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On 5/25/2025 at 7:24 PM, Red Five said:

Fountain of Youth looks horrific. But it's Halpert and Portman on an Indiana Jones type deal, so I'm still gonna watch it. 

Portman has not aged well.

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I made it all the way thru FoY.   It is so over the top it’s basically like Naked Gun, minus the comedy.  

It was like a spoof of the genre, without jokes. Really weird movie. Absolutely terrible.
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Did anyone notice that the ending of Fountain of Youth 

Spoiler

... was a direct and complete ripoff of The Last Crusade? Jim Halpert was shot so that he would need the healing powers of the fountain. Then the main bad guy tries it out and ages really rapidly for about 15 seconds before exploding. Then they leave without the McGuffin, but yet somehow wiser. 

 

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18 minutes ago, YChang said:

Yeesh, sounds like Fountain of Youth is simply there to pad the content library. 

I assume it's like The Gorge - if it got a hot reception and following, it could spawn a franchise for them.

Instead, it was just a waste of money that they can easily afford. 

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3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I assume it's like The Gorge - if it got a hot reception and following, it could spawn a franchise for them.

Instead, it was just a waste of money that they can easily afford. 

Oh, for sure. It is fascinating that so far, the majority of the TV shows are pretty darn good, but the movies have had a harder time finding pop culture success. 

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1 minute ago, YChang said:

Oh, for sure. It is fascinating that so far, the majority of the TV shows are pretty darn good, but the movies have had a harder time finding pop culture success. 

From what I recall, the ones they did release theatrically had horrible box office numbers, so they shifted their future movies to streaming only via Apple TV+

At least they're not doing the HBO thing where they shelf the finished project as a tax write-off.  I will give Apple credit for still releasing them, even if they get panned as bad. 

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19 hours ago, Js1 said:

From what I recall, the ones they did release theatrically had horrible box office numbers, so they shifted their future movies to streaming only via Apple TV+

At least they're not doing the HBO thing where they shelf the finished project as a tax write-off.  I will give Apple credit for still releasing them, even if they get panned as bad. 

Found out Disney did this to TOGO which was a damn good movie. Gone forever. 

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I don’t understand what apple is doing. Throwing lots of money at content with good production quality but the writing is just WTF on their shit. Especially on their movies. They are so closing to doing something great but it always seems to fall short

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1 hour ago, The Dude said:

I don’t understand what apple is doing. Throwing lots of money at content with good production quality but the writing is just WTF on their shit. Especially on their movies. They are so closing to doing something great but it always seems to fall short

Could be that they got stuck in a production deal where they were contractually obligated to take on certain projects to get other projects.  Netflix had this problem with I want to say DreamWorks and a couple of other companies where said companies could just pump out whatever and Netflix had to accept it.

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8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Well-written and tightly edited.  Just a fantastic movie.

Just talking Apple TV movies, by far the best. 

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While looking for something to watch last night came across this, which is from 2022

 

it’s 4 1 hour episodes, watched 2 so far and have enjoyed.   I can’t believe I’d never heard about this (show and the story) before now. 

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