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The bubble bursts- on Moviepass and the rise of monopoly-class movies
When I started doing these Labor Day summer wrapups five years ago, what I identified — and what plenty of other people identified — was a crashing bubble at the domestic box office, and after a rebound year in 2018, … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #3D, #avatar, #Avengers, #black panther, #Disney, #george lucas, #iron man, #lucasfilm, #marvel studios, #pixar, #the lion king, Aladdin, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Business Insider, Captain Marvel, Crazy Rich Asians, Dark Phoenix, Endgame, Frozen II, Incredibles 2, Infinity War, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Labor Day, Men in Black International, Midsommar, Monopoly class movies, MoviePass, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, Us
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Everest a waste of time, money
I never thought I’d find myself rooting for a blizzard. Everest tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight people died on the mountain after being caught in such a storm. Not snowed on and blown about … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #3D, #avatar, #bad accents, #blizzard, #capitalism, #character development, #cut it off, #Everest, #house of cards, #imax, #jake gyllenhaal, #jason Clarke, #josh brolin, #keira knightly, #lecture, #michael kelly, #Mount Everest, #new zealand, #out of focus, #oxygen, #rooting for the bad guy, #taking the fun out of things, #tourism, #weathermen suck
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