Box Office Showdown (8/20-8/22) Reminiscence, The Protégé, Night House

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Originally Posted by sandman slim

Reminiscence is actually really good... but yeah, it's gonna bomb hard. It's very Dark City meets Inception with a dash or two of Eternal Sunshine & Blade Runner 2049. I liked it a lot, but I can totally see the general audience checking their phones halfway thru, if they even bother to see it. Makes the most of its $70 million budget, and nicely directed, but it just ain't gonna connect with Joe Average. Very "serious", too: can't recall a single laugh or light moment in the entire movie. People slam the MCU for being too "jokey", but those fun moments are what helps the audience connect with the characters, feel like you know them. None of that here; it's basically a high tech, high budget film noir. Recommended, but only for the right audience.

Yeah, no serious movie ever made money.

Wait...The Exorcist's adjusted for inflation gross would be over $1 billion? Oh yeah.

Marvel invented humor too, apparently.