Lucas

This is the closest I've seen a tv-show legitimately look like a film.

Pretty fucking terrifying that we've already passed the halfway point... 2022 feels eerily close lol.

Fuck Disney so hard. I don't particularly like Scarlett Johansson but I hope she gets so fucking much out of this.

Normally this is the time I would rewatch whatever relevant movie there is to something like The Suicide Squad, but I just cannot bring myself to see that again.

Ah thank you, I agree. I put together the strange human-skin Yoda in a hazmat suit on the day the 'rona was declared a pandemic. Now that I've finally been able to get vaccinated, I thought it's about time we start rockin' the weird James Corden's cat-face on The Doctor's body picture again.

And it couldn't have been harsher lmao.

Managed to get the rare 99% under 100 reviews. Average rating is also still holding really strong at 8.1

It'll be a hell of a lot better shot.

I am so fucking relieved.

I've been fucking terrified all day...

That's a definite negative for sure. Black Panther's the only one recently (maybe ever?) to last longer, getting the first rotten at 76.

To compare with other recent cape films at 50: Black Panther: 0 Endgame: 1 Ragnarok: 1 Civil War: 1 Wonder Woman: 2 The Avengers: 2 Shazam!: 3 Infinity War: 3 The Winter Soldier: 3 Homecoming: 4 Far From Home: 4 Guardians Vol 1: 5 Guardians Vol 2: 7

Now 50 reviews without a rotten.

How many other 1st and 2nd movies are there where one is fucking terrible but does really well at the box office, and the other is the total opposite in both ways.

It's happened a couple of times, but it's doing really well, especially holding strong to the average rating.

And the average rating has been steadily going up from 7.9 to 8.0, and now an 8.1.

Well, no.

Yeah I also thought the review read like a positive one more than a negative, despite the C+ rating which is a bit of a middle-ground area.

The one rotten review has been changed to a fresh, so suddenly back to 100%

Bob better fucking pull through

Oh dear god, I started thinking about what they could possibly do with Ellen Burstyn for this film (or the whole trilogy? First I thought she might be called in as an expert on the lore like Spock in Into Darkness, and I laughed to myself at how shit that would be. Chris MacNeil was a working actress and a mother in the first film, not the titular exorcist lol. And then I put myself in the mindset of a hackneyed Hollywood writer (not saying that's what we'll have for this), and a terrible but funnily plausible idea hit me; Is the hackneyed path they'll take with her character... that the events of the first film did such a toll on her (understandable) that she has now spent the last 50 years to become an exorcist herself, in the path of Father Merrin? Is Ellen Burstyn gonna be the the titular Exorcist for this trilogy? It would definitely be following in the footsteps of what they did with Laurie Strode in Hallowen '18 lol, but it would be much worse. A criticism people have about the '73 film is that Chris MacNeil basically takes a backseat in the third act of the film, despite being the central character for the first two. I occasionally agree with it, despite the film being possibly my favorite of all-time, but a more hackneyed Hollywood script would force her into the exorcism. It feels far more natural and believable that she wouldn't be involved, and by that point the film has already done a stellar job building up Father Karras as a secondary protagonist that we don't feel lost when it switches almost entirely to his point of view. ...But I could definitely see wheels turning when a group of writers try to crack a story for a sequel 50 years later, lmao. "How about we do justice by Chris MacNeil and have her be the exorcist!" I've been laughing to myself about this the whole day, but I do believe they'll be smarter than that... I hope. Have a new character be the exorcist, and tell us Chris MacNeil lived a happy life, free from evil. But the fact that it's gonna be a whole trilogy is supremely baffling.

The one thing I'm curious about is I feel there's a pretty good chance they won't go too over the top with it, which would be a refreshing change for possession movies lately, and it'd be neat to see what that might look like for an Exorcist sequel.

The Exorcist is probably my favorite film, but I absolutely do not need or want this. And I'll still show up opening day for all three.

Hereditary numbers is Lady Bird numbers. The former is about a million ahead worldwide. Domestically the latter beats it by five million.

huh