The Wild Eric

So is Babylon the DCEU?

Character-driven family fantasy adventure comedy. Lead protagonist has a snarky, cocky personality, with quips and one-liners for days that result in easy chuckles for the audience, and has a heart of gold deep down that makes him easy to root for. Lead character is down on their luck and struggling to find their identity, giving an easy, relatable conflict. They are thus thrust into a world he is unaware of and is either granted with or always had fabulous secret powers. A big baddie then comes along to bring destruction onto the world, through some variety of magic, science, or both. Often they have a backstory. Numerous fight scenes through green screen and snazzy special effects ensue that gives the hero purpose and understanding about who he is, culminating in a big battle with the hero saving the day. There's numerous sequel teases, alongside references to other movies, followed by a post-credits scene that gets everybody talking. Hope this clears things up.

Just as a heads up that for Top Gun 2, there's a Tuesday IMAX fan screening at a lot of theaters and a Wednesday AMC Investor screening. Another one of these things...

This is the funniest series of events I have ever seen.

Still, those shows are nothing compared to WandaVision. I'm happy for the people who got something out of it, but I don't understand why people say it's the best show and I never will. It was just a nonsensical smorgasbord of ideas and characters thrown together with an unfunny framing device, with an utterly atrocious final episode in all respects IMO. Teyonah Parris and Kathryn Hahn deserved better. A good chunk of my excitement for this movie is just to see the Multiverse plot done properly.

Loki and Falcon & Winter Soldier have some of the most glacially atrocious pacing I've ever seen. You could turn both of those shows into 2.5 hour movies and nothing would be compromised or lost. Don't know if it's because Papa Feige has no clue how to make TV shows or what, but it's frankly ridiculous.

This GIF makes me queasy lol

That's weird, I was told the reactions were nothing like Eternals and that the thread title was totally wrong. 🤔

https://www.slashfilm.com/850790/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-review-a-sam-raimi-marvel/ 7.5/10

My dad hasn't seen any of the MCU shows (he says he'll watch them when the whole season is done, but he never does) but loves the movies and watches them all the time on cable. I still remember taking him to Black Widow and explaining during the entire car ride back home why Julia Louis-Dreyfus popped up in the end, what happened in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and what the Hawkeye show he will never watch will be about. I'm taking him to this over the weekend, since he loves Doctor Strange, but having to explain everything that happened to WandaVision, a show I barely remember, just so he understands why Wanda's doing bad things will be legit torture. I'm still unconvinced these shows won't cause accidental damage to the MCU in the near-future. There's no way people aren't tired of all this Marvel crap shoved in your face in the theaters and at home.

9 AM EST tomorrow

Jurassic World: Dominion Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-38 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 130 900 23332 3.86% Total Seats Sold Today: 29

Doctor Strange 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 257 14410 47783 30.16% Total Seats Sold Today: 990 Comp 0.673x of Spider-Man: No Way Home T-3 (33.64M) 1.849x of The Batman T-3 (39.93M)

All these reactions scream to me there will be tons of discourse this week and beyond. Funnnnnnn

Republicans are a fucking disease.

Fuck America

Those How I Met Your Mother reruns were the blueprint lmfao

Look I don't want to deal with this "ITZ GONNA BOMB GAIZ" stuff for over a month. I need to set the record straight.

If you want to hear something positive, I think nearly 900 tickets in Philly and more than a thousand in Sacramento is very, very strong for a movie that's more than a month away. That's already well ahead of most films' final totals. So we're in a really good spot. If that's still not enough, then I guess you'll have to just be patient for a few weeks and think about something else during that interim.