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  1. On 7/6/2018 at 3:41 PM, ChickenSandwich said:

    Just look at the DVD sales after the box office. 

    TFA - $189.2million

    TLJ - $78.6 million

    bust

    What this basically proves is that, no matter what Star Wars fans say, what they really want is for someone to just re-make the originals over and over again.

     

  2. On 6/29/2018 at 2:39 PM, XYZ said:

    TLJ is the worst of the Star Wars movies, by a mile. SW movies are about badassery. Episode 4 has Vader, and Peter “one swift strrroke” Cushing, and old Kenobi who’s not up to the task anymore but fuck it, why not. Episode 5 has Luke rising and Vader kicking his ass like the badass that he is. In Episode 6 it’s Luke, Vader and the Emperor. Now go back to Episode 1, Qui-Gon Jinn is a badass maverick Jedi, Maul kills him because he has little horns, and almost kills Kenobi not no. Episode 2 has more badass Kenobi, skilled but stupid Skywalker, and Christopher f’n Lee who fucking rules, and Yoda. Episode 3 has the rise of the Emperor, badass Kenobi, and Skywalker who’s now powerful and out of control. Fast forward to Episode 7, we have Kylo who’s pretty badass but kind of nuts, and Rey who holds her ground against him, and Snoke in the shadows who promises to be a evil as the Emperor. And then TLJ in which every character is a fucking pussy. No badassery at all. Snoke turns out to be useless. Kylo and Rey don’t kick any ass. Nobody kicks ass. Luke is a wasted, cowardly, bitchy old man. Everybody fucking sucks. The end.

    Not sure if serious.

    You're really defending the prequels?  Episodes 1 and 3 had a few decent moments.  Episode 2 was complete garbage.

  3. 4 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Production plus marketing costs were supposedly over $400 million.

    Well I'd be interested to know how the studios calculate return on a film. I'm wondering if marketing is considered like a shared studio expense or if it is considered direct assigned to a film because it's not like they have a separate marketing department for each film... 

    Also I wonder how how marketing costs are split between the studios and the production companies... (I know in this case Disney owns Lucasfilm, but still curious how that works)

    Even that aside, I bet they eventually top $400mm in worldwide gross. There's a big world out there outside of North America. 

  4. On 6/22/2018 at 3:53 PM, Patrick Bateman said:

    James Mangold was looking to do a Boba Fett movie.  

    Solo will lose a ton of money, not make it.  It may take in revenue but it's almost done with less than 375 million.

    9 will make money because everyone wants to see how it all wraps up.

    I saw Johnson trolled the fanboys trying to remake TLJ..... that is pretty funny.

     Made me laugh....

     

    How is Solo going to "lose money" when it cost (reportedly) $275 million to make and it has already grossed $353 million worldwide (and counting)?

     

  5. On 6/20/2018 at 9:20 PM, Buzzrock said:

    Would SW ever follow Marvel and go R? I’d be intrigued by an R rated Fett or Vader film.

    Dammit they should have just made 7/8/9 the Thrawn trilogy like everyone wanted.

    Btw that Rebels clip of Vader above does nothing for me. Juxtapose it against the Vader scene from Rogue One. Not even in the same hemisphere.

    Well before the anthology films were (allegedly) put on hold, wasn't the guy who directed Logan set to direct the Boba Fett film?  So even if they didn't go R (which I don't think they would do) they might go "hard" PG-13 or something.

    EDIT - just saw that story.  Of course they are still making these films.  Because even if Internet fanboys hated TLJ, it was still a critical success and still made a a shit ton of money.  Solo won't be as big as Rogue One but will still make a TON of money worldwide.  J.J. Abrams will make a fan-friendly/crowd-pleasing/safe Episode 9 that will make a shit ton of money. 

    That's really all that matters, in terms of them continuing to make these films.

  6. Did anyone else happen to go to the Red Rocks show last week?

    It was pretty damn incredible. That's by far the most people I've ever seen at a Troubadours show.  I know Red Rocks holds close to 10k and the thing looked damn near full.

    Also that was my first time at Red Rocks... and holy shit... all I can say is if you've never been to a show there, put it on your bucket list IMMEDIATELY.  I would post pics, but no pics do that place justice.

  7. Hey update!  I ended up taking advice and went to Breck instead.  It was fantastic.  We spent 3 nights there, then one night in Golden (the night of the Turnpike Troubadors show at Red Rocks, which we attended) and then a couple of nights in Denver.

    We stayed at the Mariott Mountain Valley Lodge at Breck, which was great because it was just a block off Main Street.

    This was the view right outside our room:

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  8. Yeah I saw it last week while on vacation.

    It was enjoyable enough for me.  I didn't like it as much as Rogue One but it was more enjoyable than TLJ (which I actually liked, but admit that it's not really imminently re-watchable).

    I think it will be a film that I won't mind re-watching here an there when it's on Netflix or HBO or whatever. 

    I thought the guy who played Han did a fine job.  Thought Woody was fantastic.  Also really enjoyed Donald Glover as Lando and Paul Bettany as Dryden.

    The rest of the cast and everything else was just fine. Totally felt like Star Wars to me.

    The whole "this didn't make sense/that didn't make sense" chorus from the fanboys after every Star Wars movie is pretty tiresome at this point.  Interesting to see that the fanboy crowd who moaned and wailed about George Lucas ruining their collective childhoods have now turned their endless Internet wrath at Kathleen Kennedy.

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  9. On 6/11/2018 at 11:19 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    Just realized they show the Apollo 1 fire in the trailer. 

    That’s gonna be tough to watch. 

    Yeah and you have Shea Wingam and Jason Clarke playing Gus Grissom and Ed White, respectively, so it's not like it's going to be just a little side note like in Apollo 13. 

    I assume they are going to spend quite a bit of time on Project Gemini, which is cool.

  10. On 6/15/2018 at 6:56 AM, RamjetFDO said:

    One of the best of the HBO series ... regardless of the subject matter.

    One of the best of the HBO series ... *because* of the subject matter.

    HIGHLY recommend it.  Also, the book "A Man on the Moon" by my friend Andy Chaikin was the source material for that series and is a great read, too.

    Wow... of course you're friends with Andy Chaikin.  I read his book after the series came out. Loved it.

    FTETTM was the original reason I subscribed to HBO way back in the day when I was right out of college. I recorded the series on VHS and watched those crappy VHS copies tons of times.

    It's too bad it came out right before HD became widespread and right before the big "prestige TV" boom because I think it's often the forgotten GREAT HBO series.

    It's never made its way on to Blu Ray or HD on HBO, which is really too bad.  It was shot on film and framed at 16:9 but apparently the CGI effects weren't originally rendered in HD, which is why it's never been released in HD.

  11. Looks awesome.

    In34.

    Edit - just looked at the cast list... lots of great people in this... Kyle Chandler is Deke Slayton, Pablo Schreiber is Jim Lovell, Jason Clarke is Ed White, Shea Whigham is Gus Grissom, Ethan Embry is Pete Conrad... Ciaran Hinds is also listed in it on IMDB but his character isn't shown...wonder if he's someone like Werner Von Braun... he kind of looks like Von Braun.

  12. Yeah I watched last night.  Enjoyed it.

    Kieran Culkin is definitely great in the loose cannon role.  Creepy son-in-law guy is super creepy.

    I think the nephew who puked out of the eye holes in the mascot costume (which was goddamn hilarious) might be sneaky good.

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  13. [Heavy Jersey accent] Ahhhh man.... you're makin' me fuuuuckin' nervous.... [/Heavy Jersey accent]

    Fucking love Man on Fire.

    Creasy Bear kicks ass.

    Tons of great performances from Walken, Rachel Ticotin, Giancarlo Giannini, Micky Rourke...even Mark Anthony is good. 

    And the whole thing wouldn't work as well if Dakota Fanning wasn't so damn good. 

  14. 2 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Can't argue any of this but I will forever see this movie through my 13-year-old eyes like I saw it the first time. I still use "Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full" all the fucking time.

     

    My man....

    Same here, all day long.

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  15. 14 hours ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    Uhh yeah.   What are osu's best 5 wins of the gundy era?  Let's see his two bedlam wins in 11 and 14?  Uga in 09? Maybe the fiesta bowl vs stanford in '12? That's the best I can think of but maybe you can do better.   So a total of 1  BCS win and 0 big 12  championship game wins.  In fact, they lost to OU in a de facto ccg.  Even with a bedlam loss in '11 they'd have still won the big 12 so it wasnt a terribly meaningful victory like the 2015 would have been.  But you know what, no, it was a big time win for you guys.  But how meaningful? It didnt secure anything you didnt already have except bragging rights. 

    Yeah id say Osu and Tcu recently have been better than tenn, ark and s.carolina. Though usc did go 9-3 last year.   But  those arent sec 2nd tier teams.  Those are like the third tier teams. Compare Osu and Tcu to the 2nd tier sec teams like Lsu, Mississippi or a msu on a year to year basis.  historically i'd say georgia is a 2nd tier team too but last year they took it up a level.  the sec is run by alabama and whoever the 2nd best team is that year. 

    Jesus dude are you really this obtuse?

    I'm not arguing that OSU has won a lot of championships, that's not the fucking point.  But we're 10th in the country in wins in the past decade. The fact that you think that is meaningless is hilarious. 

    You want me to compare OSU and TCU to the "2nd tier" SEC teams like LSU, Ole Miss or MSU?  Sure I can do that.  In the past decade, TCU is 7th in the nation in wins; OSU is 10th; LSU is 12th.  Neither Ole Miss nor Mississippi State are in the top 40.

    FWIW, Georgia is 13th, Florida is 19th, Auburn is 26th, Mississippi State is 45th, Ole Miss is 56th.

    And again let's not forget that any success that Ole Miss had was because they are worthless cheating fucks. Same, more or less, for Auburn.

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  16. 48 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I clicked on this thread to see what the hell was going on and, holy shit, a sooner appears to be the poster with whom I agree with most closely. You other guys are defending the Big 12 as a conference? The Iowa State guys and Okie State guy, I get, sure, because they're proper fucked when the Big 12 ceases to exist. But Longhorns defending the Big 12? Come the fuck on. This conference sucks and I cannot wait to leave it. I can't wait until 2022 when it starts to become real that we're heading somewhere else, anywhere else. 

    Really? 

    What conference is better and why?  Texas gonna join the SEC?  No chance.

    Texas gonna join the Pac 12?  Are you going to honestly tell me that's a better football situation than the Big 12?

    The B1G?  I mean... Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin?  That's cool I guess.  But you also get to play Indiana, Purdue, Rutgers, etc.

    This is all "grass is greener" syndrome. The Big 12 is just fine. It's an excellent athletics conference across the board and it would be even better if Texas football would start winning at a high level like they did in the 2000s.

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  17. 30 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

     

    You just crowed about wins, so  I brought up another team with a shitloaod of  mostly meaningless wins, just like osu. osu has a shitload of meaningless wins.  A few good ones though, but most of 'em were meaningless.    But hey they were good in 2011 when they lost the most meaningful game probably in the history of the program (had they beaten iowa state, who knows what would have happened).

    They havent been keeping up because there has been little parity.  OU has dominated the conference winning it 10 of the last 17 seasons.   They have been good, sure, competitive most years, sure. But not giving OU much competition.Look at the head to head results of OU vs every big 12 team for in the Stoops era. It's like they are the only ones trying.   At the top we have OU and historically texas.  sec has alabama and georgia at the top right now.  Who is their next tier down? Auburn, lsu, florida, mississippi.  Compare tcu, osu, wvu, and who , tech? And who do we compare tennessee, s. carolina, and arkansas to?  kstate, kansas, baylor?   I mean hell their 2nd tier teams keep up nicely and even occasionally win a national title.   Ours well, lol, it is what it is.

    Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. "Meaningless wins?"  OK.  Why do we play the games again?  And again, comparing OSU's wins in a P5 conference vs. a G5 conference is disingenuous at best ... 

    And by throwing out all of those teams you're simply getting into the fact that the SEC has four more teams than we do.

    Set aside the fact that two of the teams you mentioned in the SEC (Auburn and Ole Miss) had most of their high-level success due to FUCKING CHEATING, including Auburn's national title.

    As for Florida, LSU, Tennesse, S. Carolina and Arkansas... are you kidding me?  Yeah Florida won a few titles 10 years ago, but they haven't done shit since Urban left.  Tennessee hasn't done shit in a decade plus and have had multiple losing seasons.  They aren't even in the top 35 in wins in the past 10 years. (West Virgina is). 

    OSU and TCU have been consistently better programs than Tennessee, Arkansas and S. Carolina, and that's not really close. They've both also been better than Florida since Urban left. 

    In fact, here, let me help you out.  Here are the wins by college football teams in the past decade. Right, right... I'm sure you'll tell me that all of these wins are "meaningless."  Well if they are so meaningless then it should be super easy for those second-tier SEC powerhouses like Tennessee, et al, to get them.

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  18. 18 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    Ah, and lets examine how many big 12 championships they have in the past decade.  How many trips to the playoffs they've had, and how many NY6 bowls they've won. Yeah, flash in the pan is right. But sure they have won some games, so has Boise state.   They arent winning the RIGHT ones though. It's more fun to win the right ones. 

    Of course tx being down has been a problem, and  the fact that osu cant keep up isnt helping either. Our 2nd tier teams arent as good as their 2nd tier teams. 

    Right. Because being top 10 in wins over 10 years in the Big 12 is the exact same thing as it is in the Mountain West or whatever the fuck conference Boise is in.

    Hardly anyone in the Big 12 has a Big 12 championship in the past decade outside of OU.  Off the top of my head I know OSU has one, I think Baylor has two and OU has the rest, right?

    It's a zero sum game. If our conference heavyweights (OU and Texas) are pulling their weight, then you shouldn't see many Big 12 championships from the the next tier down... you should see about what you've got in the past 10 years... the bluebloods get 70% and then the next tier down gets the other 30%.  (If that were flipped I'm sure you'd be bitching about how the Big 12 sucks because crappy programs like OSU and TCU were winning the conference every year.)

    What you would want to see from the next tier down are lots of wins and (particularly) lots of bowl wins against other conferences.  That's how the "next tier down" pulls their weight in a conference with only 10 teams.

    And that's exactly what OSU, TCU (and until their implosion) Baylor have done. 

    So how exactly is OSU (or TCU for that matter) "not keeping up?"  Keeping up with what? 

  19. 4 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    The big 12 perception problem is that they only have one marquee program. the lil bros have never been able to  be consistent, just an occasional flash in the pan.  That hasnt helped the reputation at all. 

    An "occasional flash in the pan?"   OSU and TCU are in the top 10 in the country in wins in the past decade.  That's 10 years of some pretty consistent high-level winning that's certainly MUCH better than what the programs that left the Big 12 have done.  

    I (and I think everyone else here) would agree that Texas being down has been a problem. 

    But don't tell me that OU getting their shit pushed in multiple times on the national stage over the past decade hasn't also been a pretty big problem.

     

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