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Regardless of their flaws, I can always count on Nolan's movies to look amazing. Seeing TDKR and Interstellar in honest-to-god 2D, 70mm film IMAX were true theatrical experiences that just cannot be duplicated. (I am still kicking myself for skipping TDK in IMAX, but at least I got to see a revival screening at a science museum, and yes, it was so awesome to watch in IMAX.)

Are these people who have actually seen First Blood, or are they people who assume it's the same as the other Rambo movies?

Cars Land justifies the entire franchise. I don't give a flying shit about these movies, but the fact that Cars Land exists makes up for it all.

If PG instantly dooms a movie to being assumed to be for kids, the way G did when I was a kid, then I have to quote Randal in Clerks 2: "Oh, what the fuck happened to this world?!"

That prefix is not new for Saban.

Bad movies seem to attract this stuff much more than good movies, to be sure.

Also Canadian Thanksgiving.

What, no Nolan North?

Why didn't this make me laugh in theaters? Looking at it NOW, he looks like a character from a Dave Chappelle skit. Or Jim Carrey at the beginning of Batman Forever.

I didn't laugh once at TASM2. I didn't find anything hilariously stupid about it, I just found it utterly meh.

Garrett Hedlund was a void in Tron Legacy. I didn't hate him, I just nothinged him so much that I cannot remember one thing about his performance. (All I recall in terms of the cast's performances are CGI Jeff Bridges, Totally-Not-The-Dude Real Jeff Bridges, and Michael Sheen. And the fact that Cillian Murphy shows up as David Warner Jr. for no damn reason.) One of the reasons I wasn't really that bummed about it being cancelled is because it was just going to be another go-around in that oppressively grimdark world with Garrett Hedlund.

I would not be surprised to find out both stories are part of a gossip/smear campaign being waged by Perlmutter's camp. Not because I am on one side or the other (I'm not, and I generally avoid this kind of gossip out of fear it will contain spoilers for the movies), but because these two stories are coming from the same site, the author is allegedly hearing both of them from the same sources, and both of them seem to be conveniently unkind to Kevin Feige - he's spending out of control, and now he's killing the project most connected to the TV side to spite Ike. I dunno, it all seems too pat.

http://www.boxofficeflops.com/yearly-breakdowns/2015-2/jupiter-ascending/ This site is interesting, this person runs the numbers to determine which movies actually did lose money for the studio/financiers, based on how much was spent on production/marketing versus how much of the gross was left over after theaters took their cut. I'm sure there's a lot of math guesswork involved, but this person comes out with $87 million, saying it just fell short of covering the WW marketing costs (apparently, from another article on the site, nobody gets any money back until the marketing costs are fully covered). That would mean the film lost its entire production budget. (Wikipedia estimates it only lost $87m - they divide WW gross by 2 and subtract the budget. Either way, it lost money.)

I wish Bay could actually come back to direct, if only so he would be unavailable for future Transformers sequels. (Though since Bay will not stop producing, that could also mean a TMNT situation where the TF sequels are still very "Bay" films, only directed by a journeyman imitating Bay. So I guess either way, we lose.)

EuropaCorp is self-distributing. If this fails, it could conceivably sink them as an independent distributor (a la Raise the Titanic and ITC).

The main theories: 1.) Marketing didn't work 2.) TV series disincentivized paying to see it 3.) 22JS took away adult crossover demographic Plus my theories: 4.) Too dark for younger kids, some parents warned other parents 5.) Not the same kind of "GA crowd pleaser" film as the first 5 is semi-related to 4, but not specifically about upsetting kids/their parents; I call it the "Empire Strikes Back effect", because of how Empire was a darker and/or more complex film and it dropped from Star Wars in original release. (The same thing happened to Spider-Man 2 - that's even closer, because like HTTYD2, it got rave reviews but still dropped from the first. ESB got mixed-positive reviews upon release - though not as mixed as some claim, I know not every critic liked it. I don't know who beyond Siskel and Ebert actually argued it was better than the original at time of release. But now I'm going off on a tangent...)

Winston Groom will not allow them to adapt his sequel, and would probably sue them if they tried to make their own sequel to the movie. He was royally pissed that he was screwed out of royalties/profit participation because Paramount officially claimed the film did not make a profit. So no Forrest Gump sequel, ever. I can't see how Lion King would work in live action. If it was all CGI animals, it would be redundant. The only way would be to do something in the style of the Broadway musical, and I don't think that would translate to film anyways.

The Martian. I had no idea it was Kate Mara until I saw the credits - I had only heard of this Kate Mara as having done a poor job in Fantastic Four, I have never seen a movie with her in it before. She did a good job.

I hope they jump ahead, just so they can bring back the original voices for the entire family. If they don't jump ahead in time, Dash will have to be recast (and Sarah Vowell, the voice of Violet, will be close to 50 when they do the voices).

This is just my hope. I have no inside info. I am just thinking that knowing Pixar, and knowing TS3, they would be more willing to acknowledge that there was a huge time gap in real life, bring back the same voice actors to play older versions of the characters, etc. (Yes, I know they're not doing this with Finding Dory, but still.)

Most awesomely awful thing I've read in a while. The best cinematic turkeys are the ones which are absolutely balls-to-the-wall batshit insane (rather than just oppressively generic and boring and inept, like Fantastic Four). I don't know the next time something this bonkers will come along, at least as far as would-be blockbuster tentpoles. (The closest potential candidate I can think of would be The Great Wall - the short, vague summaries and rumors I've read make it sound like a hybrid of Pacific Rim and The 13th Warrior, which sounds pretty crazy to me. If not that, then maybe Valerian?) We will have to live-riff this sucker at some point.

I dunno, I am intrigued at what kind of story they can tell with a 15-year time gap. I wouldn't be surprised of everyone is aged up in real-time. This could be some kind of generational story...

How is an over-the-top scenery-chewing villain anything like a perpetually drunk/stoned pirate Keith Richards? Why are all over-the-top pirates automatically assumed to be Jack Sparrow ripoffs? Judging from the trailers, just taking Jackman's Blackbeard performance, and dressing/making him up like Captain Morgan, would in itself yield at least a decent Hook.

Yeah, when I first heard the original announcements and stuff, I thought Jackman WAS going to be Hook! It wasn't until I saw the trailers that I realized Jackman was Blackbeard, and Garrett Hedlund was Hook.

Yeah, more people are complaining that 2019 is too LONG a wait. They want it BEFORE these other sequels.