This movie had to be a troll.
The ending cover song of RATM's "Wake Up" was just something else.
The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
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Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#22Uh huh. Sure. There's a reason they call it Hollywood Accounting[1]. Not that Warner Brothers is new to this game either: >A Warner Bros. receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper after grossing nearly $1 billion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#23Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Suicide Squad, Tenet, the Matrix. Not a great run for WB.
Did Tenet lose money? That was a great movie.
Lots! It made $363 million off a $200 million budget [1]. That's probably lower than the studio expected for such a big movie, but still a solid profit and especially good in today's post(?)-covid box office.
Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#24Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Suicide Squad, Tenet, the Matrix. Not a great run for WB.
Did Tenet lose money? That was a great movie.
I enjoyed it too. Tenet was released in the middle of 2020 though. I remember when I went to the theater to watch it I felt like I was doing something morally wrong.
Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any reason to believe that this is an instance of Hollywood Accounting? At a glance, wikipedia says the film cost $190m, which seems reasonable for a film like this, and only received $124.5m in box office sales. Conversely, wikipedia lists Harry Potter OotP as a "150–200 million" budget on $942m in box office sales. It's certainly possible this is a case of Hollywood Accounting, but is there any particular reason we…
How much did HBO pay for the streaming rights? I would have bought 3 tickets to this, but watched it on HBO instead.
yep. i watched it at least 3 times on hbo as well. easily would've bought a couple tickets.
Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#26In comparison, Spiderman No Way Home is the 8th highest grossing film of all time. I haven't seen it yet, but some of my friends have said the two films are equally bad. It seems they both attempt to sell nostalgia, and one of them worked and one didn't
Haven’t seen either, but IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes reviews beg to differ that they are equally bad.
Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#27Resurrections was like someone saying, “Hey remember that awesome movie we made in the 90’s? Yeah that was so great…”
Axiom: You can only see The Matrix for the first time, once.
Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#28In comparison, Spiderman No Way Home is the 8th highest grossing film of all time. I haven't seen it yet, but some of my friends have said the two films are equally bad. It seems they both attempt to sell nostalgia, and one of them worked and one didn't
I enjoyed Resurrections. It was the kind of lighter Matrix I was craving. IMHO No Way Home was boring and tried to do too much. I didn't enjoy the Maguire or Garfield Spiderman movies, so them being in it and old villains reappearing didn't do much for me. Willam DaFoe is always a welcome addition to any movie, however. There were some bright spots that I hope they build upon, and I'm looking forward to more in the Dr Strange universe. Aside from that, it was underwhelming, in direct contrast to Far From Home.
Re: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
#29They killed the matrix with 2 and 3 being so terrible. that ship had sailed
Its not like they redeemed themselves since 2 and 3 either; Jupiter Ascending was trash. What did people expect?
TBH, I found a way to enjoy Jupiter Ascending by imagining that the Big Rich Family was a precursor to Dune. It's not perfect of course, but the worldbuilding part of that was fun to imagine as something pre-Butlarian-Jihad.
The sheer extravagance at least was on par with the Harkonens.
Beyond that, the plot of "reborn woman gets to be a planet-princess and then goes back to scrubbing toilets" was completely stupid. The Bureaucracy scene was funny though.