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Post by hi224 on Jun 29, 2018 8:35:09 GMT
Damn.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 29, 2018 10:04:15 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jun 29, 2018 12:17:10 GMT
Apparently it's not doing well. |
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Post by brownstones on Jun 29, 2018 12:49:41 GMT
It's probably underperforming, why would a theater keep a movie that is not selling tickets? |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 29, 2018 14:05:30 GMT
Did they expect a remake of a grindhouse blacksploitation flick to do well in wide release?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 18:39:35 GMT
Stop talking rubish OP. its still on 1157 screens
Get your facts straight
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 18:42:46 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 29, 2018 19:03:11 GMT
Confused audience: I thought this was going to be about a superhero with fly powers.
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Post by moviemanjackson on Jun 30, 2018 4:46:02 GMT
Did they expect a remake of a grindhouse blacksploitation flick to do well in wide release? Pretty much this. I recently watched the 72 original and I'm 28 (which I think is one of the best blaxploitation flicks ever), but I wouldn't have known about this original if it weren't for my dad playing the vinyl/CD often when I was growing up. I doubt many cared about this movie, regardless of race. |
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Post by moviemanjackson on Jun 30, 2018 4:47:02 GMT
Did they expect a remake of a grindhouse blacksploitation flick to do well in wide release? Pretty much this. I recently watched the 72 original and I'm 28 (which I think is one of the best blaxploitation flicks ever), but I wouldn't have known about this original if it weren't for my dad playing the vinyl/CD often when I was growing up. I doubt many cared about this movie, regardless of race. |
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 30, 2018 4:48:16 GMT
Confused audience: I thought this was going to be about a superhero with fly powers. Antman v Superfly: Dawn of Insects (2018) |
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Post by Honolulu on Jun 30, 2018 11:15:21 GMT
Confused audience: I thought this was going to be about a superhero with fly powers. Antman v Superfly: Dawn of Insects (2018) I’d actually go see that if it were made. |
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Jun 30, 2018 15:21:31 GMT
Methinks the target audience was already watching the "Love and Hip Hop" reality shows on VH1. Not much difference between the two, judging on what little I've seen from those show and the trailer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 0:50:30 GMT
lol
it looked like utter shit so I'm not surprised at all.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 1, 2018 5:05:55 GMT
Still playing in my town.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jul 10, 2018 8:43:38 GMT
Superfly is still playing, just with fewer screenings. I viewed the movie in late June, and it represented passable entertainment yet nothing like the original. The remake does not achieve the original's character intimacy, social poignancy, visual grittiness, or sense of urgency—it predictably feels recycled and robotic in those regards. Its attempts at social relevance are occasionally clever yet largely strained, the "bad cops on the take" and Marion Barry-inspired mayor subplots feel clichéd, and the major plot twist relies on "surprise." The film is relatively engrossing, and some of the vertical tracking or tilting shots of Atlanta and inside a nightclub are impressive, so the modern Superfly is not bad. It just is not good, either.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jul 10, 2018 8:51:25 GMT
Did they expect a remake of a grindhouse blacksploitation flick to do well in wide release? Pretty much this. I recently watched the 72 original and I'm 28 ( which I think is one of the best blaxploitation flicks ever), but I wouldn't have known about this original if it weren't for my dad playing the vinyl/CD often when I was growing up. I doubt many cared about this movie, regardless of race. ... definitely. You know, you probably had to be a somewhat sophisticated viewer (meaning someone with knowledge of film history) to be interested in SuperFly (2018), and even then, many of the sophisticated viewers would have shunned a remake. (I viewed it largely to see how this one approached the original's famous sex scene.) Making matters worse, this SuperFly represents very generic filmmaking, so it would not have impressed the sophisticates in the audience. Thus you have a mismatch: a generic movie that would have only really interested sophisticates in the first place. |
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Post by moviemanjackson on Jul 12, 2018 2:37:02 GMT
Pretty much this. I recently watched the 72 original and I'm 28 ( which I think is one of the best blaxploitation flicks ever), but I wouldn't have known about this original if it weren't for my dad playing the vinyl/CD often when I was growing up. I doubt many cared about this movie, regardless of race. ... definitely. You know, you probably had to be a somewhat sophisticated viewer (meaning someone with knowledge of film history) to be interested in SuperFly (2018), and even then, many of the sophisticated viewers would have shunned a remake. (I viewed it largely to see how this one approached the original's famous sex scene.) Making matters worse, this SuperFly represents very generic filmmaking, so it would not have impressed the sophisticates in the audience. Thus you have a mismatch: a generic movie that would have only really interested sophisticates in the first place. I was just blessed to have a father who played the soundtrack often when I was growing up. I had listened to it so many times that even before finally seeing the 72 movie (blind bought in March), I had already felt like I had seen it because Mayfield's work is that damn legendary here. I like to think I watch a lot of movies over the course of a year due to my website and status as a member of my city's film critics association, but I like your point on this movie being a generic movie that would have really only interested sophisticated viewers who saw/even grew up with the original. But where's the audience for that lol? This is 46 years after the fact. For those that are still alive, such as my dad who is 65 and was 19 when this movie came out, how in the hell could this remake attract them to watch this? And it isn't well-made enough to attract my generation or those younger than me. This kind of feels like C.H.i.p.S. Remake of a old IP that isn't gonna attract the audience that grew up with it, and is a dime a dozen in raunch comedies. |
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jul 13, 2018 6:29:53 GMT
... definitely. You know, you probably had to be a somewhat sophisticated viewer (meaning someone with knowledge of film history) to be interested in SuperFly (2018), and even then, many of the sophisticated viewers would have shunned a remake. (I viewed it largely to see how this one approached the original's famous sex scene.) Making matters worse, this SuperFly represents very generic filmmaking, so it would not have impressed the sophisticates in the audience. Thus you have a mismatch: a generic movie that would have only really interested sophisticates in the first place. I was just blessed to have a father who played the soundtrack often when I was growing up. I had listened to it so many times that even before finally seeing the 72 movie (blind bought in March), I had already felt like I had seen it because Mayfield's work is that damn legendary here. I like to think I watch a lot of movies over the course of a year due to my website and status as a member of my city's film critics association, but I like your point on this movie being a generic movie that would have really only interested sophisticated viewers who saw/even grew up with the original. But where's the audience for that lol? This is 46 years after the fact. For those that are still alive, such as my dad who is 65 and was 19 when this movie came out, how in the hell could this remake attract them to watch this? And it isn't well-made enough to attract my generation or those younger than me. This kind of feels like C.H.i.p.S. Remake of a old IP that isn't gonna attract the audience that grew up with it, and is a dime a dozen in raunch comedies. I viewed the original on Turner Classic Movies in May 2006, and I have read about the film in former longtime Village Voice critic J. Hoberman's fascinating 2003 book The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties. But the amount of people who are "into film," and history, in that sense is not going to be large enough to support a massive release. Meanwhile, the quality of the remake is not strong enough or distinctive enough to support an art house-type release that might draw major critical attention and eventually build an audience. Perhaps the studios involved imagined a repeat of the Shaft remake in the summer of 2000. I was between my sophomore and junior years of college, and the remake attracted some attention and fared respectably at the box office, ultimately ranking thirty-third on the list of domestic grosses for that year. "Shaft" 2000 box officeAlthough I did not see it and still have not done so, I was modestly intrigued. (I had viewed the original the previous fall, and I have since seen the vintage Shaft once more, again in May 2006 on Turner Classic Movies.) But John Shaft had become an iconic character who had passed into the popular culture as a legend, and Issac Hayes' theme song and score—while not as intricate and subtly searing as Curtis Mayfield's work in Super Fly, was more famous and catchy. And the remake came out twenty-nine years after the original, so it might have attracted more of the original audience. Plus, the remake featured a star in the main role with Samuel L. Jackson. Thus the "sophistication" that I originally mentioned would have constituted less of a requirement to attract an audience. |
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Post by Honolulu on Jul 15, 2018 1:37:35 GMT
Superfly is still playing, just with fewer screenings. I viewed the movie in late June, and it represented passable entertainment yet nothing like the original. The remake does not achieve the original's character intimacy, social poignancy, visual grittiness, or sense of urgency—it predictably feels recycled and robotic in those regards. Its attempts at social relevance are occasionally clever yet largely strained, the "bad cops on the take" and Marion Barry-inspired mayor subplots feel clichéd, and the major plot twist relies on "surprise." The film is relatively engrossing, and some of the vertical tracking or tilting shots of Atlanta and inside a nightclub are impressive, so the modern Superfly is not bad. It just is not good, either. I haven't seen the movie yet although you just described Deadpool 2 to a T. |
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