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    Well, $890M in theatrical losses in just the past year, without even counting this latest flop... which will push that financial hole into well over $1B, would argue otherwise; if a movie costs $300M and earns $500M at the box office, it has lost the studio money... lots of it. Let's face reality: Disney, as it currently exists, is where franchises, and IPs in general, go to die.
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    ^ You have two films too many on your list ... there are only three Indiana Jones movies. Number four was bad but mostly innocuous fan fiction, and number 5 is pure retched IP vandalism... just like the last two Disney so-called Star Wars sequel films, and BoBF, and Kenobi, and the Willow series...
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    Wow! 3 day weekend projected take of 60 million, 5 million domestic under worst case scenario, inclusive of Thursday's previews. With a 300 million budget (likely closer to 330m once inflation, loan interest, reshoots, and ancillary costs are factored in + promotional expenditures, this thing is going to lose well over 200 million in its theatrical run, specially with MI7 just 2 weeks away... it needs to make almost 800 million, at the very least -- assuming a lowball 310m final cost -- just to barely break even, over 900m for even a marginal profit, and there is no conceivable way it will get anywhere close; it will be lucky to reach somewhere between 450 and 550 million worldwide.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    mechaninac replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    The Achilles heel (HA!) of the Arcadia are its ankle joints; the Bandai's are far superior. Ultimately, both are great toys where your personal aesthetic preference will determine which choice is better for you; personally, I find Bandai's superior in most aspects, and the collapsing leg panels are a brilliant solution over the carved-out scoops to accommodate the arms in fighter mode that Arcadia employs.
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    In the case of Lucasfilm, they're all out of IPs to ruin and legacy male heroes to Jake Skywalker; however, there's always exhuming those corpses and abusing them all over again, to ever diminishing returns... most fans are done.
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    Yeah.... NO! This "thing" will most definitely earn its likely hundreds of millions of dollars loss at the theaters, and hopefully tank Lucasfilm for good in the process. This is my personal opinion, of course, and more power to those who enjoy these movies -- why, I'll never fathom, but I'm not alone, as evidenced by the recent history of monumental flops from many studious that have embraced all these regressive post modernist tropes.
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    The following video's title is admittedly click-bait-y, but I found it to be a pretty good analysis of just why, not only Indy 5, but so many modern super expensive movies, are almost destined to flop, or at best break even or make middling profits in their theatrical runs. The bloated price tags alone create hard hills to climb towards profitability, then you take the mediocrity, for whatever reasons, and he goes over many... which tend to drive away audiences, of so much of this content into account and instead of a hill to climb, they get a hill to die on. Agree or disagree with the breakdown is rather moot; the box office numbers, as related to all the costs associated with these productions, speak for themselves and spell a coming reassessment of how these sausages are made.
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    Oh, I get the humorous reference and appreciate it... maybe my point came across as too serious or acerbic. As for it being a good movie... mileage will most definitely vary, wildly so, since that assessment is entirely subjective, and people are totally entitled to like a, objectively or subjectively, bad movie or despise a, again objectively or subjectively, good movie. It's all a matter of personal perspective and taste... one man's trash is another's treasure and vice-versa, and in the great scheme of things, entirely pointless to everyone except the studios, and their investors, pumping out money losings bombs, and driving once profitable IPs into the ground, in rapid-fire succession.
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    Referencing a great movie that sadly failed in its theatrical run, to cope with the mediocrity of a pointless, mostly crappy, movie that will go down in history as one of the worst money losing flops ever made. That's the one positive aspect of a lazy, poorly executed, multiverse so-called plot: It offers endless possibilities for alternate, actually good, stories to exist, even if the end result is that everything becomes completely inconsequential.
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    Watch eventually, when it hits streaming or cable, or broadcast TV; that's what I'll be doing as, besides all the negatives reported everywhere, it is a pointless dead-end of a film since the DCEU, if it even survives... Aquaman 2 and Blue Beetle will more than likely suffer the same ignominious box office flop status, will be getting a complete reboot that will render everything in this series utterly irrelevant.
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    He'd be the perfect old curmudgeonly Bruce Wayne mentor figure for a Batman Beyond theatrical foray...
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    And not only do you get assaulted with one annoying train wreck Barry Allen, but 2 annoying train wreck Barry Allens... 3 if you count the villain. There is only so much revulsion a body can take before severe nausea takes over and projectile barfing ensues...
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    That perfectly applies not only to Indy 5, but to the whole of Lucasfilm as well, perhaps even Disney itself.
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    I don't blame you wiping Ghostbusters 2016 off your memory... like splashing bleach on a nasty stain. That's when fan baiting and vilification, and totally unsubtle agenda pushing, were solidified as "legitimate" tactics by studios, producers, directors, actors, and media shills; 2016 marked the onset of the industry doom, as you put it, that they've so arrogantly cultivated. That's not to say that equivalent BS wasn't a thing prior to that year -- Fant4stic comes immediately to mind as the casting was specifically geared towards throwing ists, isms and phobes accusations at fans if/when it bombed... it did -- or that haven't been excellent flics then and since, but that's when the bad blood seed was planted. The wholesale rejections by audiences and commensurate financial losses from flop after flop and resulting cutbacks and layoffs and firings are the inevitable results of their hubris, by going from humbly embodying the time-tested business motto of "The customer is always right", to the sanctimonious position that 'if the customer criticizes what we deem they should slavishly consume, then the customer is not only wrong but stupid, bad, or both'... the industry is reaping what they've sown. Edit: This video, under spoilers, does an excellent job of summarizing, from my perspective, what got us from there to here; if you have a different point of view, that's perfectly fine, but the current state of affairs speak for themselves:
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    Toxoplasmosis is a hell of a fickle vector...
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    Hollywood (with precious few exceptions), post 2016, with legacy IPs???... Methinks thou dost ask too much of hacks who cannot deliver anything of the sort.
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    I, for one, can't wait...
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    The same one would apply, wouldn't it? Or perhaps the one with the two steam locomotives running into each other...
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    55M 3-day weekend, domestic -- 64M with the extended 4 day... well bellow the already worst case projections. Second weekend notwithstanding, it's official:
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    Wow!!! I uhm, have no words...
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    Oof!..
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    Do not watch unless you don't care about spoilerish content. The verdict by Chris Gore was brutally honest and paints this movie as utter garbage.
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    Hi-Metal R

    mechaninac replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Or.... that blue has some yellow in it...
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