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" Judd Apatow isn't nearly as popular as he used to be and most people don't care about who produces a movie."

to people who care about comedy enough to go see a movie in a theater, Judd Apatow 100% still matters. this isn’t about most people. “most people” isn’t a demographic

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" I also haven't seen much marketing for this film."

does it really need to be pointed out that just because you haven’t seen something doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening?

from the New York Times piece linked on the previous page:

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" Universal Pictures booked “Bros” onto 3,350 screens and spent an estimated $30 million to $40 million to promote it."

that’s a lot of money to promote a comedy

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" You didn't answer my questions though. How much better would this film have performed if it was a straight couple (best guess) and what's the closest analog to this film?"

I don’t have the metrics that are used for tracking/predicting what a movie will do during the weekend of its release, but this is from the Variety piece that started this whole debate:

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" Billy Eichner’s Universal-backed comedy “Bros” flopped at the box office during its opening weekend with a $4.8 million bow, about half of the $8 million to $10 million that the studio projected."

I’ve never claimed that it’s only homophobia that is to blame for it not making as much that it was projected to, just that it was a factor

10/4/2022 3:52:00 PM

You realize you're gatekeeping the hell out of comedy with a ton of your statements, right?

10/4/2022 4:13:33 PM

kudos for using a buzzword

[Edited on October 4, 2022 at 4:22 PM. Reason : .]

10/4/2022 4:20:47 PM

Cheers man, you have a good one.

10/4/2022 4:21:58 PM

care to explain how I’m gatekeeping?

10/4/2022 4:23:03 PM

the last Judd Apatow movie I saw was The Bubble, and it was dogshit

10/4/2022 5:04:11 PM

Amsterdam tried way too damn hard

10/11/2022 7:48:08 PM

Looks to me like it is trying to be another Knives Out?

10/11/2022 10:37:55 PM

not really

it tried to be a few different things, and none of them really worked

10/11/2022 11:21:08 PM

The trailer never looked enticing. Seemed like a hodgepodge of actors I like in a movie that tried way too hard

10/11/2022 11:54:35 PM

Watched elvis on a flight. It was ok, about 20-30 minutes too long

10/13/2022 10:06:07 PM

NTTAWWT

10/13/2022 10:17:59 PM

I saw Diggstown (1992) for the first time last night. It's a pretty good movie.

10/16/2022 5:19:03 PM

Finally watched Nope last night. It was terrible IMO

10/17/2022 4:54:31 PM

Have you like Peele's other movies?

(i just watched the new Candyman he did, and thought it was pretty good)

10/17/2022 5:02:52 PM

I liked Get Out and Us. I haven't seen Nope, and I didn't realize he directed the new Candyman.

10/17/2022 5:09:49 PM

he didn’t direct the new Candyman, he was a producer on it

everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I have a hard time seeing how anyone could think Nope was terrible

[Edited on October 17, 2022 at 6:29 PM. Reason : .]

10/17/2022 6:28:04 PM

I didn't think Us was great, but that's just me

10/17/2022 7:56:19 PM

I didn’t, either

Nope ruled, though

10/17/2022 8:15:07 PM

Confess Fletch is great

11/3/2022 10:06:00 PM

Barbarian is wild

11/4/2022 10:32:01 PM

I liked barbarian, but thought it was a little over hyped. Just a solid watch, but nothing ground breaking. But I guess even decent, well made movie is getting harder to come by these days.

11/4/2022 11:24:09 PM

Amen brother

11/5/2022 12:47:01 AM

Amsterdam isn't doing it for me.

And Nope was no Get Out, but it's also really good.

11/14/2022 9:34:52 PM

Thought NOPE was terrible. Maybe I missed something..

11/14/2022 9:42:30 PM

Why did you find it terrible?

11/16/2022 10:55:10 PM

The Banshees of Inisherin was good

could’ve use subtitles at times, tho

11/17/2022 1:58:34 AM

Ugh. Smile.

**Spoilers*









I wanted to like it. It dealt with some heavy themes. But in the last 20 seconds of the film, I ended up so disappointed. I was really thinking the cycle would be broken, but no, the movie ended the exact same way it began.

11/18/2022 8:48:06 AM

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"But yes, the story was pretty creepy and I just couldn't get over that. "

Re Licorice Pizza, yes

11/18/2022 9:09:05 PM

^^just watched Smile myself. It had a very good buzz so was looking forward to watching it. I thought it was pretty well made and shot, but I found it to be pretty disappointing. It was pretty much just a slightly altered premise from The Ring, but not as creepy or well done. Might have been better as a shorter segment in an anthology movie/show

11/18/2022 10:14:43 PM

I enjoyed Barbarian as well. Went into it totally blind. Well I had watched the trailer but the trailer doesn't give away too much imo.

11/19/2022 2:16:37 AM

Watch it again if you get your sight back, it's even better that way

11/19/2022 10:10:15 AM

Black Adam was pretty fun

11/28/2022 3:17:37 AM

I really enjoyed The Menu

11/30/2022 4:41:48 PM

On the topic of Barbarian [spoilers below]:







Can we get past this trope of the "monster" being a tall/thin/super strong mutated old woman? I feel like this has shown up a lot in recent horror movies. That being said, I did like the way the movie went overall. I kept expecting Bill Skaarsgard to be some kind of psycho and it would just end up being him stalking the main woman the whole time. Started to get annoyed at the hype behind it thinking that would be an overdone premise, but glad it completely changed directions and he ended up actually being a completely normal guy.

12/2/2022 2:53:17 PM

^when he was sleeping on the couch the first night, was he having some unrelated bad dream / health issue, or was 'the mother' supposedly causing whatever was going on with him?

12/2/2022 3:39:56 PM

Nope was very weird but I enjoyed it

12/3/2022 10:36:03 PM

I also watched Nope today. I didn’t love it.

12/3/2022 11:50:44 PM

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"Everything Everywhere All at Once is the best movie I've seen in some years. It's also one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. "

There were times I thought it would be too weird but man, stuck the landing

12/4/2022 10:44:47 PM

really enjoyed Belfast!

12/5/2022 9:41:20 AM

Poker Face is about as bad as the terrible reviews it's gotten. Visually it looks ok but it was not a very good movie.

12/6/2022 1:52:13 AM

I was really looking forward to it, with the actors and director I didn't think it could be bad.

12/6/2022 8:46:23 AM

this is the first I’ve ever heard anyone make that claim that Russell Crowe is a good director

12/6/2022 10:03:35 AM

Ohhhhh I thought we were talking about the TV Show by Rain Johnson.

12/6/2022 10:26:16 AM

First time ive heard of either

12/6/2022 11:01:49 AM

I enjoyed The Fabelmans

12/7/2022 12:43:11 AM

Lady gaga as harley quinn in sequel to joker. Fyi

12/10/2022 5:29:44 PM

I thought Bodies Bodies Bodies was a comedy but it's pretty much a straight ahead thriller and fairly entertaining

12/10/2022 9:12:50 PM

I just watched violent night expecting full-on camp and violence

Definitely violence (although they worked up to it). Did their best to actually tell a story and make it somewhat believable while still delivering on the campy one-liners.

100% enjoyed.

Also surprisingly looking forward to cocaine bear (and it does appear to be 100% campy based on the trailer).

12/11/2022 9:43:21 PM

Where did you see Violent night?

12/12/2022 8:51:52 AM