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Illusioneffect:
You're wrong, no matter how big of a director you're if you're given a large sum of money to make a movie and you don't get it back- the studios are going to ghost you no matter how successful your films have been- it could be forever or for a long time
Damien Chazelle's films have been very successful and big money makers from tiny budgets but immediately Babylon flopped- studios ghosted his ass and now he has to settle for tiny budgets.🤷🏽‍♂️ That's just how the movie business works. If joker flops, he'll never be given the chance to work with that amount of money again. So if a 'Bleep u' was his plan, it may not work out for him

abduleez1:
Lol, where I said it was doing $1bn??

All this one no dey move me....cos when my predictions actually come right and good none of you dey celebrate or congratulate for my predictions.

I no hear anything when I accurately predicted Bad Boys Ride or Die box office gross. When all
of you shout say BARBIE go too flop last year, I stuck to it and it became the highest grossing film of the year. Same $700mn+ range for DUNE 2 I no see my praises. Same for Despicable Me 4.
So make no nobody disturb me on the rare occasion my prediction no sup....that's why it's a prediction. Besides I was doing all these predictions with little to no data.

Say what you may but none of you dared to say Joker 2 will flop. So make you keep quiet cos you've already seen the answers written on the wall.
You waited till you saw results while I made a bet without data. So you essentially don't have anything to say. Other than gloat wey no go move me sef. 😂

The only person wey fit follow me talk for here na Illusioneffect, asides him make Una go rest.

Illusioneffect:
I think all have different openings for different episodes? Can you send links if you can, I'm trying to compile for a video

abduleez1:
I disagree with this.... There's a good number of instances where directors have still gotten jobs despite flopping bad.

A living working director is Ridley Scott. Man has underperforming and flop movies littered across his career in Kingdom of Heaven (2004), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)..... The Last Duel(2021) and Napoleon (2023) both being catastrophic back to back flops with both costing $100mn & $200mn respectively and yet he's still getting top gigs.
In fact, his new film Gladiator II this December is rumoured around $250mn.

Essentially, I'll posit this to say it depends on your directorial pedigree. There are big directors and top directors....still everybody get him grade.

Then there's Martin Scorsese [/b]who got about $200mn for Killers of The Flower Moon. [b]Denis Villeneuve had a catastrophic flop in Bladerunner 2049 in 2017 yet he was rewarded by WB with two DUNE movies with similar big budgets.

Although I still agree with you that I can see Todd Philips for getting punished with the aftermath of Joker 2 if it outrightly flops. Still, its not set in stone for any big time director.

pu7pl3:
Do you mean YouTube links?

BlackManta:
Joker 2 makes history as the first CBM ever to recieve a D cinema score

Congratulations to WB, Todd Phillips and everyone involved in this mess.

This movie will go down as one of the worst comic book movies of all time

abduleez1:
I disagree with this.... There's a good number of instances where directors have still gotten jobs despite flopping bad.

A living working director is Ridley Scott. Man has underperforming and flop movies littered across his career in Kingdom of Heaven (2004), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)..... The Last Duel(2021) and Napoleon (2023) both being catastrophic back to back flops with both costing $100mn & $200mn respectively and yet he's still getting top gigs.
In fact, his new film Gladiator II this December is rumoured around $250mn.

Essentially, I'll posit this to say it depends on your directorial pedigree. There are big directors and top directors....still everybody get him grade.

Then there's Martin Scorsese who got about $200mn for Killers of The Flower Moon. Denis Villeneuve had a catastrophic flop in Bladerunner 2049 in 2017 yet he was rewarded by WB with two DUNE movies with similar big budgets.

Although I still agree with you that I can see Todd Philips for getting punished with the aftermath of Joker 2 if it outrightly flops. Still, its not set in stone for any big time director.

abduleez1:
This is one side to a coin. I can also show you numbers where it's doing well.

What you're saying and what I'm seeing on the net even pushes me the more to go and see it for myself and make my opinion of it....cos what I'm seeing looks like bandwagon mentality and unnecessary hate.

While I agree it's having very bad US domestic numbers so far.... it's doing decently in Europe.

This one also has a China release date the first one didn't. So that might help.

WriterNig:
🎥 The Platform 2 (2024) = 4/10 👎🏾

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Remmedy:
What were you actually expecting from a Deadpool movie ? lol
Did you watch the previous ones you shouldn’t expect more from this
I know the story line was wack
But I enjoyed Deadpool’s unending chattering

It’s a movie for teenage boys so don’t expect much

NobleStag007:
Laughing... Let me quote Deadpool

Bleep off fox
I'm going to Disney land


My Version

Bleep off dude
I'm enjoy Deadpool 3

armadeo:
2/10.

It begs the question why was this movie even made.

donforeign:
u dn mumu finish

Illusioneffect:
I think all have different openings for different episodes? Can you send links if you can, I'm trying to compile for a video

NaijaMemes:
Your analysis about big directors with flops is missing something.

Some big directors like Ridley Scott have massive hits compared to.their flops. What I am saying is that one of Ridley Scott's hits can cover for 10 flops.

Alien, Bladerunner and Gladiator have made Ridley Scott a household name and an untouchable. Do you know how many billions these three movies have as intellectual properties?

Chibudollar:
"they were just acting, the sëx scenes are not real" bla bla bla. Marry an actor of you want high blood pressure. 😂

abduleez1:
Walahi.... You're not wrong brother.

I was watching It Ends With Us yesterday night and I'm crying on behalf of Ryan Reynolds. That woman Blake Lively hot as fvvk. 🥵🥵

See as another man dey romance person wife anyhow. Person no fit tell me nonsense say an iota of feelings and emotions don't seep into these scenes.
I go don break person head with the level of sexiness I had to endure just watching it.

abduleez1:
SALEM'S LOT......5/10

Very middling movie with hardly any stakes, no development for the characters, couldn't really care about them. It also has a nonsensical feel with a lil kid just having the guts to kill vampires at will as if he's a seasoned pro; just cos he's read some stupid comic books about Vampires. Are this people thinking anyone would really buy that shït? Funny thing is the kid actor is still somehow the best character as the rest and the protagonist were just lazying about with mediocre nonchalant and uninspiring performance.

No history about the town, or the Vampire or the inhabitants. Just straight up killing and action — which are actually the only redeeming theme about it despite being shallow and faulty.

They just slapped vampire on it and called it a day. I can hardly even feel the horror theme those w@nkers led me to believe in the trailer. And what's with the glowing crosses? Just took off the seriousness for me.

Na wetin Stephen King true true write be dis?? 😳😳

Now I see why Zaslav didn't want to waste anymore money on marketing for theatrical release. No wonder I seriously slept off and struggled just after the 30th minute. I've always wondered how come this movie finished production since 2022 and wasn't released. Straight up dumping to streaming.

armadeo:
2/10.

It begs the question why was this movie even made.

Illusioneffect:
A movie with an Oscar nominated director doing this vomit is actually insane😂 and madam Webb getting a better score. Pray for Todd Phillips mental health.
I actually enjoyed madame webb more than this vomit of a movie. It was actually funny

abduleez1:
True sha.

Correction: Ridley's Bladerunner movie in the 70s was a massive flop too. Same as Denis Villeneuve latest iteration.

Ishilove:
Stephen King's novels are on the most parts, bestsellers. If you found Salem's Lot boring, then the fault is in the writing and editing, not with the source material.

abduleez1:
You'd see there's some level of sarcasm, no?
It's well known filmmakers struggle to translate Stephen King books on screen.

abduleez1:
You'd see there's some level of sarcasm, no?
It's well known filmmakers struggle to translate Stephen King books on screen.

NaijaMemes:
"IT" was well adapted

Ishilove:
Oh, it's a struggle indeed. He is a very cerebral writer and his stream of consciousness is challenging to follow if you are not used to his style. That's why I will always admire the screenwriters who managed to adapt 'It'. Over one thousand pages. Phew!

Ishilove:
Oh, it's a struggle indeed. He is a very cerebral writer and his stream of consciousness is challenging to follow if you are not used to his style. That's why I will always admire the screenwriters who managed to adapt 'It'. Over one thousand pages. Phew!