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I believe today was the only day it played. It seems to be getting one day per city.
A movie like this I probably wouldn't watch on video, but it was a rare chance to catch it on a big screen.
I don't see how they can expect to even come close to earning that back. MI-6 is the highest-grossing film in the series so far. Its production budget was $180 million, with another $150 million spent on promotion. If those numbers are accurate-- and they are often exaggerated to build interest or avoid taxes-- it ended its theatrical run $18.5 million short of breaking even. Perhaps it has broken even in the interim due to streaming revenue or Blu-ray sales.
Profiting on a movie after spending $400 million on production, plus more promoting the film, in today's world, where nearly no one goes to the movies anymore, is very unlikely.
If the film earns $1 billion-- say, $300 million domestically (MI-6 earned only $220 million) and another $700 million globally, with $200 million in China-- and if they spend the same $150 million to promote it that they did on part 6, MI-8 will STILL end up losing $150 million.
I don't know if it's coming to blu-ray. They may announce that later, but for now it seems like it's only a restored print making the rounds in theaters. It's in Austin today, and I'm going to go see it.
It tries to be, but it comes off as hilarious in how inaccurately they represent basically everything those on the right/MAGA folks believe. If anything, it provides a very telling insight into the mindset of the left, and how they justify opposing the politics of the right. If they accurately modeled Homelander after Trump/conservatives we'd all be rooting for him.
Read the thread. He watched the entire film and knows how it ended. He's a troll.
Same with Obi-Wan. They both look to have aged 50 years in the interim. I assume Luke to be approaching his 18th birthday when Star Wars begins, though he may be a bit older, but to see youthful-looking Ewan McGregor become the shriveled-with-age Alec Guinness, and Yoda go from spry to feeble suggests something bad happened to them both. Maybe as The Force grew weaker, so to did they.
Uh oh, those cunts are fucked!
I'd throw acid on her. No way she's surviving that. Worst case, if she does, while she's distracted by the acid I'd put a bullet in her head. Problem solved!
I mean yeah, I assumed you had theaters. I'm talking specifically about revival houses, etc.
That's what I do to approximate the experience at home, but it's a far, far cry from seeing a film in a theater.
A movie screen is usually between 20'x60' to 30'x90', or larger. Even in a very small theater it will be 10'x30'.
Comparatively, a 100" TV is approximately 4' x 7'.
The sound is going to be far better in a vast cinema, where its installed and optimized to the vast concert hall room. Most home viewers fool themselves by installing a sound system that plays at a very high volume, or has room-shaking bass, but no one at home is going to come close to mimicking what's in a theater.
And then comes what simply can't be duplicated at home: 300+ strangers coming together as one to create an audience. Humans are social creatures, and we evolved to participate in rituals. From the shamans of old to the screen idols of today, we have always come together in groups and lost ourselves in a collective whole for a couple hours of worship or revelry.
So yes, I agree that the best one can do at home is a projector and screen. I have a room in my house with exactly that, dedicated to watching movies, but I accept that I'm getting at best 10% of the cinema experience when I do so.
That's rough for a film fan. I feel a little isolated here in Austin, Texas, so I can't imagine what it must be like to have no local film scene.
We have 5 Alamo Drafthouse theaters that consistently program revival fare, the venerable Paramount that shows classics all summer long, and a handful of other places that occasionally show older fare. Even Cinemark here hosts occasional classics: I saw North by Northwest a few weeks back. Even with all that, it feels like the film scene here is somewhat lacking, at least in comparison to places I've lived previously.
I'm not, but my kids are. We're taking them to see it tomorrow.
Yeah, I couldn't finish that one either. I watched a handful of the others. Some were pretty good.
Well, if your idea of privileged is being locked in a room waiting for a fat grotesque man like Immortan to rape you, then sure, he's a hero.
I thought it established a very clear reason for her hatred of him. He was a murdering, raping tyrant with an army of brainwashed children committing suicide at his behest who enslaved thousands. He had all the food and water he needed and more, and let everyone else suffer and die. He purchased Furiosa when she was a child with the intention of raping her, and kept a room full of women on call to be raped when he felt the desire. I'd say he's awful.
As expected, he enjoyed Bride of Frankenstein more than Dracula's Daughter, but neither bored him. He's 7, and I'm pretty sure he was only aware of the overarching story in each film. Frankenstein is alive and wants a girlfriend and Dracula's daughter is sucking blood.
We'll see how he does tonight at the opera...
It's unclear how long she was in the harem, but it's inferred that bad stuff happened to her while there. And even if she escaped before he did anything to her, it doesn't change the fact that he had a collection of women locked in a room for his pleasure. That's reason enough to hate him.
Are you near a large city?
Might it be because he bought her from Dementus and added her to his harem? One can infer that a child may grow up to hold a bit of a grudge against the man who repeatedly raped her as a child.
I'll let you know how your prediction plays out.