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Bill Mumy, later of Will Robinson fame on Lost in Space, who then grew up and became a comics writer, composer and regular at SDCC with his band Seduction of the Innocent! That TZ episode scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

Early 2017?! Yikes. That's some stale bread.

SLC Cinemark Sugarhouse preview night update, 1:35 MST. Where the Crawdads Sing Total tix sold 89/144 61.8% Fri 92/240 38.3% (by comparison, Thor currently has 58 tix sold for Friday with three shows that are completely empty, including an early evening slot that Crawdads would love to have.) Sat 50/240 20.8% 93.6% of Elvis ($3.28) 107% of Uncharted (3.97) 135% of Lost City (4.38) I'll go with 3.6/25 Le Pattes de Hank Total tix sold 4/186 2.2% Fri 23/310 7.4% Sat 0/310 0.0% No sound. No fury. Nuttin. Go home, you mangy cur. 530K/6.3

WOW. This looks soooo much better than that first trailer. Definitely on the hype train now.

Just drag your arrow to the person's name and hold it for a second. A screen will come up that has links to message, ignore, etc.

The inescapable math for Thor is that the more people who see it, the more people there are to tell the secondary wave of casual viewers that it's just not that good. I think that's where the real effect of D+ will come in. Nobody's going to feel like they're missing out by waiting. 48-52

Good storytelling and like a lot of things in life, being in the right place at the right time. After 29 mos of Covid hell and years more of living in a society that is seemingly at odds on everything, it's pretty damn cathartic to watch a bunch of brave, beautiful men and women join together to just get the job done. It's so much simpler than dealing with a virus that mutates every ten seconds or a political system that is broken to the core. It's a great movie but if it had been released on its original date, I don't think it would have become the phenomenon that it did. It would have been big, just not this big.

Damn. And Bale was the best part of the movie by far.

I actually avoid XD like the plague. Saw Grindlewald, Bohemian, and Rocketman in that format and each time I left the theater with an earache. It's SO freaking loud.

Life support.

Old enough to remember this.

Me too. It was my favorite trailer of the bunch that preceded Thor.

Thor: Love and Thunder 7:00 PM opening night Salt Lake Sugarhouse Cinemark. 95% full. Trailers: Amsterdam White Bird Paws of Fury Strange World Avatar A few murmers at Amsterdam and Avatar, otherwise no reaction to the trailers. For an opening night Thor crowd, this was pretty sedate. Scattered laughs throughout, but the big third act was met with total silence. No applause at the end but most of the audience stayed throughout the credits. Did a totally unscientific survey afterwards of 7 people. Two loved it, two thought it was "a good time," one gave it a B-, one said it was alright but had too much humor, and one girl said she was glad she got drunk beforehand because she didn't think she would have liked it if she'd had to sit through it sober.

What a weird, soulless jumble of a movie. Killer concept, great cast (Bale's Gorr is right up there with Thanos as the best MCU villain, IMO), but every time the stakes start to matter, the tension is dissipated by a stupid one-liner that reminds the audience that this is all just a joke, so don't take it too seriously. Jane visiting the cosmic version of Mt. Olympus, on her way to meet the granddaddy of all the Gods, Zeus, and what is she consumed with? Coming up with a catch-phrase. 🤦‍♂️What should have been a sequence filed with awe and wonder instead reduces this brilliant woman to her grade-school self (maybe she caught this from Thor, who at least for the first 60 minutes, has inexplicably turned into a pompous blockhead), and for me, that kind of typified the whole movie. The film finally gathers some momentum in the last act, and I thought the whole sequence on the Shadow World was brilliant, but by then it's too little too late. 2 goats out of 4.

Love and Thunder Salt Lake City Sugarhouse Cinemark update, 1 hour before previews. Thor put on a great sprint at the end at my non-PLF theater. 500 total tix sold for preview night. That equates to: 119% of Batman ($25.65) 137% of Dominion ($24.72) 254% of Eternals ($24.11) 575% of Ghostbusters ($25.86) Sorry I don't have the big comps like NWH, DS2, and Top Gun, but safe to say, this is finishing strong. I'll go with 27/148 for the weekend.

Yeah, that would make sense, especially since it's likely to be attached to SuperPets when that opens six days later. Speaking of SP, I'm guessing The Rock will be promoting that at SDCC as well.

The little 19 second announcement video is actually punchier and better edited than the full trailer. What I'm wondering is, is this a DJ solo thing or are other DC films going to be showcased? I could see why they might elect to just lay low this year since it would be really weird to have Shazam and Aquaman there but not Flash, but I'm guessing the last thing they want to do right now is get the media talking about Ezra again.

BP will open huge and then its legs will depend on the quality. But the 'R.I.P.' factor won't play any part in it. Walker and Ledger were both actually in their respective movies... who in their right mind would be more amped to see a movie because a beloved actor wasn't in it?

I'm not aware of any other movie in history that has received the kind of goat accolades that this one has. Excited to see it this weekend and discover what all the fuss was about. 🐐

Whatever, just saw Elvis today and hot damn, that was great. (And I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd be saying that about an Elvis movie.)

That's Ace the Bat Hound (in the comics he wore a mask to protect his secret identity) and I'm sure Bruce and Alfred would have taught him better!

Quick Thor update from Salt Lake City. Sugarhouse Cinemark preview night, 9 shows, non PLF. Total tix sold 227 Percentages vs FINAL counts: 115% of Eternals (10.93) 261% of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (11.74) 54% of Batman (11.66) 62% of Dominion (11.16) Solid, but hopefully can get a review boost next week. Right now I'm expecting low 20s.

The discourse of everything has gotten more toxic in recent times. The nature of Twitter obliterates nuance, and the angrier and more outrageous your take, the more you're rewarded. I deleted my account several years ago and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Can't wait for L&T!

Good to know. 👍 We definitely don't have the same taste in movies then.

I'm going to be really bummed if L&T is worse than Strange. I didn't think MOM was bad, but it was definitely less than I was expecting. Other than the sheet music battle, which was brilliant, and a few moments of genuine emotion at the end before they wrecked it with that dumb eye thing (Seriously, can Marvel ever just let a story end??), there's nothing about that movie I'll remember a year from now.