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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
draggs said:
Tickets are not around $15. They're around $10.50 average

I don't care what family-less Jay Bauman thinks it costs to take a family to the movies. It only gets expensive if you're a retard who can't tell your kids no we're not buying $50 worth of shit at the concessions stand

The demographics of moviegoers? A much larger percentage of 65+ said they didn't go to a movie last year than the 18-34 set. Boomers who do go to the movies go more frequently than anyone else, but a much smaller percentage of all Boomers go than the other age brackets. Only 16% of moviegoers in 2022 were older than 65. Younger people (18-34) buy more tickets than any other group. Almost half of moviegoers in 2022 made less than $50,000 a year. tldr you're a retard if you can't afford to go to a movie, young people still drive ticket sales. Like it has always been

You can find all this out yourself very easily instead of relying on some youtube personality, or whoever you rely on for your well-informed inaccurate knowledge of the box office
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Dude, I had to pay $15 when I went out to watch Dune.

You're just full of shit.
 
TVBForever said:
Where I'm at, an average movie ticket in le current year inflation costs under $8-12 for a matinee (not counting the actual app which contains huge tax addition) depending on which chain.
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$7 for the Cinemark we used to go to back when we lived a few towns over. The one near us is only $7.50.
 
Just Some Other Guy said:
$7 for the Cinemark we used to go to back when we lived a few towns over. The one near us is only $7.50.
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I'd say Cinemark is a better option than either Regal or AMC. Some chains such as Brendan Theatres are very costly, but there are little town theatres like Eclipse and Maya that also vary
 
I'm reminded of people from the USA pulling their hair out over Euros and others blathering about how great healthcare/bikes/trains/whatever is so great where they are, why doesn't everyone in the US just do that, it's so simple. The average price of a ticket is going to vary so widely depending on where you live, along with factors like matinees and type of cinema or seating, family or single, and so on and so forth. It's pointless and everyone will just be screaming past eachother.
 
mandatorylurk said:
Mike putting just onions on a pizza is disgusting.
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onions by themselves, yeah disgusting, but as just one topping among many, then yes, it is delicious. though if i were to eat a pizza in a crowded theater id want to be more considerate and not get super smelly toppings like onions.
Evil Peter Griffin said:
Why pay for movie tickets? Everyone knows the best way to watch a movie is a low quality recording with shitty ads on my phone while I take a shit.
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honestly that is how im going to watch barbie. i got me a low quality pirated recording of it and i plan to idly watch it as i do something else. i aint giving no money to no globohomo barbie movie.


edit: fixed dyslexic typing.
 
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Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
not a bad HiTB. one of the few recent ones ive actually found entertaining. only disagreement i have with them is being disappointed, but not surprised, that they support the faggot writers strike. hack writers who write shitty streaming service shows dont really deserve large residuals.
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Eh, the actor's strike is more bad to me, because unlike writers actors are literally rich and them striking just seems privileged. I mean not every writer's writes woke stuff for movies and tv, some writers write stuff that is non-political and can be enjoyed by both political sides.

@Product Placement The movies you mentioned that are successes are not summer movies, they are before the summer. And also, the Barbie movie is still in theatres so it doesn't count. And to be fair, the amount of the money that a film makes doesn't matter, because in the end it just has to be if the movie is good. I mean Fast X ,Flash and IJ5 are basically good, heck IJ5 and Flash are possibly much better than IJ4 or other DC movies in general. And besides WB won't give up on DC movies, because may I remind you that the Blue Beetle movie is coming out later this year, and yes the Blue Beetle is a DC superhero. Heck, the Little Mermaid remake might the most decent live-action Disney remake since Pete's Dragon, the only problem with it being the scuttlebutt song that will live in infamy. Basically, I believe that these movies will become cult classics like how Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Wizard of Oz become cult classics, because those movies were originally box-office failures as well. I mean the Matrix 4 besides being liked by RLM is also liked by Emplemon. Don't believe me here is proof:


You see! Sure Emp compared the Matrix 4 to Freddy Got Fingered when I prefer the RLM comparing it to Gremlins 2. And to be fair, Matrix 4 came out during the Scamdemic so that likely the problem for it failing. Basically, I believe that in the 2030's or 2040's people will look back on box office failure that are good movies and not true awful movies and enjoy them as is. I mean to be fair Matrix 4 is like 2 years old at this point. Also Also you forgot to mention the movie that is making more money and is climbing the box office charts which is Sound of Freedom and that movie is good as well judging from the reviews on sites like IMdb or Rotton Tomatoes. Basically, what I am trying to say is whether a movie makes more money or is a bomb, is just has to be a good movie and not a stinker.

@Drag-on Knight 91873 You do realize that Top Gun 2 came out last year and was a box office success that was during a scamdemic right?

Anywho sperging over.
 
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To be fair, the Irishman cost what it did because brand-new tech had to be developed for that movie as Scorcese didn't want to have to shoot all in a volume or have his actors try to work with stupid ass dots all over their faces (though, there was a reasonable amount of greenscreen in the movie for period exteriors and they all had little tracking dots sewn into the collars of their shirts and jackets to help in post) - and that cost was actually absorbed by Netflix and the tech company who developed it being able to lease that technology out for commercials, other features, etc, so it was kinda amortized.

Really, if anyone should be allowed to burn $200 million, it's Scorcese, at least the Irishman looks and feels like a big, expensive slab of cinema, most Marvel movies look worse than Cannon sequels and they spend the gross domestic product of Italy on just catering.
 
alright fine said:
Really, if anyone should be allowed to burn $200 million, it's Scorcese, at least the Irishman looks and feels like a big, expensive slab of cinema, most Marvel movies look worse than Cannon sequels and they spend the gross domestic product of Italy on just catering.
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Yellowflash had a good video today about what a total bomb Secret Invasion is. Disney is almost certainly going to have to get rid of streaming, but I can't think of anyone that would even want to buy it at this point. Rumors about maybe Apple going around, and they could certainly drop billions on it. But there's basically no franchises for Disney anymore. They've burned all their IPs and goodwill to the ground.

I got it free with Verizon for 6 months and I never watch it. The last Marvel show I gave a chance to was Loki and even for free it wasn't worth it. The only MCU movie I really liked was Infinity War because it had a great ending. Everyone knew they'd just undo it the next movie though, and I didn't like Endgame at all.

Star Wars shows jumped the shark with Book of Boba Fett and then again with Obi-wan. Those are the two worst series I ever fully watched in my life. Anyway, my main point is that Disney+ is an anti-cash cow and there's just no way it'll ever make a profit.
 
hammerheadedshark said:
They attacked Sound of Freedom in their last video, claiming its astroturfed and first row seats are always empty bc they are prebought to hype the box office revenue.
Why would they claim such things without any more serious research
are they just basically liberals unsatisfied they didnt make it in LA?
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I don't think they're California style lefties. I think they've just gotten old and comfortable and are no longer interested in making waves. That means parroting the party line on things like Sound of Freedom.

Or they just don't give a shit and didn't bother looking into the matter any more deeply than online screeching.

Dear God, they've become ... normies.
 
hammerheadedshark said:
They attacked Sound of Freedom in their last video, claiming its astroturfed and first row seats are always empty bc they are prebought to hype the box office revenue.
Why would they claim such things without any more serious research
are they just basically liberals unsatisfied they didnt make it in LA?
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Mormon fundraising doesn't lead to $100 million box office. Especially when SoF is not an ESG-friendly movie.

Mola Ram said:
I don't think they're California style lefties. I think they've just gotten old and comfortable and are no longer interested in making waves. That means parroting the party line on things like Sound of Freedom.

Or they just don't give a shit and didn't bother looking into the matter any more deeply than online screeching.

Dear God, they've become ... normies.
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I don't draw a distinction between passive compliance and active compliance.
 
Mola Ram said:
I don't think they're California style lefties. I think they've just gotten old and comfortable and are no longer interested in making waves. That means parroting the party line on things like Sound of Freedom.
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They are certainly not CA or north west style libs, but they are absolutely that upper midwest Minneapolis to Chicago-area style leftists. I'd say they're probably pretty similar to the Rifftrax guys, although apparently Mike Nelson is fairly moderate to conservative. Josh and Jack though seem to be the most left of them, sometimes dipping into that west coast style.

I can tolerate midwest styles usually a lot more than west coast ones.
 
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