend notwithstanding, it's official:

Wow!!!  I uhm, have no words...   

Oof!..

Do not watch unless you don't care about spoilerish content.  The verdict by Chris Gore was brutally honest and paints this movie as utter garbage.

Or.... that blue has some yellow in it...