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I love this title. It belongs on a 1960s Marvel comic book cover, and I believe that Stan Lee is smilin’ down from that big bullpen in the sky at how audacious it is. Face front, true believers! Excelsior! Can someone correct the thread title so that it accurately says “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”?

#NotAnEvent strikes again, I see.

Can you remind me who? I remember being there but I can’t remember who it was. (Was it BKB, like with Jurassic World later that summer? Or was it the GiantCalBears person @Walt Disney referred to?)

I’d say something to celebrate this collective accomplishment, this collective victory, but it would be an Endgame spoiler and I don’t want to get banned. But you probably know what quote it is.

Beauty and the Beast ‘17.

Does it serve damn fine coffee? (Dammit, @MrPink beat me to it!)

That was a fantastic trailer for sure. And we mustn’t forget the Super Bowl teaser (which started that whole trend!) That shot of the White House blowing up was amazing in 1996. Truly the pinnacle of the art of building intricately detailed models, then blowing them up.

How is The Avengers misleading? An outsized 3D share? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 came out a year earlier, also in 3D, also in that post-Avatar period when 3D was more prevalent.

My mom never had any problem with going to the movies. It’s my dad who was essentially dragged. He had a good time, but there were things like how he’d insist on the aisle seat in case he needed to go to the bathroom or whatever. And especially as he gets older, he just does not want to go to the theater. I can only name a handful of times that he accompanied me to the movies without my mom also being there.

That was such a dumb rumor. Someone obviously got their wires crossed, there is no way that was ever actually considered as a possibility.

IMO it actually is, because Cameron initially denied it and was sued. IIRC they also dragged their feet on inserting Ellison’s credit to his satisfaction, and I think it wasn’t until 1991 that they finally put that big-ass acknowledgment right before the end credits.

Art takes inspiration from past art all the time. I don’t think they maliciously set out to plagiarize Kimba any more than James Cameron maliciously set out to plagiarize Harlan Ellison. If they had just admitted whether it was an inspiration during development, instead of feigning ignorance, there would be no controversy (other than over the claim that it was “original” - though honestly, if a genre pastiche like Star Wars or Indiana Jones could be considered “original” then so can this. George Lucas literally did plagiarize a synopsis of The Hidden Fortress from a film book for an early story treatment of Star Wars, just replacing names and places and things like that, but the final film is not 1:1 and he admitted his inspiration so nobody cares.)

I think Halloween is a pretty cool guy. Eh butchers people in a William Shatner mask and doesn’t afraid of anything. (But seriously, it split-second made me think of “Machete Kills” and thus that Halloween is the name of the killer. I get what they’re actually going for, but I just had to dredge up that old Halo meme...)

This was the doing of the American distributor of the 1997 feature remake. I believe the movie actually got hit with a cease and desist threat from Disney (yeah, I know, that looks really bad, but if it was over this artwork, it does copy the promotional campaign of TLK in ways which cannot be traced back to TLK cribbing from Kimba.) However, the film was never pulled, nor was that artwork, so they must have settled. FWIW, the current American home release uses the Japanese poster artwork, which looks completely different.

This. It’s a monomyth like the hero’s journey. I don’t know if anybody has given it a catchy name, but the “coming/return of the (true) king” story is just as old and just as bound up in every culture.

Agreed. I’d like to see more stories in general where a romantic relationship is just treated as a constant instead of a will-they-won’t-they thing. Where two important characters are in a relationship and it just is. I’m glad the MCU is doing this (at least sometimes; fortunately, that Tony/Pepper offscreen breakup from CW was sent down the memory hole along with Steve’s fling with Sharon Carter). Yes, I know the comics have been all about the angst since the 60s, but it gets tiring. I also don’t like to see characters wallow in perpetual misery. I’m glad that they haven’t fully gone with Peter Parker as the Charlie Brown of the Marvel Universe, something the comics editors keep forcing on him every time he gets some happiness. (I’m thinking of the Clone Saga era where they kept trying to separate Peter and MJ, had MJ appear to die, and had them lose their kid. And, of course, One More Day, where they erased his marriage and years of character development.)

Helicopter under the overpass, flipping the semi truck and crashing this plane with no survivors are all amazing. Sadly, King Cameron abdicated the throne of full-scale practical stunts after Titanic, and Nolan claimed the throne for himself. Not saying one or the other is better (Are you kidding?! I want Cameron to do another movie with lots of practical stuff!), but that’s the reality.

Do we always get a year-in-advance teaser? Did Dunkirk have one? Or did it wait until the IMAX-exclusive preview?

We don’t know what was going on behind the scenes. He could have had valid reason to. It’s not like one day he decided “Welp, I don’t wanna do this anymore, screw all y’all!”

No, Akira was already running into problems. Remember that report from someone working in Atlanta that they had halted production and cancelled the filming start date?

If you’re an independent mini-major in Hollywood, your inevitable fate is to either be absorbed into Lionsgate (e.g., Trimark, Artisan, Summit, and the distribution part of CBS Films sort of counts too), or collapse in an epic Hindenburg-style flame-out (e.g., Cannon, Orion, Carolco, Revolution, Relativity, and Weinstein). My money’s on the latter for STX...

Was there any audience disappointment at SLOP1 just being Toy Story meets Bolt and having mismatched characters get lost and need to get home, rather than focusing on the domestic world itself as the teasers promised? At least when Pixar or WDAS uses that formula nowadays there’s some other new hook to it, but “pets in peril” has been done so many times even before Toy Story established the “CGI buddy comedy” formula.

That’s because he’s a plank of wood. Therefore, it’s not meatwashing.

I hope you’re only counting the first three and not the last two. Those were only released in 200-250 theaters in North America. It’s an unfair disadvantage. (That said, according to Corpse’s Japanese data, after the first movie’s series-record 6.54 million admissions, each subsequent movie dropped by around a million tickets, so the movie series was contracting in Japan too. But then attendance jumped 67% for film six...)

Also, the U.S. dollar was still very weak in 2010. Or is it down in Euros too?