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  1. Comment on 'Blue dot fever' claims Post Malone, Pussycat Dolls concerts. What's really behind it? in ~music

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    The article goes into a lot of the more major factors. Which is economics, we're in an affordability crisis, and these artists are charging insane prices. The average ticket price this year being...

    The article goes into a lot of the more major factors. Which is economics, we're in an affordability crisis, and these artists are charging insane prices. The average ticket price this year being almost 150 is insane. Most of these artists shouldn't be charging more than, I don't know, 70 bucks. I do find it interesting that instead of lowering the ticket prices, or changing to a smaller venue, they just cancel dates across the board instead. Seems defeatist.

    Also a lot of these artists just aren't, like popular, or good, or haven't been doing good upkeep on their art. Zayn's album was kind of a flop, and after that initial boost when he left One Direction he's been mostly unpopular especially when you compare it to Harry Styles's success. Meghan Trainor has had maybe three big hits, and those were all like over ten years ago at this point. And Post Malone completely abandoned the artistic style that made him famous in favor of Country, and even had Jelly Roll tag onto the tour. So those are more artistic reasons why, but I'm sure if the crisis wasn't happening and/or their tickets were cheap they would be selling more.

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  4. Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society

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    I agree with that Coylar person. Probably cause I’m closer in age than I am to the millennial person. I think the millennial person’s framing about the pronoun conversation is the norm around here...

    I agree with that Coylar person. Probably cause I’m closer in age than I am to the millennial person.

    I think the millennial person’s framing about the pronoun conversation is the norm around here and was the norm around the internet for 10 years or so. To act like it’s not a big deal to just call someone Xe\Xim or something. That’s it’s just polite and blah blah blah. That’s part of the framing that I think unnerved people. It’s like you’re trying to one, inconvenience people by changing what they’ve been used to calling others for decades and then secondly pretending it’s not a big deal and that actually it’s such a minimal statement. The pronoun stuff requires a lot of active participation from everyone that it’s just not reasonable to be like “well actually it’s not even a big deal just call them what they want.”

    I do think it’s interesting that it’s not brought up that the “left” was transgressive in the 00s and were pushing the boundaries of what we could say and do. And that there were people during the woke 1 era that were still doing that. Look at Nick Mullen with the CumTown podcast or ChapoTrapHouse. But they would get called fascists, racists, whatever by the more in line woke crowd.

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  5. Comment on Do you prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter? in ~food

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    Growing up I always ate Peter Pan Crunchy Peanut Butter. As I got older I switched to the natural ones. And a few years ago more brands like that started coming out. Recently tried crunchy peanut...

    Growing up I always ate Peter Pan Crunchy Peanut Butter. As I got older I switched to the natural ones. And a few years ago more brands like that started coming out. Recently tried crunchy peanut butter for the first time in however many years and I forgot how good that shit is. I love a crunchy texture. It’s why I’m so addicted to potato chips.

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  6. Comment on Tom Cruise blames Christopher McQuarrie for ‘Mission: Impossible’ misfire, keeps him off ‘Top Gun 3’ in ~movies

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    Brad Bird did Ghost Protocol, McQuarrie did Rogue Nation. But Bird became disinterested in live action films after Tomorrowland.

    Brad Bird did Ghost Protocol, McQuarrie did Rogue Nation. But Bird became disinterested in live action films after Tomorrowland.

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  7. Comment on Tom Cruise blames Christopher McQuarrie for ‘Mission: Impossible’ misfire, keeps him off ‘Top Gun 3’ in ~movies

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    Mission Impossible Rogue Nation was made as it was being written as well and it turned out better than than either of the Reckoning films

    Mission Impossible Rogue Nation was made as it was being written as well and it turned out better than than either of the Reckoning films

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  8. Comment on ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ stunning with $233m+ WW opening, $77m US in ~movies

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    This opened higher than last year’s summer opener, Thunderbolts. Both domestically and internationally, meaning a studio comedy film is gonna make more than a Marvel action blockbuster. Obviously...

    This opened higher than last year’s summer opener, Thunderbolts. Both domestically and internationally, meaning a studio comedy film is gonna make more than a Marvel action blockbuster. Obviously this comedy is pandering to millennial nostalgia. The demos for this implies it was mostly white women over the age of 25 going to see this.

    Overall the box office has been doing pretty well these past couple of months. Well the top performers are doing well anyways.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    The Devil Wears Prada 2 I watched the first film about five years ago now. Part of the explosive movie watching habit I had back then. I liked it, it’s a good movie. But it was part of a series of...

    The Devil Wears Prada 2

    I watched the first film about five years ago now. Part of the explosive movie watching habit I had back then. I liked it, it’s a good movie. But it was part of a series of films from the 00s that were primarily aimed at women that people decided were going to be re-evaluated into “serious cinema.” Marie Antoinette and Jennifer’s Body were among these films. I think Prada is the best of these three, but still feels odd that that attempt existed when it’s really just a solid studio film from the time.

    The sequel is terrible. There was a lot of kerfuffle around the way this looks with many videos popping up around the time of the trailer criticizing the look and favoring the older look. I don’t have an issue with it honestly, the first film only looks like that because it’s shot on 35mm. It’s look is still flat, it’s just utilizing a textured format, similar complaints were lodged at Ella McCay last year and how James L Brooks didn’t know how to make a movie look good anymore. None of these movies looked good, they were just shooting on film stock.

    Anyways, the major issue with this film is how dull it is. Everyone is so nice to each other and loving and understanding. Moments of hostility or meanness are treated so big as opposed to the original film which treated all those moments as just the norm of the industry. It makes no sense why these characters are nice. None of the real people they were based on are nice now theyre all still the cold heartless people they were 20 years ago. Anna Wintour of course still is, but so is the person that Emily Blunt plays who recently did an interview. You kind of need those harsh personalities to handle an industry like this.

    Everything in the first film felt lived in and alive. It felt like you were watching someone actually at the offices of Vogue. This feels overly polished like the sets are all brand new. Everything here is so big too, like big things are happening when in the first film it was just a normal work season. They also tried to make Hathaway an outsider again and it hits similar beats to the first film. They gave her a boring love interest that does nothing for the film when the relationship in the first film was almost central to the themes.

    Most of the performances are honestly bad. I was shocked at how little most of them cared. Justin Theroux and Emily Blunt I think were the only ones having fun with this. Although none of the performances feel like they even track with the first, it does not feel like we’re watching the same characters 20 years later.

    I think a more interesting film would have gone the meta route. Hathaway’s character writes a book, a movie gets made, and so on. That would have added more tension between the characters.

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  11. Comment on Tom Cruise blames Christopher McQuarrie for ‘Mission: Impossible’ misfire, keeps him off ‘Top Gun 3’ in ~movies

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    Supposedly they're looking at Jon M. Chu (Wicked), Joachim Rønning (Tron: Ares), and Adil & Bilall (Bad Boys For Life) to direct Top Gun 3. None of which are good choices imo. But something I...

    Supposedly they're looking at Jon M. Chu (Wicked), Joachim Rønning (Tron: Ares), and Adil & Bilall (Bad Boys For Life) to direct Top Gun 3. None of which are good choices imo.

    But something I thought was interesting was that Cruise and McQuarrie were so closely bonded together they originally had three movies lined up with Cruise's deal at WarnerBros. The first (and most exciting for me personally) was a remake of The Gauntlet with Cruise and Scarlett Johansson with McQuarrie writing and directing. Production was initially scheduled for 2024 with speculation of a 2025 release date. We've heard nothing about it since.

    The second was a WWII film, there were no significant details or titles, but again it would star Cruise with McQuarrie writing and directing. After The Gauntlet never took off, this was shaping up but we've heard nothing since early 2025.

    The third was Deeper, an underwater film based on a Max Landis script that McQuarrie would re-write and Doug Liman would direct. Cruise would star with Ana De Armas, his then girlfriend. WarnerBros rejected the pitch because the budget was near 300M. They shopped the idea around but no one wanted it at that budget. Cruise and De Armas broke up. And that's all over now.

    So instead McQuarrie attached himself to two IP projects; Conan the Barbarian and Battlefield, with Battlefield exciting studios thus far. And Cruise has his own thing going on with Digger! coming out later this year.

    It does seem like the end of a great creative partnership.

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  14. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Aaranofsky wanted to do a fun thing after having directed The Whale. Also something where the camera moves like crazy while The Whale was shot in one location with a locked down camera. I remember...

    Aaranofsky wanted to do a fun thing after having directed The Whale. Also something where the camera moves like crazy while The Whale was shot in one location with a locked down camera.

    I remember thinking the violence was still in line with Aaranfosky’s previous work, and all his films have a theme of self destructive behavior from their protagonists which this also fits.

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  15. Comment on Oscar Isaac | Closet Picks in ~movies

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    It’s my father

    It’s my father

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  17. Comment on Resident Evil | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    This looks great 👍 Austin Abrams was my second favorite performance in Weapons, he was so naturally funny. I’m still trying to figure out who Mikey Madison was supposed to play. She was offered a...

    This looks great 👍

    Austin Abrams was my second favorite performance in Weapons, he was so naturally funny.

    I’m still trying to figure out who Mikey Madison was supposed to play. She was offered a role here but she turned it down to do The Social Reckoning (mistake imo since this is probably gonna get better reviews) she also turned down Star Wars: Starfighter which Mia Goth ended up doing.

    Test screenings have compared this to Mad Max: Fury Road.

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  19. Comment on Ted Lasso | Season 4 official teaser in ~tv