Darth Lehnsherr

Jealous that my friend got to go to an early screening for this. Still need to wait two weeks.

Middling performance for an MCU sequel but a good performance for a sequel in general.

Tune in next week on What Will Disney Do Next?

Have to wait until the end of August for this movie damn it

I really wanna watch this again

Considering that this wasn't much of a secret (Gunn got some flack back in 2012) and all it would take was a simple check on Twitter I highly doubt that.

Clearly Disney didn't think that when they hired the dude in the first place

Score was probably the weakest part of the film but it wasn't a big negative thankfully.

Oh that looked really bad. Would have taken the impact away from that final shot of the heroes had he been in the foreground more.

VFX rarely takes me out when watching a film in the cinemas but the fight between Killmonger and Black Panther in the 3rd Act was one of the few times it did. Laziness isn't the culprit as much as running out of time as blockbusters are now set with a release date before they even begin pre-production (with the exception of the Avatar sequels which is why Cameron is able to take his time with those). Infinity War on digital looked pretty good I thought there was only some minor green screen issues and CGI doubles.

Everyone should check out Empire Podcast's interview with Chris McQuarrie for Fallout

Incredibles 2 for me IMO. How many people were predicting $600M at the start of the year. Fallen Kingdom is about on par with expectations. And Infinity War's legs were much better than most thought.

A prequel about that Han would have done better at the box office

Yay.....

McQuarrie definitely succeeded in changing up stylistically how Fallout was in look and tone compared to Rogue Nation. It felt like they were each made by a different director (other than certain plot points carrying from Rogue Nation of course).

Now that's an office

Yeah the first scene was a bit rough lol. Makes Nolan exposition seem like an everyday conversation. Rest of the movie was a blast and exhilarating and why I go see Mission Impossible films. But yeah not sure why people are blasting Fury Road's "thin plot" when frankly the plot isn't that much more interesting or complex in Fallout. But that's not the point of these films. Oh and I didn't find the score as distracting as I feared it would be which was good. Some parts did sound way too much like TDKR's score though.

The Solo decision was a Lucasfilm decision backed by Disney. I really think the whole Gunn situation is direct order from Disney. Not sure Feige is having much say in this.

They tried that for Thor: The Dark World lol

Interactions between Venom and Eddie Brock seem fun. Rolled my eyes when I saw the two symbiotes fighting (haven't kept up with which characters are in the film). If the world has enough of superheroes it also has enough films where the villain is a complete mirror of the hero.

So ready to watch this on.......13th of September???

Kathleen Kennedy:

Must admit I haven't seen that hot take before so kudos for originality.

The key is the third films tends to be radically different from the other two. Iron Man 3 and Thor Ragnarok were tonally different from their predecessors, Civil War was also a sequel to Age of Ultron and Infinity War added a bunch of characters not in the previous two Avengers film.

It was probably use of the word "bad". I think the most logical thing to say would in response would be to say those bad weekend drops are expected for a July Superhero Film release so there's nothing much to comment on. The film isn't underperforming or overperforming in terms of its legs.