The Big Picture: The Numbers
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good video bobMy only thought after watching this was "...and the exact same can be said for gaming." It's always about the bottom line.
Wow, i didn't even know about this. It's so sad that such a promising movie had to be canned. I hope Lovecraft horror hits the big screen someday. That one classroom sex-ed. was truly scary and mindbending an that was just a parody! :s
Let's hope Del Toro finds a home for his project.
Let's hope Del Toro finds a home for his project.
That's really sad news. Granted, I'm not the biggest fan of Lovecraft, but I was still very keen to see At The Mountains of Madness; it sounded like it had the potential to be a terrific film. I suppose we ought to be grateful that we actually got Scott Pilgrim, but it's still a damn shame.
Very good video, by the way. Is it just me, or are the ones where he's pissed off at something often the best ones?
Very good video, by the way. Is it just me, or are the ones where he's pissed off at something often the best ones?
Is your entire vocabulary made up of one line puns?HankMan said:
EDIT: Now you've you just made it mean
Depressing. This is probably as pure an example as there is of capitalism simply not working.
EDIT: I'll rephrase, since people are quite legitimately countering me on this. It's an example of capitalism doing more harm than good. It is working, but it's working against it's intention.
EDIT: I'll rephrase, since people are quite legitimately countering me on this. It's an example of capitalism doing more harm than good. It is working, but it's working against it's intention.
Part of Scott Pilgrim box office fail could also be blamed on limit release
Hell I'm not even sure if the movie was released in some countries at all (like Sweden)
Hell I'm not even sure if the movie was released in some countries at all (like Sweden)
So after your Atlas Shrugged review I decided to actually read the copy I had bought a couple years ago. It sounds to me like we're living in Ayn Rand's hell.
The only solution is for all the people with a brain to go on strike and disappear from the world. Once the world falls apart from getting nothing but Action sequels for the next 5 years we all come back to reclaim the world. Who's with me?
The only solution is for all the people with a brain to go on strike and disappear from the world. Once the world falls apart from getting nothing but Action sequels for the next 5 years we all come back to reclaim the world. Who's with me?
A bit of a film geek myself, I knew most of this already.
And yet... god it was hard to hear it.
Anyway, I saw Scott Pilgrim in theaters, I did my part.
That movie is great- but will be sadly irrelevant within 15 years.
I sooooo badly want to see "At the Mountains of Madness" get made.
And yet... god it was hard to hear it.
Anyway, I saw Scott Pilgrim in theaters, I did my part.
That movie is great- but will be sadly irrelevant within 15 years.
I sooooo badly want to see "At the Mountains of Madness" get made.
Isn't the whole business model for the film industry kind of broken nowadays? People haven't primarily used theaters to see movies for a while now...why such emphasis on box office?
Sad but true. Very well explained.
What do you think could be done to counter this problem?
As far as the Lovecraft movie, I'm surprised Cameron didn't have enough pull to get the thing done on his word alone. Also, why did it have to be rated R? it's not like HPL's works are innately graphic, or it's not like there couldn't be a superior directors cut with all the juicy bits unmasked and included. In all I think the movie would make a lot more money if the theatrical release was good and accessible and the extended or directors cuts were as strange or graphic as the director wants them to be.
Art isn't art if it is never created.
What do you think could be done to counter this problem?
As far as the Lovecraft movie, I'm surprised Cameron didn't have enough pull to get the thing done on his word alone. Also, why did it have to be rated R? it's not like HPL's works are innately graphic, or it's not like there couldn't be a superior directors cut with all the juicy bits unmasked and included. In all I think the movie would make a lot more money if the theatrical release was good and accessible and the extended or directors cuts were as strange or graphic as the director wants them to be.
Art isn't art if it is never created.
It's depressing because it's true.
and it's true because life is depressing, so the miserable general public throws their hard-earned money at anything that distracts them for 90+-minutes, just so they keep making all that pointles pointless money
which they will then throw at more stupid shit
you know what's also depressing? I can't do anything about it. I'm not American and Domestic Gross is so much more important than International (with a few exceptions, all of which I forgot).
and it's true because life is depressing, so the miserable general public throws their hard-earned money at anything that distracts them for 90+-minutes, just so they keep making all that pointles pointless money
which they will then throw at more stupid shit
you know what's also depressing? I can't do anything about it. I'm not American and Domestic Gross is so much more important than International (with a few exceptions, all of which I forgot).