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How about it Yoda?? You're a movie website with a Box Office Forum where the last movies posted regarding box office haven't been posted since March??
Weekend Champion: Onward
Onward
$10.60m
#1. Onward
$9.17m
#2. Bloodshot
$9.10m
#3. I Still Believe
$5.89m
#4. The Invisible Man
TOTAL BOX OFFICE FOR WEEKEND OF 3/13/20
This is the biggest problem I have with this website is you're a movie website, you supposedly enjoy discussing movies, but apparently frown on discussing box office and now I can see why?? Why is this??
How about it Yoda?? You're a movie website
TIL Yoda is actually a website. Dafuq Yoda? You're a website?!?
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 03:48 AM
How about it Yoda?? You're a movie website with a Box Office Forum where the last movies posted regarding box office haven't been posted since March??
Weekend Champion: Onward
Onward
$10.60m
#1. Onward
$9.17m
#2. Bloodshot
$9.10m
#3. I Still Believe
$5.89m
#4. The Invisible Man
TOTAL BOX OFFICE FOR WEEKEND OF 3/13/20
This is the biggest problem I have with this website is you're a movie website, you supposedly enjoy discussing movies, but apparently frown on discussing box office and now I can see why?? Why is this??
You can update it yourself.
See how that works?
And maybe no one else bothers because what exactly is there to discuss here?
You can update it yourself.
See how that works?
And maybe no one else bothers because what exactly is there to discuss here?
What exactly is there to discuss here?? You ****ing kidding me?? How about MI:7 opening along with any other holdovers?? Look, clearly, the people who post at this site don't give a shit about box office, that much IS clear which is baffling considering you're a movie website, so what do you mean there isn't anything to talk about?? :facepalm:
TIL Yoda is actually a website. Dafuq Yoda? You're a website?!?
You knew exactly what this meant considering he or she is the only Admin on this site, so now what??:rolleyes:
Mr Minio
07-16-23, 05:22 AM
It's baffling a supposed cinephile would care about the box office information so much they'd moan about it in such an enraged way. See, the main point of a movie forum is people discussing films either casually or on a deeper level. I'm sure you can easily find factual information such as box office records somewhere else. But I don't think it's vital to know which film sold the most tickets this month. It doesn't say anything about its quality or how worthy of seeing it is. Just like the net worth of an actor says nothing about their talent.
Act III
07-16-23, 05:33 AM
This topic was already asked before and the answer was that he didnt wanna do it anymore. Here's a link to a box office page that is always up-to-date.
https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2023/top-grossing-movies93767
This topic was already asked before and the answer was that he didnt wanna do it anymore.
Pack your bags kids, it's curtains!
It's baffling a supposed cinephile would care about the box office information so much they'd moan about it in such an enraged way. See, the main point of a movie forum is people discussing films either casually or on a deeper level. I'm sure you can easily find factual information such as box office records somewhere else. But I don't think it's vital to know which film sold the most tickets this month. It doesn't say anything about its quality or how worthy of seeing it is. Just like the net worth of an actor says nothing about their talent.
It's baffling a cinephile wouldn't discuss box office information when you consider how down the box office is due to the pandemic and it doesn't help when movies are going straight to streaming instead of going where they were meant to be seen which is the Silver Screen.. I understand why they did the streaming thing during the pandemic, but that's over and people need to make a better effort to return to the movies and not allow something like this to affect that??
people need to make a better effort to return to the movies and not allow something like this to affect that??
Do we? Curious. How about all those small businesses that went under during said pandemic? No duty to revive them? Myself I am rooting for the strike. Not the actors, the writers, or the studios, just the strike itself. A good forest fire makes room for new trees.
Mr Minio
07-16-23, 06:38 AM
I understand why they did the streaming thing during the pandemic, but that's over and people need to make a better effort to return to the movies and not allow something like this to affect that?? Plenty of topics to discuss that.
I don't like this new era of streaming (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=67262)
Everyone Seems To Pay More $$$ For Cable/Streaming (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=66679)
SpelingError
07-16-23, 01:58 PM
We don't frown on people for discussing box office stats or new releases. You're obviously allowed and encouraged to do that. You're looking at only one link on the forum and basing the entirety of your opinion on that. If you want to discuss new releases, there's plenty of room for that in "Upcoming Movies & Sequels" and "Business & Box Office Discussion". Really, this is nothing to get enraged over.
We don't frown on people for discussing box office stats or new releases. You're obviously allowed and encouraged to do that. You're looking at only one link on the forum and basing the entirety of your opinion on that. If you want to discuss new releases, there's plenty of room for that in "Upcoming Movies & Sequels" and "Business & Box Office Discussion". Really, this is nothing to get enraged over.
Dude, no disrespect, but you're not a website, are you?
SpelingError
07-16-23, 02:25 PM
Dude, no disrespect, but you're not a website, are you?
Dang, how'd you know?
Dang, how'd you know?
BKB is not yelling at you. Ergo, you're not a website.
SpelingError
07-16-23, 03:13 PM
BKB is not yelling at you. Ergo, you're not a website.
That means you're a website then :eek:
Citizen Rules
07-16-23, 03:26 PM
That means you're a website then :eek:Indeed he is:Dwww.corax.com (http://www.corax.com/) but he's not https
This is the biggest problem I have with this website is you're a movie website, you supposedly enjoy discussing movies, but apparently frown on discussing box office and now I can see why??
We don't frown on it at all. We frown on equating it with quality or treating it like a score.
Analyzing box office is super interesting and something I greatly enjoy. I play HSX and used to play other box office games, and have a handful of fun, exciting memories about it. But that's because I know what it does and does not mean. It's an interesting subject in and of itself, to study what does well and why...but not as some kind of proxy critique of films or fan bases. That's the distinction. I'm positive I've said this before.
Anyway, the box office area doesn't reflect anything other than a) we stopped updating it around COVID (note the date) and b) nobody seemed to care because the information is readily available elsewhere.
Haven't decided whether to update it or replace it.
Citizen Rules
07-16-23, 03:43 PM
Can't say I've ever really looked at the box office forum here. Not interested really, but that's just me.
WHITBISSELL!
07-16-23, 04:36 PM
I thought this sort of manufactured drama died out with RT? I seem to remember someone being able to look up IP addresses to suss out trolls. That was so long ago though. VPN's made that obsolete I suppose.
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 06:22 PM
I thought this sort of manufactured drama died out with RT?
I miss quality unhinged posters.
I'll take what I can get though.
WHITBISSELL!
07-16-23, 08:41 PM
I miss quality unhinged posters.
I'll take what I can get though.I've heard the username Red is still spoken of in hushed, reverent tones.
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 08:51 PM
I've heard the username Red is still spoken of in hushed, reverent tones.
Not with me. I was quite loud proclaiming his ultimate ****hood.
WHITBISSELL!
07-16-23, 08:58 PM
Not with me. I was quite loud proclaiming his ultimate ****hood.I figured he qualified as unhinged. But then I also missed all that loitering in OT. We had people like Hazelrabbit and The Purple Muffin. Which totally sounds like a potential comic book movie.
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 09:20 PM
I figured he qualified as unhinged. But then I also missed all that loitering in OT. We had people like Hazelrabbit and The Purple Muffin. Which totally sounds like a potential comic book movie.
I was familiar with Muffin (Lux in GT)
I was actually friendly with him for a long time...until I wasn't
Captain Terror
07-16-23, 10:08 PM
I've only blocked two people ever, and lux was one of them. Thank god I was never his target but I just had no patience for his nonsense.
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 10:12 PM
I've only blocked two people ever, and lux was one of them. Thank god I was never his target but I just had no patience for his nonsense.
I think he was the beginning of me starting to understand you can't believe in everyone. Some people are just shit.
Captain Terror
07-16-23, 10:17 PM
I think he was the beginning of me starting to understand you can't believe in everyone. Some people are just shit.
Yeah his taste in film was weird enough that he'd be interesting to talk to if he wasn't such a massive turd.
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 10:48 PM
Yeah his taste in film was weird enough that he'd be interesting to talk to if he wasn't such a massive turd.
I got a few good recommendations from him. And I think that blurred my vision of how awful he was being to everyone else.
My bad.
crumbsroom
07-16-23, 10:51 PM
I was so obsessed with the idea of seeing the best in everyone in those years, and having maybe the gross belief that I could help change them through the power of art (!), that I pushed aside how he was clearly an awful person.
I don't make those kinds of mistakes anymore. Now I just assume everyone is a ****, and you've got to prove otherwise
WHITBISSELL!
07-17-23, 01:27 AM
I was familiar with Muffin (Lux in GT)
I was actually friendly with him for a long time...until I wasn'tWait. Hold on. You can't possibly mean Post Tenebras Lux could you?
crumbsroom
07-17-23, 09:08 AM
Wait. Hold on. You can't possibly mean Post Tenebras Lux could you?
They were one and the same.
"You're not talking about Tarkovsky enough. Start talking about Tarkovsky!"
I loathed that, but I also miss stuff like that a little.
Mr Minio
07-17-23, 09:20 AM
TIL there was a Rotten Tomatoes forum. 2002-2003. Jesus. I registered on my first forum in 2005. I was still a kid. You people are dinosaurs!
WHITBISSELL!
07-17-23, 02:50 PM
They were one and the same.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SlimNarrowHake.webp
Actually it's not that surprising. They were both obnoxious, just in different ways. But I had no idea he had taken on another persona for GD. And that's why my mind always goes there whenever supposedly new posters show up and act belligerent from the get-go. Almost like they're in mid-conversation. Makes me think they're aliases.
Who was the guy that was always going on and on about why weren't more people paying attention to the emerging _________ cinema. It was always an obscure country. Was it Master King Sexington? Later MKS? Anyway, there's someone here who reminds me an awful lot of him.
EDIT: Lovesexy! That was him! I think. :confused:¯\_(ツ)_/¯
crumbsroom
07-17-23, 03:38 PM
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SlimNarrowHake.webp
Actually it's not that surprising. They were both obnoxious, just in different ways. But I had no idea he had taken on another persona for GD. And that's why my mind always goes there whenever supposedly new posters show up and act belligerent from the get-go. Almost like they're in mid-conversation. Makes me think they're aliases.
Who was the guy that was always going on and on about why weren't more people paying attention to the emerging _________ cinema. It was always an obscure country. Was it Master King Sexington? Later MKS? Anyway, there's someone here who reminds me an awful lot of him.
EDIT: Lovesexy! That was him! I think. :confused:¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lovesexy was also Muffin and Lux.
Why aren't you people talking more about Tarkovsky? ;)
Captain Terror
07-17-23, 04:09 PM
Lovesexy was also Muffin and Lux.
He also had a name that included the word Petrol but I can't remember it now.
crumbsroom
07-17-23, 04:26 PM
He also had a name that included the word Petrol but I can't remember it now.
Skipetrol
Also Swan Swan H
Dude got banned alot
WHITBISSELL!
07-17-23, 05:21 PM
Lovesexy was also Muffin and Lux.Now you're just gaslighting me. So ... what you're telling me is that cabal of overbearing pretentious film snobs was a solitary pimply Jewish teenager? You gotta hand it to him. The guy was a righteous, talented troll. Don't tell me his little brother was fictitious as well?
WHITBISSELL!
07-18-23, 03:03 PM
I hope no one thought I was referring to anyone here when I mentioned "overbearing, pretentious film snobs". Because I certainly wasn't. You folks are aficionados. You love film. People are very well behaved around here and cognizant of others viewpoints. That's why certain posters stick out like a sore thumb.
I hope no one thought I was referring to anyone here when I mentioned "overbearing, pretentious film snobs". Because I certainly wasn't. You folks are aficionados. You love film. People are very well behaved around here and cognizant of others viewpoints. That's why certain posters stick out like a sore thumb.
I am actually an overbearing, pretentious film snob. The problem is, I am terrible at it. I sit around watching stuff like Excalibur and Back to the Future. If a pretentious film happens to appear on screen, I immediately piss my pants and forget who I am for a half hour, afterward making some nachos and firing up my 156th viewing of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Sorry all, I will try to be better at the whole snob thing.
WHITBISSELL!
07-18-23, 03:20 PM
I am actually an overbearing, pretentious film snob. The problem is, I am terrible at it. I sit around watching stuff like Excalibur and Back to the Future. If a pretentious film happens to appear on screen, I immediately piss my pants and forget who I am for a half hour, afterward making some nachos and firing up my 156th viewing of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Sorry all, I will try to be better at the whole snob thing.You're probably kidding but that sounds like something I'd do. Watch Where Eagles Dare for the 15th time instead of something more challenging or edifying.
I don't know if you were around at RT back then but that place was rife with trolls and I'm just now finding out that most of the worst ones were the same teenage kid.
You're probably kidding but that sounds like something I'd do. Watch Where Eagles Dare for the 15th time instead of something more challenging or edifying.
I don't know if you were around at RT back then but that place was rife with trolls and I'm just now finding out that most of the worst ones were the same teenage kid.
I saw that conversation developing as I was modding that thread - that kid sounded like a real winner! I was never at RT; I have been a MoFo since 2003!
Only half kidding, as I have seen Star Trek IV more times than anyone should, and Excalibur and Back to the Future are both favorites. I will watch the more challenging stuff also, though!
Citizen Rules
07-18-23, 03:44 PM
...I don't know if you were around at RT back then but that place was rife with trolls and I'm just now finding out that most of the worst ones were the same teenage kid.That's the way it's been on every board I've been on, a number of fake accounts...sometimes the sole owner of those sock puppets would openly brag about it. I think I spotted one just a few minutes ago on another thread.
WHITBISSELL!
07-18-23, 03:47 PM
I was never at RT; I have been a MoFo since 2003! Signed up at RT in like January of '02. Then I lurked. And lurked. And lurked some more. Finally worked up the courage to post a couple of months later. I remember it was The Lord of Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that lit a fire in me to talk about it with others.
Signed up at RT in like January of '02. Then I lurked. And lurked. And lurked some more. Finally worked up the courage to post a couple of months later. I remember it was The Lord of Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that lit a fire in me to talk about it with others.
Along with Matrix Revolutions, Return of the King was one of the films that I first talked about here on MoFo, also! I think that is the case, but it's been a long time.
WHITBISSELL!
07-18-23, 04:06 PM
That's the way it's been on every board I've been on, a number of fake accounts...sometimes the sole owner of those sock puppets would openly brag about it. I think I spotted one just a few minutes ago on another thread.Uh-oh. The mods usually make quick work of people like that. I had aliases at RT but they were novelty ones. I'd think of a clever :rolleyes: username and want to show it off. Like BuckwheatInAHeadlock or ThenTheEvilBabySmiled. I had one named crackerJACK that would post once a year on the anniversary of it joining RT and berate everyone for forgetting to remember his anniversary.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AnimatedThisBlackrussianterrier-size_restricted.gif
Umm, you had to be there.
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