22july2013

... would be interesting to observe whether Mark Gurman suddenly loses his accurate predictive capabilities. 

StrangeDays said:

mknelson said:

(original reply deleted by AI's new "prove you're a human" feature. Yay!

I wish they would fix this. It's been a couple weeks now?

I've been trying to post something all day and constantly failing. I'm not sure if this message will get posted.

I can't figure out why the people who make the Virtual Reality "ABBA VOYAGE" experience aren't selling that 3D experience as an app for Apple Vision Pro. There are tens of millions of ABBA fans that would probably buy it, and the headset.

Marvin said: Good writers, directors and actors are what make good movies, these skills need to be passed down from one generation to the next. It's been a while since there was a must-see movie, people don't share or talk about trailers for new movies like they used to.

It's not just writers, director and actors. Just as often you can tell if a movie is going to be a dud by seeing if the producers include some of the actors, or if the Director and Writer are the same person (especially if they are also one of the producers.) In both of the movies you linked to, some of the actors were also the producers. Actors become producers so that they can guarantee they have roles made for themselves. (Pretty much any star that gets paid 8 figures starts their own production company for this reason.) But that's egocentric and nepotistic. The only person I can think of that was capable of being a producer, director, writer and actor, and still make great movies, was Orson Welles. Today everyone thinks that they can be another Orson Welles.

James Cameron was a successful combination of producer, writer, and director, but thankfully he didn't take advantage of that to become an actor.

chemicle said:

How does a movie cost 300 million to make?  

A $300 million movie (in today's dollars) actually $71 million (in 1977 dollars, when Star Wars was made for $13 million) due to an inflation rate of 420% over 47 years.

Today's $300 million, converted to 1977 dollars, could have funded 5.4 Star Wars movies back in 1977.