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@cljack Colin was a charming sociopath. He has no sense of shame or guilt. If he wasn’t shot by Dignam he’d just find another girl, get married, and eventually end up a US Senator.

I actually like the ending of Infernal Affairs better than The Departed. As cool as it was to see Angel of Vengeance Mark Wahlberg, it’s a much more tragic ending for Matt Damon to live eternally in an unceasing hell of deception, of his own making, that he can never escape

@Bubblebathgirl Is it just me or does Elliot Page’s girlfriend look more than a little bit like Ellen Page?

Elliot Page at The Odyssey Premiere with Partner Elliot Page (born Ellen Page) arrives smiling at the New York premiere of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey on Tuesday, posing with their partner. Page is playing Sinon, the Greek warrior who deceives the Trojans into accepting the wooden horse. The casting has drawn controversy over a biological female portraying a male character in the ancient Greek epic. (Video: AI) Does this enhance modern retellings of classics, or does it miss the mark on authenticity? What’s your take?

I don’t think sales will help. Too much of their revenue is in consulting and software. IBM should be the company putting data centers in orbit. They should be NVIDIAs biggest competitor in compute. Sometime in the last 25 years they stopped thinking about the future and starting focusing on the current quarter instead.

IBM $68 Billion Wiped From The Stock. The company is salvageable, however it needs new management that did not go to “top universities”. It’s the only way. Take some of the brilliant old timer sales folks at the company and move them to c-suite.

@Jamesb928 @Gavin_McInnes It’s still ugly. Funny though, people seem to generally hate the current M2 but I think it looks great because it has a bit of a 90s JDM flair.

@Gavin_McInnes They said the 2003 BMW E65 was the ugliest BMW of all time when it came out. Did it grow on people or did cars get so ugly it looks good now?

We’re all agreed, right? ALL old cars looked great and ALL new cars look like shit. Why are we allowing this?

With the back and forth about Kate Bush I got curious when was the last time Public Enemy charted. He Got Game, the soundtrack by Public Enemy which also features KRS-One, entered the chart at 26, and quickly fell out in 1998. The LA Times had this analysis: “With Public Enemy, the issues are image and content. Rap audiences tend to be young and want their own heroes. For all its respect, PE is associated with another era in rap. The music, too, may be too restrained for the thug-life tone favored by today’s mass rap audience.” That was written 9 years after Fight the Power, by a critic who was a PE fan and thought He Got Game was a great record. He recognized that rap had eras that last less than a decade 28 years ago. It’s been constant evolution before and since. Rap is a genre built on sampling that doesn’t revisit or revere the past. It seems that evolution might have lead to such a thorough deconstruction of lyrics and production during the drill era that rap is falling out of popular culture entirely.

@ForceUnwrap @damespjuffy 1. I have. The reactions I've seen from kids , especially those who like underground hip hop over mainstream hip hop, are generally either "oh I heard some of this on X song, this is where it's from? Bet" to "I like the new stuff, but this is cool". It's respectful & inquisitive

This is something it is only possible to believe if you've never listened to rap. Rappers are not passing down the history and myths of their people. 99 times out of 100, they're bragging about how great and cool they are. What's worse is I think Nolan knows this.

@YehKenneth16224 @mypalal I like Chris, but leave the trust to @mypalal. Chris sometimes has a priapism over eccentric independent movies that are objectively terrible.

@mypalal This is why I only trust Chris and Alan to tell the truth and have some integrity. I’m not saying I agree with everything they say or every film they review. But I know it’s always authentic. Unlike 99% of the reviews these days are just paid hacks trying to gaslight you

Whelp, I saw it, and honestly traveling 90 minutes to see a 3-hour movie, I don't want it to be bad. I could have stayed home for a bad movie. Anyways, here are my thoughts. youtu.be/aGisZUaV7JQ

@arch1damos This is accurate. Strong IMAX sales are also going to eat into the distributor/exhibitor split driving the studio percentage down a bit. The expectation for this movie when they put this deal together was surely north of 1.5 billion box office.

Casual box office analysts are evaluating Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey using a broken financial model. The $250M production budget means the true theatrical break-even threshold isn't a simple 2.5x multiplier. Let's look at the actual accounting. 🧵

@Nerdrotics @YouTube Alan tends to be a good barometer for general audience consensus on mainstream films. Interesting that Chris seems to have the more moderate reaction.

Film Threat's Chris Gore and Alan Ng out of the theater reaction for The Odyssey. THE ODYSSEY OUT OF THE THEATER SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION | Film Threat React... youtu.be/aGisZUaV7JQ?si… via @YouTube

@thatstarwarsgrl That’s a lot of babies.

I have news!🥲🤰💗 After a devastating miscarriage and a continuously trying my husband & I are excited to announce we are expecting our second child together! Baby Peach 2.0 is due December 2026 🎄🌈

@GormenghastWest @damespjuffy Play it for a teenager who’s into current rap and see what kind of reaction you get. It’s unc rap.

@ForceUnwrap @damespjuffy 2. Who , other than you, regards that song as "one of the corniest rap songs of all time"?! You can have your opinion, but that one is one of the more outlandish and egregious bits of bosh I've ever heard.

Fight the Power might be regarded amongst the corniest rap songs of all time. BLM couldn’t even blow the dust off that one. Walk this Way could work, but how much of that would be Aerosmith influence? Bust a Move is fun and it’s precisely one of those songs that’s frequently used to establish an era. Maybe something from De La Soul or Tribe Called Quest could’ve worked. The story about Running Up That Hill is probably pure PR. Kate Bush and that song weren’t forgotten to time. That song made many soundtrack appearances throughout the decades and has been covered at least a half dozen times by popular artists. They might not have expected it to chart, but they had more than an inkling it was going to be their needle drop moment for that series.

@ForceUnwrap @damespjuffy Fight The Power, Bust a Move or Walk This Way all come to mind. But no one, not Kate Bush, Winona Ryder (who pushed for the song) or the producers of Stranger Things had any inkling what a phenomenon would be launched by including Running Up That Hill.

@GormenghastWest @damespjuffy Try this exercise. Come up with a rap song from the mid to late 80s that you think could have been inserted into Stranger Things and would have had even a fraction of the impact on young people as Running Up That Hill or Master of Puppets. I’m really curious what the answer is.

@ForceUnwrap @damespjuffy You seriously have a tenous grasp on rap/hip-hop if you subscribe to that notion. Curiosity lingers about their deaths mostly because of the impact their music had & continues to have. There is a bit of simple lurid fascination about their deaths but their talent is their legacy

The conspiracy around Tupac’s and Biggie’s murders is the only topic people ever seriously talk about. Kids will listen to old pop and rock music, but think old school rappers are corny. They are right because every aspect of rap is driven by trends that date it. Kanye is at the gate of the cornfield with Chief Keef, waiting on Kendrick Lamar.

@ForceUnwrap @damespjuffy That's not completely true. There is of course Tupac and Biggie Smalls, there is also Rakim (of Eric B. & Rakim), KRS-One and Nas to name a few others.

@StuffForSisters I liked the first season. It was this rare right thing at the right time experience for me. The third season put me off and I have no interest in the upcoming season.

I finished Season 1 of "Ted Lasso" this evening. I thought it started strong but weakened through the ten episodes. Ted Lasso is a smart and winsome Ned Flanders but stripped of his Christian faith.

Themes of the most popular songs on illmatic: New York State of Mind: I’m a real gangster. I deal and do drugs, shoot niggas, drink moet, and I’m a great rapper. New York made me the man I am. Oh and I never sleep. Life’s a Bitch: A lot of our friends are dead. We used to be about that thug life but now we’ve made it as rappers and we’re all about money. The World is Yours: New York Sucks, but I love Queens. I love my daughter. Life is hard, and it makes me sad to think about my friends who don’t have money, but I got money and I fuck bitches on tour and that makes me happy.

@damespjuffy @TimothyNolan The Nas album illmatic documents life in queensbridge, it's a vivid record of a particular place and era and his later work often references historical events, ancestry etc why isn't that counting?

If this movie does 750 million it will be a bigger loser than Supergirl for the studio. Based on Oppenheimer, I don’t think it was far fetched for the studio to convince themselves a Nolan movie based on the Odyssey could make 1.5 to 2 billion or possibly more. You can see those expectations when you look at what is going on with this movie. They cast Zendaya and Tom Holland. Neither can open a movie on their own but in the last Spider-Man movie they managed nearly 2 billion together. This looks like the studio trying to buy insurance. God knows late career Matt Damon isn’t opening a billion dollar movie on his own. Same with casting Travis Scott. That’s 100% a cynical move initiated by a producer. I don’t believe for a second that Mr “I don’t have a smart phone or use email” had a clue who Travis Scott was until he was cornered and pitched the idea by some producers who were worried that they couldn’t hit their revenue goal without getting someone cast to attract the “urban audience”. Producers are sneaky fucks. They probably even convinced Nolan it was his idea. Nolan is getting at least 20% of gross starting from the first dollar. He might’ve even managed to negotiate a couple extra points because this production seemed like it couldn’t lose. You can be assured some of the actors are as well, no less than 4% possibly up to 10% total. IMAX sales are great, and the studio will get more dollars per ticket, but it will drive their overall percentage down on gross because they have to pay IMAX corp on top of the exhibitor for every one of those admissions. This could be a disaster. They seem to have convinced the audience they really need to see it in 70mm 1.43:1 IMAX. The problem is that there are very few theaters in the world with that capability. I’d have to travel 124 miles one way to get that experience and I live in a major metro. The result, IMAX is sold out for a week and a half, and standard screenings have plenty of seats opening day. The longer people wait the see it, the more likely they don’t see it at all. International revenue will be higher than domestic but the studio net will probably be lower than domestic. In some foreign markets their percentage is significantly lower than domestic IMAX. At 750 million total box office, the studio would net something in the 100s million. VOD, streaming and physical sales aren’t going to make the movie profitable in that event.

@ForceUnwrap @Tweetoleon 100% wrong. There have been 5 movies in history to make that much money. lol. $750 global box probably makes 2X return over the next 5 years on the very low end.

Wow. One theater. In his home city. When it makes the other $749 million it needs to break even, crash uninvited into my timeline again. Not before.

Even though I’m still not a soccer fan, I think this World Cup has been a good thing for the world. Let’s do it in North America again in 4 years.

@Tweetoleon @AshGreyson The break even on this movie is far higher than 750 million. 750 million would be a catastrophe. I’m sure the studio was looking at something in the 1.5-2 billion range. The IMAX push on this movie is ultimately going to bite it in the ass at the box office.

@AshGreyson The studio did not back a Christopher Nolan film to break even. And that's what a $750 million total would be.

No. Ignoring the culture war component, based on historic box office and even the best case opening weekend prediction, it’s not going to have stronger subsequent weekends like Obsession or sub 35% drops over multiple weeks like Oppenheimer. There’s too much working against it. There’s huge overlap in the audience that will be choosing between Spider-Man or the Odyssey the following weekend, and Spider-Man is going to win out most of the time.

Do you guys think THE ODYSSEY will outperform OPPENHEIMER at the box office?

It’s been this way for a long time, at least in Chicago. When I was young, CPD had unmarked gang TAC units that seemed to do nothing but shake down young guys they saw driving around. If they saw a carload of young guys, didn’t matter if it was a college prep lacrosse team in shitbox Subaru with no stereo, they’d get pulled over.

Sorry I don’t buy it’s illegal to drive around aimlessly. Even if it is, you could probably get away with it by not having a car so loud you can hear it from 5 blocks away or the bass rattles the windows of nearby buildings

Is this a real thing ?