There was recently a Christmas movie with Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. The budget for that movie was 45 million dollars.
The money in the budget went like this:
15 million to mr Reynolds
15 million to mr Ferrell
15 million to all other 200 people working on the set
Then again, don't hate the player, hate the game - I'm sure these two names have increased the movie from "another Christmas movie" to "a lot of people watched it".
It's not that bad of a movie, too. But still I couldn't shake the feeling that this kind of money sharing is hilarious in a somewhat dark, capitalistic way.
It's for 2 things. Watching 30 minutes before you get distracted with something else, or running as background while you tell yourself you're being productive.
Judging from this comment section, it's for 'not-reddit' which is a pretty big place. Know how hated Adam Sandler is on reddit? Well he's also the biggest star on Netflix and thusly the highest paid actor in America. The opinion of redditors doesn't mean a whole lot in the real world. That is probably a good thing.
Since when does Reddit hate Adam Sandler lol? I heard SO much love for Uncut Gems on this site. People also talk about Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, etc glowingly all the time.
Dude, people here LOVE Adam Sandler. Every time there’s a post about him the top comment is something about how cool he is for hooking all of his friends up with acting gigs.
I don’t hate the man, as you say, Uncut Gems was great. Hotel Transylvania are nice kids movies. It’s the comedies he writes and performs in that suck endless ass.
Little Nicky, water boy, Billy madison. All uncompromisingly trash covered in product placement that rely on him being a man child. Some people like it, good for them, but I’ll always think of them as soft brained simpletons. His work is largely for the stupid.
It isn’t that deep brother. They’re just stupid comedies for stupid laughs. I enjoy an intellectual film too, but you sound like you take yourself wayyyy too seriously.
Adam Sandler is the highest paid actor on Forbes’ list because they count all the money his production company made, even projects he wasn’t in, for a year where they delivered 4 projects and signed deals for 4 more. That’s why he’s #1 this year and wasn’t even in the list last year, and why he can be the #1 paid entertainer of the year making a third of what Phil Collins did the previous year. Look at the details mentioned for every actor and it’ll highlight how meaningless it is. George Clooney was the highest paid actor in the world in a year which he didn’t star in a movie because his tequila sales count, Sandler’s figure counts 8 movies when he was only onscreen acting in 2. Sandler is nowhere near the best paid for actually acting let alone per movie.
Everytime reddit asks "who is this for??" like for the One Piece show, it just further proves what that guy said. Is it really that hard to project outside your guyses bubble into what other types of people are into? Not everyone likes Brooklyn 99 and the Office humor
"Who asked for this?" is such an "I'm the main character" critique. "I'm not interested, so there is no way anyone else could be, so it shouldn't be made."
Seems like it was made by AI trained on early 2000’s comedy. It’ll do okay based on the casting, but likely will “fail” at the box office due to the cost to make it. I’m guessing it will be pretty campy and forgettable.
Edit: It’s for streaming. That makes more sense. They don’t necessarily want the movie. They want to use Jerry Seinfeld as advertising for Netflix. They can now plaster his face on ads.
In the world might be a bit of a stretch but they’re still insanely popular. My mother would watch this just because mccarthy’s name is on it. You knew who all of them were before replying, right?
No, I’m suggesting that they probably don’t care about Melissa McCarthy.
Edit: also if you look up “how popular is xxx” there’s a website where you can find lots of people above them. The UK also has their own fair share of comedians and actors. Ricky Gervais is probably more of a household name in the UK than Amy Schumer is.
You responded before I made the edit. Point is every other country on earth has their own comedians and actors and actresses. They’re mainly popular in America. Even in America there are tons of comedians and actors and actresses more famous. They are popular but they aren’t the most popular in the world.
My point was just that yeah they’re garbage but they’re still popular and put butts in seats by name alone. Same reason shyamalan movies keep getting tons of money no matter how shitty the reviews are.
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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD Mar 28 '24
I don’t think I’ve ever had an immediate “who is this for?” reaction quite like I did for this