Eric Quinn

Guess I should also mention that I expected reviews to turn out like this? There were a few tweets post-premiere that were pretty iffy on the thing, and Rob Marshall has his detractors. Either way, its reception seems fine. It's largely considered to be pretty decent, and even the mixed or negative reviews bring up that it has a lot of good elements that people would want in a Mary Poppins sequel. It'll make good coin, Blunt will get great new acting opportunities, everyone's happy.

RT's at 78% with only 9 reviews https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_mule_2018 MC's at 65 with 7 reviews https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-mule-2018?ref=hp So if this is actually good, why would WB try to hide it from other critics and not have any previews? Makes no sense.

Funny. Several reviews, both positive and negative, I've read for this have a bit of anti-Disney stigma to them. The AV Club review in particular seems like the dude has an issue with Disney rather than the film itself. We also just had not one but two major Disney tentpoles come out this year and earn negative reviews as well. Almost as if critics are their own independent hive mind and don't care about the evil Mouse overlords.

Pretty much. Just about all of the Rotten reviews with a rating has it in the C range or the 2/4 range. Basically, some people don't hate it, but they're not really all that enchanted by it. Which is a good thing for me. Even the negative reviews are saying that this has all the things I wanted and done competently, so I'm probably gonna love the hell out of it.

I know I've stated this before, but might as well state it again. With Aquaman and Mary Poppins finally having reviews out, all of the big four movies for this holiday season have positive critical reception. Aquaman, Poppins, Spider-Verse, Bumblebee. Spider-Verse is even garnering best of the year raves. Last year, Greatest Showman had mixed reviews, while Pitch Perfect 3 was dire, while 2016 had both Passengers and Why Him? earn negative reviews. Hopefully audiences will feel the same way with these four, and we see some real sexy legs in store.

Feels like Tom Holland's in everything at this point lmao Thought JLD was taking a break from acting because of her battling breast cancer. Either way, good to see her in another Pixar joint.

General consensus seems to be "Blunt is amazing, but it retreads a lot from the last movie." Will likely still have positive RT and MC scores, but the Best Picture talk is probably off the table. And of course, audiences will probably be way more into it.

Variety (positive, with some reservations) https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/mary-poppins-returns-review-emily-blunt-1203085530/ Hollywood Reporter (Positive) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mary-poppins-returns-review-1167792 A.V. Club (C+) https://www.avclub.com/a-spoonful-of-nostalgia-helps-the-calculated-mary-poppi-1831031216 Vox (2.5/5) https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18136044/mary-poppins-returns-review-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda Indiewire (C+) https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/mary-poppins-returns-review-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda-1202027350/ USA Today (3/4) https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/12/12/mary-poppins-returns-review-emily-blunt-endlessly-charming-iconic-nanny/2278478002/

btw I still think King has a good chance of winning, unless The Favourite becomes a real hit in the industry (it missing Ensemble doesn't help that argument). Adams is in a divisive feature and Stone and Weisz might split up in terms of votes. If Blunt gets in, I don't see her role garnering enough passion votes. If Robbie gets in, the film's such a no1curr that even I keep forgetting that it's coming out. The competition is still pretty weak.

Even with an "ehh" film, Chalabae's still gettin' the raves. One step closer to the Oscars baby. Suffer haters. By the way the Bohemian Rhapsody nomination for Ensemble's disgusting. If this seriously gets a Best Picture nom, I hope all the people who voted for it step on a Lego.

Nah son, in 20 years I'm gonna do the remake. I'm gonna be all Travis Knight in this bitch and make the remake with love, instead of this Sonic the Millerhog bullshit. People gonna be all "This is Sonic done right", I'm gonna get 97% on RT, and I'm gonna right the wrongs of the sins of the past. Not even joking. I already got a whole trilogy in mind that I'll make stupid rich money on. Bet.

Wait...two posters...a Paramount movie's coming out next week......HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE'RE GETTING A TRAILER FOR THIS IN FRONT OF BUMBLEBEE

BTW @Morieris you're on my ignore list for a week for subjecting me to that visual horror. The fact you thought this was okay for us to see is disgusting.

At least he never skips leg day. Gotta respect him for that I guess.

My general consensus for this movie is around the 160M range. Maybe above Hotel Transylvania 2 if its OW exceeds 40M or its WOM is Jumanji-level stellar. Off a 35M OW, that would translate to legs at around 4.6x, which seems about right.

The Christmas weekend thread's gonna be crazy. Disney, DCEU, Steinfeld, and J-Lo stans all under one roof? Don't even get me started on the Marwen fanbase. Marmen are the scariest stans of all.

What are the regulations for echidna porn?

I feel like Ant-Man and the Wasp is the best comparable option when it comes to Spider-Verse. Both are superhero movies, both have a strong fanboy crowd, but both will also have a pretty strong family crowd to balance things out. Using both movies' Monday Fandango sales, Spider-Verse has sold 56% of AM&TW at the same day, which would translate to about 42.5M. Of course, sales could be spread out more due to the Christmas season (even though only two theaters have Chirstmas Day showtimes up for Spider-Verse), and maybe Spider-Verse skews more fanboy or more family than Ant-Man, but that OW isn't all that impossible at this point.

lol