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I’m 31, and that movie is great. Ending aside. And even that doesn’t bother me much. Chris Reeve is the best live-action Superman ever, Margot Kidder is the best live-action Lois Lane. The effects even hold up 41 years later. And holy shit, it still has the best musical score of anything based on a comic book. Alan Silvestri’s Avengers scores may be good, but John Williams buries them. It is impossible to come up with a better theme music for the Man of Steel, and one of the few good moments in Justice League was when that music showed up.

If we ever discover that there is a multiverse and subsequently master interdimensional travel, I want to visit the reality where Brad Bird actually got to make his animated Spirit movie in the 80s.

Looks like I may get my photo-finish weekend after all. (Granted, when I started thinking about it during Endgame’s OW, I expected for both to be higher and for it to be closer to Jurassic World/Inside Out as one of the closest races involving grosses that high. But whatever.)

It was a joke. Destroy All Monsters is propped up by having so many monsters in it. I just wanted to be funny.

WTF? No Destroy All Monsters or Final Wars? The freaking Infinity War and Endgame of the franchise? Your opinion as a Godzilla fan is officially invalid. 😛 But seriously, good list. I’m not sure I’d put “MUTOs guest-starring Godzilla” on there, but it’s the best American G flick by default for the next few weeks, so whatever. I liked the parts with Godzilla. Also, I’ve heard praise of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe as the best non-Godzilla kaiju movie ever. Have you seen it?

Missing: Superman III, Supergirl, Superman IV, The Punisher ‘89, Captain America ‘90, Fantastic Four ‘94, Steel, Spawn, Catwoman, Elektra, The Punisher ‘04, Punisher War Zone, The Spirit, and Hellboy ‘19. Is it because you haven’t seen them, or because you did see them and consider them so bad they don’t even deserve to be on the list?

The way I look at it: TDK has a definite claim of being the best comic book movie, while Infinity War, Endgame and Spider-Verse are in the running for best comic book movie. Translation: TDK may well the best at being a film, but not the best at replicating the experience of superhero comic books on film. I consider them two different things, equally commendable.

Domestic total? As in, including the rest of the run? Do 3D/IMAX/PLF really inflate it that much?

My “loyalty” is to movies I enjoy. I don’t care who makes them.

That could work. I was going to say they could set aside part of the revenue to donate to the ongoing restoration of the cathedral, but you said Disney+. (I wouldn’t be surprised if they did it for future runs of the stage version, though.)

Also, this is the good thing about mainline Disney+Pixar in the 2020s (i.e., not Marvel Studios or Lucasfilm). They’ve essentially run out of stuff to remake or turn into sequels. They have to make originals for the better part of the next decade, at least on the animation side (barring a hypothetical Incredibles 3 or Zootopia 2). No idea what’s going to happen to the main live-action studio considering these remakes are the only things that made money for them, and Pirates is basically sunk. You know what would be great for Disney+, though? Remake The Black Cauldron and the rest of the Chronicles of Prydain as a series. Disney essentially has their own more family-friendly Game of Thrones in those books, which they still have the rights to adapt AFAIK.

I’ve heard about Dragon Empire, rumors say it’s supposed to be something kind of in the vein of How to Train Your Dragon (only in the sense of dragons being real) but in some sort of Asian setting? I think Jamie Chung is doing a voice.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: THE MOVIE. Kevin Feige, Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, whoever, MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN.

Moral of the past week: People need to stop using the word “lock” when predicting box office. It’s our “inconceivable.” Also, there seems to be a correlation between people saying something is a “lock”, and it not happening, as if the universe’s response is “Oh yeah? I’ll show you!”

Do we even know if the second Pixar original is actually coming out on schedule? We don’t even have a title for it.

Does Jeff Goldblum ever not look like he’s sleepwalking these days?

Is Alice in Wonderland THAT forgotten? (Not that I’m complaining, from all I understand it was dogshit.)

Oh, darn, I haven’t followed that in years. My mistake. I really need to go back and watch that, I heard it got really good.

Madam Hydra/Viper as a villain would be interesting. I know that the MCU history is that HYDRA went completely underground after WWII, with Arnim Zola secretly running it from within SHIELD, and they were assumed to no longer exist at all until the revelations of TWS, but I still would like to see Ophelia show up as an antagonist somehow.

True, true. I was just throwing ideas out there. Honestly, if you don’t want to have the mythology baggage but still want to nod to it, something standalone about a young Pokémon trainer whose parents (John Cho and Rinko Kikuchi?) are familiar-looking Pokémon trainers or former trainers, just make them supporting characters, maybe even don’t say their names (or just have them referred to them as Satoshi and Kasumi?) or have a bunch of callbacks but drop signs so the parents in the audience know they are Ash and Misty (like maybe dad still has that hat and gives it to son/daughter).

If it happens, I could imagine two possibilities for a live-action Ash movie. Either go with kid Ash (Ian Chen from Shazam?) or do a time jump with a young adult Ash (Ryan Potter?) and do a “how would Ash’s adventure end?” story where after years of training he finally achieves the status of Pokémon Master. And he still has his Pikachu who still will not evolve but is god-tier anyways (there has to be some Thor-meets-Toothless badass lightning-ery). And end it with another time jump and some kind of tear-jerking epilogue (the happy kind) involving Ash, Misty and their kids (think Deathly Hallows 2 meets How to Train Your Dragon 3) that will leave my generation of fans sobbing and gushing tears of joy all the way home.

“Yeah, we don’t actually say that name in here.”

Yeah, that’s good. But in today’s social media goldfish memory age, I wonder if marketing shouldn’t start even later.

Was this the final Mummy trailer, or the airplane teaser? I thought all the buzz was from that initial teaser, which implied a different and scarier movie than what we actually got. Then when everyone saw Russell Crowe as Nick Fury and the Dark Universe announcement, they went “oh fuck, this isn’t what we were hoping for at all” and noped right the fuck on out.

That was likely a case of “the more of the actual movie people see, the less interested they get.” If they had dropped that initial teaser right before release, perhaps people would have run out to see it, but then it presumably would have nosedived once they saw what the movie actually was. Again, maybe studios need to stop dropping trailers so freaking early.