2025 movies

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by rms13

Snow White on pace for about $40-45 million. IMDB score is 2.2/10 with 32k reviews. But as with any Disney movie/show everyone will say user reviews are all fake if they are bad.

I'm going to see it tomorrow, but that 2.2 is utterly ridiculous, objectively speaking, and you know it.
I can't think of a single movie I've seen in theaters that deserves that low of a score.

[duwal]

Originally Posted by jdandns

I'm going to see it tomorrow, but that 2.2 is utterly ridiculous, objectively speaking, and you know it.
I can't think of a single movie I've seen in theaters that deserves that low of a score.

yes as much as I never would see this movie I don't believe that 79% of the user reviews are being sincere in giving it a 1/10 rating. Just hard to believe even with how bad it might be for some that it would be in Battlefield Earth/ Gigli/ Bratz territory

[rms13]

Originally Posted by jdandns

I'm going to see it tomorrow, but that 2.2 is utterly ridiculous, objectively speaking, and you know it.
I can't think of a single movie I've seen in theaters that deserves that low of a score.

Well I certainly know that whenever a Disney movie/series gets bad user reviews everyone says they are all fake. It's just russian bots that think it's a bad movie I guess.

Under $1 million opening weekend in China so I guess the Chinese don't like Disney either.

Update: now 2.0/10 with 54k reviews

Critic score on RT is 44% and that's all from woke liberal journalists. So the truth is probably in between. We'll call it 30% fresh, 3.0/10

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by jmarascojr

Watched Den of Thieves 2 last night, was pretty meh...

I didn't like the ending either, who ended up in jail and who got away...

Although I enjoyed Den of Thieves 2 (loved the first movie, watched it many times), I didn't like the ending as well.

Wish they just left it as-is after the score.

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by rms13

Well I certainly know that whenever a Disney movie/series gets bad user reviews everyone says they are all fake. It's just russian bots that think it's a bad movie I guess.

Under $1 million opening weekend in China so I guess the Chinese don't like Disney either.

Update: now 2.0/10 with 54k reviews

Critic score on RT is 44% and that's all from woke liberal journalists. So the truth is probably in between. We'll call it 30% fresh, 3.0/10

What do you mean "we'll call it"?
Who's we? People who haven't seen it?
Maybe stop talking about it until you see it.
The words of someone who hasn't seen a movie about that movie mean literally nothing.

[rms13]

Originally Posted by jdandns

What do you mean "we'll call it"?
Who's we? People who haven't seen it?
Maybe stop talking about it until you see it.
The words of someone who hasn't seen a movie about that movie mean literally nothing.

I identify as someone who's seen it and my opinion is as valid as anyone else especially when all I'm doing is citing data. Trust the science! I'll be curious to hear your review and to know if you get a private screening.

The bigger problem is nobody cares about Snow White but old people who aren't going to the movies. I have a 9 year old daughter who has grown up with all of the Disney princesses but Snow White has never been on her radar because she hasn't been relevant in the past 70 years.

[jdandns]

Yeah, I noticed some of the data you accidentally forgot to cite from the same Rotten Tomatoes page is the Popcornmeter which is now 74% and has been steadily rising. It's a lot harder for online trolls to skew that one.

It's playing in one of the biggest theaters, and at noon, Monday, I can't imagine the room won't be pretty empty besides us. I plan to talk loudly throughout the movie and sing-a-long with the songs, even though I don't know them, just as if I was at home. At least at the movies, there will be less popcorn and fewer candy wrappers on the floor.

I'll chime in with a review later. I never cared all that much for the original Disney animated film (within their classic Pantheon of them anyway) or the modern live-action versions with Kristen Stewart or Julia Roberts. For me, this one will be chasing "Snow White and the Three Stooges", which is the high-water mark thus far for this particular story.

Here's my gorgeous collection of Disney animated film frames, something to enjoy in the meantime:

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1172305

They're a little hard to see, but my cards of Snow White (there are two) show Snow White in the frames (which differed from card to card) on one and all 7 dwarves on the other, making them pretty choice.

[jdandns]

"Snow White" is a solid movie, it will definitely age well and be considered to be another Disney classic in the years to come. The new songs are good, but not spectacular, and the two in particular sung by Gal Gadot would've been better if she had a stronger singing voice. (They would have been best served by someone at the vocal level of Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Chicago", for example).

That said, Gadot is still gorgeous and gives a quality performance, so I'm glad they cast her. Rachel Zegler in the lead is spectacular throughout and does a great job on her numbers. The CGI was fine, the same as in pretty much any other big budget movie. The costumes are gorgeous, particularly Gadot's.

As for the identity politics nonsense that has endless trolls who haven't seen it review-bombing it (as is their weird way), I consider it a badge of honor for it to receive such hate from that lot. Having now seen it, I certainly understand why it bothers Authoritarian types and their sympathizers/enablers so much. It provides yet another blueprint on how to defeat them.

It was informative to see the friends of Jonathan (the male lead in the movie) and realize this was the same group shown in an early behind-the-scenes photo that was posted by disingenuous and/or clueless wags claiming they were the "new" 7 Dwarves as part of their larger, hate-driven narrative. They absolutely were not updated versions of the famous dwarves from the story, but instead entirely new characters. Somehow, I don't think corrections and apologies from that ilk will be forthcoming.

As for the "crowd", there was a family of 6-7 people watching with us, and a few other couples, so maybe 15 people total, not terrible for Monday at noon, but as for what the final grosses of this movie end up being, I could not care less. Would I watch it again? Probably not, but then again, I don't watch too many movies twice as I tend to get them the first time.

8/10

Proof I actually saw it, which unfortunately, should now be required from all reviewers of all movies:

[Ty Hope]

Local theater here in Japan on Sunday at 5:30 pm had 3 seats reserved for Snow White. lol

[jdandns]

How much did they charge you to bring the two hamsters in?

[Brobocop]

People can bag on Disney but at least they’re trying to give theaters some content. With how this year is playing out so far, I give theaters 10-15 years before it’s GG. The box office this year has been almost non existent.

I still can see Disney doing three billion dollar movies this year but Snow White will be a fairly large blemish on the year.

Warner Bros. is out here having an awful start to the year, they need Minecraft to hit and hit big.

[jdandns]

It's just a strange obsession for them.
They all want to pretend Disney's going out of business, like, today.
There's a whole industry of opportunists catering to it while propagating the myth. Imagine being a grown man listening to other grown men spending hours a day talking about how movies for children are ruining the world. It happens!

The phenomenon started, I think, with video games, a bunch of dudes complaining some element they didn't like was ruining videogames, but it's also metastisized to comic books. This version of the grift is a fantasy that Marvel and DC comics are imminently going out of business, their just punishment for ruining comics.

The problem is, they've used this same rap for going on 10 years now. Something isn't imminent if it takes 10 years. See?
This whole time, Marvel and DC have continued to put out 50-60 new monthly comics each, plus lots of ancilliary material. Some of the anti-DC/Marvel movement sell their own "guaranteed unruined" comics online (at a very high price) to their supporters, but can barely manage to put out a single comic book in a whole year, if even that. They do tend to get a bunch of t-shirts, hats, and keychains printed up, though, so as to regularly up-sell the true believers.

Upcoming Disney movie slate:
Lilo & Stitch live-action
Elio
Thunderbolts
Freakier Friday
Tron:Ares
Fantastic Four
Zootopia 2
Moana live-action
Avengers: Doomsday
Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu
Toy Story 5
Frozen 3

Yup, keep fightin', bros, you'll get rid of 'em eventually!

[mmbtvs]

This looks interesting:

[Noles939913]

How is no one talking about how they used CGI dwarves instead of actual little people? That may be the most problematic casting choices ever. But we know Peter Dinklage doesn’t want any little people besides himself to get work.

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by Noles939913

How is no one talking about how they used CGI dwarves instead of actual little people? That may be the most problematic casting choices ever. But we know Peter Dinklage doesn’t want any little people besides himself to get work.

No, there was an actual person with dwarfism in the cast. He was a member of Jonathan's rebel group. The character wasn't merely for show, either, as he had dialogue and action that advanced the story. His condition was not a plot point, however, and none of the CGI dwarves said anything about it.

[cdub6238]

Originally Posted by Noles939913

How is no one talking about how they used CGI dwarves instead of actual little people? That may be the most problematic casting choices ever. But we know Peter Dinklage doesn’t want any little people besides himself to get work.

Ohh..this was big drama back when it was announced lol

And the fact they opted to spend millions of $$ more on shoddy CGI versions instead of just casting actual people is equally as embarrassing imo

[Noles939913]

Originally Posted by cdub6238

Ohh..this was big drama back when it was announced lol

And the fact they opted to spend millions of $$ more on shoddy CGI versions instead of just casting actual people is equally as embarrassing imo

Yeah Dylan Postl and Jason Acuna gave really good takes on this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZsFEsj3GF0

[duwal]

Originally Posted by jdandns

It's just a strange obsession for them.
They all want to pretend Disney's going out of business, like, today.
There's a whole industry of opportunists catering to it while propagating the myth. Imagine being a grown man listening to other grown men spending hours a day talking about how movies for children are ruining the world. It happens!

The phenomenon started, I think, with video games, a bunch of dudes complaining some element they didn't like was ruining videogames, but it's also metastisized to comic books. This version of the grift is a fantasy that Marvel and DC comics are imminently going out of business, their just punishment for ruining comics.

The problem is, they've used this same rap for going on 10 years now. Something isn't imminent if it takes 10 years. See?
This whole time, Marvel and DC have continued to put out 50-60 new monthly comics each, plus lots of ancilliary material. Some of the anti-DC/Marvel movement sell their own "guaranteed unruined" comics online (at a very high price) to their supporters, but can barely manage to put out a single comic book in a whole year, if even that. They do tend to get a bunch of t-shirts, hats, and keychains printed up, though, so as to regularly up-sell the true believers.

Upcoming Disney movie slate:
Lilo & Stitch live-action
Elio
Thunderbolts
Freakier Friday
Tron:Ares
Fantastic Four
Zootopia 2
Moana live-action
Avengers: Doomsday
Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu
Toy Story 5
Frozen 3

Yup, keep fightin', bros, you'll get rid of 'em eventually!

Dang, well at least I'll give Tron a shot though I wish Lisberger was directing it too instead of just being an advisor

But yeah this is the world we live in today. So many people have chicken little syndrome of disaster happening imminently. Like the overexaggerated people that are shouting about Trump or Elon destroying America or people talking about climate change before disaster will look like the movie 2012. No matter what thing are going to continue to be status quo and will change and evolve ever so slightly. Though it will be a bit of a bummer when theaters at some point get fazed out similar to video rental stores.

[mmbtvs]

I watched Novocaine yesterday. It was a lot of fun. There were certainly moments where you're thinking, ok this is nonsense, but it didn't matter. There were some laugh out loud moments, and my wife had at least 3 moments where she had to look away from the screen to not be sick to her stomach. I give it a 7.5/10. It's not going to win any awards, but we had a good time.

[jlzinck]

Originally Posted by mmbtvs

I watched Novocaine yesterday. It was a lot of fun. There were certainly moments where you're thinking, ok this is nonsense, but it didn't matter. There were some laugh out loud moments, and my wife had at least 3 moments where she had to look away from the screen to not be sick to her stomach. I give it a 7.5/10. It's not going to win any awards, but we had a good time.

And that is the main point for me to watch movies.

During the Pandemic I watched every Bruce Willis movie I could.

[Noles939913]

Originally Posted by jlzinck

And that is the main point for me to watch movies.

During the Pandemic I watched every Bruce Willis movie I could.

That must’ve been rough when you got to the 2015 and onward portion of his filmography.

[jlzinck]

Originally Posted by Noles939913

That must’ve been rough when you got to the 2015 and onward portion of his filmography.

Nope. They are entertaining but you can see when his condition started to affect his performance as he started to have the range of Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves

[Noles939913]

Originally Posted by jlzinck

Nope. They are entertaining but you can see when his condition started to affect his performance as he started to have the range of Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves

I like Bruce and always felt he was underrated in terms of pure acting ability (Nobody’s Fool is a role he’s great in that rarely gets talked about) but I couldn’t bring myself to watch straight to Redbox stuff he’s barely in like Breach (2.9 on IMDB) or Cosmic Sin (2.5 on IMDB). It’s like watching Willie Mays falling down in the outfield or Bernard Hopkins getting knocked out of the ring.

[marl1220]

Originally Posted by jdandns

It's just a strange obsession for them.
They all want to pretend Disney's going out of business, like, today.
There's a whole industry of opportunists catering to it while propagating the myth. Imagine being a grown man listening to other grown men spending hours a day talking about how movies for children are ruining the world. It happens!

The phenomenon started, I think, with video games, a bunch of dudes complaining some element they didn't like was ruining videogames, but it's also metastisized to comic books. This version of the grift is a fantasy that Marvel and DC comics are imminently going out of business, their just punishment for ruining comics.

The problem is, they've used this same rap for going on 10 years now. Something isn't imminent if it takes 10 years. See?
This whole time, Marvel and DC have continued to put out 50-60 new monthly comics each, plus lots of ancilliary material. Some of the anti-DC/Marvel movement sell their own "guaranteed unruined" comics online (at a very high price) to their supporters, but can barely manage to put out a single comic book in a whole year, if even that. They do tend to get a bunch of t-shirts, hats, and keychains printed up, though, so as to regularly up-sell the true believers.

Upcoming Disney movie slate:
Lilo & Stitch live-action
Elio
Thunderbolts
Freakier Friday
Tron:Ares
Fantastic Four
Zootopia 2
Moana live-action
Avengers: Doomsday
Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu
Toy Story 5
Frozen 3

Yup, keep fightin', bros, you'll get rid of 'em eventually!

This my favorite animated movie of all time. I'm a little worried I'll be disappointed by the live action version.

[rms13]

Snow White is now at 1.6/10 on IMDB with 149k ratings and 88% 1 stars. Russian bots really hate it. 44% critic score on RT. It has beaten Mufasa The Lion King at the box office so not the worst performing live action Disney remake to date according to some sources. But Mufasa is 100% animated so technically not a live action remake. I did see Mufasa and it was terrible but the animation was technically impressive.