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  • CopperC Online
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    Copper
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    Those are some ugly numbers.

    I blame lockdowns, mandates and masks.

    I think most people knew this was coming and that the impact of the covid panic would take years to unravel.

    It's too bad that so much Trump-hate forced so many to panic and overreach.

    Of course Hollywood overreacted as much as anyone, so maybe this is justice.

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    • CopperC Copper

      Those are some ugly numbers.

      I blame lockdowns, mandates and masks.

      I think most people knew this was coming and that the impact of the covid panic would take years to unravel.

      It's too bad that so much Trump-hate forced so many to panic and overreach.

      Of course Hollywood overreacted as much as anyone, so maybe this is justice.

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      @copper said in Flops & TV Movies:

      I blame lockdowns, mandates and masks.

      That's like blaming poor theatre takings in 1940's London on the blackout.

      I was only joking

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      • CopperC Online
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        The blackout had a purpose that just about everyone could agree on, scientists and otherwise, Germans and otherwise.

        And a fairly well defined victory.

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          If I went to the movies even once last year, it would have been for Dune.

          I'm sure the studios are smart enough to triangulate what the box office would have been for a movie sans covid.

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          • CopperC Copper

            The blackout had a purpose that just about everyone could agree on, scientists and otherwise, Germans and otherwise.

            And a fairly well defined victory.

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            @copper said in Flops & TV Movies:

            The blackout had a purpose that just about everyone could agree on, scientists and otherwise, Germans and otherwise.

            There were 925,000 fines issued to people who broke the blackout regulations during the war.

            "In 1944, the government’s Home Intelligence division noted, “A number, particularly war workers, feel the blackout is responsible for much depression and illness; some think it could be lifted in their areas; others would welcome at least more star-lighting [the name given to a measure allowing pin prick street lighting].”

            Crime was also a concern for many, as criminals took advantage of darkened streets to rob and assault members of the public.

            Air Raid Wardens were dispatched onto UK streets in order to enforce blackout, and levy fines on any households caught not complying. It’s reported that the call of “Put that light out” was commonly heard on the streets during air raids.

            While some may have flouted rules deliberately, many also broke them by accident, with light sometimes slipping through cracks in blackout curtains and blinds."

            I was only joking

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              The Worst Movie Featuring Bruce Willis had 8 nominees this year…

              https://news.sky.com/story/bruce-willis-gets-own-category-at-razzie-awards-after-eight-bad-films-in-2021-12535914

              The Brad

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              • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                Hollywood is so broken, and I say that as someone who enjoyed a few of these titles, but still… This once great populist art form has turned into a masturbatory exercise in self-importance.

                Thank heaven for home video and a once sane Hollywood that produced enough classics and crowd-pleaser to get us through this drought of bubbled narcissism.

                Please love yourself.

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                  @aqua-letifer said in Flops & TV Movies:

                  once sane Hollywood

                  Yeah, right. Bring back Harvey Weinstein Louis B Mayer!

                  I was only joking

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                  • JollyJ Offline
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                    Dude, if you think the casting couch is gone, you're sadly mistaken.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      Dude, if you think the casting couch is gone, you're sadly mistaken.

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                      @jolly said in Flops & TV Movies:

                      Dude, if you think the casting couch is gone, you're sadly mistaken.

                      I bow to your superior knowledge and experience.

                      I was only joking

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                        The Bible is just as relevant today, as it was when the events described in it happened.

                        Human nature does not change. Knowledge does. Technology does. But not human nature.

                        There will always be those who will use their assets to further their careers.

                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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