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The last film you saw

actually no according box office mojo it only made 183 million worldwide so that still makes it a flop (total sales < total cost)
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lastairbender.htm

it cost $150m to make and $130m to market though?
ok something's wrong with advertising in general when it costs $130m to market a fucking movie

like jesus how much cancer research could $130m do
how many people could $130m feed or house
shit they could have given $130m to a charity and just wrote it all off for taxes
 

Jason

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Selachimorpha":2d3v8ehv said:
actually no according box office mojo it only made 183 million worldwide so that still makes it a flop (total sales < total cost)
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lastairbender.htm

it cost $150m to make and $130m to market though?
ok something's wrong with advertising in general when it costs $130m to market a fucking movie

like jesus how much cancer research could $130m do
how many people could $130m feed or house
shit they could have given $130m to a charity and just wrote it all off for taxes

Oh fuck yeah I forgot about advertising costs lol, I thought that would've been included, but shit $130m advertising?!
 

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Haha, I don't think I've heard anyone say anything bad about it yet. I'm gonna see it tonight.

I've never seen Michael Cera play anything beside a slight variation of his original character in Arrested Development in his movies, so that'll be refreshing. This entire time I always figured he was a mediocre actor with no range, but I guess he was just really typecasted.
 
Ok I saw Scott Pilgrim

Ok

I actually liked it p hugely

It took a long time starting but after it started, wow

that was p entertaining and cera was so bad he was good

prepare for a lot of "wtf lol"

if that movie came out 10 years ago when i was a teen it probably would have been up there on my favorites list
 
I saw the Expendables last it was good mainly but it kept going on in the adverts about arnold schwarzenegger being init but it was a fukin lie he was only in the film for about 2 mins to say he doesn't want the job that everyone else takes
 

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Foxlord":jwwf2i8d said:
I saw the Expendables last it was good mainly but it kept going on in the adverts about arnold schwarzenegger being init but it was a fukin lie he was only in the film for about 2 mins to say he doesn't want the job that everyone else takes

if you looked it up he only had a cameo because he didnt want to stray from his political career.
 
Saw Valkyrie with Tom Cruise.

I liked it!

There wasn't really any magical realism or anything like in Inglorious Bastards, it was all realism with some fictitious skews.
I mean they actually followed the legit timeline of the events of the July 20 Plot with some more "Interesting" skews to make it more palatable to the general audience, but the amount that seemed real actually made me go "no shit?" and look it up.
That whole plot IRL was actually fucking intensely insane, and I'm surprised it got so far as it did only to fail.

One thing that threw me off was that everyone had a British? ('?' because sometimes they were murky and indiscernible but were trying to be accents) accent. Except for:

- Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg - (Tom Cruise) - Had an American accent. I've never heard him have an accent in anything so I guess he just REALLY didn't think he could fake german.

- Adolph Hitler - (David Bamber) - Had a German accent. This one is obvious but why was he and several other mostly nameless/unimportant characters portraying the German accent?

I can dig wanting to do this movie, a movie entirely about Germans speaking German, in English--after all, that's the main audience. But just either pick -no accent- or German accent. I had the hardest time placing where they were at first because, despite the fact that they were all German dissenters, they sounded British and American (and even a little Scottish or French!) (Though French was more acceptable, considering they were occupied). Very strange.

Good movie though, minor qualms aside. A lot of powerful suspense and build-up scenes. Sometimes a little hard to follow, but great if you know some about the actual events of the failed July 20 Plot. I recommend reading a little about it beforehand.
 

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