• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    How was this a movie people watched. The first one was kinda fun. The second was so bad people forgot about who even played in it.

    None of those statements are questions.

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      4 hours ago

      They called the first sequel Now You See Me 2, spitting in the face of the obvious sequel title. Now that they have finally deigned to use it for the three-quel, I have been exclusively referring to the film as Now You 3 Me.

      It shouldn’t bring me joy, but it does.

  • Stefan_S_from_H@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 hours ago

    It’s a curious franchise. I know I watched the first two movies, and I was entertained. I remember the theme, but I can’t remember the plot at all. It’s all blank in my brain.

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      12 hours ago

      I just remember that the illusions in the second one were so absurd that there’s no way they could have been done live, much less in front of groups of people. When the basic premise of a movie doesn’t work then the whole thing ends up being cringeworthy.

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      10 hours ago

      If I can’t remember a movie, that’s my cue that it wasn’t very good. I’m easily entertained in the moment, but how I think on it later determines my real feelings.

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    15 hours ago

    Still missed the opportunity of the century by not calling number 2 “now you don’t”.

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      13 hours ago

      This one is subtitled “Now You Don’t”. I think the only reason they made part 3 was to finally use that title.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    I enjoy these, overall. Even though the finale of the second one was kind of a meaningless mess.

    Anyone want to bet the third one goes to space? It’s only the third installment, but the series feels ready to speed-run exhausting the audience’s suspension of disbelief.

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      Anyone want to bed the third one goes to space?

      not without clarifying what you mean by goes to space. do you mean that it will do well at the box office? or poorly? or is this like jumping the shark? or do you think they will go to space as part of the plot?

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    15 hours ago

    Nobody but the corporates profiting give a shit about this.

    This isn’t interesting talk about the art of filmmaking or the craft. This is just some business person wanking off another corporate ghoul and calling it news.

    Stop sharing corporate propaganda and profit wanking.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s an industry trade magazine. What the fuck do you expect?

      You sound like you need a break from social media.

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        14 hours ago

        Actually conversation about movies in a community about film and not just more corporate articles posted pretending the public or users on here actually give a shit about the profits.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip
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      13 hours ago

      Stop sharing corporate propaganda and profit wanking.

      Feel free to post thought provoking articles or discussions about film making

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        12 hours ago

        Products made based on these numbers are there solely to enrich the owning class and their shareholders and not because the story is good or a creative person has a message to share.

        It’s inoffensive sludge to appease the drooling masses that are content with billionaires and corporate pedos dangling some shiny keys while the world goes to shit.