Noah X 5,250 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 The answer is to fire the trailer editor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 10,825 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Truth is that half the country didn’t go to a theater bc of snow and cold and those who did saw avatar. Babylon doesn’t really appeal to the Christmas movie goer crowd all that much Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 10,825 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/24/2022 at 10:21 AM, Oriane said: Are you all kidding? This is a Damien Chazelle movie, I really loved Whiplash, La La Land was fine for me but a lot of people loved it too, and given the subject of the movie I expect a lot from it. Damien Chazelle doesn’t really pull big numbers. Didn’t his Apollo movie flop, too? And La La Land kinda stalled a bit also (plus being about hollywood feels samey to this to a casual watcher). Couple that with telling no one anything about this movie and releasing it right around avatar and it’s obvious who’s going to flop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat 18,962 Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Ziggy said: Truth is that half the country didn’t go to a theater bc of snow and cold and those who did saw avatar. Babylon doesn’t really appeal to the Christmas movie goer crowd all that much The Whitney biopic made double than this despite having a much lower budget though. Not to mention Puss in Boots also did well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat 18,962 Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 minute ago, Ziggy said: Damien Chazelle doesn’t really pull big numbers. Didn’t his Apollo movie flop, too? And La La Land kinda stalled a bit also (plus being about hollywood feels samey to this to a casual watcher). Couple that with telling no one anything about this movie and releasing it right around avatar and it’s obvious who’s going to flop. La La land made $447M while First Man made $105M. Babylon will be lucky to even cross $30M honestly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 10,825 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Meat said: The Whitney biopic made double than this despite having a much lower budget though. Not to mention Puss in Boots also did well. True! But think of how those movies also cater to particular demos. Avatar is the event movie, Whitney biopic is the “my mom loves Whitney so we’re seeing that” film, puss is the kids movie. Babylon basically falls through the cracks bc the other movies pull demographics more specifically. Babylon’s demographic is not clearly defined by its trailers so whoever they’re trying to reach either saw something else or stayed home Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 10,825 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Meat said: La La land made $447M while First Man made $105M. Babylon will be lucky to even cross $30M honestly. Mmm see I think this is the issue. The studio assumed that Chazelle was a bankable director who had fans that would follow movie to movie like Chris Nolan but that’s just not true, sadly. He hasn’t built the kind of cache that dark knight then inception gives a gal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat 18,962 Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, Ziggy said: True! But think of how those movies also cater to particular demos. Avatar is the event movie, Whitney biopic is the “my mom loves Whitney so we’re seeing that” film, puss is the kids movie. Babylon basically falls through the cracks bc the other movies pull demographics more specifically. Babylon’s demographic is not clearly defined by its trailers so whoever they’re trying to reach either saw something else or stayed home Babylon has a very strong following on film twitter. Despite the movie getting bad reviews, people are defending it and those tweets are getting a lot of likes too. I guess this just proves that film twitter is an echo chamber and doesn’t reflect the tastes of the actual audience. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oriane 19,993 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Ziggy said: Damien Chazelle doesn’t really pull big numbers. Didn’t his Apollo movie flop, too? And La La Land kinda stalled a bit also (plus being about hollywood feels samey to this to a casual watcher). Couple that with telling no one anything about this movie and releasing it right around avatar and it’s obvious who’s going to flop. Oh yes but people in the thread seem to criticize the quality of the movie itself, that's what I was referring to! Ibreally don't care about numbers, as long as the movies are still being acclaimed and earn enough for the filmmakers to continue doing what they want, I'm fine. You popped my heart seams, all my bubble dreams Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 10,825 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Meat said: Babylon has a very strong following on film twitter. Despite the movie getting bad reviews, people are defending it and those tweets are getting a lot of likes too. I guess this just proves that film twitter is an echo chamber and doesn’t reflect the tastes of the actual audience. Yeah that’s more what I meant like I knew filmheads were excited but this needed to pull a wolf of Wall Street and appease them *and then* transfer over into the mainstream a bit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 10,825 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 6 hours ago, Oriane said: Oh yes but people in the thread seem to criticize the quality of the movie itself, that's what I was referring to! Ibreally don't care about numbers, as long as the movies are still being acclaimed and earn enough for the filmmakers to continue doing what they want, I'm fine. Ooooh I gotcha! I feel you. I wouldn’t care about numbers except for it being used to justify new and more original releases or not. I’ve seen plenty of shoestring art house films to know a box office return is not an indictment or testimony of quality lmao Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LG666 1,832 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 thats gossip Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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