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I wouldn't say he's necessarily a Disney hater, but he drips nothing but disdain for the cbm genre as a whole. That's why he can say, without any sense of irony, "Is anybody actually looking forward to this?" Apparently the projected $175M opening didn't answer that question for him. 🤨

Black Panther Preview Night report for the Salt Lake Valley, 1:15 PM MST. Cinemark Sugarhouse (SLC), Cinemark Draper and XD, Cinemark Farmington and XD. Sugarhouse 405 Draper 371 Farmington 444 Total Tix Sold 1220 Comps Black Adam $28.01M Nope 25.94 Halloween Ends 30.05 Sugarhouse Only Thor L&T $23.49 The Batman 20.78 Dominion 20.02 Glad I added the suburbs with Nope, because once again Sugarhouse seems to be seriously under indexing. Black Adam is my comp, and with the solid reviews and added bump of a Friday holiday, I'll go with a preview night of haul of $29.7

Andddd, now it's gone. 🤷‍♂️ Okay sorry, I should have tried a few more times before posting. Regular update coming in 45.

I just tried accessing the Cinemark website here in SLC to get a preview of what today's report might look like and I was told that I had a place in line and that the expected wait time was 4 minutes. I didn't experience any delays with Batman or L&T on their opening Thursday. Maybe there's some sort of glitch in the system, but I thought it at least worth mentioning.

I guess we got it pretty good here in The Land That Time Forgot. $12.50 for a non-XD evening show, $13.50 for XD.

Flash will have its own crosswinds to face, but if the reports of the test screenings are true (I know, I know), it shouldn't have the weight of BA's terrible reviews to carry. That's been the film's Kryptonite; who outside of the base is going to pay $13-20 to see a film featuring a character they've never heard of that has dreadful notices?

Brilliant. Moments of whimsy as seen in the trailer, but at its core this is a film about grief on a cosmic scale. McDonagh's best and my # 1 film of 2022. You can count on one hand the number of categories this won't get nominated for. 5/5

It's fitting that we're doing this during election season, because this is going to be one of those 'Too Close to Call' contests for # 1 between Fargo, Grit, and Country right up to the very end, I'd wager. I could juggle my top 3 in any order and be happy.

This re-release sounds like the ultimate lump of Christmas coal that no one asked for.

Woo hoo!!

Saw it for the second time today after a so-so first screening, and I gotta say, I had a blast. All the same flaws remain, but there's a cheesy B-movie earnestness to it that was a lot more endearing the second time around. Not top tier DC, just a fun popcorn flick that introduces some cool characters, and that's enough. 3/4

(1) True Grit (2) Fargo (3) No Country for Old Men (4) The Big Lebowski (5) Inside Llewyn Davis (6) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (7) O Brother Where Art Thou (8) Raising Arizona (9) Hail, Ceasar! (10) The Hudsucker Proxy

When that happens we'll know the end days are upon us.

Just bought my tix for OW and I think a lot of other people are too... Cinemark servers were super slow.

Thanks for this joyful review and God Bless those teenagers!! 🤣 The first time around was a bit of a slog for me, but I'm going to see this again on Monday and I'm gonna tell my inner critic to shut up and just go with it like the kid in me first experienced comic books. That's what my friend who's 51- and a huge lover of Kubrick, Nolan, etc- did the other night and he absolutely loved it.

Ahhh, I forgot about the Meg sequel. Yeah, if nothing else that will for sure have at least a big OW.

I think that the House of the Dragon finale tonight may shave a few % points off the evening shows, so it wouldn't shock me if it went slightly under.

Would make sense with Flash opening just six weeks earlier. On the other hand, August this year was a wasteland... if '23 looks similar, a well-received superhero flick would stand to make a lot of money.

But it's the same across all movies, that only the most passionate viewers, whether they be positive or negative, are going to take the time to vote on RT, so in that context it at least gives you a measure of relative strength and that is a useful metric, IMO. I went and saw BA with a bunch of people on opening night and most of the reactions were of the "Eh, it was okay/pretty good" variety, which was pretty much the way I felt about it, but there's no denying that it has struck a chord with others given that audience score and a 8.81 multiplier.

BA's action definitely playing better in Asia than Shazam's humor.

I actually hope the 'mystery film' that Gunn pitched WB recently is a live action Metal Men. I think he would be a great fit for that and supposedly he's a fan of the property, so we'll see.

Yeah, but will it have legs?

Glad you loved it. Seeing it next weekend and I can't wait.

Was there a script for the first one?

Okay, that movie was wack. 3, maybe 3.5 out of 5 for me. Would have been higher but for all the slo-mo and some catastrophically bad musical cues that took me out of scenes altogether. Also, I know this was made for geeks, but shouldn't there have been at least a passing nod to the JSA's backstory? Because we just suddenly meet all these people without any explanation as to who they are or what this organization is that they're a part of, and it's really strange. And I say that as someone who does know who they are... I can't imagine how confused somebody from the G.A. would be. Anyway, complaints aside, Pierce was great, as expected, it was fun to look at, and the last 45 minutes rocked, so I left the theater reasonably happy, even if that much-advertised bonus scene didn't quite carry the impact I had hoped.