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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:41 am
by GORDON
Theaters not showing a movie because of who made it.... smells like illegal collusion or something like that. I always mix up those big complicated words for stuff.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:54 am
by Malcolm
Theatres have been fucking themselves over for a bit now. Much like Xfinity and Comcast, I assume we're just not paying enough.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:07 am
by GORDON
I admit theaters do get fucked over by the big distributors... they don't make anything playing a movie for the first couple weeks, and only make money from concessions, and most movies suck and are gone after 2 weeks. So why would they ignore Netflix? Is Netflix gouging them as well? I bet a dollar theaters got pressure from the people with whom Netflix are starting to compete. "Would be a shame if we stopped delivering movies to you."
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:18 am
by TPRJones
It's probably something they've decided themselves. "What's the point of having it on the screen if people can watch it on Netflix at home instead? No one will come see it." After all, for the price of a movie ticket you can get a whole month of Netflix.
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 11:32 am
by GORDON
Then it's a stupid decision. They lose nothing by having the thumb drive with the movie and reserving a screen for it when nothing else good is playing anyway. Not everyone has netflix streaming.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:42 pm
by Vince
Heheh... I agree that they're becoming a player, but not sure signing Adam Sandler is an indicator of that.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:30 pm
by Leisher
Sandler’s films have grossed about $3.9 billion worldwide at the box office.
Sandler's place on the list of box office draws.
Kind of a misleading list considering many of the actors above him are there because of whatever franchise film they were in and not based on their merits.
Still, it's a pretty high ranking and this is a guy without a single franchise movie.
Give credit where credit is due.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:32 pm
by Malcolm
Give credit where credit is due.
He only made the same movie 50 fucking times.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:36 pm
by Leisher
Samuel L. Jackson is #3 on the list and he's the same character in every movie he's ever made.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:39 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:Samuel L. Jackson is #3 on the list and he's the same character in every movie he's ever made.
Yeah, but at least the movies are different. Also, he's done mostly action flicks. Bad non-comedy movies can usually work well as comedies (laughing "at" and not "with"), think MST3K. Like in Deep Blue Sea when Sam makes his speech about man being the deadliest animal of all. Laughed my ass off.
A bad comedy is just truly bad, though. Like 50 First Dates, Jack and Jill or anything else Adam's gotten near in the past twenty years.
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:17 pm
by GORDON
I liked 50 First Dates. Very far from his worst stuff.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:15 pm
by TPRJones
Indeed, 50 first dates was charming.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:35 pm
by Malcolm
Fuck that movie. His one and only decent film was Airheads. Parts of Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Billy Madison were tolerable. Three of the same movie. Fuck Mr. Deeds, too. Four of the same movie.
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:50 pm
by TheCatt
As long as we agree that Punch-Drunk Love sucked balls, I don't care what you people think of the other movies.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:54 pm
by TPRJones
Airheads was good. Big Daddy and Billy Madison were 100% worthless, but Happy Gilmore was okay. He had a decent run from 50 First Dates through Spanglish to The Longest Yard remake. Click had some parts that didn't completely suck.
Everything else he's touched has been awful.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:32 pm
by Leisher
Movies and shows leaving Netflix as of Jan 1st 2015.
This is part of the reason streaming sucks and why I have kept my DVD collection.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:29 pm
by Malcolm
Come the fuck on. Why is content getting yanked? Why am I forced back to scratchy media disks?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:43 pm
by GORDON
This happens all the time. New stuff arrives, old stuff goes away for a while.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:15 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:This happens all the time. New stuff arrives, old stuff goes away for a while.
Why? Is there a HDD timeshare going on? Do they have bizarre agreements stipulating they have to pull some shows or movies every so often?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:19 pm
by GORDON
Yes to the second question. They sign contracts with whomever to show their content for X number of days. Contracts either get extended, or not. Maybe Netflix doesn't want to pay as much any more, maybe the content producers want a pay raise, whatever.
If nobody is watching Movie A and studio wants more money for Netflix to make it available for another year, Netflix is going to say no thanks.
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