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Maybe try looking it up on IMDb first? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30519830/releaseinfo/

It's still playing in film festivals. The first festival showing was in September last year.

I don't pay much attention to film festivals (there are none near me, so not worth it), so I can't really say how long it usually takes for a film to be made generally available, either in a wide theatrical release or streaming/home video (I'd guess about 6 months to a year for the most popular films?) but I'm pretty sure I've seen some that have taken a couple years or more. (Hopefully someone more astute can chime in here.)

I'm not entirely certain what would be considered uplifting, but I think D&D: Honor Among Thieves would fit alongside some of the movies in that list.

Beyond that, going down my list of movies I've rated on IMDb:

Fly Me to the Moon, maybe? Honestly, I don't remember it all that well.
Bullet Train is probably a stretch, but it does more for me than a lot of things on that list. shrug
Top Gun: Maverick. I've been meaning to watch this one again at some point. Perhaps not really uplifting on its own, but it was certainly uplifting for me in how it bucked certain movie trends of the time and was really solid.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Batman. It's a fairly somber, morose film, and at three hours long it's a bit of slog, but hey, the climax is the Dark Knight learning to be a beacon of hope for the downtrodden. I debated whether or not to even mention this one, but then I saw that list includes The Force Awakens... so... at that point, I'd say pretty much anything is fair game. And with that, I'm not going to bother searching for more.

Eh.

Better to spend it than keep it in the bank, honestly. Maybe not for keeping their business afloat, but better for everyone else. And when they actually make something enough people want to see, they'll earn even more than they spent, so, yeah...

Fortunately, price info is actually tracked! If you use the SteamDB browser extension you can see the historical low price right on a game's product page on Steam.

For example, Terraria is on sale for it's 2 year low price of $4.99, but the lowest it's ever been is $1.99 (a little over ten years ago).

Not the person you're replying to, but for my own POV:

I think the new Dune movies are the best they could be and I'm glad I was able to catch them in theaters, but they've also convinced me that Dune just isn't a franchise I'll ever be interested in. I'm not sure if I'd bother with the third movie, and any spin-offs are also fully out of the question for me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12299608/trivia/?item=tr7746222

Adding fuel to the fire that is the sub vs dub "war."

I personally enjoy both subs and dubs, but default to dubs where they're available (except in cases where the dub is notably bad or otherwise detracts from the story). If this AI slop catches on, I may stop watching dubs altogether (well, new dubs, anyway). I really hope Amazon faces some serious consequences for this, even though I know they won't. :(

imo, it already crashed (or at least is inches away from a crash). Into the Spider-Verse was an unexpected, yet solid 10/10 for me. Whenever I think I have some sort of "comic book movie fatigue" I can put that on still be blown away by how good it is, which drives home the point, for me, that it's just modern MCU and DCEU movies specifically that I'm tired of because they just aren't very good (I'll agree to disagree with anyone on this point).

Across the Spider-Verse took all of that and crapped out an extremely ill thought out attempt at tying into the MCU multi-verse (thus tying itself into my growing dislike for the MCU). The idea of "canon" events that have to be allowed to pass is so antithetical to the genre I'm shocked it wasn't tossed out during the brainstorming phase. You're telling there's a whole universe of heroes and all of them (except for Spider-Punk) accept the idea that they have to stand by and let people die because it's canon to that timeline? Nah. A hero is someone who risks their own life to save other people's lives. Full stop. An ordinary person will make a choice about which track the trolley goes down, saving either one person or many people. A hero would sacrifice themself to (at least attempt to) save all of the people on the tracks. Then when the movie came to a fairly natural stopping point, it kept going for a few more minutes to end on one of the worst cliffhangers I've seen in a very long time.

Across the Spider-Verse is a 4/10 for me. I would still give the third movie a chance (only because of how good the first movie is) but it will have to do some incredible course correction to redeem the second movie (if it's even possible). Otherwise, I'll just keep Into the Spider-Verse and think about how it's a shame they never made any sequels to such a good movie.

I'd be fascinated to know why people are downvoting you here.

Do they not know that the Wheel of Time is set in, what is called by some, the Third Age, approximately 3000 years after the apocalyptic destruction of civilization and literal reshaping of the world, which itself occurred an unknown thousands of years after the end of the First Age (which is believed to be the Age we're currently living in).

From RJ's notes:

The First Age ended when fire rained from the heavens. The flesh of men melted, and those who did not melt were charred like coals. Plagues, boils and sores roamed the world and famine, yet to eat or drink often meant death, for waters and fruits that once were wholesome now slew at the eating. Even the air or the dust could slay. The wind could bring death. Rivers filled with dead fish and birds fell from the sky. Invisible vapours from the land that slew. Noxious fumes that corroded men’s flesh.

Or are they downvoting you for saying WoT isn't science fiction, despite having certain characteristics of science fiction sprinkled throughout (e.g., characters studying the natural laws of their world and, through a combination of inborn abilities and technology, finding ways to advance their understanding and capabilities)?

Or are they downvoting simply because WoT isn't a movie, and thus deemed irrelevant to the topic at hand?

shrug

Whatever the case, I do agree with the spirit of your rebuttal. Not all post-apocalypse movies are science fiction.

For example, I would never place Left Behind (or any other similar religious post-apocalypse movie) on the science fiction shelf.

I've never met a person who I know has seen it but doesn't like Equilibrium.

...And it's at a 7.3 on IMDb. That's a pretty good rating.

Spot on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_R-rated_films

That list isn't adjusted for inflation, unfortunately, so the rankings aren't entirely fair. Two things stood out to me, though. The early 00's were a little sparse on R-rated hits (you have to go all the way down to #20 before they start to become more common). And 1991's Terminator 2, adjusted for inflation, surpassed Passion of the Christ by $100,000,000, despite only being #18 (after PotC's #10).

A short list further down the page shows only the timeline of highest grossing R-rated movies at their time of release. PotC is obviously absent from that list.

That's a surprising number. Especially so since I don't really recall any blatant product placements (well ok, I think there was one scene that stood out a little bit).

I'd say the number of brand partnerships is less a problem than how prominent those brands are displayed. I can't think of the exact movies off the top of my head, but the most egregious instances I can think of only had one or two brands. Apple and BMW, for example, have had some seriously obnoxious brand placements in movies.