Thread 150066414

THEIR #1 ERA

With 236 million views, KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is OFFICIALLY the most popular Netflix film OF ALL TIME.


https://x.com/netflix/status/1960416959025045591

>>150066431
Sad

>>150066427
Is it weird that aside from Bird Box, Don't look up and the cringe that is Damsel I have no Idea what the other movies are?
>>150066431
100% deserved

>>150066414 (OP)
>THEIR #1 ERA
Why do all Kpopfags talk like this?

>>150066427
I wonder how Dwayne is taking this.

>>150066534
>Is it weird that aside from Bird Box, Don't look up and the cringe that is Damsel I have no Idea what the other movies are?

It's all just content to fill up the site.

I kneel to our new Kpop overlords.

Ne zha 2 better win the Oscar over Kpop!

Wonder what its awards chances are. The Oscars have been leaning more indie/less Disney "I just voted for it because my kids liked it" in the past few years but this feels too big to ignore and its arguably a weak year for the animation category.

>>150066431
Good

>>150066414 (OP)
Not in Japan mind you.

>>150066689
If they stick to the old “my kids liked it the most so I vote that one” then Kpop is sure to win, it’s not like Disney has put out anything spectacular lately.

>>150066431
To be FAIR, it doesn't sound like it'd be massively popular.
But well, I suppose I'd be kicking myself too if I was in Sony's shoes.

>>150066414 (OP)
So the lesson of this is:
>make female characters kinda attractive and badass BUT also vulnerable and not just flawless girlbosses
>make hot rival guys they have ust with
>make catchy songs
>profit

>>150066689
I don’t think it’ll win.
Look at the ciriticism they gave Wild Robot and Inside Out. They want something even more indie than even Netflix.

Saja boys spinoff when?

>>150066431
Desesered for
>killing Tartakovski's Popeye
>killing Faust's Medusa
>Hotel Transylvania 5
>delaiying Spiderverse 3

>>150066427
doesn't seem like a high bar to clear desu

>>150066761
> To be FAIR, it doesn't sound like it'd be massively popular.
Kpop is popular.
More popular than GOAT movie

>>150066843
women are fucking hypocrites

>>150066689
Ne Zha will win

Flow is foreign
Boy and the heron is foreign too

>>150066889
water is wet.

>>150066847
>delaiying Spiderverse 3
To be fair, that’s more because of L&M and Shameik’s autism.

>>150066889
Women are fucking a lot of things

Just not you

>>150066731
>>150066780
It'll be interesting to see this play out. I feel like its strongest contenders will be Arco and Scarlet (might be a cope but Sony seems to have faith in it compared to Belle).

>>150066904
Ne Zha's biggest hurdle is that it's a sequel, the academy doesn't like those (unless it's Toy Story). A24 has also completely fumbled marketing it but maybe they'll push closer to oscar season.

>>150066978
> Scarlet
Bad cgi anime film

>>150067016
Ne zha's biggest hurdle is no one fucking watched it

Liveaction when?

>>150066777
We had the formula since Sailor Moon. Arguably since Charlie's Angels. Even RWBY went the distance, despite being terrible, because it followed the formula. It's honestly funny that, despite how long we've had this formula, rarely is it ever utilized.

>>150067182
When more Asian actors get famous

Akwafina can't play every role

>>150067182
They need to hire actual pale skinny koreans. Korean Americans are plump and have a weird orange undertone to their skin.

>>150067182
Too old
Cast the singers

>>150067072
2 billion people did.
More than Flow.

>>150066427
This is like 70% pure slop.

Whoe the actual fuck is even watching a Dwayne Johnson and/or Gadot movie in the year of our lord 2025?

Am i the only one who thought the third act was rushed?

Like Rumi just tells her mom to GTFO and goes to face the villain, not reason to do it just fuck it.

>>150067330
They had to cut like an extra 90 minutes worth of material. I figure Celene will be addressed in the sequel.

KPop Demon Hunters is among the titles produced under this direct-to-platform deal. Belloni reported that, under the terms of the arrangement, "Sony would be paid a prenegotiated premium on top of the budgets for the films", with sources indicating that the premium "was 25 percent of the budgets, capped at $20 million per film", and that "Netflix would keep all the rights and pay no profit participation"

under the 2021 agreement between Sony and Netflix, Sony holds "the contractual right to produce" future installments of KPop Demon Hunters; however, "the follow-up movies will go directly to Netflix, barring the unlikely event of [Netflix] co-C.E.O. Ted Sarandos suddenly coming around on theaters"
Kek

>>150066414 (OP)
Yeah, cause parents let their kids watch this shit or kids want to watch it so their parents turn it on for them to shut them up. The truth is that normies don’t give a fuck about this shitty film and the only adults who care about it are eceleb critics and autistic people.

The film is nothing but slop aimed at 12 year old girls who love anime and K-Pop, and the fact that everyone fucking loves it, including 4Chan, the site that used to shit on cancer like this, just shows how broken the fucking internet is.

I feel like I’m legit the only normal person here.

>>150067352
I was kind of expecting her to show up in the final battle under the bad guys control because of the shame she feels about her daughters half demoin side and the shame she has for being unable to accept it.

>>150067382
I kind of like that they didn't wrap everything up with a bow at the end, on the other hand them doing that when everyone thought it was going to flop is kind of funny.

>>150066761
production alone was $100 mil and them selling for $20 mil will never not be hilarious. They literally thought this would be so dogshit in sales they sold it for a 1/5 thinking that would be near the max of what it makes

>>150066777
It's also nice that
>oh no demons are sympathetic, not all demons are bad
>we should KILL THEM ALL anyway

>>150067460
There are two kinds of demons. Those that used to be humans like Jinu and the Saja boys and can be redeemed, and the creepy malformed goblins who were never human to begin with.

>>150067564
IIRC the director said that the rest of the Saja boys weren't like Jinu, hence why they didn't get any characterization. There's Rumi's dad but I think he's confirmed to be dead too. Also Rumi herself. They definitely left room for a "not all demons are evil" story.

>>150067564
Except for the fact that Derpy and Sassy were redeemed.

Honestly would have like one weird looking demon to be just a fan of the Huntrix

>I know you trying to kill me but I love Takedown.

>>150066414 (OP)
My kids love it. Every kid at my kid's school is singing that Soda Pop song.

>>150067587
Honestly, I kind of wanted the other Saja boys to have personalities.

Big repudiation of Trump that the whole world got behind a Canadian animated film like this. It was produced in a Canadian animation studio by a Canadian woman.

>>150067380
Polytrix yuri

>>150067745
>yuri
Will never happen, all three girls are aggressively straight.
The whole classical romance between Rumi and Jinu is one of its biggest selling points.

Still not watching your astroturfed movie, shill

>>150067451
Netflix funded the 100 mil and paid them 20 mil on top of it

>>150067893
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPop_Demon_Hunters

>>150067267
Those were tickets bought by companies because it was a patriotic duty.

>>150066414 (OP)
>236 million views
That doesn't seem like a lot

>>150068182
This is some JK Rowling as retconning.

>>150067927
This. I would rather watch something with an organic fanbase like Superman

>>150068190
No.
Because it’s peak

>>150067380
I wonder how many people here actually like it and how many just use it as a vehicle to seethe about "muh woke" when this slop is definition of woke

>>150068295
You realize that themes can inspire a work without actually it being literally about that. Even if they are 100% straight Rumi's story about hiding herself and not being able to be honest with her friends shares a lot of thematic resonance with the struggles of being gay.

>>150066534
I'm exactly the same except I've seen The Grey Man when looking up Ryan Gosling's name.

>>150066847
More like
>making Spiderverse at all

>>150067603
I don't think Derpy or Sussy were demons at all, just spirits that Jinu hung out with.

>>150066427
Man what a putrid list. The Irishman is the only halfway good Netflix film and it's also one of Scorsese's weakest. They are a shitty production company.

>>150068377
If it’s not explicitly in the movie I’m not acknowledging it.

>>150066427
>The Gray Man
Oh, nice I love this kind of mov--
>it's some dumb action flick
Ah, fuck me. At least make sure names like that aren't taken unless you want confusion. I'd argue somebody who'd look for a movie might get it worse than me.

>>150068468
*for this movie

>>150066843
SEXO

>>150067187
The people staffing the creative roles in the industry hate all that stuff. It's a wonder why they're in entertainment at all given how everything that's good is something they hate.

>>150068182
>we equate queer ide tiny to being part demon
B-B-B-BASED

>>150068377
She's copes with her demonic heritage by killing demons and explicitely not eating souls.
Gays don't do that.

>>150066414 (OP)
haters btfo

>>150069050
Disney is crying

>>150067216
>>150067235
>>150067253
Cosigned
Who else but the singers should be in the live action? It's just stupid to consider otherwise. They already shoehorned Ken Jeong into it. There's no need for anymore meme token Americans.

>>150068377
I took the story to mean regardless of one's latent concupiscence for wickedness, overcoming it and willing yourself towards righteousness is what constitutes heroism. At your lowest, when you're in a ditch, when you think you've been abandoned and betrayed but you defy temptation, obey your conscience and carry out your duty, that is what heroes are made of.
It is a simple and inspirational story

>>150069332
That’s the voice actors not singers

>>150066414 (OP)
based. fuck shitmaker and supershit.

>>150069529
I copied and pasted the wrong picture.

>>150069580
No. They are the singers

>>150066431
Isn't it their IP? Why would they kill themselves.

>>150066689
Ne Zha II will probably win. I know the chinese memes but the movie is kind of fucking beautiful. I think China spent half their gdp animating it

>>150068240

It's the numbers of users who watched the whole movie + ticket sales so far, anon.

>>150067587
Didn't they say the other saja boys were humans too? They way I saw there are three demon types
>faceless puppets that Gwi ma can summon and control at will. The weakest
>generic demons that seem to be made from souls gwi ma eats. Don't really have their humanity left and are very subservient but cant be controlled as well as the faceless.
>former humans who made a deal with gwi ma (these are the guys dressed in that black and top hat outfit). They remember their human lives and know human stuff. Most cunning and likely dangerous. Gwi ma has least control over them but benefits worth the risk

>>150069332
>>150069529
Characters, singers, VA, I would any of the trios...

Organic, I am demoralised.

>>150067380
KPop hits the right notes. It's funny because it's relatable, it's cool because there's fighting, it's cute because it embraces pop culture. Meanwhile, Disney is seen as unfunny, uncool, and unattractive. The costumes for those movies are gawdy even by drag queen standards. The characters don't have funny, relatable moments when they are occults more than human. I have never heard anybody say anything flattering about any of the Disney stars recently. Disney is so afraid of offending someone that they've nerfed themselves to mediocrity.

>>150068377
We're all sick and tired over another animated movie with a symbolic "coming out". Do we have to turn everything into a gay metaphor?

>>150070461
They sold the entire IP to Netflix and the soundtrack to Republic Records

>>150067380
Im pretty sure descendants was very popular though?

>>150066414 (OP)
>With 236 million views, KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is OFFICIALLY the most popular Netflix film OF ALL TIME.
Go woke, Get Gold!

>>150070946
Holy fuck. Netflix outright owns the IP? Jesus christ. Why did they choose goat over kpop?

>>150070973
I don't see anybody wearing Descendants merchandise. If it was popular it would be everywhere.

>>150070994
> Why did they choose goat over kpop?
Steph curry & the NBA

>>150066431
Remember this is the same company that bet the house with Concord and never did anything with the Bloodborne IP for 10+ years.

>>150071093
>Concord's lifespan was shorter than that of a housefly.
Lel

>>150070987
Just because a huge portion of the fandom would rather see the girls fuck each other doesn't mean the movie itself is woke

>>150071043
You think it's gonna flop? I don't see how anybody would have an interest in a talking animal movie about basketball. Are sports still popular enough with kids?

>>150071171
Talking animals ate a safe bet overall. Everyone likes talking animals but its safe. The story doesnt seem great though.

Im wondering if Sony was scared by Kpop demon hunter cause they thought the girls liked hot boys too much

>>150071171
Isn’t the NBA more popular and mainstream than K-pop?

>>150071217
Maybe it's because the KPop fan base is smaller than the NBA fandom? The Goat just makes me ask why. Just for the word taken literally? That's a really terrible reason to make a movie. And it's just another rookie basketball movie.

>>150071302
I don't see adult fans of the NBA lining up for Goat. Sports fans are normies that look down at animation for being juvenile.

>>150070946
Losing the soundtrack to a UMG subsidiary is the icing on the cake of a glorious pile of schadenfreude

>>150070461
Imagine releasing this in theatres and making not 1 but maybe 2 billion dollars. Instead they sold it to Netflix and probably only got a few million from it once you subtract the cost of making it.

>>150072279
They made 20 million dollars off the sale, plus having the cost of production covered which was 100 million. That's almost how much the movie made in a single weekend of limited showings as a sing-a-long event two months after it released on Netflix, just for comparisons. Someone at Sony is going to get buried in a shallow grave in the basement for this.

>>150071114
It never gets old.

Reposting from /tv/:
Just finished watching it and enjoyed it. Cool action scenes and I liked all the songs. Wish they would make a video game out of it (developed by Shift Up).
A little bummed of Zoey having to kill her crush Mystery, and kinda messed up that she did it with a smile even after she found out that his face behind the bangs is her type.

>>150067300
>Whoe the actual fuck is even watching a Dwayne Johnson and/or Gadot movie in the year of our lord 2025
Red Notice was released in 2021.

>>150072506
I liked that it ended on a bittersweet note with love not conquering all, and the girls killing the generic Saja boys without feeling bad about it was a nice touch, I felt. It was nice to see a moment where we didn't fall into the trope of hot people can't be evil, and Huntr/x not letting their crushes on the dudes stop them from killing them and moving on was both a needed moment of levity after the big emotional moment with Jinu and also a nice little point about how physical attraction and crushes are fleeting if there's nothing behind them.

>>150066414 (OP)
Dick smelling scenes get you far in life. I'm only glad its some Korean shit getting legit numbers instead anons wanking over faked Chinese numbers, where everyone is forced at gunpoint to watch that crap in their homeland.

>>150067674
Sony Animation is in Canada?

>>150069332
>>150069529
Zoey's voice actress and vocal are literally just Zoey.

>>150066414 (OP)
>Hollywood greenlits movies for female audiences. Lots of gratuitous female gaze shots, pop songs and some romance. Barbie and K-Pop become big hits.
Yes, Queens! Slay!
>Hollywood asks their creatives to make something like that but for a male gen-z audience.
Pic related

I live in LA but never been to Burbank. What it's like over there? Is there a huge Korean population which is why Zoey is from there?

Honmoon Status?

>>150072655
Ne zha > kpop

>>150072396
Frozen 3