I saw something interesting on Facebook where people pointed out how The Addams Family is supposed to be a spoof of the modern American family in the it is the polar opposite of what the modern American family is typically. The important thing to note was that the "opposite" of what the typical family apparently is is a loving husband coupled with a loving wife.

Oh, going back to my post from long ago about specifying the number of condiments to receive at a drive-thru, I specified two ketchup packets today at McDonald's and was given eight.

Your first mistake was McDonald's

I've found that it just doesn't matter.
Regardless of what chain chooses to use, the result is the same.
Ask for a specific quantity of condiments and there is only about a 2% chance that you receive the correct number.
This includes the times that they repeat the number back to you.
"Could I get 2 ketchups, please?"
"Did you say 2?"
"Yes, thanks."
When I look in the bag later, there will be 37 ketchups.

Ahh, I see you have also been eating at Hyperbole's...



I usually just say " I need at least #, of <CONDIMENT> please." The # is whatever the minimum is to get by. The rest go home and we use to supplement whatever my kids randomly ask for. My 7yo puts ketchup on her eggs, everyone knows it should be salsa or hot sauce.



While on the topic of condiments, my wife and kids miss the Verde salsa from Taco Bell, and the Diablo is a bunch of ####, tastes funny.

They are almost all bipeds, too.

The only hyperbole there is saying that it happens every time.
I literally have had a specification of 2 condiments result in over 30 received.

Did anyone actually see the movie?

as in the new, animated one?
We saw it. Kind of unspectacular...I give it a 5.5/10

I agree with you, I would give it a 6 though.

My girls, 13 and 7 loved it. I was a bit surprised the older one liked it as much as she did.

Guess we, as middle aged white men, were not the target audience?

IMDB rates it a 5.9

However...
Budget:$40,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend USA: $30,300,007, 13 October 2019
Gross USA: $91,467,705
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $154,867,705

If the profit is roughly $110 million, I would call that a success.

There's marketing costs to consider, and the studio doesn't see all of that. But it also will have a life on home video, so yeah, that's a modest success.

Is this to imply that people who are not white would enjoy the movie?

Is this, therefore, a compliment to people who are not white, or an insult?

I was wondering that, does marketing count towards the budget? What exactly is and is not covered in the budget?

Neither, I was just referring to myself.