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Last I checked, Disney isn’t the only conglomerate which has put out movies with shakey effects Don’t confuse said person with common sense. I find it amusing when people try to rationalize to themselves and others “why did other people like something I didn’t?!!”

OT but related to the lawsuit: Emma Stone apparently is considering suing Disney over Cruella’s release https://screenrant.com/cruella-movie-emma-stone-disney-lawsuit-rumors-updates/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

King Kevin is allegedly peeved at Disney. He didn’t want to do a hybrid release (guess he won that pony) and now this ScarJo money mess. (FYI Report came from former THR reporter Matt Belloni, which CB 3rd partied.) Good job Disney, peeving off one of your few dependable earners. https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-studios-kevin-feige-report-disney-black-widow-release/

They should but I doubt it.

Because I factored PA into my guesstimation? Look up that club sometime, I wasn’t the only one to bet against it doing 100.

I mean even when some locals were hyping up BW doing 100 OW (lol), even I was skeptical. And add onto TSS's handicaps that's been ad nauseum repeated, that number for TSS seemed unrealistic even when things were relatively doing better weeks ago. But sometimes the bold investments in the clubs pay off handsomely. And sometimes people get their legs broken.

I blame that less on Disneyphilia and more media having a short attention/memory span.

The IDW comics treated it as such, I doubt the new movie will acknowledge it but who knows?

For better or worse, it's clearly being aimed at the middle age GB "fandom" since this will be the closest thing they'll get to a GB3 as a movie.* I'm curious to see if kids on their own want to watch this. One good thing about Afterlife: Sony in synergy reposted many of the old Real Ghostbusters episodes on YouTube. That was a fun nostalgia vacation. That show was a better sequel than GB2 by a country mile. *=Granted that was the hook for the video game back in the 2010s, promoted by R/A as unofficially GB3. IIRC it sold fine but it wasn't the monster hit the developers had expected. Maybe there are just limits to that brand's power?

Seeing people online press this point, ignoring the fact that (1) yeah there's some adult stuff/context in that original movie and (2) all which went over the heads of kids of that era, who ate that movie up. This was a PG rated movie after all (PG-13 wasn't a thing yet.) Trust me, I was part of that generation who was into the toys, the (horrible) NES game, and the Real Ghostbusters cartoon series. Alot of kids connected to it on a superhero level, which makes sense when you think about it (people put on costumes to "save" the day using gizmos to fight magic.)

A truly poetic film title if there ever was one.

Really curious to see how this opens.

how sharp will its 2nd weekend drop be? Over or under SJ2's drop?

I can't wait to see this on Paramount Plus.

Consider it glorified R&D, a space where you could experiment on ideas that if popular enough they could be incorporated into the main canon through multiverse shenanigans or just the main movie universe in its own version. (People forget that when Dark Knight Returns came out which past tense had a dead Jason Todd Robin, Jason Todd was still *alive* in the comics at the time. Did TDKR influence readers to vote for his death in that infamous phone vote? Did it inspire DC editorial to go there?)

If your forecast comes true, people playing down the impact of delta variant in the news are even more foolish than usual.

If the recent weekend is any indication, people will use confirmation bias to claim it would’ve opened better if it was a better flick.

Some folks’ confirmation bias will claim “oh if it was better it would’ve done better!”

Hey where’s my Superstar Limo movie?

It’s weird how considering the people involved it should be good and yet I’ve been left cold by what we’ve seen so far. Maybe I’m just burned out on Batman?

Irony is India became independent because (among other reasons) UK went bankrupt from winning that war, ultimately allowed to do it’s own NAM thing during the Cold War. If the Axis had won, would India (which would’ve been part of Japan’s “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” of influence in this hypothetical Axis-dominated world) have been able to do that? (Of course “Man in the High Castle” dabbled with an AU Cold War between the Axis powers. I can’t remember India’s fate in book or show.)

Wow didn’t realizing the Disney firing made him grey

You’re not wrong. That town rides and dies on IPs.

With MCU Cap, box office totals would indicate most people (especially OS) avoided TFA. Most people saw him for the first time in Avengers, then they showed up for TWS. as for GI Joe, I will say this: It had its opportunity to be a popular franchise because conceptually quibbles aside, historical record has shown that American right wing-flavored actioneers have had an audience overseas for decades. It's why Gerard Butler and those dang Angel Has ______ movies keep happening. The problem obvious is that Rise of Cobra sucked. One of those Aughts blockbusters informed by Batman Begins (too much perhaps) and tried to marry the serious grim storytelling (that whole Duke/Baroness/Cobra storyline is a mess) with a pulpy cartoonish landscape, and we don't get the best of either in that very awkward mess. (Basically if they could've threaded the needle? We would've gotten something like TWS perhaps.) They dropped the ball. Then the sequel, they reasoned it didn't do better because it was "too goofy" and yeah it wasn't as wonderfully silly as sinking icebergs, but you become more of a generic action/blockbuster template. So after two strikes, Joe as a movie property is DOA. Even if say Snake Eyes had miraculously been say Batman Begins AWESOMEZ!, it still would've been sandbagged by that property's albatross rep. Maybe done enough to ensure this rebooted series keeps going, but that's it.

Johnny Walker in F&TWS is what most folks OS expected personality wise when they hear “Captain America” before Evans showed up and people realized “ok he’s Superman but with a shield.”