The next DC film Black Beetle looks like it is also going to be a massive flop. I think it comes out this week
By Diego! Go To PostThe next DC film Black Beetle looks like it is also going to be a massive flop. I think it comes out this weekMeier said he really enjoyed it lol
By Daz Go To Postits 140 minutes long - and was always planned to be a 2 parter.
Kind of like Dune.
It’s not great in Dune either but at least it doesn’t end midway through a scene like a tv show cliff hanger.
By Daz Go To PostBut what does DZ think?
Haven't seen it but if it follows the trend of other DC movies:
I have no expectation to be honest and think the entire idea of rebooting while still developing movies in an old connected universe is insanity.
But since I gotta live up to my I hate everything reputation enjoy this film take:
As much as I despise the idea of a studio CEO getting 4000x the paycheck of the lowest income earner in the same studio I gotta say: actors getting any residuals at all is such a unique thing uncommon in most industries - they shouldn't be complaining about any amount they are getting. Nearly everybody else is only getting paid once for their work - why should employees in the movie industry be treated differently? They had a thing that was too good to believe.
Negotiate a fair first pay.
Actors are giving their image, so of course they shouldn’t be paid the same way as the costume designer.
Absolutely have to push back against the idea that no other workers get paid residuals. My bonus at work is fully calculated as a percentage of our takings this year. My previous jobs have all had stock options as part of the payment package. A shit tonne of jobs will pay salary as well as some overall performance based pay too
By JesalR Go To PostAbsolutely have to push back against the idea that no other workers get paid residuals. My bonus at work is fully calculated as a percentage of our takings this year. My previous jobs have all had stock options as part of the payment package. A shit tonne of jobs will pay salary as well as some overall performance based pay toofr that was an ultimately ignorant take by DZ.
Not only that, but the CEOs fighting against better residuals all by and large get mostly paid by stock options and take on as little salary as possible in order to skirt on taxes.
By Crusher Go To PostIt’s not great in Dune either but at least it doesn’t end midway through a scene like a tv show cliff hanger.Midway through a scene?
By JesalR Go To PostAbsolutely have to push back against the idea that no other workers get paid residuals. My bonus at work is fully calculated as a percentage of our takings this year. My previous jobs have all had stock options as part of the payment package. A shit tonne of jobs will pay salary as well as some overall performance based pay too
Dude be real: who gets stock option? C-level and top management position. Maybe your top sales position. But other than getting yearly performance based bonus you won't find lower level workers in a company who are still getting paid for work that was done 5, 10 or 20 years ago.
There is nothing ignorant about it. An extra getting residuals and a boom operator getting only a paycheck is just as fucked up.
Fair pay, can also be fair without residuals. When you guys complain "But CEOs get paid "residuals" " your problem isn't with fair pay, it's with capitalism.
By Crusher Go To PostActors are giving their image, so of course they shouldn’t be paid the same way as the costume designer.
So what? That's part of the job. You make an active decision to give away your "image". A model aint getting residuals for the amount of sold Vogue magazines. A painter or sculptor isn't getting paid each time their art is shown or even resold.
You are putting actors on a pedestal unlike any other worker. A coal miner gives away his health and ain't getting anything similar.
So again: getting fair pay? All for it. CEOs getting less? All for it. Fuck shareholders and shareholder value? All for it. But residuals? Nope. That's a strange concept.
By DerZuhälter Go To PostDude be real: who gets stock option? C-level and top management position. Maybe your top sales position. But other than getting yearly performance based bonus you won't find lower level workers in a company who are still getting paid for work that was done 5, 10 or 20 years ago.Literally every permanent employee at every job I've had
There is nothing ignorant about it. An extra getting residuals and a boom operator getting only a paycheck is just as fucked up.
Fair pay, can also be fair without residuals. When you guys complain "But CEOs get paid "residuals" " your problem isn't with fair pay, it's with capitalism.
By JesalR Go To PostLiterally every permanent employee at every job I've hadWell okay then. It's not common practice in Europe and either way, it's not perfectly comparable. The moment you get your shares they have a defined monetary value. Based on success or failure of the company this value can decrease or increase - meaning there is a risk of losing money which does not exist with residuals.
By DerZuhälter Go To PostWell okay then. It's not common practice in Europe and either way, it's not perfectly comparable. The moment you get your shares they have a defined monetary value. Based on success or failure of the company this value can decrease or increase - meaning there is a risk of losing money which does not exist with residuals.That's not really how stock options work: you wouldn't bother activating the option unless it was going to make money, hence the "option" part. Rather, the risk is that you never get to realize a gain because the company never sells stock.
Which is the same with residuals: if no one watches the show/movie, you'll not make any long term income
By Laboured Go To PostOk but what do you think about Black Beetle?It's Blue Beetle m8, don't be racist
@DZ: m8. I thought you were one of the good germans. The more we distribute the wealth, the better. Most actors aren't superstars who have the same level of life as film executives, so the fight is for the common denominator not the likes of Brad Pitt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/movies/tiktok-movie-reviews-critics.html
Coddled ass grifter babies. This is what toxic positivity looks like (especially when you get a paycheck from a studio).
Coddled ass grifter babies. This is what toxic positivity looks like (especially when you get a paycheck from a studio).
By C4-621 Go To PostWhat is toxic positivity because I feel like I have itYou don't, you're just normal positive which is a lot better
By C4-621 Go To PostWhat is toxic positivity because I feel like I have itWhatever the opposite of DZ is
Being paid by the studios presents an obvious conflict of interest. Creators may be reluctant to speak negatively about the products of a company that pays them (or might). While traditional news organizations, including The Times, sell ads to movie studios, they do not allow critics, reporters or editors to accept compensation from them and generally keep editorial and business operations separate.The young author of this piece is approaching this comparison from a position that everyone's opinions matter or are equal. They're not.
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Cruz, 34, echoed other Movie Tok reviewers who said they dislike doing sharply negative posts and would be unlikely to slam a movie whether they were in business with the studio or not. She said she generally prefers to deliver negative opinions in the form of a "compliment sandwich," preceded and followed by more positive remarks.
The one popular guy Strawhat that is mentioned pretty much sumed up the grift.
“A lot of us don’t trust critics,” said Lucious, 31. He was one of many who pointed to the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, where the scores of “Top Critics” often differ widely from those of casual users, as evidence that the critical establishment is out of touch. “They watch movies and are just looking for something to critique,” he said. “Fans watch movies looking for entertainment.”They're populist for pay.
The type of coddled arrested development audience that bemoans Batgirl being cancelled without seeing it
By diehard Go To PostI'm starting an NBA tokmods
First up, a compliment sandwich for Trae Young from DY.
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Any time something like this happens and the production team has to bring in the children you just know production fucked up.
Anyways, the problem is he didn't just make the nose bigger. He made it pointy and the bridge is too close to the eyebrows.
i looked at a few pics of him and it doesn't seem like he had that big of a nose. i would never ever named it as a defining feature of his face. not sure why he needed to do a prosthetic at all.
By DiPro Go To Posti looked at a few pics of him and it doesn't seem like he had that big of a nose. i would never ever named it as a defining feature of his face. not sure why he needed to do a prosthetic at all.
That's the funny part. Cooper's regular nose already looked like Bernstein's.
By Laboured Go To PostYeah but you often don't get nominated if you don't wear some kind of prosthetics in your biopic.Gary Oldman paved the way
Watching Fantastic Beasts for some reason, about an hour in
Feels like a prologue stretched over an entire film. Just can't seem to find any interest in anything outside of the stuff that encompasses the seven books. Give me a dark movie about the first Order of the Phoenix.
Feels like a prologue stretched over an entire film. Just can't seem to find any interest in anything outside of the stuff that encompasses the seven books. Give me a dark movie about the first Order of the Phoenix.