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  1. I think that was partially a by-product of the change in popularity of animation brands that was happening at the time. The 2000s were PIXAR vs DW with everyone else a very distant third. During 2010 in the shadow of TS3 and Shrek 4, Illumination broke out with Despicable Me and WDAS had a comeback with Tangled. The tide shifted quickly after that and suddenly Princesses and Minions were all the rage, while PIXAR and DW started feeling a bit played out for a time.
  2. yeah I don't think we need all that. As a non-book reader the spice to me is just space oil. Makes cars go but also you can sniff it.
  3. I think in most cases it's people who liked or were intrigued by some stuff in part1 but were overall underwhelmed/bored by the lack of incident or closure finally clicked with part2 after all the legwork was out of the way. But yeah there's some "YUGE jump in quality" reactions which I also don't get. To each his own, I guess. To me they seem 2 parts of a whole. If I didn't know they were shot years apart I would assume they were shot back-to-back like lotr and kill bill.
  4. Yeah it's a masterpiece. I didn't know the story and tried to stay as unspoiled as possible but I could tell from the end of the first movie that this was shaping up to be something really special. And it plays like a giant payoff to the promise of the first movie.
  5. People on twitter insist this is Vineland after the set pics but it also seems set in modern times? So a Pynchon adaptation after all, but not a direct one like Inherent Vice? I have no idea, haven't read the book.
  6. Those 4 lead acting noms for Netflix bait really breaks my brain. I thought they weren't gonna go as hard as SAG on them but alas. The acting branch really is the worst at picking its own nominees almost every year. I get Maestro was the big bait of they year and got many noms, but Margot Robbie and Greta Lee getting snubbed for Anette Benning playing Donald Trump lookalike is pretty tragic.
  7. Sorry but this is nuts. Those were spin-offs trying to revive dead and buried IPs. Wonka was at best a wild card and Hunger Games was for most people a bomb waiting to happen. I really don't get how 600m was expected from Wonka. I don't get how HGBOSS was expected to pull in the male demographic when most expected to not even get the girls interested.
  8. Not that unpopular anymore. I think the overwhelming praise at least online has cooled off a lot since it ended. I haven't exactly turned against it, but I similarly haven't thought about it or have any urge to revisit it. I was certainly enjoying it at the time but I am also a huge fan that knows the game inside out and had the thrill seeing how they 'll adapt every little detail. In retrospect I kinda agree that it was a "great gowns, beautiful gowns" show where great production values and good acting did the heavy lifting while the emotions were not earned by the narrative as presented. They adapted the cutscenes very faithfully, filled in some lore for the fans and mostly ffwd through the gameplay where most of the character development, Joel-Ellie bond happens. I'm still intrigued though by how they 'll tackle the second game because they can't pull the same trick there. First game was a linear episodic road trip. TLOU2 mostly takes place in less than week, have multiple POVs, multiple timelines, flashbacks that withdraw important information until very late in the story, way more action etc. The adaptation has to be radically different just to be comprehensible as a season of TV.
  9. I think SAG has always been the most Netflix-friendly out of all the big guilds , which means May-December the only good Netflix movie in contention is truly dead and buried. Maestro was always a given here, but Nyad and Rustin got in too? They gobbled up all the transparent bait they could find once more.
  10. I'm not sold yet on an Oppenheimer mega sweep. Nolan feels almost impossible to lose and it'll certainly get most of the techs no matter what, but both Cillian and RDJ and screenplay and BP seems hard.
  11. I feel there's more people "concerned" that this is being overpredicted than it actually being overpredicted. Sure some suit threw out that it 'll make a billion which means nothing, some people might hope it 'll blow up but there's also outliers on the other side that think it 'll barely increase for reasons. Most realistic expectations are still that it'll have a sizable growth DOM and a smaller growth OS since it released early in many big markets and wasn't as affected by the day-and-date release there.
  12. Night Swim was just garbage. Good on Blumhouse for still making money, but I feel they used to have better quality control even for their lower profile stuff. I also saw Poor Things which was amazing and it's kind of hilarious that here it plays like a blockbuster because of Lanthimos. Most packed theatre I've been in since Oppenheimer. Also ABY does not even have a release date here yet. I assume some countries were waiting to see how it 'll play in the anglosphere first where the stars are more well known, and now after the breakout they 'll probably set it for Valentine's Day.
  13. Another interesting tidbit now that we got final Barbie numbers. post pandemic top5 1.Spiderman: NWH 465.892 2.Barbie 465.887 3.Oppenheimer 426.719 4.Avatar 2 422.811 5.Murderess 366.849 and counting If Barbie doesn't get an awards type re-release, Spiderman will get to keep the top spot by 5 tickets lol.
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