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Matty
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - like a more serious version of Dazed and Confused. Realist coming-of-age flick with some sad psychodrama shit thrown in. Thoroughly enjoyed this. 8.6 Matty Rains
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We did enjoy this quite a bit as well. They really did well with that, that kid is a great actor. On or two things a little annoying but very solid. I'll go 8.25 Camibuttcracks.
 
The Master (2012) - It's very well acted, I'll say that.

Other than that, it is a pretty big shrug for me. I have liked P.T. Anderson's work for the most part but this is the most shruggable. It's somewhat interesting but far from gripping.

I guess it's sort of supposed to be a look inside the early days of Scientology - or some similar cultish organism - with a weird loose cannon guy thrown in - (well, he's a slight loose cannon but not outrageously). I dunno.

It's the kind of thing that would be appealing to critics. Like many of this year's Best Picture nominees (this is not nominated) it feels like homework more than entertainment at times. I see it had a $32 million budget and grossed about half that.

:dunno:


6.4 out of 10.


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Became curious how other PT Anderson movies have done money-wise. I'm never totally sure how to interpret grosses - these are the figures for US grosses from imdb. There is obviously the whole world outside of that - although my understanding is that smaller cuts of those global figures actually count towards the financial success of a film.

So I don't know what this means exactly but here it is anyway.



Hard Eight (aka Sydney) (1996)
Budget - 3 million
Gross - $142,356


Boogie Nights (1997)
Budget - 15 million
Gross - $26,384,919


Magnolia (1999)
Budget - 37 million
Gross - $22,450,975

Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Budget - 25 million
Gross - $17,791,031


There Will Be Blood (2007)
Budget - 25 million
Gross - $40,218,903


The Master (2012)
Budget - 32 million
Gross - $16,247,159
 
The studios manipulate the theaters a lot in the US with favorable release contracts. The first weeks of a release the studios can earn as much as 80% of the sales, as the weeks go by it starts to go down. By the 6 or 7 week out the theater can get as much as 80% but ticket count is so low by then that it makes little difference to the release bottom line. Each movie has a different release contract depending on the budget, actors, advertising, etc.

In other countries they don't have that sort of influence. For example Peru, there's a local film industry the keep a constant of flow of releases and lots of movies from Spain gets shown, plus the occasional from other latin american countries. The competition is a lot more and many viewers preferring a native hispanic film over a Hollywood dubbed. The studios don't have as much power to manipulate the theaters.

So the piece of the pie they get in the US and other anglo countries is a lot more significant than they get elsewhere in the world.
 
Yeah I always wondered why they focus so much on US figures when it is only a fraction of the world. For a long time my thought was, well they're American so they are only vaguely aware there is a rest of the world. Which is a cute needly notion but it doesn't really hold water when you get into business and dollars.

So what you say makes sense, white man.

I wonder why they can't just give some net figure which incorporates all that.

If they can remove hair with lasers, they should be able to come up with some damn net figure that shows movie profit and loss.

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Matty
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - like a more serious version of Dazed and Confused. Realist coming-of-age flick with some sad psychodrama shit thrown in. Thoroughly enjoyed this. 8.6 Matty Rains
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I cringed through the majority of this movie. Not sure how anyone could put this in the same sentence as Dazed and Confused.

Very hipster. The bad kind of hipster. The 'all the jocks and cool kids were against me and no one would give me a chance' kind of hipster.

Tried to be like an American Beauty, but fell very short.


6.3 blittyballs
 
Blitty
Girls.

I'm hooked.

Great dialogue and very relateable to my life in the city

Speeding through the first season with the 30 min episodes.



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WELL WELL WELL.

Prolly the best show on TV right now (with Mad Men and Breaking Bad on hiatus.)

Lena Dunham is really really good at what she does. I just wish she would STOP GETTING NAKED ALL THE TIME.

Nasty nasty bod.
 
Blitty
I cringed through the majority of this movie. Not sure how anyone could put this in the same sentence as Dazed and Confused.

Very hipster. The bad kind of hipster. The 'all the jocks and cool kids were against me and no one would give me a chance' kind of hipster.

Tried to be like an American Beauty, but fell very short.


6.3 blittyballs
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I compared it to D&C cause both flicks have the same kind of aimless structure. Plus there were some classic tunes sprinkled throughout, including Sonic Youth's Teenage Riot.

Didn't think it was hipsterish at all. Just teenagey.

:dunno:

Is Girls the good kind of hipster? Everyone in there is fokken unbearable, in an entertaining way.
 
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