Ukraine is clearly winning against Russia, yes.

nah, enjoy.

Yea! You better get ready for tramp to fail wayyy harder in iran then he ever has before!

“… next to fall to US pressure” is wrong, neither Iran or venezuela fell. cuba may be the next government to continue to function despite the US kidnapping or assassinating their president/leader.

I feel very free to post on a public forum, but this is your trainwreck to fix.

I’ve instructed you how to improve the post: remove the slops. simplify your message.

if you write someone a thoughtful letter and tape it to a small gift box containing a turd, that’s what they’re going to associate your letter with.

There’s no point in contaminating a good message with a terrible and painfully slop-slop non-summarized wall of text

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Are you deliberately being obtuse?

The presenter being real has nothing to do with the presentation of this post, which reads like cut and paste five-year-old newspaper ransom notes.

If you value the content, try to respect it and the people you’re sharing it with.

wow this is some gobbledygook.

AI?

a simple message of low-carbs not being unhealthy rendered extremely off-putting due to presentation and content.

cereal boxes, spousal case studies?

an avalanche of frills and glitter

Mordor started the war, they have less technology then the rest of middle earth, and act foolishly and randomly.

outside of mordor, a complex world functions well, cooperative distinct cultures cultivating and producing resources for a happy, healthy population.

thiel is such a dumb bitch.

uh no. this is gross

Exactly, making $100 million profit on stop-motion is like feverishly, lovingly crafting a bespoke hot air balloon with a thousand discarded model airplane kits and then realizing you’ve somehow survived landing on the moon.

no, classifying a picture that makes an $80 million dollar profit as a “failure” is factually incorrect, albeit a useful tactic for studios and headline writers.

making an 80% profit is a success in any business, and a triumph in most businesses; that’s how budgets wotk.

I don’t think that table is formatted correctly, I can’t imagine it was $60 million for all four movies. yea, the budget for each is listed around $60 million.

That’s what studios publicly lament about without going into detail. Between streaming, retail and merchandising alone, they’re making their money back.

Marketing campaigns are not bankrupting movie profits.

If a studio makes 180 box office on a 100 million dollar production and they say they’ve lost 80 mil through marketing, they are pulling your leg.

“ah yeah, first quarter my team only made 23 points, oh well, thats the game.”

No, there are three other quarters that the studio isn’t talking about because it reduces their future negotiating leverage.

Of course studios want more money, but studios aren’t losing money on movies that get close but don’t tip the magic number of “double the budget”

I also didn’t hear about it until last year, and I don’t I have any memory of seeing previews or promotion for the film.

That’s very cool to hear, cross-generational appreciation.

It’s pretty different from live action according to creators and producers, it’s such a small market and stop motion is so difficult to explain and get off the ground and promote that financial expectations are much more realistic.

You’re right that if a live-action movie costs $100 million to make grosses $180 million, the producers are upset, but that’s a greedy, ego-driven convention of the modern studio system, they are still making tens of millions of dollars before everything on the back end is added in.

The stop-motion world has a more realistic perspective on production and the artists love every single piece of art they create, so also making $40 million as evidence that their art style can succeed in mainstream culture is the cherry on top of any project that even gets to be fully produced.

i heard about this on a podcast. it is great news for stop-motion, and considering how many shitty rich people there are, it’s nice to know there’s a couple good ones promoting art.

Also their movies are good and all but one of their movies made tens of millions of dollars.

for stop-motion, a very niche art-form, making 10-130 million dollars profit per film is laudable.

went too big with missing link though, which i haven’t seen yet.

US history is pretty well documented.