The first game was great. Spinoff was fun. The sequel was garbage. Why? Prioritizing diversity and inclusion vs making a good product. With the new game on the horizon, it’s fair to say it’ll flop.
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Martin Scorsese Fights Back
Good news everyone, Martin Scorsese wants to save cinema from evil comic book movies. And he’s going to do that with this three-and-a-half-hour long, straight-to-Apple+ movie about how the Indians were mistreated by white people, titled Killers of the Flower Moon. Yes, you read that correctly. The best way to beat comic book movies in the box office is to make a movie that goes to streaming about something nobody wants to see.
I don’t know if its age creeping up on Scorsese or the fact that he doesn’t know how to use the internet, but comic book movies are doing terrible now in the box office. A couple of years ago, Marvel was making massive profits every time they sneezed in the direction on a movie theater. Now, it’s mostly flops and DC is all flops now.
To compete with massive franchises, Scorsese has to make good movies, but a concept like Killers of the Flower Moon doesn’t seem like it will do well, especially with the actors in it. Leonardo DiCaprio is a climate change liar. His star has massively fallen, and people find his age-gap relationships weird. Robert De Niro can’t stop talking about politics every time he’s in front of a microphone. Lilly Gladstone has made some negative comments about the hit TV show Yellowstone, which isn’t a great start to a relatively unknown career. Combine all these things together and you have the makings for a movie people won’t watch out of spite.
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Thanksgiving: Oscar Worthy?
Thanksgiving Review: Oscar Worthy?
What’s going on everyone I’m World War Joe here to talk to you about one of the best movies of the year, Thanksgiving. It is a movie about love, family, and togetherness, and about overcoming trauma while trying to survive an ax-swinging murder. Let’s get into it!
Thanksgiving does everything right, but it was weird seeing this movie in 2023. The women were all written well. The men were all written well. The fathers were all written well. No man was emasculated. The killer is cool. The deaths are creative and comedy is golden. There is a massive number of characters in this movie and they all have a purpose.
You have Jessica the main character. Her boyfriend Bobby, her friends Gabby, Evan, Scuba, Yalia, her ex-Ryan. Ryan’s roommate Scott. Jessica’s Father Thomas. Her stepmom Kathleen. Mitch and his wife Amanda. The Sheriff Eric. The new Deputy Bret. Lizzie who works at the local diner. Lonnie a football player on an opposing high school and many many many more and they all serve a purpose. They all flesh out this world. There were no messages in this movie. No cringe moments. Eli Roth does not fuck around.
We start off with one of the best openings you’ll ever see. A really quick info dump that actually sounds like human beings having a conversation and we get to know our massive cast better.
Mitch complains that Thomas is making him work on Thanksgiving.
People in town take pictures with Bobby because he’s a pitching phenom in high school.
Bobby comforts Jessica by saying Kathleen will never replace her dead mother.
Just simple conversation and it tells you everything you need to know, unlike Inception where Arthur’s character was just there to explain everything to the audience.
After a Thanksgiving feast, Jessica and Bobby get a ride with their friends to the local RightMart where a massive foaming at the mouth crowd awaiting the giant savings inside, including deals on waffle makers.
Evan and Scuba talk about how they fought with Lonnie after a football game and the opposing team. As Bobby is taking pictures with fans, Jessica runs into Ryan, her ex, and he invites her to a party. Bobby intervenes and he and Ryan exchange a glance. Since Jessica’s father owns the store, she’s able to get her and her friends into the store through a back room.
The group start shopping before the crowd. Apon seeing this, Lonnie grabs a megaphone and announces the store is open and the crowd charges the gate. They break down the doors crushing a man to death. Amanda, who came to bring her husband leftovers is killed by a shopping cart driven by Lizzie.
Bobby also falls to the ground and his arm is broke, killing his baseball career. The night ends with 3 people dying and then we fast-forward one year later. A news report explains that the RightMart is again having its massive Thanksgiving sales. We see an enraged Mitch saying that nobody has been arrested for the death of his wife and the cameras that night was mysteriously not working. The report then talks about Bobby and how he hasn’t been seen since that night.
The rest of the movie has the characters from that night being systematically targeted and killed and their bodies displayed. Jessica and her friends are continuously tagged in pictures and videos about that night and of a dinner table with place cards with their names on it. The police still have nobody in custody for the deaths at the RightMart from a year ago and are still interviewing people to piece together the whole story of that night.
The rest of the movie the group trying to figure out who is doing the murders. There are a lot of red herrings and so many people are a suspect. And when we finally get to the reveal and twist, its fantastic. The killer has a great motivation, the breadcrumbs are all there and when its finally over, it all makes sense. That’s what this movie does perfectly, the tiniest details matter.
Thanksgiving should be nominated for Best Original Screenplay. With only an hour and a half of screentime, this movie doesn’t waste a single second. Every line makes sense, every character’s motivation is perfect. Eli Roth and Jeff Rendell have made something truly iconic and I look forward to their next product.
Thanksgiving is one of the best movies of the year. And in terms of Horror movies, leaps and bounds over Five Nights at Freddy’s.
However, I don’t see this movie making much a profit for the simple fact that not a lot of people know it exists. They must’ve spent nothing on marketing. I don’t see this movie being pushed on my Facebook, Instagram or other socials. I don’t see endless commercials of this on YouTube. And yes, a movie can make a big profit with word of mouth, the Sound of Freedom did it, but this movie doesn’t have the same gravitas. Also, Thanksgiving will probably be on Peacock in a month or two so there’s really no rush to go see it in theaters.
That being said. This movie is Lightening in a Bottle. It’s iconic. It does all the right things. 10/10, not even a second thought. Let me know what you guys think about it.
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Wonderman is Alive?
My apologies everyone. I was under the impression that the Wonderman TV show was canceled during the Hollywood strike, but now that the strike is over, it has been reported that it will start production around Thanksgiving.
Wonderman and many other MCU shows will be part of the “Spotlight” section of the MCU, which means they aren’t part of the larger MCU continuity. Ok, let me see if I get this right. Marvel is now making shows and potential movies that won’t interact with the bigger world ending and Avenger Level Threats…and this is a good idea?
Which tells me one thing. The writers realized that added too many chaotic things to the franchise and there is no way to tell such stories in a logia manner anymore. Maybe having multiverse incursions, Celestial beings, Soul Eating Dragons, and a million Skrulls may have jumped the shark in the logical department.
For note, I wrote about how the Punisher wouldn’t be able to be in the MCU because why would he care about drug deals and gangsters when an alien invasion happened? But back to Wonderman, it’ll flop. This is more of a vanity project now than adding a new and exciting character to the MCU.
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Taylor Swift beats Martin Scorsese
In a not-so-shocking twist, the Taylor Swift movie beat out Killers of the Flower Moon in the theaters. One is about the behind-the-scenes of Swift’s latest tour and the other is about how Indians were treated poorly by white people.
The final numbers on Swift’s budget hasn’t been released yet, but I imagine it’s not anywhere close to Martin Scorsese’s $200 million-dollar, 3-hour flop, which only brought in about $120 million dollars. Doing some quick math, that means the movie lost AT LEAST $140 million dollars, and that’s not including the marketing costs.
The only saving grace for this movie is that Apple+ bought the rights to host the movie, which may have dipped into its profits. I’m very cheap, and I’d buy a streaming service instead of going to the theaters since a month of it costs less than 2 tickets to the theater.
Swift’s movie, on the other hand, doesn’t really need much in marketing. Much like The Sound of Freedom, her movie has a strong build-in audience that would essentially promote the movie themselves online. Even if the movie makes no money at all, Swift will still make a lot from the tour and her music sales, so the tour is just an extra thing for the fans.
Whatever the final numbers may be, Swift will be a winner on this, and Scorsese will only make a tiny splash.
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James Gunn Killed Superman Legacy
We Need The Iron Heart Show
Yes, you read that correctly. I am annoyed that the Iron Heart TV show is postponed indefinitely. Not because I want to watch the racial antics of Riri Williams, no, because I want a theory, I had to come true. Williams attends MIT, but do you know who else goes to MIT? Ned and MJ from Spiderman.
My prediction for the upcoming Spider-Man movie is that Peter will come in contact with Venom, turn into Black Suit Spider-Man, be responsible for the death of MJ, and Ned will assume the role of the Hobgoblin.
Ned has always been “the man in the chair”, but hasn’t really built his own tech as of yet. Going to school with Riri and potentially going on some adventures with her will give Ned the means to create his own suit one day and take revenge on Spider-Man for the death of his friend.
What do you think?
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