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Movienomics: How do you know when a Jason Statham movie will be good?
Movienomics: How do you know when a Jason Statham movie will be good?.
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Movienomics: Now You See the Importance of Word of Mouth
What do The Hangover, There’s Something About Mary, Superbad, Napoleon Dynamite, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Pitch Perfect and Now You See Me have in common? All of these films...
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Movienomics: Explosions and Movie Posters
Hello all. Mark here. It all started with “the overcoat discovery.” Movie posters featuring Jason Statham in an overcoat averaged a 70% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes whereas posters featuring him...
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Movienomics: How do you know when a Jason Statham movie will be good?
You know exactly what will happen in a Jason Statham film. He will be double crossed (Safe, Transporter, Parker, Revolver, Crank, Death Race, Bank Job, Italian Job, Snatch, Mechanic) then he will kick...
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MFF Special: How Many Bullets Missed John Matrix During the Climatic Battle...
If you ever become an exiled dictator make sure to train your private army. If you are a fan of action movies you are probably familiar with the sight of Arnold Schwarzenegger vanquishing 70+ people...
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MFF Special: Analyzing the Halloween Franchise and its Love of Laundry and...
Dude cuts holes in bed sheets. When you rewatch all of the Halloween movies it’s easy to notice patterns and trends persisting throughout Michael Myers 40-year killing spree (here is what I’ve noticed...
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MFF Special: The Dolph Lundgren Front Kick Special
Before we get into the data I have to say this piece represents the zenith of my data collection. I literally spent 30 minutes debating whether or not Dolph’s kick in Dark Angel should be considered a...
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MFF Special: The Collegiate Degrees of Kevin Bacon’s Cinematic Characters
TREMORS, Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, 1990 In honor of Kevin Bacon and his illustrious career, I decided to look into his filmography to see if his movies are better when his characters have collegiate...
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MFF Special: Analyzing the Data on Movies Featuring Snowmobile Action Scenes
Henchman on a snowmobile = A very hurt henchman When I released my cinematic jet ski action scene data years back I received many messages asking me to compile the data for movies featuring snowmobile...
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MFF Favorite Monsters: The Cotton Candy Glob and its Demise in Scooby-Doo 2:...
Ever since Waterworld featured Kevin Costner murdering a random 2,000 pound sea beast for about 40 pounds of its meat, I’ve been intrigued by random creature death in movies. That is why I’m writing...
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MFF Special: How Many Gallons of Blood Came Out of the Sprinklers During the...
. A lot of blood is wasted during the rave in Blade. I get that the yuppy vampires lead by Deacon Frost don’t care about wasting blood, however, it seems like they’d have to ice skate uphill in order...
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Movie Math: Here’s How Long it Took Batman to Set Up The Flaming Bat Symbol...
My naive original goal for this piece was to only focus on how long it took Batman to create the bat fire on the bridge in The Dark Knight Rises. I thought it wouldn’t be difficult due to the...
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MFF Dumb Data: Brad Pitt’s Movies Make More Money, Score Higher With Critics,...
. QUICK NOTE: I’m not implying correlation equals causation. I’m just presenting random data in hopes of making a few people chuckle. Hopefully all this data won’t be too much to digest. For years,...
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MFF Data: Analyzing the Jet Ski Chase in ‘Halloween VIIII – Battle on the...
Halloween VIIII – Battle on the Bayou: Michael’s Final Halloween is what happens when you sneeze into a cheap tissue. Roger Ebert (1996) Many of you remember Halloween VIIII – Battle on the Bayou:...
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MFF Data: Analyzing the Moment When Samuel L. Jackson Met the Shark in Deep...
Deep Blue Sea is one of my favorite movies, and with its 20th anniversary approaching on July 28th, I decided to over-analyze the movie to breakdown the surprise death of Russell Franklin (Samuel L....
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MFF Dumb Data: How Long Did it Take to Set Up The Joker’s Cash Pyramid in The...
There is a famous scene in The Dark Knight that features The Joker (Heath Ledger) burning an insane amount of money. Based on the character, and his motivations, it’s totally understandable why he’d...
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MFF Data: A Totally Unnecessary Look at How Much Damage King Orm’s Tidal...
Quick note: This obsessive data analysis about a throwaway scene in Aquaman that is quickly forgotten, is not meant as a knock on Aquaman. I love that a scene involving trillions of dollars of...
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MFF Random Data: How Old is MacGruber? A MacGruber timeline
I’m a big fan of the movie MacGruber, it’s incredibly profane, always funny, and it doesn’t make anything easy for audiences (think MacGruber’s speech about stealing Casey from Cunth). One of my...
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Which Fast and the Furious Movie is the Most Fast and Furious?
Dom was the best in the first film. I love the Fast & Furious franchise, and I can still clearly remember nearly blowing up my four-cylinder Dodge Shadow while driving home after watching The Fast...
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MFF Special – The Con Air Seating Chart: An Overly Researched Look Into Who...
The 1997 action film Con Air is mostly remembered for its over the top action, stuffed bunnies, and GIFs of Nicolas Cage’s hair blowing gloriously in the wind. However, what makes the film work are...
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