Unoriginal take, but the REVTRN we need is to medium-budget funny comedies you can watch with friends or dates. Might just be doomed, bc people want to watch silly short videos for laughs now, but that was the golden age. "The Hangover" made more money than Dune 2 (inflation adjusted). - ThreadSky

daveweigel.bsky.social • 279 days ago

Unoriginal take, but the REVTRN we need is to medium-budget funny comedies you can watch with friends or dates.

Might just be doomed, bc people want to watch silly short videos for laughs now, but that was the golden age. "The Hangover" made more money than Dune 2 (inflation adjusted).

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livingfake.bsky.social•279 days ago

Duneflation

chuck-hansen.bsky.social•279 days ago

Check out Hit Man, it is exactly this kind of movie.

bfd1212.bsky.social•279 days ago

I want to. Big Linklater fan. Is it ever getting a wide theatrical release?

chuck-hansen.bsky.social•279 days ago

I don’t think so. Netflix next weekend I believe.

carlkyle.bsky.social•279 days ago

In movie guy voice "this summer zach galifianakis is paul atretis"

zachwallen.bsky.social•279 days ago

Was looking forward to getting a sitter and having a date night to see Hit Man after seeing the trailer only to find out it was only in theatres last weekend

2xaught7.bsky.social•279 days ago

Police Academy 22 is right around the corner.

thedesertsage.bsky.social•279 days ago

We need Another Game Night

coreyatad.com•279 days ago

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

I forget who said it, I think it was mark wahlberg, but the mid-budget movie is dead largely because dvds are dead

that whole straight-to-home-video thing where a movie can make up its budget in the long-term sales and rentals is all gone, not an avenue for movies anymore

madp0e7ix.com•279 days ago

I believe that was Matt Damon on Hot Ones. He did a good job of explaining how he couldn't make something like Behind the Candelabra today because of this dynamic.

Did a good rundown of "Hollywood accounting", too, if I remember

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

DAMON THATS THE ONE

I get him and wahlberg confused
Is that fucked up I dont know if thats fucked up theyre not even the same guy to me just weirdly interchangable despite being different

ijspurcell.bsky.social•279 days ago

it's a little fucked, Matt Damon is a fairly milquetoast A-lister and Wahlberg is, um, not so much

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

damn

gotta fix that

causamdicere.bsky.social•279 days ago

I'm convinced that part of the reason there are so many terrible, hyperliteral takes about movies is because there are no more dvd extras and commentary tracks

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

possible! I cant say for sure, I dont know that commentary tracks ever helped me from taking a movie too literally, but I also specifically studied film at school so idk maybe I had an unfair advantage there

causamdicere.bsky.social•279 days ago

I mean, I doubt everyone watched the extra features. But the Lord of the Rings dvds are how I learned "everything on the screen is a choice that someone made," and imo having at least a passing awareness of craft is helpful in remembering that fiction is fake

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

Yeah I suppose! I learned that lesson in class so definitely thats an an important lesson to learn one way or the other!

daveweigel.bsky.social•279 days ago

As an Old Millennial I had quite a few Apatow-adjacent movies with 60 minutes of outtakes

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

with movies needing to be IMMEDIATELY successful and hollywood unwilling to allow for long-term income from secondary sales, cant do fun shit anymore

everything has to be a bloated mega-budget super-production that gets all the money right now immediately right now like yesterday all of it NOW

michaelavolio.bsky.social•279 days ago

I think it was Matt Damon, maybe on that hot wings YouTube show Hot Ones.

aintyouspecial.bsky.social•279 days ago

yeah thats the guy

bfd1212.bsky.social•279 days ago

Trying unsuccessfully to see Hit Man in a theatre rn

oswegowilly.bsky.social•279 days ago

That is a correct take.

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