Wormhole

About $300m WW for a $190m tentpole is bombing.

I think I'll skip this and watch the futurama episode instead.

Except In the Heart of the Sea will probably be good.

Yay, the Chicken Littles worried that Hollywood will abandon original sci-fi because of one stinker are starting to emerge!

Green Lantern had everything going for it. It would've been a hit had it not been complete shit.

Disagree. The romance in the original trilogy was terrible, and Maguire was terrible. Dunst was fine, but Stone was still a lot better.

I'm not going to get into the debate over which relationship was better-developed between the two series, but I will say that Garfield and Stone have a helluva lot more chemistry than Maquire and Dunst.

When an emotional beat comes off as calculated, it fails to generate actual emotion. Emotional beats should move the plot forward, but they should also feel genuine and not mechanical. Killing off Tadashi was so derivative of WDAS and Marvel movies that it just felt like a cog in a machine trying to move forward the plot.

To actually evoke genuine emotion? When Tadashi was introduced, my friend whispered to me, "Yeah, he's going to die in ten minutes." The bait-and-switch was obvious from the start as well. Besides the art direction, everything in this movie was pulled from older and better WDAS and Marvel movies. It just didn't feel fresh to me at all.

Every emotional beat in this movie felt like it was just there to move the plot forward.

Eh. This is one of those movies that just doesn't hold up well. I liked this series as a kid, but now I find Maquire's whining protagonist hard to root for and the romance to be some of the weakest ever put to screen. Second one is way better, but I'm still not a fan. I just don't think Spider-Man is my kind of superhero. C

This. There was just nothing interesting about this movie for me besides the art direction.

TDK > TDKR > BB

It's certainly going to do better than you're predicting. I'd say mid-teens.

So much fun. A-

Worst WDAS in awhile... Maybe since Chicken Little. The art direction and animation are terrific, and Baymax is awesome. But beyond that, very little about it felt fresh. It goes through its Marvel-origin story beats competently enough, but they all just felt like obvious beats. The bait-and-switch was obvious from the beginning, Callaghan's origin story was horribly rushed, and reviving Baymax five minutes after his "death" scene made that scene feel disingenuous. C+

This is just meh. Not good, not bad.

What a fantastic achievement. Hope it wins Best Picture since it seems Selma has no shot. This resonated especially since I'm the same age as Mason.

I got that message from the other scene you mentioned, but the nurse scene just seemed weird. The nurse did seem to be giving the other baby preferential treatment. At the time I thought that maybe it was meant to show that there are "wolves" everywhere, but the film didn't follow up on that message with anything else so I dropped that idea. It didn't seem all that PTSD-related to me.

Solid satire. Paints an absurd yet thorough and believable picture of the future. Its obvious cheapness is part of its charm. Terry Crews was fucking hilarious. Really needed a better female presence, though. Wasn't a fan of Rudolph's character. A-

A lot of the dialogue between Kyle and the other SEALs was clunky, and the script could have been a lot tighter. What was the point of the scene where Kyle was yelling at the nurse for not taking care of his daughter? There were a bunch of other little scenes that didn't do anything to develop the characters and/or further the plot. The action is really solid, though. Eastwood does a great job of building tension in every war scene. And the cinematography is beautiful. Cooper deserves every award he's going to get, and the supporting cast wasn't bad. It does take political stands that I don't think I can get behind, though. I don't see how anyone can view this as an "anti-war" film -- to me, the film was sending a clear message that war is evil but necessary. Kyle's dad's "sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs" speech summed what I perceived to be the message of the film -- that those who are strong enough to protect those who are too naive to sense danger have a duty to do so. It doesn't spend enough time on Kyle's PTSD imo. The consequences of war don't seem to outweigh the benefits here. It felt very imperialist in nature to me. I'll give it a B-. It's a good film. It's not without flaws, but it is a good film. But it's not a film that can be discussed in a vacuum. It is a political film. Too bad both sides go to such extremes with their arguments making civilized discussion pretty much impossible.

Yes. I liked both when I was a kid, but Danny Phantom passed the rewatch-it-in-college-to-see-if-you-were-just-a-dumb-kid test. Fairly OddParents really didn't for me.

Danny Phantom >>>>>>>>> Fairly OddParents

Again, this isn't true. If they don't go forward in time, they don't meet Bubbles, and they don't go to the surface and get back the formula. I thought Bubbles was great. The rap battle was funny because it subverted typical narrative structure. I expected the movie to end, and bam -- rap battle between talking dolphins and seagulls. And realistic Sandy was one of the best gags in the movie imo. Squidisaurus Rex was another highlight. I enjoyed every minute of it. I don't think it was quite as funny as the 2004 movie, but it was still pretty great. I can't really grade a movie like this because it's just so off-the-wall. There's nothing really to compare it to. Not many films -- even those aimed at kids -- go as balls-out in ignoring narrative structure and typical Hollywood tropes as Spongebob.