Joel M

So no 400m? It opened to almost exactly the same numbers as GOTG3, it 'll be interesting to see how much higher it 'll get, if at all.

TLK live action a strong conteder for worst movie of the previous decade

Last two months for me. Magic Mike's Last Dance: Not one of the people that deify XXL, but this was very dissapointing. With respects to Soderberg building this around a theatre performance was just a flop idea. 65: It's paper thin but also kinda good and tense. Driver is very charismatic in it. Super Mario Bros: It was fine. Pretty colors, little else. Catherine called Birdy: Whimsy period piece, very watchable and good performances all around. White Noise: Baumbach very hit and miss with me but this one I liked. Pretty strange and memorable. Shazam 2: Slept halfway through not gonna lie. But it's probably still better than Black Adam. Dungeons & Dragons: Fun movie, I think it's a tiny bit over-praised just like Game Night, but it's good and ocassionally very funny. The Netflix guy kinda stole the show. Peter Pan & Wendy: Another hit or miss director for me, and sadly this was just boring and added nothing. Nobody: I thought it would be a lot more action packed for some reason but it's still great fun. Give more badass roles to Bob Odenkirk. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3: Very very good, cements GOTG as it's own thing and it's a great farewell for Gunn and the entire cast. Vol.2 still the best though. Renfield: Pretty terrible and it's a shame because Hoult and Cage playing these roles in a comedy should be fun. But this is more like an action comedy like Deadpool or Kingsman, and it's pretty dire as a result. Evil Dead Rise: Enjoyed it, not exactly riveted by the story and characters but a lot of the set pieces are great and so gruesome. Missing: I'm very pro this desktop sub-genre and this is another fine addition to it. I think it's better than Searching. AIR: Definately return to form for Affleck. Great pace, great cast, the movie breezes by but at the same time it's a little empty. Isn't it cool they made that thing and they made money? And that's about it. He can do better than this. The Little Mermaid: It has most of the problems of the other remakes but it's not total garbage like TLK and BATB. Sadly not as fun as Aladdin. At least Halle is a magnetic presence and the animals don't look as nightmarish as the early stills suggested. How to Blow up a Pipeline: Surpassed all my expectations. It built like a heist film and caries out the tension all the way through in remarkable fashion. It also has enough time for all the characters and while a bit didactic, doesn't go at all into both sides bullshit rhetoric. Across the spider-verse: Pretty much a miracle that this is almost as good as the first. I'm just pumped after watching it both for what I saw and for whatever comes next. Last 2 movies my favorite of the year so far, quite easily. TV was just Succession once a week and nothing else. Gonna miss it hard.

The "to be continued" didn't bother me since it was known in advance it's gonna be a back-to-back 2part mega sequel. I used to be against those on principal, but all the big franchises that went this way (BTTF, Matrix, Pirates) have only grown in my estimation with age.

holy shit that was amazing. The first one is the kind of movie that went from amazing to masterpiece after enough rewatches, but because it is so perfect I didn't had very high expectations for the sequel. Especially after the trailer beats were fixating on the billion spidermen, the excessive runtime and the fact its a part1. Turns out I was stupid. The movie is so visually bold, so thematically ambitious but at the same has an entire hour to devote to just Miles and Gwen character development. We might have to wait for Beyond to fully assess the thematic and character stuff, but I guess I can say the visuals are simply unbelievable. From the colors, the shadows, the framing of every shot and how it flows to the next, it's just insane. If anything this movie put into prespective the entire "spiderverse aesthetic" that has already influenced many animation movies since 2018. I really like Mitchells and Puss in Boots 2, but the "aesthetic" feels in hindsight like a pretty costume they wear and little else. Across the Spiderverse looks at the borderline expressionistic final act of the first one and says we can dig deeper. I canot believe the did it. again.

I also was lol what oscar buzz for Barbie last summer when the set photos were going viral but as we nearing the release I guess I can see it. If like @filmlover said absolutely everything go right for it (reviews, boxoffice, staying power in the zeitgeist).

Sexy Nolan who fucks? I'm in.

yep, one of the best shows of all time. Incredible finale. Glad they decided to end it here.

No one expect this or Aquaman to match Avatar 2, but they gotta do better. I went into the movie expecting for Sebastian and Flounder to be pure nightmare fuel based on the pics I had seen and they looked fine. The real uncanny valley stuff was the human characters blended in that underwater snapchat filter. Made the movie look way cheaper than it is.

It was fine. Much better than BatB, but imo Aladdin is easily the best of the big-4 renaissance remakes.

me too. Even in the previous iteration before Greta this was supposed to be an Amy Schumer vehicle, and that one I bet wasn't aimed at pree-teens that still play with barbies. Mattel's angle from the start was to make it for people who are nostalgic about Barbie but also have a more cynical view of what it represents.

I don't think it looks that adult or that it will scare the little girls away. They just aren't the main target group. If they were, this would be animated and probably made by Illumination.

Temple of Doom rules. It's better than Last Crusade, which is also great.

Or maybe we can be chill that one critic gave this a negative review, just a thought.

Yeah it looks like raves. Ofc it 'll also get some pushback, it's Scorsese not some basic bitch.

So excited. With all the delays feels like we 've been waiting a decade for this to come out. Lily Gladstone is coming for lead, hell yes.

Really really good, first MCU I liked with no ifs and buts since forever. Vol.2 I think is still my favorite but Gunn really left in a high note. Probably my favorite thing was the way he treated the other Gamora, I was genuinely surprised by the way she's used in the movie. Pratt was also really great and the most charming he's been since the last Guardians movie. Best MCU trilogy by a country mile.

Pratt was definately on the path post-breakout but after Magnificent Seven and Passengers did mediocre to okayish numbers and got immediately forgotten he just run back to his mega IP gigs. Jurassic and GOTG had made him famous worldwide, so I'm not ruling out him eventually having a Rayn Reynolds/Free Guy moment where his persona translates to a populist movie that isn't backed by huge IP. But until then I wouldn't call him a movie star. Giving him boxoffice cred for voicing the most famous video game character of all time in a billion dollar hit is plain silly to me. Rock on the other hand and despite his abysmal choices the last few years quality wise, is definately one of the few real draws. Even his franchise stuff are certainly boosted by his popularity. Black Adam without him would have done worse than Shazam 2.

huh? IM3 exploded, Thor 2 got almost Incredible Hulk reception and still got a big bump, Winter Soldier got great reviews and doubled the boxoffice of the first movie, Ant-Man was the one people had pegged as the likely flop and did half a billion. I'll give you AOU and Civil War since those not beating Avengers1 and IM3 gave for a while the impression that the MCU might have already peak.

The trades doing some serious journalism already

Looks incredible. I managed to stay unspoiled about what happens this far and hope to make it this way to November. Easily one of my most anticipated of the year. I 've already seen the first one too many times.

Not so sure about that. Letterboxd users and people who are all over Barbie/Greta/the cast on twitter have a pretty big overlap. Not the same pull as Marvel bult-in audience, but a lot of them might be shitting their pants just because they 're watching it 2 months early. I guess we can be more sure that it isn't a disaster or just a toy commercial, but I think we already knew that based on the cast and crew.

Did we know in advance what this is about? A gamer trying to race real cars is a good hook, I'll give them that. Certainly better than whatever a "straight" adaptation og Gran Turismo would be.