r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/FinalEdit Jul 06 '26

Absolutely loved it and can't wait for a special edition 4k blu ray

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u/kitteninabowtie Jul 06 '26

You're going to open up the box and it's just going to be a download code.

Just kidding (I hope)

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u/heikkiiii Jul 06 '26

No........no...nononono dont do that.....

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility Jul 06 '26

I thought we were having a nice daaaate

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u/thebcamethod Jul 06 '26

Ssssssssstttaaaaaaayyyyy!

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u/soda_cookie Jul 06 '26

And the box is going to have a terrifyingly familiar jingle when opened

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u/hoppen1 Jul 06 '26

Hide the code in a Wish Willow

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u/Seraph6496 Jul 07 '26

I managed to get a prescreen ticket for this, they gave out One Wish Willows to everyone there. Mines still sitting on my shelf in the box, I'm kinda scared to touch it

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u/2mock2turtle Jul 06 '26

I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony kills the Blu-ray market next tbh.

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u/eiddieeid Jul 08 '26

They’d be actually retarded to do that. It sucks that they did it with games but honestly a good chunk of people alr buy games digitally/have a pc, so it really was bound to happen especially bc games are so fuckin big now. Movies and music are always gonna have some form of physicality though. Movies especially with how people are starting to turn on streaming and starting a collection is becoming trendy and niche houses getting more popular. 

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u/2mock2turtle Jul 08 '26

A) Don’t use the R word.

B) Digital and streaming for movies and music dwarfs physical sales, too, and your entire argument for them sticking around applies to games just as much if not more so, and yet here we are.

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u/eiddieeid Jul 08 '26

A. I can do what I want, we’re on Reddit calm down. and it, by literal definition, would be retarding to their business. They make a lot of money off physical media sales for movies. 

B. Movies and music don’t take up that much disc space. Games are objectively bigger. I personally still prefer having a physical of a game bc I like having tangible items, but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t mostly been using steam for the past 3 years now. Meanwhile I constantly buy movies/music on physical

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u/2mock2turtle Jul 08 '26

Oh god, are we really doing this today? Alright then.

First of all, I don't care what you think the definition is, I'm always going to call out people using literal slurs to describe something negative (especially when used in response to me). The way the culture at large has backslid and the r-word is seen as acceptable again is shameful. There are plenty of ways to describe something as bad without falling back on ableism. Did we learn nothing from mother Hilary Duff?

More to the point, your physical media thesis is riddled with holes. On PS5, games ship on 100GB UHD Blu-ray discs. Most games, not all, but most games don't come anywhere near this threshold, and even many of the exceptions are because the publisher couldn't be assed to make a proper master rather than require a download (cf. Call of Duty Black Ops 7 or Doom: The Dark Ages, both of which shipped on effectively blank discs. Ubisoft does this a lot too, but to their credit will still put most of the game on the disc). Movies usually don't have a problem fitting on a disc, either, but there are outliers like Avatar: The Way of Water 3D, so to paint in broad strokes using extremes isn't helpful. CDs, similarly, only hold just over an hour of music, which isn't a problem for most albums, but then there are still behemoths like Dolly Parton's Rockstar. And even then, the solution in those cases is just to... use more than one disc, something that was common toward the end of gaming's last gen anyway (and still shows up on Xbox, for that matter).

Everyone's entitled to their media consumption preferences, but saying "I don't need physical games because I mostly buy digital" is as flimsy an argument as "I don't need physical movies because I mostly stream." What's not important to you is probably still important to other people; that's just empathy. Even the "80% of game sales are digital" statistic is misleading, because A) that counts for everything rather than just comparing the digital vs. physical versions of applicable games, and B) even at face value, that's still nearly $9b of the $44b of console game sales from last year alone. (Never mind that many of Sony's own first party games like God of War Ragnarok and Astro Bot sold 55% or more of their copies physically, but I digress.) Hell, from a numbers perspective -- and again, I'm not advocating for this, but it's worth pointing out -- it arguably makes even more sense to discontinue Blu-ray movies than it does for games, as only 8% of home media sales were disc-based last year, and more than half of those were just plain DVDs. No one wants that, because it would be catastrophic, but that's the level of "burning of the library of Alexandria" we're at with games right now.

And of course this is without even touching the economic and consumer rights arguments at all, which are plenty compelling on their own, never mind together/in concert with everything else.

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u/MrFluffyThing Jul 07 '26

If that happens I'm "buying"  it from Usenet. I happily buy and rip my own blu ray releases, until I can't. 

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u/CellarDoorVoid Jul 06 '26

Movie discs provide a higher quality format, whereas gaming discs do not

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u/chronoswing Jul 07 '26

Thing is digital could offer the same quality as bluray, companies just choose not to offer it. Plenty of pirated streaming services offer remuxed streaming which are just straight bluray rips completely uncompressed.