Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[Antony Moxey]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Antony Moxey said:

Ah, I though someone might misunderstand what I was saying

Ah well in that case you should have though (sic) more about what you were writing when you wrote it and been less ambiguous.

Fair point.

[irocfan]

Antony Moxey said:

Halb said:

Marvel CInematic UNiverse (not even including the other Marvel stuff like Spider-Man and X-Men) has been the biggest for years now.
Almost the next two combined

1. Marvel Cinematic Universe film $14,297,893,686
2. Star Wars film $8,846,532,331
3. J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World $8,539,253,704
4. James Bond $7,040,275,645
5. J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth $5,884,488,087
6. The Fast and the Furious $5,134,895,344
7. X-Men $4,996,632,006
8. Batman $4,995,812,576
9. Spider-Man $4,843,426,428

Ah, I though someone might misunderstand what I was saying I meant in relation to actual films: this particular Marvel franchise has, what, 17 films out now, compared to 25(?) Bond films? Marvel seem to be more prolific so I wonder when it will take over in terms of numbers rather than box office takings.

at the current rate I'd imagine c.2022

[waynedear]

Justice league, super people take on a super demon to save the world, thought I would give it a go but slightly worried after the dreadful Wonder Woman.
Yup, enjoyed it, 7/10

[Jonesy23]

waynedear said:

Justice league, super people take on a super demon to save the world, thought I would give it a go but slightly worried after the dreadful Wonder Woman.
Yup, enjoyed it, 7/10

Watched it again recently, not sure about the whole thing but some bits are really good.

Liked a lot of the 'Dark Knight Returns' older cynical Batman bits, liked the opening montage over 'Everybody Knows', liked the extremely one-sided fight scene post-Pet Sematary.

Fewer characters, a decent villain plot, better editing and less rework by studio execs and it had scope to be great.

[Mothersruin]

Halb said:

Marvel CInematic UNiverse (not even including the other Marvel stuff like Spider-Man and X-Men) has been the biggest for years now.
Almost the next two combined

1. Marvel Cinematic Universe film $14,297,893,686
2. Star Wars film $8,846,532,331
3. J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World $8,539,253,704
4. James Bond $7,040,275,645
5. J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth $5,884,488,087
6. The Fast and the Furious $5,134,895,344
7. X-Men $4,996,632,006
8. Batman $4,995,812,576
9. Spider-Man $4,843,426,428

Wonder what the profit ratio is for each.

[Halb]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Ah well in that case you should have though (sic) more about what you were writing when you wrote it and been less ambiguous.

[Halb]

Mothersruin said:

Wonder what the profit ratio is for each.

A good question, sometimes even films that rake in close to a billion, are deemed 'failures.'
The Avengers films are probably money makers, but the smaller ones.

https://weminoredinfilm.com/2015/03/21/why-is-the-...
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Return on Investment: 13%
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Return on Investment: 12%

[227bhp]

Red Sparrow 6/10.
So many twists, turns and doubling back you need an instruction manual or a flow chart to follow it, apparently based on a book - which must have been hard work!
You are guaranteed to jump out of your seat at one point if watching it at the cinema though.

[SydneyBridge]

The red sparrow book is excellent, but sometimes a good book is hard to translate to film

[RBH58]

Red Sparrow
Better than expected...maybe a 7/10. They changed the ending from the book!

[Lynchie999]

RBH58 said:

Red Sparrow
Better than expected...maybe a 7/10. They changed the ending from the book!

quite a bit of pointless "graphic" content though... they obviously wanted to keep in a 15 but still wanted to show certain scenes... should've toned it down or gone all out and make it 18 .... lots of dodgy camera cut aways etc...

and her Russian accent was awful...

[bodhi]

It was a high quality weekend this weekend as far as films were concerned.

Baywatch - wasn't expecting too much, and thankfully wasn't disappointed. Entertaining enough, lots of nods back to the original series, liked the cameos. However wasn't shocked to see it didn't bother the Oscars last night. 6/10 Overall.

Chips - Pretty awful, nice bikes and cars, and that was it for the good bits. 3/10 I wouldn't bother.

[toon10]

3 Billboards...

Dark, funny and gripping. A very solid 8/10 from me.

[P-Jay]

Halb said:

Mothersruin said:

Wonder what the profit ratio is for each.

A good question, sometimes even films that rake in close to a billion, are deemed 'failures.'
The Avengers films are probably money makers, but the smaller ones.

https://weminoredinfilm.com/2015/03/21/why-is-the-...
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Return on Investment: 13%
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Return on Investment: 12%

Interesting (to a sad geek like me anyway) lots of films seem like they made a huge amount of money (even by the standards of Hollywood) but can make big losses and you can see why in that link - they seem to spend as much, if not more promoting a big Comic Book Film as they do making it.

Personally, and I admit it's partly because I detest comic book films, the bubble will burst at some point. You've only got to look at "Days of Future Past" Made $77m in profit, but $153m came from TV, you assume the bulk of the promo costs are paid by about a week after cinema release, maybe a bit more for the DVD market, but the Studio starting spending on it in 2012 and has spent the bulk of the $576m by June 2014, and when did that first appear on TV - even the like of HBO and SkyMovies wouldn't have shown it much before 2016 I'd guess - how much of that 12% gets eroded by the 'cost of money'.

[Halb]

P-Jay said:

Interesting (to a sad geek like me anyway) lots of films seem like they made a huge amount of money (even by the standards of Hollywood) but can make big losses and you can see why in that link - they seem to spend as much, if not more promoting a big Comic Book Film as they do making it.
Personally, and I admit it's partly because I detest comic book films, the bubble will burst at some point. You've only got to look at "Days of Future Past" Made $77m in profit, but $153m came from TV, you assume the bulk of the promo costs are paid by about a week after cinema release, maybe a bit more for the DVD market, but the Studio starting spending on it in 2012 and has spent the bulk of the $576m by June 2014, and when did that first appear on TV - even the like of HBO and SkyMovies wouldn't have shown it much before 2016 I'd guess - how much of that 12% gets eroded by the 'cost of money'.

I'm a fan of good super-hero films, but the mediocre and crappy ones do drain me, I wouldn't mind the bubble bursting. I think it's coming, and not just SH films, but big money effects low intelligent spectacle movies (Marvel, Star Wars, al the other stuff).
Have you seen the most excellent umber crunching vid by Red Letter Media? On average films get their film budget again for advertising, and some films even go beyond that; Ghosbusters, DC films, Star Wars etc. The director of the crappy Ghostbusters went on record to say that it needed to make 500 million to break even. It didn't

[Gary29]

The Young Offenders.

Very stupid but very funny, also been watching the series on the iplayer, such good fun 7/10

[P-Jay]

Halb said:

I'm a fan of good super-hero films, but the mediocre and crappy ones do drain me, I wouldn't mind the bubble bursting. I think it's coming, and not just SH films, but big money effects low intelligent spectacle movies (Marvel, Star Wars, al the other stuff).
Have you seen the most excellent umber crunching vid by Red Letter Media? On average films get their film budget again for advertising, and some films even go beyond that; Ghosbusters, DC films, Star Wars etc. The director of the crappy Ghostbusters went on record to say that it needed to make 500 million to break even. It didn't

I haven't no, I'll have a look for it tonight.

I think the most interesting thing about Ghostbusters (sadly, the ONLY thing interesting about that film) was the marketing, the makers somehow managed to get a massive amount of positive reviews for it pre-release and then when real people got to see it basically branded anyone who didn't like it a Misogynistic Pig. I think they knew it was a turd (can't have been hard to work that out) but it bought them some doubt within the mind of potential viewers in the face of some appalling reviews from real people on IMDB etc.

I felt a similar thing happened with 'The Last Jedi' just amazing pre-release reviews, massive score on IMDB... until real people saw it.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the marketing budget goes on things like ensuring a good score on websites and greasing the palms of reviewers as much as posters and TV ads.

[CR6ZZ]

The Greatest Showman.

Really quite enjoyed it despite the somewhat less than accurate version of Barnum's life story.

Even the OH, who absolutely detests musicals, thought it was terrific. 8.5/10

[ukaskew]

Red Sparrow - WTF/10

I'm more than happy for a film not to put it all on a plate for me, but at the same time it's nice to come out of a film and not need to have to look up what the hell happened. Honestly no idea and by the sounds of things nobody else did in the cinema either.

There are some truly tense moments and fantastically well executed scenes that will stick in my mind for some time. The bit in the school when they bring tbe bloke out for her was edge of the seat stuff. The skin bit was a work of art in terms of being an awful slog to get through without them ever actually showing anything, the mind is so much more powerful at filling in the blanks in those situations.

Seriously though, no idea what happened so I'm going to go away and read up on it now. Didn't notice any jump scenes either as mentioned in an earlier review here either, which bit was it?

[phazed]

Game Night.

A cracking little black comedy/mini adventure/who done it.

A great storyline, nicely thought out characters and a well acted piece of entertainment.

Yes, you could pick holes in the plot but who cares when a lightweight film is executed as good as this.

One part had me in tears of laughter in the cinema. Both Mrs phazed and I thoroughly enjoyed it, perfect Monday night entertainment!

8/10, (for enjoyment and entertainment)