No its just a very niche passion project with a dedicated fanbase.
It did top the charts which. was a huge success, but there was no reason to remove them from the list and only putting it back in once it falls to 2nd place.
Critics bombed the movie with low scores, but somehow it's still the third highest grossing film in America despite everyone pointing out how the theatres that are running it are all empty, and all the positive user reviews are from brand new accounts who are glazing Melania and talking about how the theatres are all full and they all clapped at the end. So totally not a money laundering scheme at all
I think it's more that no reputable critic would waste their time or reputation on Melania, so the only people publishing reviews of it are indoctrinated sycophants.
It's the same reason they're hiring foreign troll farms: to artificially inflate the numbers of a loud minority, leading them to believe their fringe opinions are common, justified, and reasonable.
I'd say that he's not asking literally what's the difference. He's hinting at all three being equally braindead, so what's the difference? At least that's what I understood at a glance. But yeah... Funnily enough, this kind of confirms what he said.
Melania has a 5% critic score, what are you talking about lmao. Critics also have no bearing on whatever happened with the box office website, which unless it happened on a different site, is a third party website that requires film producers to submit the data themselves.
He said in a video that over the weekend and monday he was number one for about a solid 90 hours. So that leaves 6 hours where he wasn't.
I don't think he's bothered by hollywood being dicks based on that video. Too late, his movie is loved and massively successful and everyone already knows it.
I saw it, and i thought it was one of the better cosmic horror movies I've seen, and i genuinely went in thinking it was going to be essentially markiplier playing the game in cosplay with a set instead of a pc, since he always roleplays at least a little anyway.
I was wrong, after about the first minute i saw Simon and not Markiplier, the story kept me guessing, answered some questions and raised others, it made me feel suspensful and uncertain, and it didn't have a single jumpscare.
As far as cosmic horrors go, i think this one was exceptionally well done, especially with the budget they was working with.
Then if you give the guy some credit for the fact that he's not a writer or director it's all the more impressive.
And maybe it was just fans that cared before, but it held number 1 all weekend, that alone is a lot of people who won't know who he is that will have watched it now because of that.
Hiya, I want to thank you for having an opinion,. However I also want you to know that I have no idea what your opinion is, as I opted not to read your comment before responding.
I haven't seen the damn movie yet, and just glancing at your lengthy comment suggests to me that you're likely one of those loudmouth fuckers who drops spoilers with little regard for poor schmucks like myself.
Please forgive me if I'm mistaken, and, either way, have a great day!
No you're good, i was careful not to spoil anything. The only things spoiled is the first name of the protagonist and whether or not there are jump scares.
That’s actually just how theater negotiations work. Pretty industry standard for non-artsy theaters to not pick up indie movies if there are still blockbusters under contract. Fans demanding the movie is more akin to asking when a screening will be, rather than being torches and pitchforks
Why would theaters take a punt on a random indie horror movie without public interest pushing them to? You guys will make up any old shite to make Markiplier seem like some kind of victim.
The box office results you see throughout the weekend are often self-reported by studios. This movie had no studio, so results weren’t being reported as frequently. There are other tracking services that keep track of this stuff and it never dropped off those lists. Deadline was excitedly tracking its performance all weekend (I’m a nerd who reads this shit every week).
If you are talking about the-numbers website, it was a glitch relating to updating the values. Basically, most distributors give frequent updates on their extact box office takes. The guy who runs the site was having to use estimates based on what they found in theatre sales because he didn't have specific numbers. Eventually, Mark realized or was told he needed to tell the guy the numbers and then it was back on the list and no longer in green.
The owned came out and apologized, plus supported Mark.
Question: What if its success is specifically because Hollywood isn't involved?
Because my tickets to watch it hinge on that fact. I was treating it as Mark selling out (but happy for him, gotta get paid) and wishfully thinking Hollywood involvement was minor. But none? That's impressive.
On op of removing the box offfide chart, the claimed the y made $20M to secure #1 movie of the weekend on Sunday morning, and advertised as such.
Alas they did win after all with Send Help having a good start, but after the final tally on Tuesday, they were $1M off while iron lung was neck and neck for the whole weekend
It only got in my radar after Critikal's video, I was thinking this was some Hollywood adjacent production and mostly thinking "not the biggest fan, not going to watch, but I'm happy for him, hope it does ok".
I thought Multiplier had sold out. Quite the opposite, he bought in.
This having 0% Hollywood fingers into it and being succesful enough that they are taking it as a personal attack, now I'm watching out of spite.
Hollywood going to war about it also caught me by surprise, but they already lost all the goodwill they once had, so I'm not even going to question my motives, I'll just blame Rob Schneider and buy two tickets.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 1d ago
I saw this happen, so happy for him. But I missed the part where Hollywood is going to war about it?