Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers by 6ixStringJack

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Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers

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Monday, March 3, 2025 9:25 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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I didn't ask for a download link, nor did I ask what the name of the movie was.

If you've seen it, feel free to answer the question.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Your question was "Have you watched the Chinese movie that's at number 1? I'm wondering what a Billion Dollar Chinese movie looks like."

I wasn't even talking to you in the first place, so let's get that right out of the way from the start. I would never have a real conversation with you about anything because you are a piece of shit human being and I do not care what your opinion is on any topic.

I asked Jaynes if he has seen it. He tends to watch a lot of foreign films, and a lot of the time he watches foreign animated films.

Here in this moment, just as it's been every single moment of your life wherever you were, your presence is superfluous and not desired by anyone else.

Please shut the fuck up and see your way out of this conversation.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Trump and his Trumptards ought to see themselves as living in the monkey house, throwing monkey poop and screeching at the humans who visit the zoo. You Trumptards could have avoided your limited lives inside a cage if only you had tried to be decent human beings. But decency was too much effort.

6ix, the locks will open from inside your enclosures, but you forgot how combination locks work and don't understand you live in a zoo. There is an entire world out there beyond the comprehension of monkeys and Trumptards.

Here is 6ix being a screeching Trumptard throwing his poop, a bitter old monkey, sick and longing for escape from his tiny cage:

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Monday, March 3, 2025 1:34 AM

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There were also prominent Democrats that Zelensky was talking to before he saw Trump that were coaching him on how to tell Trump to go get fucked without looking to millions of people watching on TV like that was what he was doing.

But he's an actor playing a role on TV. He was an actor and entertainer before he was installed as the Ukrainian President. Supposedly even a comedian, although I don't believe that he was ever in the writers room or practiced improv comedy. He was there to play a role for many years now. And as long as everyone was sticking exactly to the script, he played it very well.

He still thought he was playing that role. He didn't realize that the movie he was working on got cancelled and he's currently unemployed.

Zelensky is the fake President of nothing.

Now that the unelected leaders of the EU are coming right out and pledging a ton of their citizens' money to keep a war going on when all Trump is talking about is peace, he's exposing all of them for what and who they really are.

And it's going to be even worse for them than it was Zelensky. At least with his acting background, Zelensky stood a chance in there. In theory he did, anyhow. Once he let Vance get under his skin so hard that Zelensky mumbled the Ukranian word for bitch under his breath like a little kid getting a detention in school for the entire world to see, it was all over.

These other leaders don't know how to act. And they're so out of touch with what The People want that it didn't even really matter if they did.

They're losing control of everything worldwide right now.

I don't know what's coming. But everything the way we knew it before is going to be going through some changes.

I wish I could say I was hopeful about that fact, but it's been my experience that things just always get worse over time, whether they're changing or they're staying the same as they ever were.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, March 3, 2025 5:23 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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I didn't ask for a download link, nor did I ask what the name of the movie was.

If you've seen it, feel free to answer the question.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Your question was "Have you watched the Chinese movie that's at number 1? I'm wondering what a Billion Dollar Chinese movie looks like."

I wasn't even talking to you in the first place, so let's get that right out of the way from the start. I would never have a real conversation with you about anything because you are a piece of shit human being and I do not care what your opinion is on any topic.

I asked Jaynes if he has seen it. He tends to watch a lot of foreign films, and a lot of the time he watches foreign animated films.

Here in this moment, just as it's been every single moment of your life wherever you were, your presence is superfluous and not desired by anyone else.

Please shut the fuck up and see your way out of this conversation.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump

Shut the fuck up.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025 7:09 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Shut the fuck up.

Hollywood makes mostly movies for children and 6ixStringJack will never understand that. He thinks movies are made to offend crotchety Trumptards.

How The Electric State Author Reacted To The Netflix Movie’s Major Change In Tone Revealed By Joe Russo

“We felt like the message was the most important for the six- to 18-year-old range – that generation that's immersed in technology.”

https://screenrant.com/the-electric-state-tone-change-books-joe-russo-
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The movie was made for children, which explains why it was instantly forgettable. The Electric State, now on Netflix, is a $320 million adaptation of Simon Stalenhåg's graphic novel about a girl who, joined by an intelligent robot, searches for her brother across a retro-futuristic, dystopian America.

How to Make an Instantly Forgettable, Very Expensive Movie

The Russo brothers’ Avengers films took hold of popular culture, but the directors have yet to repeat that kind of success.

By Shirley Li | March 19, 2025, 10 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/03/the-electric-state
-netflix-budget-russo-brothers/682090/

Joe and Anthony Russo, better known as the Russo brothers, have enjoyed two of the most lucrative careers in Hollywood. The bulk of their success comes from the features they’ve co-directed for Marvel: Three of those projects, in which they helped turn comic-book characters into icons and “cinematic universes” into a standard practice, are among the 50 highest-grossing movies of all time. Two of them—Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame—made more than $2 billion at the box office globally. Apart from James Cameron, they’re the only directors to have crossed that milestone at least twice.

Judging by their filmography since Endgame, though, it’s unlikely that the Russos will do so for a third time—at least, not without the Avengers. The astronomical budgets the pair have commanded over the past half decade have not yielded Hulk-size cultural footprints: Netflix, which began green-lighting expensive movies to help build its own franchises, stated that the Russos’ $200 million spy thriller The Gray Man topped its most-watched list for two weeks. But neither the film nor Ryan Gosling’s assassin protagonist has lingered in the public memory. Citadel, the Prime Video series the Russos produced, is one of the priciest shows ever made, at more than $300 million for its first season. Conceived by an Amazon executive, Citadel was meant to kick-start a “global franchise,” but it barely made an impression with viewers; in its first month of availability, the show never entered Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming rankings. Without Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Russos’ work has become formulaic and ephemeral. Ambitious studios, it seems, can’t simply buy their way into the zeitgeist.

Yet here the Russos are again, with another exorbitant attempt to establish a new blockbuster series. The Electric State, now on Netflix, is a $320 million adaptation of Simon Stalenhåg’s graphic novel about a girl who, joined by an intelligent robot, searches for her brother across a retro-futuristic, dystopian America. Some of that money has evidently been put to good use: The visual effects are seamless, the robot designs are genuinely cool, and the set dressing is meticulous. The cast, too, is stacked: Holly Hunter, Colman Domingo, and Brian Cox pop up. Their roles, though, are so absurdly small that they suggest heavy reshoots and excised footage.

Hollywood studios granting massive funds to directors who have made box-office hits is a common practice—especially for projects that appear likely to return on the investment. But the Russos have become unusually adept at demonstrating the creative limitations of those piles of cash. Companies have made clear their desire to generate fresh cinematic universes, and Stalenhåg’s book is an excellent starting point for an expansive film adaptation: His evocative artwork explores lands that practically beg to be rendered on the big screen, and his heroine’s quest is filled with pathos. Anthony Russo himself said, during a panel at New York Comic Con last October, that he and his brother were excited “to figure out what kind of story we can tell in this world.”

The story they tell, however, replaces the originality of Stalenhåg’s book with algorithm-friendly, inelegant slop. The Russos reduce the graphic novel’s haunting and macabre tale down to a clichéd battle between unethical humans and sentient machines, in which the latter tried to assert their rights and lost; it’s a generic good-versus-evil setup not unlike those found in The Gray Man and Citadel. Millie Bobby Brown—the closest thing Netflix has to an in-house star—plays Michelle, a teenager sympathetic to the automatons’ plight who rallies a group of misfits to dethrone a heartless tech mogul, Ethan (Stanley Tucci), who believes that humans and robots shouldn’t coexist. Ethan wants to give people the edge by hooking them up to the virtual-reality headsets he invented; Michelle would like everyone to log off and touch some grass.

What Michelle and Ethan do have in common is that they’re both one-dimensional archetypes with tragic backstories. The film around them is equally bland. The Electric State is so transparently eager to satisfy as many demographics of viewers as possible that it proves its own message: that a world dependent on business interests and technological optimization dulls artistic potential and human ingenuity. All that’s left is a wasteland of half-baked ideas searching for a home.

There’s a self-conscious streak to The Electric State that renders it inert from the start. The Russos populate the cast with big names (and Marvel standbys) such as Chris Pratt and Anthony Mackie, actors whose chemistry with each other almost distracts from the weak storytelling. Michelle resembles the protagonists of 2010s young-adult films, complete with pithy lines (“I have a condition where I can only live in reality,” she scoffs) and a signature hairdo. Each character is meant to be easy to root for or against, which forces them to be simplistic; Michelle’s ally Keats, lazily played by Pratt, is so underwritten that I’m surprised he even has a name. And many of the robots, despite how lifelike they look, have boring personalities. Woody Harrelson voices the Planters mascot, Mr. Peanut—further proof of the budget going toward procuring recognizable imagery—but the generic role stifles the actor’s eccentric charm.

As I watched The Electric State, I was reminded of other projects, good and bad: the philosophical musings of Blade Runner, the flashy incoherence of the Divergent films, the character design from the terrific horror video game Soma. The Russos were obviously influenced by Steven Spielberg’s output in particular, but what they’ve achieved is more akin to the much-maligned, reference-ridden Ready Player One than E.T. The directors had the money and incentive to strip popular works for parts—mimicking previous successes seems like a safe bet for attaining the widest possible appeal and the highest number of viewing minutes, the metric by which many streaming platforms assess how well their projects perform. But such choices leave the movie feeling too familiar, and it’s unable to build an identity of its own. Every intricately devised robot, every “Hey, it’s that guy!” actor, every closely replicated image from Stalenhåg’s graphic novel becomes nothing but window dressing.

Of course, even the most acclaimed filmmakers can fall victim to the constraints of corporate expectations. Barry Jenkins’s best efforts to enliven the Lion King prequel, Mufasa, couldn’t prevent it from feeling like a capital-p Product. Jenkins’s fellow Oscar winner Chloe Zhao similarly struggled to set Eternals apart from the rest of Marvel’s green-screen-heavy fare. The Russo brothers, meanwhile, are known for their past accomplishments with transforming movies into merchandising opportunities. But their latest entry into this costly genre is yet another embarrassment in a string of them, and similarly destined to be forgotten. The Electric State, with its predictable final shot teeing up a sequel, argues for a society that values togetherness and imagination. Yet the movie—under the guidance of its directors and producers—just can’t be bothered to do any of that imagining itself.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, March 20, 2025 1:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Shut the fuck up.
Hollywood makes mostly movies for children and 6ixStringJack will never understand that. He thinks movies are made to offend crotchety Trumptards.

I guess you'd know. You're the guy illegally downloading every one so you can fill your head with the trash.

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Friday, March 28, 2025 7:21 AM

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Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Worldwide Box Office: Crosses $486M+, Becoming Jim Carrey’s Highest-Grossing Film Ever

https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-worldwide-box-o
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Saturday, March 29, 2025 7:41 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Shut the fuck up.
Hollywood makes mostly movies for children and 6ixStringJack will never understand that. He thinks movies are made to offend crotchety Trumptards.

I guess you'd know. You're the guy illegally downloading every one so you can fill your head with the trash.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

90% of movies were crap before Trump was born. It was the law then and still is:

In 2013, philosopher Daniel Dennett championed Sturgeon's law as one of his seven tools for critical thinking. "90% of everything is crap. That is true, whether you are talking about physics, chemistry, evolutionary psychology, sociology, medicine – you name it – rock music, country western. 90% of everything is crap."

A 1946 essay Confessions of a Book Reviewer by George Orwell asserts about books: In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be "This book is worthless ..."

It came to him that [science fiction] is indeed ninety-percent crud, but that also – Eureka! – ninety-percent of everything is crud. All things – cars, books, cheeses, hairstyles, people, and pins are, to the expert and discerning eye, crud, except for the acceptable tithe which we each happen to like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 7:44 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Nicole Kidman’s New Prime Video Movie Is Like Don’t Worry Darling if It Made Even Less Sense

As a tiny train disappears down a dark tunnel, we hear their two voices in unison as they deliver the teeth-grindingly annoying final line: “Sometimes I wonder, was it even real?” (Was it all a dream? Nope. It was a crappy movie. 90% of all movies are crap.)

By Dana Stevens | March 28, 2025 2:27 PM

https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/holland-nicole-kidman-movie-prime-vi
deo-ending-explained.html

As a straight-to-streaming feature with big-name stars that’s barely been promoted by its own studio — Amazon declined to provide critics with screeners, and searching for the movie on Amazon the day it dropped, I had to type the title all the way down to the D — Holland exemplifies a depressing trend in the current entertainment industry. It appears to be relying on name recognition to garner an initial burst of curious viewers before word gets out about what a dud it is. Holland’s script had been kicking around Hollywood for nearly a decade before being picked up by Kidman’s production company. It should have kept on kicking. https://www.amazon.com/Holland-Mimi-Cave/dp/B0CTMPF2FD/

Free download https://psa.wf/movie/holland-2025/
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Metascore 42 out of 100
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/holland/

28% Tomatometer / 20% Popcornmeter
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/holland

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Holland-(2025)#tab=summary

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, March 30, 2025 11:56 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Everybody knows how to download shit for free in 2025. You are not special.

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