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Scalenex said:
This video is a good analysis of Get Woke Go Broke in current movies. Unlike most videos in this vein, this uses fairly neutral and clinical analysis rather than shadenfreude about the big movie companies messing up.


I do have shaden freude. I'd say Sony should just retire it's entire movie sector of it's corporation. Flop after flop. Not always because of "get woke go broke." Though they did make Jumanji and Into the Spiderverse, so maybe it's not hopeless for them.
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My favourite part is when he works out that more women went to see Rambo Last Blood than the Charlie's Angel.:D That was the killing blow right there and then! No coming back from that one!
 
NIGHTBRINGER said:
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The bit Gimli says about Dwarf women is almost verbatim what Tolkien once wrote. The bit of Dwarf women having beards is not canon at least in Tolkien's work. Though he nevers says Dwarf women don't have beards.

The first Dungeons and Dragons movie made a crude joke about them having sturdy chin hairs. I've never been a fan of Dwarf women being bearded. Dwarfs are generally protrayed as a masculine race, but there is a reasonable limit.

Tolkien did push the masculine dwarfs thing a little bit genetically. Dwarf Babies in Middle Earth are 67% likely to be boys, 33% likely to be girls. D&D 2nd edition book copied that in their book Complete Book of Dwarves. They also said most couples have 2-3 children. The writers didn't think that one through. 2.1 maybe the replacement level for humans but with dwarves you would need 3.1 children per couple if a third of the population is single by necessity. Also, dwarves die a lot in war.

That said, because they are a fictional race, there isn't a right answer.
 
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Scalenex said:
This video is a good analysis of Get Woke Go Broke in current movies. Unlike most videos in this vein, this uses fairly neutral and clinical analysis rather than shadenfreude about the big movie companies messing up.
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Indeed a very interesting analysis
 
Scalenex said:
This video is a good analysis of Get Woke Go Broke in current movies. Unlike most videos in this vein, this uses fairly neutral and clinical analysis rather than shadenfreude about the big movie companies messing up.


I do have shaden freude. I'd say Sony should just retire it's entire movie sector of it's corporation. Flop after flop. Not always because of "get woke go broke." Though they did make Jumanji and Into the Spiderverse, so maybe it's not hopeless for them.
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Aginor said:
The only thing I saw of the Charlie's Angels movie (I've never seen anything else from that franchise, not interested in the genre) is the Patrick Stewart scene, which was sufficiently funny. But that's because Patrick Stewart, obviously.
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NIGHTBRINGER said:
My favourite part is when he works out that more women went to see Rambo Last Blood than the Charlie's Angel.:D That was the killing blow right there and then! No coming back from that one!
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When did they make a Charlie’s Angels movie? Was Patrick Stewart Charlie?
 
If it was released only a week ago isn’t too early to know if it bombed?
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pendrake said:
If it was released only a week ago isn’t too early to know if it bombed?
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Obviously we can't be 100% certain, but bombing in the opening weekend is huge. I believe that most movies make somewhere around 60% of their total gross revenue in the first two weeks of release (with the opening weekend being the most substantial). As such, estimates of this kind are usually quite accurate. In fairness, to get a clearer picture we'll have to wait and see how much the revenue drops off from the first to the second weekend.

Wait and see... it has failed!
 
Yeah the opening week usually is pretty important.
There are good movies that have made some decent money despite a slow start, but that's not common.
 
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