That used to be true, but now Blu-rays and DVDs have almost no ads, at least from my experience it's just the distributor logo, the menu, maybe a 10-second anti-piracy warning, and then the movie starts. I guess all the ads moved to streaming.
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Ah, apologies. I'll remove this.
They explained this on the website:
I am aware there are Firefox forks that have sane defaults with regards to this and other aspects. I prefer keep using Firefox itself, because maintaining a browser is an incredible difficult job and I don't trust small projects to be able to this, despite that my trust in Mozilla is pretty low these days.
Good point there.
I think it's a reference to the symbols on the website - fresh tomatoes + hot popcorn, and rotten tomatoes + stale popcorn.
Now we have four possible combinations:
- Fresh and Hot (good critic score + good audience score)
- Rotten and Hot (bad critic score + good audience score)
- Fresh and Stale (good critic score + bad audience score)
- Rotten and Stale (bad critic score + bad audience score)
Fresh 'n hot, come and get it!
Now we have four possible combinations:
- Fresh and Hot (good critic score + good audience score)
- Rotten and Hot (bad critic score + good audience score)
- Fresh and Stale (good critic score + bad audience score)
- Rotten and Stale (bad critic score + bad audience score)
Fresh 'n hot, come and get it!
Just looked it up, and wow you're right. Only made $47 million in the US? Seemed to be unusually overseas-heavy.
From Wikipedia:
Variety reported that the film was generating only moderate interest among U.S. moviegoers, which could possibly hurt its box office performance stateside, with poor reviews and competition from the aforementioned films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (released the week prior) also affecting its performance.
Their first mistake was not making it R-rated. Their second mistake was making it live action and not animated (in the style of the games).
I strongly advise against seeing this movie, not even as a hate-watch. It's not the kind of "good" bad, it's just "boring" bad.
Honestly it's not even worth pirating.
$320 million seems like a ludricous budget.
I've always wondered, how do streaming movies make money at all? Does Netflix really make enough money to justify spending this much on a movie?
It's easy - use MKVToolNix to extract the audio files from the movie in an .mka container (or .ac3, .dts, .thd, .dtshd), and just share those files.
The problem is, most don't do that for whatever reason, so you might have to try downloading a full Blu-ray ISO, or buy the Blu-ray and rip it yourself.