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Post by silverdragon on May 7, 2015 6:39:23 GMT
Pop quiz, you stand in FRONT of my car, at night, in a road, and start taking flash photography, without express permission to block the road/close the road/detain me.
What happens next....
In the UK, deliberately blinding a driver with a flash gun, is apparently against the law. ...Or so according to a police officer who I spoke to on the subject who stated that the forward facing Speed trap flash is a deliberately diffused flash to prevent blinding, and would arrest anyone deliberately pointing a flash gun at someone driving.
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Post by ironhold on May 14, 2015 3:39:47 GMT
According to Box Office Mojo, the following films have ended their US domestic theatrical run:
*Taken 3
*Focus
*Jupiter Ascending
*Run All Night
"Jupiter Ascending" has squeaked a $5.8m profit beyond its production costs, but I highly doubt that this will be sufficient to cover the associated marketing costs. So while not a "dud" in the sense of it losing money, it's still a financial disappointment. "Run All Night" squeaked a $16.8m profit, giving it better odds of having covered the marketing costs. The other two films have made such huge margins that I have no doubt they cleanly made profits.
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"Avengers" needs a mere $15m to surpass "Furious 7" for this year's US domestic #1. In contrast, "Hot Pursuit" has only made $17.6m globally, just over half of its production costs; at the rate it's going, I'm thinking that the film will likely end up as a true dud in the sense of losing money.
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Post by silverdragon on May 14, 2015 5:20:40 GMT
Need for speed hot pursuit was a XBox "Hit", so maybe it has a slower burn rate in viewer figures?...
Can I suggest a new film for opinion. Adam Sandler, "The cobbler"
From "Rotten tomatoes", the following...
It gets low scores, not many viewers like it at all.
Also from that site, Dumb and Dumber to.
From my own knowledge, "Annie", they did a remake. One of my American cousins has seen the results, and it wasnt good?... As in, over-acted, even for American standards it has "forced" humour, and they should never have messed with the original.
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Post by the light works on May 14, 2015 14:32:11 GMT
I know this has been in the how stupid thread, but it deserves to be here, as well: www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/13/mad-max-fury-road-mras-angerand it should be mentioned that the scathing commentaries accusing it of being thinly disguised feminist propaganda are based on the trailers and posters for the movie - because they haven't actually WATCHED the movie. (which has gotten good reviews, and will probably not be a dud)
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Post by Cybermortis on May 14, 2015 14:33:58 GMT
Unlikey. The biggest selling video games such as the Call of Duty Franchise can net some 20 million sales worldwide on all platforms*. A more average figure for a 'hit' AAA game is typically in the 2-5 million range.
Age Of Ultron sold some 20 million tickets on its opening weekend in the USA alone, or if you like more people went to see the film in three days than bought the best selling Call of Duty game in the six months to a year it was on sale.
(*Basically Playstation, XBox and PC. The WiiU has been dropped by third party developers, meaning that its games are specific to it. It should also be noted that games that are advertised as 'exclusive' for one console rarely are. Even if they are not released on the other console they are almost always released on PC at some point.)
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Post by ironhold on May 14, 2015 17:10:29 GMT
Need for speed hot pursuit It's an entirely different bit. The film has Reese Witherspoon trying to pass herself off as a rookie cop and Sofia Vergara as a mafioso's spoiled widow. The premise of the film is that Witherspoon's character has been languishing in the evidence collection room for a full three years after a grievous mistake on her part left a young man seriously injured.* She's given a chance at redemption when she's assigned to help escort a mafioso and his wife into witness protection, as policy requires a female officer to help support the wife. However, the pick-up goes wrong when two pairs of gunmen burst into the mafioso's house, killing him and the federal agent involved in the case. This leaves Witherspoon and Vergara to hit the road together in the hopes of avoiding a similar fate. A blooper reel during the end credits has Vergara inadvertently mooning everyone (an outfit that she was wearing at the start of the film was so tight that she couldn't wear any underwear beneath it, leading to her accidentally flashing everyone when she went to change it), which I imagine was included as an effort to get people to sit through the entire film. The film itself is a hot mess, such that although it was set in Texas the actual filming was done in Louisiana (which caused a bit of consternation, as the original working title was "Don't Mess With Texas"). *While on patrol one night, she spotted a group of young 20-somethings walking towards a parking lot. One of them - who was holding an alcoholic beverage - called out "Shotgun!" as they neared their vehicle, indicating that he wanted to ride in the shotgun position on the trip home. Witherspoon's character mistakenly believed that he was claiming to have a shotgun, and so pulled out her Tazer. The startled young man spilled his drink on his shirt, and so when she Tazed him his shirt erupted in flames. Making matters worse, the young man was the mayor's son. Her character was allowed to retain her job out of respect for her father, a legend among the police department. In real life, however, she would have likely lost her credentials over the incident and faced a massive lawsuit.
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Post by silverdragon on May 15, 2015 7:38:22 GMT
Even over here in UK, thats a commonly known call to bag the front seat. I hardly call that reason to tazer a person.... I call bogus on the film. Keep her job?.. IRL, a woman who kicked off on a plane about Peanuts got jail time and sacked from her managerial position by her Father who refused to "protect" her from the law in any way for he gross stupidity.
I now know I wont watch that film without wanting to throw things at the screen...(proverbially... its an expensive TV...)
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Post by silverdragon on May 15, 2015 7:40:07 GMT
Just to clarify, the [""] marks in that were me being sarcastic.... it wasnt a big a hit as they had hoped.
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Post by mrfatso on May 15, 2015 10:12:24 GMT
Even over here in UK, thats a commonly known call to bag the front seat. I hardly call that reason to tazer a person.... I call bogus on the film. Keep her job?.. IRL, a woman who kicked off on a plane about Peanuts got jail time and sacked from her managerial position by her Father who refused to "protect" her from the law in any way for he gross stupidity. I now know I wont watch that film without wanting to throw things at the screen...(proverbially... its an expensive TV...) That is the advantage of saying "baggies" the front seat rather than "shotgun" no one will confuse it for someone crying out that someone has a firearm.
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Post by the light works on May 15, 2015 14:38:18 GMT
Even over here in UK, thats a commonly known call to bag the front seat. I hardly call that reason to tazer a person.... I call bogus on the film. Keep her job?.. IRL, a woman who kicked off on a plane about Peanuts got jail time and sacked from her managerial position by her Father who refused to "protect" her from the law in any way for he gross stupidity. I now know I wont watch that film without wanting to throw things at the screen...(proverbially... its an expensive TV...) and wasn't there already extensive testing done to determine what it takes to set a person on fire with a TASER?
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Post by ironhold on May 16, 2015 3:59:37 GMT
That was using pepper spray, not alcohol, as the flammable agent.
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Post by the light works on May 16, 2015 6:15:48 GMT
That was using pepper spray, not alcohol, as the flammable agent. there are not many alcoholic beverages that are strong enough to be flammable.
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Post by mrfatso on May 16, 2015 8:41:15 GMT
As many British people can tell you even some thing like the brandy we use to flame a Christmas Pudding needs to be pre-warmed to get it to catch alight.
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Post by silverdragon on May 16, 2015 9:30:17 GMT
I know pretty much all of the liquors you can set light to with an open flame at room temp... Sambuca anyone?...(On the fly...)
But doing so is, well, not your usual way of doing things.
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Post by ironhold on May 20, 2015 16:27:35 GMT
New updates from Box Office Mojo -
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is officially the #1 film in the nation. "Home" is #5, and may potentially beat "50 Shades" for the #4 spot before it finishes its run.
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Post by mrfatso on May 20, 2015 16:50:07 GMT
New updates from Box Office Mojo - "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is officially the #1 film in the nation. "Home" is #5, and may potentially beat "50 Shades" for the #4 spot before it finishes its run. Yes but "50 Shades" would probably enjoy a good beating.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 1, 2015 20:37:10 GMT
So after last weekend, via Box Office Mojo:
1. "Avengers" has crossed the $400m US domestic mark and is still climbing.
2. "Pitch Perfect 2" and "Mad Max" have crossed the $100m US domestic mark, and both are also still climbing.
3. "Get Hard" is still climbing; it's at $89.7m, and may possibly (but not plausibly) make it across the $100m mark.
4. "Tomorrowland" is still climbing, but it needs $60m just to break even on the production cost.
5. "Hot Pursuit" still needs $2m to break even on its production costs.
6. "Aloha" made less than $10m opening weekend. This does not bode well.
7. "Monkey Kingdom" appears to be running out of steam. It's close, but I doubt that it will overtake "Seventh Son".
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Post by Cybermortis on Jun 1, 2015 22:11:33 GMT
The theory/hope is that Mad Max will do what Kingsman did earlier in the year. Namely that while it didn't have the biggest opening, it stuck around in the top five for a long time.
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Post by the light works on Jun 2, 2015 0:11:30 GMT
I don't recall having heard of Aloha. a quick glance at IMDB tells me I probably saw it and disregarded it.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 8, 2015 21:16:53 GMT
We can add "Danny Collins" to the list of roadkill. It had a $10m production budget, but only netted $5.6m domestically; no word yet on an international release.
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