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I would have actually loved a reboot of the 2000 CA cast with them getting pulled back into the life and maybe trying to juggle being middle-aged, maybe having a family, and still doing that kind of thing. Honestly, that could have been funny.

I was talking about the movies, as I said, not the TV show. I think the 2000 movie actresses are still alive?

Yikes at that CA number. I wonder how a reboot with the original cast would have done? I have a stupid amount of nostalgia for those movies. They were in on the joke and had fun with it, and I really enjoyed that. As much as I liked those and in general like Elizabeth Banks, the new movie looked terrible. Like they forgot that this whole thing is ridiculous, fantasy fun.

I can't speak for everyone, but my daughter was 7 when Frozen came out, so she was just the right age to be caught up in it. The whole thing with sisters, the music being very singable, the characters are charming, and, mostly, Elsa is essentially a female superhero and a queen, which is something pretty awesome to young girls. It really made me think back to being 7 and watching Empire Strikes Back and realizing that Leia was also a Jedi. I think she struck a chord with me for the same reason. Moana was a great character and a lovely movie with a really sweet message, but she couldn't build an ice palace with her magic fingers, so that's just not going to come close to Frozen if you're a little girl. Also, I think that as much as Frozen was about magic and all of that, it was ultimately about a sister going after another sister when she was hurting and that's something that kids get, whereas Moana had a more complicated story that didn't really resonate as well with young children. Again, just my own observations from watching my daughter.

I haven't managed to sit through a Scorsese film yet, so I think we just have different tastes, lol. Glad to see more options for entertainment, but it is a business, ultimately, before it is an Art Form or whatever. Marvel can dry their tears with all their billions.

It's too bad so many of these 80s franchises seem to have fizzled. I still think there is an interesting story to tell here, especially nowadays with AI and lack of privacy becoming a real thing. Could have been relevant in a different way than just a rehash. It does seem crazy to spend that much money without Cameron actually directing, because after the last few, if you are going to go big, you really had to hit it out of the ballpark with this. A shame, really. I like Arnold and Hamilton a lot, but they can only do so much with the material. Too bad Cameron is so Avatar obsessed. If he was going to really get into one of his properties, I wish it had been something like Terminator instead of that, but alas, he seems to only be truly interested in that at the moment.

Tickets bought for opening night and Thanksgiving Day. Very excited for this!

I absolutely loved the first one, but bringing Pine back and the 80s setting just really do not appeal to be at all. WW is hard enough to make not look silly, and the stills they released so far are really close to camp. I don't know. I wish it well, but I'm surprisingly (to me) very meh about it.

I love RDJ, I really do, he is so talented, but even my Tony Stark love can't get me to spend money on this. Also, someone please tell him to stop doing accents. He is Not Good at them and it is very distracting.

Definitely feels like The Mummy, and I mean that as high praise. Looks fun!

My mom and aunt saw DA twice this weekend and want to go again. They loved it. Definitely a movie that gets its target audience.

I enjoyed this, though it was a bit overlong and took some time to get going. But, some great performances. Hader was fantastic. McAvoy was actually the weak link, I thought? He didn't seem to have Bill's presence, the way it is described in the book. The scenes with the kids still were the highlights, but that was true of the book, too. It was actually funnier than really scary to me, but I'm okay with that b/c I haven't really seen a horror movie that is actually scary (other than jumpscares, I guess). Most are unintentionally funny, at least to me, so the fact that this one seemed to understand a bit of its own ridiculousness was good. Like, one of the better scenes was with the Pomerainian, I thought, and that really worked well for me b/c the characters reacted like people who were just *done* with this BS, which I think at that point you would be. Anyway, I liked it. It wasn't great, and there were some missteps, but overall, I enjoyed it quite a lot. Looking forward to the 6 hour director's cut, lol.

Isn't one of the characters a big Trump supporter and one not? I thought I read that somewhere.

Glad to hear good reviews from forum members.

I like Arnold and Linda back together. I'm just really not into the rest of...whoever they are.

Having McGillis back would have actually been really cool, but it seems like she wasn't really in a place to want to be a part of all this again. I think she looks great in that second picture (God, please don't take a picture of me when I'm running to the grocery store and use it to shame me), and it would have been nice to see a woman still get the guy looking like a regular woman, tbh. Happy for her, though, and hope she's doing well. At least I can save my money and skip this.

Yikes at that THR review. Wow. That is super creepy. How does that get past editing and review?

Wow. That’s a lot of movie. Hopefully that means a lot of flashbacks. The kids were the better part of the book for me, and I loved the first movie, so I’d definitely be up for that. Still...that’s a lot of movie.

The only movie my 13 year old daughter cares about

If you think The Lion King and BP are similar, I have some interesting news for you about the stories of Joseph and Moses from the Bible, and a couple of Shakespeare's works. These are all major tropes repeated in many stories over thousands of years. They are just done well here and told in interesting ways, but it isn't like it's a new story.

Looks fun enough but definitely something to catch at home. Kind of looks like it belongs on TV, really. I loved the older ones for their stupidity with a side of self-awareness though, so maybe this will surprise and find lots of younger fans. Certainly seems aimed at that set.

I thought maybe I'd read the spoilers for this and get excited, but they all just sound meh. I think I just don't care that much after EG.

It was good. Still felt unnecessary. But, it was beautifully done, and quite entertaining. Just not really sure I get why this particular story just so HAD to be told. I don’t know, I don’t want to criticize a good movie because they are few and far between, but it still just didn’t quite hit me the way 3 did. Bit of an afterthought feel to it. Forky was great. Wish the original gang was together more.

Saw EG for probably the final time in theaters yesterday. There were around 30 people at our 3pm showing. It was such an interesting mix! Dads with kids. Me with 5 teenage girls. A single woman in her 60's. A couple of guys in their 30's. Some older teen boys. A mom, dad and their two young kids. Two older guys in probably their late 50s, one wearing a Cap shirt. It just seemed like such an interesting real life representation of why the movie was so huge. The Aladdin theater was super packed, though interestingly, the teen girls with me who had seen it declared it "just okay". On the other hand, they were all super excited for Frozen II, since they were at exactly the right age when the first one came out. It's like their first experience of nostalgia. I had two people somewhat randomly tell me that MIB:I was terrible. Like it was so bad, they felt the need to volunteer the information, lol. Poor Hems.

Trust me, as a mom, let me assure you that to appeal to young girls, this just needs some minor association with Frozen, lol.