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[Movies] When Dinosaurs Ruled the Box Office

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  • KingofMadCowsKingofMadCows Registered User regular
    pixels has the same cinemascore as jack and jill, a film that made back it's budget in the domestic box office and was the last time everyone was wondering if adam sandler was doomed because holy shit.



    Jack and Jill did not make back its budget domestically. It made $74 million. It (somehow) had a budget of $79 million. Perhaps it might have been a success if it was part of an embezzling scheme.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    pixels has the same cinemascore as jack and jill, a film that made back it's budget in the domestic box office and was the last time everyone was wondering if adam sandler was doomed because holy shit.



    Jack and Jill did not make back its budget domestically. It made $74 million. It (somehow) had a budget of $79 million. Perhaps it might have been a success if it was part of an embezzling scheme.

    All Adam sander movies literally are embezzlement schemes.

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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    I can't remember my first R-rated movie, probably something like Alien, Terminator or Robocop on TV. Although I think the first R-rated one in cinema was probably Saving Private Ryan when we were on vacation in the US.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    pixels has the same cinemascore as jack and jill, a film that made back it's budget in the domestic box office and was the last time everyone was wondering if adam sandler was doomed because holy shit.



    Jack and Jill did not make back its budget domestically. It made $74 million. It (somehow) had a budget of $79 million. Perhaps it might have been a success if it was part of an embezzling scheme.

    All Adam sander movies literally are embezzlement schemes.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Yeah my mom didn't really mind me watching R rated movies. My first movie memories come from the Alien films after all. There were some exceptions, but I think by 15 or so I pretty much had free range. Though she did require me to read plenty to be able to watch movies/tv and play video games. Which good on her!

    Though were banned from MTV and VH1. Not out of like content problems. But because my cousin who lived with us had the nasty habit of switching between songs. Never letting a single song finish, and that drove her insane.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Strangely enough, I came remember what my first full R movie was. Maybe Major League? My dad nearly burned that VHS copy out watching it.

    Edit: actually, it might have been Die Hard. We had a copy we taped off of Showtime that started recording late, so it didn't start until McClane arrived at Nakatomi Plaza. It was in a weird aspect ratio too, like they took the letterbox and stretched it vertically to make it 4:3.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I had VHS copy of Major League I taped off of HBO that I watched at least 200 times.

    I accidentally hit record with it in the vcr one time and right wheb Pedro Cerrano hits the tying 2 run home run in the last game there was like 5 seconds of an episode of Doug.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I'm going to guess mine was either Die Hard or Stripes.

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  • OldSlackerOldSlacker Registered User regular
    Fright Night for me. Also the first movie I saw in the theater when I was like 7 or so.

  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Weekend box office
    #5 Southpaw (~$16m)
    #4 Trainwreck (~$17m)
    #3 Minions (~$22m)
    #2 Pixels (~$24m)
    #1 Ant-Man (~$25m)

    There's hope afterall.

    I certainly hope whoever went to see it because of me enjoyed his time sitting in a two hours movie because he was too salt to admit the movie will be trash.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Weekend box office
    #5 Southpaw (~$16m)
    #4 Trainwreck (~$17m)
    #3 Minions (~$22m)
    #2 Pixels (~$24m)
    #1 Ant-Man (~$25m)

    There's hope afterall.

    I certainly hope whoever went to see it because of me enjoyed his time sitting in a two hours movie because he was too salt to admit the movie will be trash.



    well see pixels is only an hour and forty six minutes

    but yeah, i did.

    in fact i would say it was a good movie, one of the best of 2015

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Will you two just kiss already

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    okay

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Get a room!

  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    And I hope that room is set on fire.

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  • Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    Pixels made less than half of industry projections. Finally, Sandler films are going into decline. Could our long national nightmare be coming to an end?

    No, because it's all doing really well overseas
    Pixels debuted to an estimated $24 million from 3,723 theaters, not a good start for a summer tentpole that cost Sony and its financing partners at least $88 million to produce after rebates. The movie hopes to make up ground overseas, but is off to a muted start with $25.5 million to date from 56 markets for a global total of $50.4 million.

    "doing really well" is kinda kinda giving too much credit. the movie might make its budget back in the long run but in no way is it going to be considered a financial success

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Oh my goodness

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  • McFlynnMcFlynn Registered User regular
    I just saw Pixels and really liked it. I almost didn't go because a lot of the reviews were super bad. But I noticed that some of the reviews were more just insulting Sandler personally than actually constructive which seemed odd, but I don't normally follow the reviews. Oh, and I get it, Futurama did it first.

    I clicked a random critic on metacritic and this guy who gave a great review for Attack of the Clones but shits on Pixels like its a crime against humanity but somehow Ep2 has well-written dialogue?

    ...okay


    Also, I'm having a really hard time remembering what my first real R rated movie was. I saw so many R rated movies as a kid during the summers when they'd air the edited for broadcast TV versions on Saturday afternoon. I still occasionally see an older movie thats different from how I remember it, like when I finally rented The Goonies on DVD it blew my mind there was any swearing at all. Oh man, a big shocker was seeing that dude in Robocop get hit by the car because the TV version just shows Red Foreman swerving around him.

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  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    It's almost like movie reviews are subjective and one should try to find and follow critics who align with personal tastes

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    I select my film critics, like everything else in my life, with blind and fevered randomness

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    i kinda can't help but roll my eyes at all the hate Pixels is getting

    not becaues i think it's a good movie or anything

    but because it feels like it has relatively little to do with the quality of the film and more to do with the fact that it's about video games

    if this was just anothre Adam Sandler shitshow i don't think people would be talking about it nearly as much

    i can't help but think back to when people were calling Big Bang Theory "nerd blackface"

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Holy moley

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  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    I think it's more like...a perfect storm of Adam Sandler shitshow/lazy nostalgia cash-in/telling gamers they're Important and Special (see also: Armada)

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Important and special yet also the butt of the joke, which at the very least must be confusing and frustrating to hear

  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    Honestly, I actually laughed at how hilariously bad the Pixels trailer was.

    Just this realization that a movie was made with basically everything a movie shouldn't contain.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Listen I've been waiting a long

    long

    time for Q-Bert to get fucked, Pixels gives me at least that

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    I thought it was possibly good after seeing the trailer, but after the Western film news I'm pretty ok with not seeing it.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    i can't help but think back to when people were calling Big Bang Theory "nerd blackface"
    This was crazy.

    I mean big bang theory is really lame and unfunny and it is annoying when people assume you like it because you are kinda nerdy but wow.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Pixels is dreck

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    The demographics of the Big Bang theory are what really puts the zap on my head, in my family at least the older and crankier you are the more you watch it

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Pixels is dreck

    Name one other movie where Q-Bert finally gets it wet

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I still get carded buying R-rated Blu-rays

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I still get carded buying R-rated Blu-rays

    Yeah you look like you're 17

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Graham I'd say you, apart from your actual age, appear to be in your early twenties.

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    You can't fool me, Reboot was set in MAINFRAME, you poser.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Graham I'd say you, apart from your actual age, appear to be in your early twenties.

    Tammy at Wal-Mart can't afford to take that chance

  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    Maybe Tammy at Wal-Mart just wants your personal deets

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