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Get a generation or so removed from a big war, and folks seem to forget. Might even happen faster now with how sanitized war has been presented in the US since 'Nam. Then you get dumbasses doing things like taking picnic baskets and opera glasses to a battlefield to watch, or saying "over by Christmas," or "we'll be greeted as liberators."

Once vampires started sparkling they were pretty much ruined.

Bigger targets are easier to grift off of.

The "pedo guy" thing was longer than a year ago, and I would peg that as when the slide started.

It's difficult to compare pre and post digital distributed films. Pre-digital, theaters were limited by the number of prints they received for how many screens they could play a film on. Post-digital the only limiter is contractual obligations. It gets even more out of sync when you factor in the reserved seating and pre-sales of today. Now theaters can know days or weeks in advance what to prepare for, where before it was much more guesswork.

Both movies deserved better, but at least with MI they can point to things that cant be blamed on the movie itself.

The MI folks really should have taken note.

At the very least, they should've known they'd only get 1 week of PLFs.

Wonder if MI:7 releasing the week before Barbenheimer is gonna be like when Hellboy 2 released the week before TDK. Whoever scheduled that should be (metaphorically) defenestrated.

B+. Maybe a little long, but Ford and Waller-Bridge were both good, and Williams still has it. Also, I chortled early on when it panned through Indiana's apartment after the flashback and I saw Mutt died on the way back to his home planet.

An actual public test screening, and not just family/employees?

Yeah, any comparison to a Matrix film that's not the first one isn't a compliment. Fortunately, Spider-verse is really good.

Their general awfulness (Bumblee not withstanding) transcends space and time, so it's understandable.

Better than the ridiculous heights Spoilerphobia reached, though. Remember when saying TFA was good/bad was considered a spoiler? Comically absurd.

It's not Fast n Furious where family is every other word in the script, but it's not nonexistent either.