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Hi guys. Changed description from "based on" to "loosely inspired by" the original comic book series and anyone who has read the original series will agree. The only thing in common is that the protagonist is a bald retired assassin who goes after the people who put the kill order on him. That's about it. None of the other characters exist aside from Mary-Louise Parker's call center character with whom his interaction is only slightly similar during the beginning. —Preceding
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110.55.250.110 (
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17:36, 24 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I agree, also we should stay away from such definitive blanket statements. Sites like Rotten Tomatoes are a aggregate of selected critics and does not express the opinion of every film critic.--
TriiipleThreat (
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12:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I think you missed my point. What I mean is, how can it have accurate reviews at all if it isn't released yet? I'm going to delete that section.
24.209.120.222 (
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07:46, 6 October 2010 (UTC)reply
It is not uncommon for a film to have a press screening or be screened at a film festival before its general public release. For example, Red was
screened on September 29, 2010 at Fantastic Fest. -
Kollision (
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10:12, 6 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I agree with 24.209.120.222 about the issue with the section. We should not include Rotten Tomatoes this early because with only 6 reviews, the 86% gives a false impression. We see this incompleteness especially with the lack of a "critics' consensus" for a film that has garnered more reviews. Looking at the page, the only "top critics" are Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Let's include these and only have Rotten Tomatoes as an external link for now. (See
WP:RTMC for an explanation of the limitations.) Erik (
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15:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Metacritic says "Mixed or average reviews" so that is a fair baseline any reasonable editor should not disagree with. If someone wants to argue it got better or worse than that they will very much need to try hard to prove otherwise. --
Horkana (
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01:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Budget
The "budget" is listed as about $60 million after tax credits. Unusually
Box Office Mojo does not lazily round the figures to $60 million as it often does, but instead says the budget is
$58 million but still fails to even mention anything about tax credits, and unfortunately they take this final actual cost is labelled as "Production budget".
Variety is again terribly vague and says the film
"cost near $58 million" and goes on to say "with Summit accountable for less than $20 million after subsidies and foreign licensing fees". Summit is the US distributor, so the actual production budget (money spent) by the Studio is difficult to know. It's all very unclear.
It is important that when writing the "Box Office" section that editors take care to explain as much of this confusion as possible. A dry "list of facts" that only stated the cost to the distributor of "about $60 million" and compared it to the box office gross would be misleading (it very often is done this way but that doesn't make it correct). So I urge caution and I'll try to take a shot at including more of this information as prose in the article. --
Horkana (
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12:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I think I added the LA Times for this and made it clear it was after tax credits in the infobox. Though when an editor adds a Box Office section, that "after tax credits" could be removed from the infobox and added in the prose. MikeAllen23:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)reply
it's likely worth mentioning that alot of the movie includes reused music, such as the escaping from cia headquarters scene. this is from the rundown staring the rock. —Preceding
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67.238.3.50 (
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09:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)reply
Sniper who shot Joe
I had assumed that it was Victoria (Mirren) shot Joe and that Joe had expected this, knowing that it was the only way to cause enought confusion for the others to escape. Especially since Joe had really bad cancer.
At the end of the day, the only thing confirmed is it is not known who shot Joe. It's an annoying, dangling string, but that's how it is. Best to leave it the way it is rather than speculate with original research.
Hazardous Matt (
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15:52, 1 November 2010 (UTC)reply
I did not think at all that Victoria shot Joe and never got that impression. As former spies they fully expected to be betrayed despite assurances otherwise. It doesn't matter who fired the shot so much as the fact that William Cooper (Urban) was being undermined. --
Horkana (
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01:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)reply
At roughly 1:13:50 Victoria says ~~ come out I've got you covered ~~ while she has her sights set on Matheson. She even looks slightly surprised when Joe is shot. It's definitely not her. --
Horkana (
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00:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Frank Moses was living in Cleveland when the film starts. His garbage can says "Cleveland, Ohio" on the side (visible on the close-up), and his pension check is addressed to "Parma Heights", a suburb of Cleveland. —Preceding
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184.56.238.126 (
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17:33, 20 November 2010 (UTC)reply
Ashton Kutcher
Did Ashton Kutcher do a cameo as the hotel employee who got tossed into dumpster or was it just a look-a-like? If so, it so should be added to cast information. — Preceding
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71.22.156.40 (
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03:43, 22 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Synopsis error
The original synopsis stated Dunning kills Stanton but, as can clearly be seen, VP Stanton is alive and moving at the end of the scene. Detail changed accordingly.
Stonehound (
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86.164.45.185 (
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16:08, 27 February 2013 (UTC)reply
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Comment. I have no opinion on the proper outcome here, but I would like to point out that titles of works are not trademarks, and that
MOS:TM therefore should not apply to them. Indeed, it is precisely because they are not trademarks that we have so many ambiguous titles of books, films, songs, and albums. Cheers!
bd2412T19:04, 18 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment Places like IMDb write it as "Red" and "Red 2" because of the requirement that film titles in their database have at least one lowercase letter. I don't quite understand it myself, but I don't think that means anything when it comes to how to officially write a film's title. LazyBastardGuy05:58, 19 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Support: I believe
MOS:TM applies here in spirit, regardless of whether a film title is legally considered a trademark or not, and I don't think the capitalization is an appropriate disambiguator. —
BarrelProof (
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00:10, 22 September 2013 (UTC)reply
As explained above, titles aren't trademarks. I believe the work should be named however it was named in the first place, except of course for times when characters should be substituted or removed due to technical restrictions in the MediaWiki software. In other words, keep the title as close as you can to the formatting of the original. So I'm opposing this; I don't believe that just because journalists are too lazy to capitalize all the letters that this should be considered official. Journalists just seek to get the point across, and you know what they're referring to. LazyBastardGuy01:03, 22 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Support. Not sure of what the spirit the of MOS:TM says here, but I think MOS:CT applies, which says that we use sentence case for titles. While MOT:CT has a problem with prepositions, there is no disagreement that we do not follow sources use of and allcaps style. Not sure what TriiipleThreat is talking about with respect to acronyms, is RED an in-universe acronym? The title should be consistent with its inspiration, what is
Red (WildStorm comics). --
SmokeyJoe (
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06:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Yes, it is an acronym (Retired Extremely Dangerous), unlike the source material. Also as I said before it is how the title appears in marketing materials and in the on-screen credits.--
TriiipleThreat (
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15:22, 2 October 2013 (UTC)reply
If only the trailer had said "R-E-D" instead of "Red", I could agree with you. I can't agree that "Red" is used as an acronym and is not a named coined from a acronym of a description. --
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