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Thread: New King Arthur movie on path of being one of the biggest box office bombs all time

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Originally Posted By SlootFlute⏩
Let's not forget Tom Cruise as a Samuari

Or Gods of Egypt being white
Why are people like this. In TLS the time period was set where Japan was opening itself up to foreigners. Whites wanted to do trade and buisness with the Japanese. The Japanese were doing away with the old (samurai) in favor of new technology/modernity. Tom Cruise was a swordsman who was adept with a blade. He fights in one of the new Japanese/old samurai battles and gets captured. They teach him how to use a katana, not that different from his rapier.
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Originally Posted By SlootFlute⏩
Let's not forget Tom Cruise as a Samuari

Or Gods of Egypt being white
White Savior/Noble Savage trope. The only time when diversity is accepted lmao. It's a tired ass trope, so I agree, #DownWithDiversity
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I'll still see it. It's got good reviews on imdb.
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Originally Posted By WestAfrica⏩
Why are people like this. In TLS the time period was set where Japan was opening itself up to foreigners. Whites wanted to do trade and buisness with the Japanese. The Japanese were doing away with the old (samurai) in favor of new technology/modernity. Tom Cruise was a swordsman who was adept with a blade. He fights in one of the new Japanese/old samurai battles and gets captured. They teach him how to use a katana, not that different from his rapier.
Because it makes the Japs look like a bunch of clowns to get beat up by white man who gets the jap girl. In the movie the japs don't get any american pussy themselves in the movie. We Asians don't like white savior movie tropes about our cultures. It's blatant disrespect and they're just stirring more racial tension for doing so.
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Robin Hood wasn't great either, something about English folklore isn't appealing, while Scottish or Scandinavian are.
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Originally Posted By MyBaddBrah⏩
The last king arthur movie anybody needed to see
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I'd like to see Ridley Scott make King Arthur.

as long its something quality like Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut.
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king arthur will do fine internationally. now hollywood has seen the light and will further exploit china and other countries for box office success. look to see even more cringe in the future.

china has only an allotted number of movies allowed each year by government so people generally go out and watch them. i'd bet this movie does fine there while flops here.

in terms of black/asian actors, it does kind of ruin immersion for historical fantasy a bit but not as bad since hounsou is a really good actor. maybe they should have not called it king arthur and just made their own take on it. that wouldn't have hurt immersion at all since it would be its own world not based on 5th century britain

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Yeah they're like children thinking the world revolves around them, and if they don't like something nobody else possibly could - unfortunately for them nobody cares what they think
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Originally Posted By FIREnICE⏩
king arthur will do fine internationally.
Nope. I wouldn't bet on it coming within even 50% of breaking even worldwide. It's a disaster.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/ki...ice-1202426388
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Originally Posted By Uhyeahokay⏩
Robin Hood wasn't great either, something about English folklore isn't appealing, while Scottish or Scandinavian are.
It can be on par with the vikings (if you include the vikings in however). When the Saxons/Jutes/Anglos and Romans were coming in and out of Britain, the chit was Brutal. All the warlords and treachery. It was very very Grim and hostile. I have a whole book on this **** if I can find it I'll link it here. I dont think people enjoy the Celtic tones that much though
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It's a shame. Listened to Guy Ritchie on a podcast and really liked the dude. King Arthur movies never really bring in a lot of money that I know of, though.
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Originally Posted By Duckenheimer⏩
Nope. I wouldn't bet on it coming within even 50% of breaking even worldwide. It's a disaster.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/ki...ice-1202426388
it's only 1 weekend but i actually do hope it flops bad since i hate bad versions of king arthur. my favorite story growing up.
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Originally Posted By MattBro95⏩
Yeh I mean't as in "in legend" not "history". Someone called me out earlier in the thread. Regardless, it is hugely distasteful.

Hollywood should just make a remake as accurately as they can based of the originally legend. And English king that fought the saxon invasion. This is my point... instead they throw giant fuking elephants and chit like that into it.

And then people will wonder why it flopped. ilmao.
There honestly is no canonical version of the story. People keep saying "Source material" but they themselves dont even know it lol. I think yall mean to say "Monmouths interpretation". Cuz not even his is original. Different pieces of folklore has him as just a warrior as well. This is just an American movie

Also they were fighting monsters in the "Traditional sources"
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Originally Posted By SmAshmoto⏩
Maybe people are sick of endless remakes, reimaginings, offshoots and sequels in Hollywood.

Brb 8 fast and furious movies
Brb every Disney film being rehashed into live action
Brb hundreds of comic book films

Hollywood is lucky if they have one decent original idea a year
are you a potato? if people were tired of that ****, the latest fast and furious and all of the comic films wouldn't have grossed what they have. the latest fast and furious movie is like the 12th highest grossing film of all time
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it was pretty good, it was alright, it wasn't great but it was fine
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Originally Posted By SlootFlute⏩
Let's not forget Tom Cruise as a Samuari

Or Gods of Egypt being white
egypt was ruled by fair skinned people for 300+ years

so thats accurate. cleopatra was fair skin foe example because she was a Ptolemy

then romans owned it later
everybodys probably been everywhere at one point and ruled or subjugated by someone
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Originally Posted By aragon416⏩
are you a potato? if people were tired of that ****, the latest fast and furious and all of the comic films wouldn't have grossed what they have. the latest fast and furious movie is like the 12th highest grossing film of all time
They think remakes are the guaranteed way of securing money. Too much of a risk to be original.

But because people are so tired of remakes, they'd rather watch GoT, Mad Men, Walking Dead, Stranger Things etc.. All these shows that have the quality of a movie with a TV budget.. And they are all original.
Originally Posted By Goby⏩
egypt was ruled by fair skinned people for 300+ years

so thats accurate. cleopatra was fair skin foe example because she was a Ptolemy

then romans owned it later
everybodys probably been everywhere at one point and ruled or subjugated by someone
Everyone has been in and out of Egypt, it and several parts of Africa, along with Mesopotamia were parts of huge cultural exchanges and migrations. Eurasians, Greeks, Nubians, Semetic Peoples, etc.
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Originally Posted By MattBro95⏩
Gods of Egypt was awful. Could have been worse though.... could have caved in and cast everyone as black which would have been even sillier.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oukoe-...7704OR20110801
Egyptians weren't black buddy.
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Originally Posted By GenghisBro⏩
Because it makes the Japs look like a bunch of clowns to get beat up by white man who gets the jap girl.In the movie the japs don't get any american pussy themselves in the movie.We Asians don't like white savior movie tropes about our cultures. It's blatant disrespect and they're just stirring more racial tension for doing so.
There wasn't a single white female in the movie...Its not a savior movie. He fought with them. He knew the enemy's battle formations/plans bc they were basically using what he would use if he were on the other side.
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Originally Posted By GenghisBro⏩
Egyptians weren't black buddy.
that's what he just said
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Originally Posted By therealistwat⏩
They think remakes are the guaranteed way of securing money. Too much of a risk to be original.

But because people are so tired of remakes, they'd rather watch GoT, Mad Men, Walking Dead, Stranger Things etc.. All these shows that have the quality of a movie with a TV budget.. And they are all original.



Everyone has been in and out of Egypt, it and several parts of Africa, along with Mesopotamia were parts of huge cultural exchanges and migrations. Eurasians, Greeks, Nubians, Semetic Peoples, etc.
all i'm saying is you can't say that people are sick of remakes, sequels, etc and then use fast and furious and comic book movies as evidence
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Originally Posted By MattBro95⏩
Gods of Egypt was awful. Could have been worse though.... could have caved in and cast everyone as black which would have been even sillier.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oukoe-...7704OR20110801
Probably some Indo-European. Makes sense. Look at how much Proto-Indo European gods parallel Greek, Vedic and some Egyptian Gods. Probably because of the Eurasians and Scythians and shyt that lived in between the lands tbh

Breaking news, there was never a 'pure race', you guys would be surprised if they could pinpoint the scythian, or parthian or whatever your blood but a lot of these peoples no longer exist
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Originally Posted By aragon416⏩
all i'm saying is you can't say that people are sick of remakes, sequels, etc and then use fast and furious and comic book movies as evidence
Yep. And then use Walking Dead and Stranger Things as examples of original material. The Walking Dead is a retread of George Romero, but as a TV show, adapted from a different medium (comic). People love Stranger Things because it's a genuinely good mishmash of Stephen King, Stephen Spielberg and John Carpenter, and it *really* captures the feel of the 80s material it's so deep in nostalgia for.

It does familiarity right. I love it but it's no more original than the 13th or 14th MCU movies - I'd argue that it's less so.

Fast and the Furious 7 was, uh, interesting, but it was definitely a more creatively loose film with it's own bizarre ideas of how a filmmaker can play around with stuff onscreen, than Point Break lite Fast and the Furious 1.
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Originally Posted By Duckenheimer⏩
Yep. And then use Walking Dead and Stranger Things as examples of original material. The Walking Dead is a retread of George Romero, but as a TV show, adapted from a different medium (comic). People love Stranger Things because it's a genuinely good mishmash of Stephen King, Stephen Spielberg and John Carpenter, and it *really* captures the feel of the 80s material it's so deep in nostalgia for.

It does familiarity right. I love it but it's no more original than the 13th or 14th MCU movies - I'd argue that it's less so.
I guess i should have made a point that they havent been rehashed as much. Even so, fair enough
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Originally Posted By therealistwat⏩
I guess i should have made a point that they havent been rehashed as much. Even so, fair enough
That's the thing though - I'd argue Fast and the Furious 1 is much more of a tired and worn out rehash (it's a lite version of Point Break) and brings less new to the table, than Fast and the Furious 7, which yes has familiar characters and is totally stupid, but is balls to the wall nutty and out there as well, from the conception of its action scenes to how it plays with cinematic grammar in new ways (to dopey effect, don't get me wrong).

I watched The Walking Dead to see an ongoing version of the thing I already like, but I don't feel that it really brought anything new to that table except a higher hour count. Civil War and Doctor Strange, for all their failings, and for their placement in the biggest (and often blandest and safest) corporate movie series on the planet, did.
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Originally Posted By MattBro95⏩
If you've been watching films and reading stories of king arthur your whole fuking life,and merlin is portrayed a white wizard, you're going to expect him to white. It would be like if they made another Men in black movie with two white dudes, or another blade movie with a white dude. It wouldn't be right.

Additionally, despite the obvious lack of realism in the whole thing, the legend of king arthur is based in 4th/5th century Britain.
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Originally Posted By Drazzztic⏩
Last time I checked King Arthur didn't run around with a couple of black guys and an asian guy. Maybe people are tired of the bs forced diversity.
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From what I've read the audience seems to think it's okay but the critics are hating on it

Originally Posted By Drazzztic⏩
Last time I checked King Arthur didn't run around with a couple of black guys and an asian guy. Maybe people are tired of the bs forced diversity.
Originally Posted By blckndyllw⏩


yeah that's why Thor is failing, in reality nobody cares about "forced diversity" or the fact it triggers conserivtards
This, nobody gives a chit about "forced diversity" (unless it's replacing a huge character with a different race).

As a black brah I can't remember the last time I watched a film and thought "there are too many white people in this film it needs some diversity."

The only people who get triggered by this chit are the hyper liberals and conservitards. The average person does not give a chit. srs.
Originally Posted By MattBro95⏩
Has nothing to do with being conservative.
Actually but Trump-supporters/convservative cucks are usually the biggest crowd crying about "forced diversity." Don't kid yourself.

Just as on the other hand the extremely cucked liberals are crying about not enough asian/black representation in film.
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Originally Posted By MattBro95⏩
I'll cope just fine..... I just won't watch the film?

You are not making any sort of point, just being a pleb and showing your disdain for Anglo-culture.
Funny, you conveniently ignore points other points Miscers make and take what you want from the posts. No I'm not gonna give examples because you're in your own world anyway.

Anyway, the only King Arthur movie for me is The Sword in the Stone, hnggggg actually feel like watching it now.
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Originally Posted By Drazzztic⏩
Last time I checked King Arthur didn't run around with a couple of black guys and an asian guy. Maybe people are tired of the bs forced diversity.
I really hate this crap in movies, i was watching the magnificent seven remake which sucked but you had women, asian, black and Indian dudes hanging out together and going on missions in the wild west which is a joke, not sure why they want to rewrite history.
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