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It's damn good. Violent, in some shockingly painful ways. Funny, but from a character building way, rather than being quippy. Fun and inventive in the action scenes, which feel more interwoven with the narrative, rather than being set pieces. Also, it impressively juggles six major characters, so you get their personalities, motivations, and even backstories, without dragging the pace down. Just, really cool to watch.

Watched The Good Place finale last night, and I am really not okay. Been on the verge of tears at work all day just thinking about it.

Adventure movies without an antagonist are great, IMO. There are multiple venues for conflict and tension that don't require a villain. If you go by the classic plot conflicts (vs man, vs nature, vs self, vs society, vs technology, vs fate) F2 has nature, self, and fate...

It's playing at the Regal Meridian for the next week at least. I got a ticket for Tuesday evening after work

Okay. I don't agree, but okay.

The CW shows are pretty consistently earnest and entertaining, have a varied tone, and manage to be fun even when serious. They lean into their comic book roots, and put in lots of nice references, even when straying from the source material. When they crossover, they manage to be more than the sum of their parts. If superheroes in movies could consistently hit at the CW level, they'd be better for it. Plus, y'know, they have LGBT characters front and center, rather than just allusions and fleeting background moments.

This is a pretty underwhelming selection of nominees... but 2019 was a pretty underwhelming year for movies, overall. Nice that Klaus got an animation nod, tho. That's surprising. Sad that Frozen 2 didn't get one.

First sub 1m day? I think we were tracking that for 1's run, because it was an interesting comparison to Finding Nemo, maybe?

Maybe this will finally mean that they'll let the franchise die.

Yes, it's still possible.

I figure Soul will end up in the low 300s. Raya will probably do low to mid 200s. Tho that could change based on the first trailer, but outside of Frozen, WDAS seems to be in that range. FF9 is probably high 100s / low 200s. Dune is probably in the 150 range if it really takes off, otherwise about where Bladerunner 2049 landed. Ghostbusters would not surprise me if it's under 100. Doing much more than the 2016 film is iffy. Mulan is probably around 300m. It's also the biggest Hollywood movie in China. FF9 is second. Uncharted will be. Onward is a wild card. It looks really fun, and the release date is pretty good for a family film. But Pixar originals tend to do less (excepting Docter) so I figure slightly more than Coco. It'll probably be close to see whether this or Raya earns more. BW mid 300s, probably. Low 400s, maybe. Eternals high 200s to low 300s. WW high 400s. BOP high 100s,but with a lot of upside potential.

ROS is going to break the cycle of third star wars films. Both Jedi and Sith increased from the second films.

More likely, Glass made the list as the first big-ish movie of the year, and Dark Phoenix already had a trailer. The only real misses for the list are Joker and Frozen 2. Neither had a trailer at the end of the year, so that's somewhat expected.

I... Don't think you can have a spinoff with one of the two protagonists.

Seems like a strong chance. There's some other possibilities (I think Soul has a shot), but 2020 is pretty light on franchise fare, as things go. Which is something of a relief.

A lot of the discussion was because of how atypical Frozen's run was. It brought in many newcomers to the site (including myself) who specifically wanted to talk about the box office. F2 is a juggernaut, but it's not really doing anything atypical from other huge blockbusters. Now, if something changes and it starts having insane legs, that's likely to change. Beyond that, well, it's not like it's going to generate the same fannish interest that F1 did... it's building on that fandom, but it's not creating it. And beyond, beyond even that... times change. Usually the biggest threads are ones that have some degree of disagreement and controversy. That wasn't true for Frozen, which was an outlier. For F2 to get the same degree of response it would have to be pretty divisive among the fandom, which it isn't. It's a rare sequel that is about the same quality as the first, and while there are quibbles about which is better, it's still mostly positive, except for the few minor trolling responses... which aren't even getting traction. At the time of Frozen, I was really involved in Tumblr, and was following the fan community that way. Tumblr has mostly died, and I just don't have the same amount of time as I did. There are things I'd be happy to discuss, but they're somewhat spoilery, so it can wait.

Probably not, they're just willing to explore more ideas to see what gels in the end. Trench should be theatrical. Horror continues to be a great investment: low-ish costs with high returns. Amazons, though, should be a series, either on MAX or DC Universe (or both, if they aren't going to merge the services.)

I believe the size of the female audience for the two films was about the same over OW. I think I roughly calculated it before. It's a reversal of the fish out of water dynamic from the first film.

I... Did not expect it to be The Goonies redux

Not really. Show Yourself is a beautiful song, but it's late in the movie and much more contextual. If you see it sans the movie, it's not going to have the same impact, where Into the Unknown (and Lost in the Woods), can be viewed outside of the film and still work very well, like Let it Go did. Plus, ItU does seem to be catching on. Like with the #intotheunknownchallenge on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/IntoTheUnknownChallenge

Seems unlikely this will gross less than the first, either DOM or OS.

So good. Nails the 80s aesthetic, great musical choice. Just gorgeous

Arrow is ending this year. If Flash lasts the same length, it'd get another two seasons (or one full and one half), ending in 2022. Given the time to production and where it seems to be at, I doubt we'd see it before 2023 anyway.