Menor the Destroyer

It was fun but not that amazing, not sure I really understand the glowing reviews and the glowing (online) response. The pacing gets weird in the Harley section in the middle (which I did not like). The part with the guerrilla commander did not land at all for me, she should have been way more angry that they just slaughtered her entire camp. The character arcs were mostly pretty thin, Polka Dot Man's was the only one that landed (and then he died gratuitously). Like Bloodsport's "arc" is that his daughter sees him on TV being heroic, but they never actually get any moment of reconciliation, so it falls flat. Still I liked the ending with the starfish villain, and it was overall entertaining throughout. B

He definitely has a better chance than the USO. In the past painful losses have usually pushed him to play better tennis as well (after the 2015 RG final he went on that ridiculous tear for 12 months). But now Medvedev will be much tougher having gotten over the hump. I would say Djokovic is only slightly favored if that. Also if Thiem can get healthy and get his form back he will be a big contender for sure. I won't discount him at the US but in Australia I would say he's more in the second tier of contenders than the first.

Thing is wouldn't her arc would be very different because of the way Luke's story went? It would be more of a "same concept and name" sort of thing.

Um...cool? Looks better than I expected (this was my least anticipated MCU project). Trailer is doing pretty big numbers too. Edit: 522k likes in 6 hours is actually bonkers now that I think about it. I think Loki has the most likes of any MCU D+ trailer with 715k. I didn't expect this to beat that.

Different situation to be fair. It's not like the USA has blocked the release of Ip Man.

Odeon has a CAPTCHA. Vue maybe.

Don't know where you got that number for DP2. It opened very close to the first iirc. Edit: Yeah checking it, opened to 125.5 million.

I feel like a Villeneuve movie would skew more to film buffs in big cities in the USA. Not sure if the trends in Europe are different. That said Shang-Chi was Paris-heavy in France at least so maybe this won't be that much more so.

I hope it does do that but I don't know if we should put that much expectation off of the comps from a few theaters. We have seen in DOM tracking how films can skew to different regions. Not sure if it will be the case but I can see Dune skewing to big cities as I said in the Spain thread.

Next year will be interesting for sure. I think Nadal has a couple more RG in him and Novak has a couple more Wimbledons in him but it does seem like the NextGen has finally taken over on hard courts.

Medvedev finally got it. I am sad (been a Novak fan for a decade) but he deserved it. What a performance.

In what way is Shang-Chi propaganda?

I think they overshot the Sunday. Disney has overestimated before.

Spider-Man has a lot of things going for it. Insane hype (shown in trailer views), December, and importantly Spidey plays well with younger diverse audiences who have been driving the BO recently.

Um...wtf makes you think Eternals BO will be anywhere close to Spider-Man?

It got hit by Pirates the next weekend. SC should have a much better hold.

Where are the theaters that you track? I am worried that Dune will skew heavily to big cities everywhere. Still this looks quite good.

In normalcy BW should have been more profitable than SC so...

Wasn't a big fan of either. I prefer the option of fresh new stories rather than self-referential commentary or derivative plots.

I believe the context was if it broke out like BP or Guardians. But that is never easy and requires more than just WOM.

Maybe ERC will finally let go of the Shang-Chi hate now that it can't be used to push the PA agenda. The tweet comparing BW summer dailies to SC schooldays was pathetic.

It's doing fine. Legs won't be at BP level but it's still well on track to clear 200.

Weekdays seem to indicate normal MCU legs rather than a breakout. Still I am good with it as long as it doesn't crash like BW.

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