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Tom Bacon
@TomABacon
A lifelong fan of superhero comics and films, with a love of in-depth analysis! You can now check out my writing at https://t.co/fx2jzEM0o5.
North West, England Katılım Ağustos 2011
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*sigh* That box office would be great given the film's budget.
I am really, really tired of The Mandalorian and Grogu's budget discourse.
TheWrap@TheWrap
In a better-than-expected opening, 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' grossed $100 million domestic and $163 million worldwide over the four-day Memorial Day weekend frame. But even in the best-case scenario, it's looking at a box office total similar to the $521.8 million that Marvel’s 'The Fantastic Four' opened to a year ago, well shy of the record-breaking pedigree of 'Star Wars.' thewrap.com/industry-news/…
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$163M of my dollars spent well
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
‘THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU’ opened to $163M globally over its four-day debut.
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@maiamindel I think we're quickly learning how little people actually read. Including people who are paid to write. It's... quite chilling.
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wasn't it kind of openly stated that the super alarmist scenarios were very unlikely and that even the 1.5-2 degrees ones would have *really bad* consequences? like, did nobody else do the reading?
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5. “Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” vox.com/future-perfect…
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Man Yoda must have been so pissed living on Coruscant “mmm build by instinctual mud hut here on this metal planet I cannot hmm”
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@ComicsMeta Understood :) I more shared it because the article *does* identify a theme tbh. The idea of a child facing a parent's mortality is... quite interesting.
That said, while I think the film does have themes? They're sloppily handled, and drift in and out of focus.
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@TomABacon Not knocking you btw knocking the article
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I’m a firm believer that every story, no matter how bad, has a theme to be found somewhere within it because somebody somewhere had a reason for creating that story, but I am really struggling to identify any discernible theme in Mandolorian and Grogu. Maybe its “wear seatbelts?”
James | Meta Comics (FREE PALESTINE, FREE CONGO)@ComicsMeta
The Mandalorian and Grogu is the not WORST Star Wars movie but it’s certainly the most shallow. They wrap up the main plot before the halfway point (keeping Rotta The Hutt from being captured) and then Rotta the Hutt is captured off screen so we can watch a filler episode.
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@tomlinnen @CatholicSat This is most definitely the church's lane lol.
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@CatholicSat Please stay in your lane! Focus on saving souls by helping families and local churches. Jesus never intended church to be a power hungry political institution like it's leaders have become
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Pope Leo XIV: “It is, therefore, not enough to state simply that men and women have equal dignity and rights; it is necessary that this be reflected in concrete decisions, such as in laws, access to employment, education, social and political responsibilities, and the way society listens to and values women’s contributions. As long as this gap persists, we cannot say that society truly and fully recognizes that women have the same dignity as men.”
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@jonathanfuhrman For the record? The film has done better than I'd hoped, and I'm thrilled. It is also on track to be a success.
But it hasn't made its budget back, as the tweet and headline are leading people to mistakenly believe. That's simply the reality.
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@jonathanfuhrman This isn't a matter of semantics, it's a matter of basic accuracy. Right now, on my socials, people who should know better are excitedly saying this has made its budget back.
It hasn't.
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No, that's not how ROI on films work. Theaters keep a certain proportion of ticket price. For that reason, we tend to use the ballpark that a film has "recovered its budget" when it grosses 2x the budget. Even then it's an approximation.
Collider@Collider
The Mandalorian and Grogu reached a major box office milestone by reportedly recovering its budget during its opening weekend. bit.ly/43qPMPf
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@AndrewCLeach @FrHarrison @LawrenceOP Not what he said.
"In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it and use it."
You're pulling out "users," ignoring "creators," "financiers," and "regulators."
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@FrHarrison @LawrenceOP Pope Leo has disproved his own point. If technology takes on the characteristics of its users, then its characteristics depend on who is using it. Thus technology is inherently neutral. It is simply bent to the will of its users, for good or ill. It is for us to use it for good.
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“In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it and use it.”
THANK YOU POPE LEO FOR SAYING THIS.
Time for the “technology is a tool with no inherent moral position” idea to die!
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Heh. Cool Easter egg, but rather amusing.
Rotta: "What do you mean he's going to use me in a Dejarik tournament on the giant Dejarik board I've been fighting on?"
Star Wars Culture@SWCultureLive
When you realize the arena is just one giant Dejarik board. 😱 #TheMandalorianAndGrogu
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@DennisGill10 True. Maybe we can escape this by saying arena fights in SW often use the dejarik design lol
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@TomABacon The question is which came first: the board game or the tournament
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Starting off the summer with two blondes in mini-skirts kicking ass
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@LoL__Paul @ComicsMeta Don't get me wrong, they're not consistent, because the script could've used another few passes. But there are definitely themes.
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@LoL__Paul @ComicsMeta "Horrible" is in the eyes of the beholder. However, I was responding to the specific criticism the film has no themes; it does.
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Lucasfilm has a lot of internally decided canon, that sometimes isn't publicly known or put in officially released material. Andor even adhered to that, as this Bail thing was probably internally decided during Rebels.
Cobalt 🟡@CobaltGreen1138
According to Tony Gilroy, Bail Organa had never step foot on Yavin IV until 1 BBY. It's funny how Tony was going around asking randos at Pinewood about it.
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