Jay Are
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Pelicans  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Number of Posts: | 6147 |
| Registered on: | 11/17/2014 |
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Grave of the fireflies and it's not even close
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Maybe read a trade. They are reporting $160 million in production and $175 million P&A.
A trade like the Hollywood Reporter? Variety? Like Deadline? All of which have estimated the marketing as at-least-but-around $100 million?
"Estimated" because anyone reading a trade would understand that the marketing numbers are not reported by the studios, are not directly related or connected to the budget of the movie, and are a guess made by trade reporters based on assumptions of the market costs of advertisements combined with confirmed ancillary brand deals.
So, yeah, dude. Maybe read a trade instead of repeating the garbage.
re: Is it True Ellen Page will be Achilles in the new Odyssey?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/29/26 at 12:51 am to BigNastyTiger417
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She is not playing Achilles.
It's going to take a great deal more to stop the tards from tarding.
re: Is it True Ellen Page will be Achilles in the new Odyssey?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/29/26 at 12:50 am to WinnPtiger
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not a thing
So, the people who call themselves trans do not have heels?
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The Godfather II starts with young Vito Corleone being quarantined at Ellis Island because he’s a disease carrier. We were pretty strict back in the day.
So strict that they let that violent criminal into the country after a routine quarantine?
re: Obsession surpassed Star Wars at the daily box office on Wednesday…
Posted by Jay Are on 5/28/26 at 4:52 pm to RollTide1987
Mandalorian made more than $4 million yesterday. That is a very good Wednesday. Obsession made more than $5 million. That is an incredible Wednesday.
Mando doing standard blockbuster business. Obsession is officially a phenomenon.
Mando doing standard blockbuster business. Obsession is officially a phenomenon.
re: In the Hand of Dante trailer | Netflix releasing June 24th
Posted by Jay Are on 5/28/26 at 3:44 pm to coolpapaboze
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Wondering why it has a 4.6 rating on IMDB
Schnabel movies are often weird and "slow," and the children rating movies in IMDb only have the patience for super heroes and Nolan.
I have not seen this yet, but it has been available online to those who are curious enough since the fall of last year. I have one buddy who loves it. I am hesitant.
re: ‘Supergirl’ Tracking Between ‘The Marvels’ and ‘Black Adam’
Posted by Jay Are on 5/27/26 at 5:01 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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There was an entire island of them
Damn. Should have gone with "lesbo fantasy."
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Tracking for Mandalorian was over a month out, too
And they were crazy accurate
They were not.
deadline esrly tracking article from 4/30
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Lucasfilm/Disney’s first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, arrived on tracking in what looks to be an $80 million-plus four-day start over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
The tracking services were roughly $20 million off.
I understand that I'll probably be disappointed, but I don't hate the Supergirl trailer and I love its source material. I will be seeing it.
re: Burning question: How did Portuguese evolve as a language distinct from Spanish?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/26/26 at 7:24 pm to TulsaSooner78
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Portugal is nothing more than "western" Spain. Portugal shares no border with any other country. It is completely surrounded by Spain except for its western coast.
Catalan and Basque all exist as totally distinct languages from Spanish within Spain (and Andorra).
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Just wish he would've asked them why they didn't have an issue with the Kirk joke which was far worse. It's a roast, they're going to go overboard. That's the point. To call out the Floyd joke while completely ignoring the Kirk joke is just flat out racist.
It's not. Stop being so soft.
re: Mandalorian and Grogu might surpass projections. . .a little
Posted by Jay Are on 5/26/26 at 11:26 am to JasonDBlaha
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They’ll have to make at least $600 million to break even
Uh oh, the Disney accountants have arrived. If this movie has a decent hold on Tuesday and Wednesday, they'll be saying it has to at least $700 million to reak even. Can't wait for more of their fake math.
You keep talking about Proximo and Madking like they don't exist, you're going to hurt their feelings.
re: Which jobs are at risk due to AI?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/24/26 at 7:34 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Automating all that will lead to substantial decreases in labor/production costs, allowing firms to pass on those savings to consumers in the form of lower prices
Are you joking, or are you 7 years old?
re: Thoughts on Mandalorian and Grogu
Posted by Jay Are on 5/24/26 at 2:11 am to pelsfan8976
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So glad to see a movie where I dont have to watch some weirdo give their personal dissertation on what happened in the movie on youtube.
Why would you need to do that for any movie?
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There’s nothing more annoying and shitty than grifter “influencers”
They really are the worst of the worst. Even their reactions look fake.
True. Nothing worse than these grifter Twitter influencers convincing idiots to act outraged over an obvious promotional photo op.
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Jay Are is lighting up his cigaratte and sighing deeply somewhere as he prepares to go once more into the breach
Yep. 30-something responses complaining about who would greenlight this and Hollywood is out of touch. 30-something responses from people who didn't read, or let themselves be misled by one tweet from a known click-bait artist.
Paramount acquired the film rights to novel that will publish in 2027. That AP article is about a book, not a movie. Maybe it gets ordered to script if the book is a phenomenon. More likely, Paramount owns the rights for a Godfather-related novel they either never do anything with or loosely adapt into something they can do with Pacino (the legacy contebt they actually want), that also prevents another studio from capitalizing on IP they control.
Stop getting mad about nothing news. You are giving shitty people money from your clicks.
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If searching "The Odyssey" on AI brings up that Achilles is "a figure of myth who has has many faces depending on what story you are reading."
Searching The Odyssey on AI isn't going to bring up anything about Achilles, because he's barely in The Odyssey. You're bloviating.
And adapting The Iliad and depicting Achilles as all manner of different races and genders (to the extent that this dozens of times, which, come on) doesn't dilute the character, because what makes Achilles important is his freaking heel, and that he is a petulant bitch who spends most of the story actively refusing to fight. Everyone has heels, even trans people, and everyone is capable of being a petulant bitch who refuses to fight.
This board is yelling about Achilles as though the Brad Pitt version in Troy is the "classic" version of that character. That version has almost nothing to do with the Achilles in The Iliad. Our modern ideal of heroism has nothing to do with and is not present in the Homer poems. Achilles is a character in an ancient myth that you have now romanticized based on a rumored casting in a movie; he does not carry inherent cultural value.
Also, there is no stretch whatsoever with gay.
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always boils down to “why do you care
It's more that you definitely don't care about this character.
Somewhere not pretending to care about a comic strip character who has absolutely zero cultural currency or relevance in the past 50 years. 50 is probably an understatement.
If you feel very strongly that Betty Boop is somehow part of your cultural legacy, then I feel very bad for you.
If you feel very strongly that Betty Boop is somehow part of your cultural legacy, then I feel very bad for you.
re: Is it True Ellen Page will be Achilles in the new Odyssey?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/18/26 at 4:11 pm to imjustafatkid
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The main scholarly complaint I can find is related to her decision to go with a modern poetic style.
She doesn't do a modern poetic style so much as she translates in favor of maintaining the original amount and length of lines, as she says in the intros of both her Iliad and The Odyssey.
I'm currently rereading the Iliad with her translation, and I'll do The Odyssey next.
Can we all agree to ignore Madking being a fukking idiot about this? Hard to imagine she downplays Odysseus's heroism, given that there isn't a popular translation that depicts him as a modern selfless hero. That translation would be unfaithful to the character. He uses his brain and guile to outsmart and trick antagonists. He's selfish and arrogant.
And if you read The Oddyssey in high school decades ago, this is what you were taught/talked about then as well. Or your teacher sucked. Or, most likely, you didn't read it and are now pretending to care.
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