@lfebaggins: True quality has nothing to do with box office. It's all about timing and your production and pa spend. I think audiences are getting tired of super hero stuff anyway, its too much of it floating around.
@PS2fweak: Hayter's joke delivery of Snake was what made Snake fun and interesting. Sutherland's dry and boring performance of Snake is what makes his Snake forgettable.
Snake is NOT a serious character, he's a rip off of a John Carpenter character who to begin with was never serious. What made Hayter's Snake great was his acknowledgement of how ridiculous MGS really was and his ability to make light of all the nonsense that was happening around him, like a old sniper with a bird on his shoulder, or a man who spits bees, or a US president who dresses like an octopus.
Prints and Ad and budgets have ballooned in Hollywood,Tent pole films where its no longer viable.
At 720m global, you should already be netting 250m, the box office split nets them 310m at 720 gross, they should really only be spending 60-70 million including prints and ad on these films, considering how cheap CGI is nowadays, your biggest spend is really the A-list cast, and location shooting.
There is no reason for a film to do 720m and the studio only expecting to take away 278 net after VOD and merchandising. The budgets and ad spends on these films are insane, to the point where a film like Pacific Rim didn't even make money.
@Zemus: What if Shomi doesn't increase their price. Then they have a competitive advantage. Just saying you increase your price higher than your biggest competitor you lose customers, since economics.
Bad move Netflix, there are a lot competing services out and coming out.
Upping the rate may see migrating customers. Shomi is one of the biggest rivals right now and this gives them an in.
And Netflix needs to stop green-lighting so many exclusive programming. A show about John Stamos? Really, that's what they spend their budget on. Keep your prices low, don't green light BS shows, that's how Netflix got to be number 1.
@asnakeneverdies: Kojima wrote a letter to Carpenter asking for blessings cause he was afraid of getting sued, so he manipulated Carpenter's heart, as most people have hearts, unlike Kojima. It worked cause Carpenter stopped the lawsuit. But Kojima never gave any credit to Carpenter, instead took 100 sole authorship, as he does everything. He even went as far as to denounce the Carpenter Snake as not an inspiration in interviews, which is odd since he wrote a letter to Carpenter to get permission.
Then he stole Snatcher, again no reference to Blade Runner or K Dick was ever given, Kojima again took sole authorship.
Then the MGS theme song, which I find hard to believe that he didn't commission, since he is the sole director of the game. Again no credit to the source material.
And him deciding to fire Hayter, even though helped build MGS with him from day one. How heartless can you be to fire someone who helped create the franchise?
And I'm not even gonna get into him sticking his ugly mug and name on everything.
It's hard to find anyone as annoying on all front as Kojima. He seems hit the prickometer on every level.
@asnakeneverdies: Yes it is the internet. I dislike Kojima. For many reason, he represents the kind of people that I loath most in life. Thus my comments, you won't see me make a bad comment about the poor guys who made That Dragon Cancer, like some other haters. I divert my hate to people who deserve it, and you may notice a lot of people hate Kojima which is why this thread is so long.
Back to my point. 4 things that I hate most.
1) Ego (Kojima is so Egotistical it makes me sick)
2) Plagiarism (Kojima stole music from a poor Russian composer, stole Snatcher from K Dick, stole Snake from Carpenter, and he does this with no remorse)
3) Disloyal (Kojima fired a poor guy who worked and help build the franchise with him from day one with no remorse. At least karma caught up with him and now he's fired himself)
4) Artificial Depth (People who pretend to be intellectuals when they are not. Kojima's pretentious writing and his feint attempts at pretending to be deep makes me wanna puke. I wanna puke every time one of his pseudo intellectual monologues appear in MGS)
I just wanna respectfully point out that I don't dislike you, I think you are a smart person, but I hate everything about Kojima, EVERYTHING. Thank God he got fired.
Also Kojima's face somehow matches his annoying character, thank god, 'cause you see these guys coming a mile away. Kojima is a egotistical talentless hack, who has no loyalty, steals other peoples work and calls it his own, and believes himself to be an intellectual when he is not.
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