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This is unironically going to be the best movie of all time. Starting the best picture campaign right now

Sounds like one of the reasons why they threw Batgirl away was that they didn't think it was big and cinematic enough to match their vision of what DC movies should be in future, and that's obviously not going to be the case with The Flash which is seemingly much more dramatic and heavy on action. It has also allegedly tested well. I'm 95 % sure they're going to release it and probably in theaters, maybe just without much marketing and without involving Ezra at all, and then after that they're going for reboot or soft reboot. But who the hell knows at this point

I was really looking forward to Batgirl specifically because of it being a smaller scale project and also wanting to see Brendan Fraser again. So many disappointing and confusing decisions here. Who talent is going to want to work with WB if they know their hard work could be arbitrarily canned? Seems really shortsighted and they can't really pretend to be "filmmaker friendly studio" anymore. Zaslav definitely comes across as one of those execs who have no real interest or understanding of movies

I'm so jealous of everyone who can watch this already. Usually movies get released in my country earlier than US but now i have to wait 3 weeks 😒

Damn this is a LOT of information to take in this morning. I still think there are too many shows but i'm happy they are at least moving past that apparent 6 episodes requirement, i feel like almost every marvel show so far has started out and ended strongly but kind of meandered in the middle. Wakanda Forever looks absolutely stunning visually. Having only 6 months between the Avengers movies is a Choice but it could work if the first ends in cliffhanger. I wonder do we really have wait until phase 6 until fully introducing mutants

I'm like the biggest marvel apologist but post-Endgame i've increasingly felt something is lacking, though i'm not quite sure what is it. I've still liked most of the recent content (and loved some like NWH and Loki series) but i don't feel as excited as i used to feel anymore. I think mcu is becoming somewhat oversaturated. Like i said i'm a huge fan but even i don't want a new movie or series coming out every month. When you have so much content coming out and especially when a lot of it is "just fine" it's starting to lead to brand dilution. Marvel movies and shows aren't such big events anymore. I also wonder is Feige spreading himself too thin when there are so many projects and if that is effecting quality control. On the other hand maybe it's partially just bad luck, like Zhao's Eternals, Raimi's MoM and Taika's sequel to his earlier well-received Ragnarok should all have been home runs on paper. Current mcu feels very aimless to me, like it has no weight or central narrative. I don't think there should be immediately another big universe ending event or that everything needs to be ~connected, but on hindsight the infinity saga really tied everything together and the loss of original avengers is also felt. Now i feel nothing in the multiverse has any real connection or meaning to anything else and at the same time many stories are not good enough to work self-contained. I don't think this is any serious superhero/marvel fatigue or whatever but maybe temporary lethargy. Or maybe my brain is just finally fully developed and i'm just getting too old for the franchise lol

This is one of those times where i feel like i watched completely different movie than other people. I liked it as much as Ragnarok and i think there was actually less interrupting emotional scenes with humour than Ragnarok had and it flowed tonally better. The biggest problem of the movie is its way too short runtime. I think it could've been easily an hour longer without dragging at all and it would've fixed a lot of issues. Literally just having more scenes to develop things and for the story and characters to breathe. I genuinely don't understand why they (i assume Taika was the one who made the decision?) decided to cut it so short.

Loving these Endgame flashbacks where every time i come online the predictions have been revised up

I'm so excited for this weekend! It's been a long time since there's been this kind of cultural event energy with a movie. I came back from a mostly sold out showing a couple of hours ago and the audience's enthusiasm was through the roof (and amusingly lots of people didn't seem to know about T&A). It was just simply a really good film and a perfect crowd-pleaser. After seeing it i'm expecting this to get A+ cinemascore and really good legs

I've really, really loved this show, it may literally be close to my favorite mcu property ever? Which is particularly funny when only a few months ago i felt i was mostly over marvel and indifferent towards Loki as a character. Something in this show just awakened 2012!sleeper agent in me lol. I only have some minor gripes, for example as a nonbinary person really not a fan of portraying canonically genderfluid character as seemingly only presenting and identifying as male in every variation to the point he's surprised that a "female version" of him exists at all and then also immediately falls in love with her... like what do the writers think having fluid gender/sex means, how is it that decades old comics are more conservative than a show in 2021? Holding my judgment though because i don't think they've really explained their views yet and who knows what could happen in s2. Natalie Holt is an unsung hero, marvel soundtracks are usually so meh and now i've thought every week "wow this music is so good"

Despite saying many times i'm over mcu i ended up watching this on wednesday at the first available showing. I didn't realize how much i've missed watching marvel movies at cinema, it's just a special energy. I enjoyed it and would place it somewhere in the midtier of marvel films. Directing felt less 'marvel-y' than usual and more unique. Action and Yelena's and Red Guardian's characters were great in particular, but i felt the third act was a bit meh. I also felt like Nat was slightly side lined in her own story and yeah, this movie should have come out between IW and Endgame at latest. It feels too little too late and the stakes feel kind of low when you know Nat survives. This sounds more negative than i really am, again, i did like it but it could and should have been more yk? Marvel stans at reddit at least seem unusually meh about the whole film but i think casual audiences may like it more since it's pretty straightforward and entertaining

I vaguely remember post-Endgame (which feels like approximately 500 years ago) writing on this forum something akin to that i felt my interest was waning and i didn't feel a particular need to see anything marvel anymore now that the infinity war arc was finished. Well, that lasted maybe 3 months and with Wandavision and TFATWS i'm back to fully invested again like nothing happened lol. Feige has me by the balls, i will never be free. When Loki was announced i felt it sounded like something that should have happened in 2012 when the general Loki obsession was at its peak but i've warmed to it since then. I really liked the first episode, yeah it was a bit exposition heavy but very entertaining and it still made more sense than Endgame's plot. Tom Hiddleston is just so damn good and he and Owen Wilson have a good chemistry. I also appreciated they didn't cut emotional moments too much with jokes which is my usual pet peeve with mcu.

Award shows consistently snubbing The Leftovers despite it being one of the best shows on tv at the time goes down as one of the their most annoying decisions of all time, especially nominating Carrie Coon for Fargo while just ignoring her brilliant performance as Nora. Agreed about the boys, just not feeling this episode or Hughie/Starlight

I don't think he did it on purpose because he's mostly very private and has talked about suffering from severe anxiety, posting dick pics on social media for all the world to see sounds pretty much his worst nightmare

Man it's been forever since i've visited this site. In March me and my family almost got stuck in Tenerife when the borders were closed and we all probably had covid though it was luckily mild and we didn't get tested because my country wasn't testing non-serious cases back then. After that, time just hasn't been real. I have no idea what i've even been doing for the past 6 months. Yesterday i went to see Tenet because i wanted to support the local theater (i think the last movie i saw in theaters was Parasite back in the winter). There were about 20 other people at the showing and they all seemed to enjoy it and so did i. I hadn't realized how much i missed the theater experience and it makes me sad that this might be the new normal. Tenet is exactly the kind of movie that should be experienced on a big screen so it sucks that isn't doing that well, though probably the best it realistically could. I respect Nolan for wanting to retain the theater experience but at this point is pretty obvious that things aren't going back to normal anytime soon and i'm not sure should they before the vaccine.

Went to see Frozen 2 with my little sister today and the theater was Star Wars/Endgame level packed with lots of adults in the audience too. What becomes popular in my country is always so random and unexpected

Throwback to when I really wrote this at least half-seriously

"People hating TLJ" and "TLJ deflating interest in the franchise" aren't mutually inclusive either, like I personally liked it but after seeing it I didn't really have any interest to see how the story would continue, and that seems to have been a common reaction with both people who hated and who loved it. TLJ was so detached from the series and didn't really have a "hook" that would raise anticipation for sequels and I think that's one of the many reasons why there's dwindling interest in the new Star Wars films. All this has obviously been talked to death though. I don't think TROS' performance is a catastrophe but if the trend continues it will be a problem for Disney. I'm not sure how they can restore the brand to a cultural force it was. At this rate my avatar is going to be an accurate depiction of Baby Yoda the only savior. Also, "meh" at Cats' performance, I was hoping for either better or worse reception. All-around pretty mediocre weekend

It's funny that it's performing weaker than TLJ in the most markets but randomly set opening day record in my country. I guess it's up to us to save the international box office, who needs China when you have Finland!

This looks absolutely incredible, reminds my of why Nolan is despite his flaws one my favorite directors

Ah well there goes my "Cats is going to have better reviews that TROS" prediction. At least my girl Taylor and her song is seemingly getting praised

I haven't visited this site much after Endgame and commented even less because i've been too busy with school and work but now I'm back for the real greatest cinematic event of our lifetime: Cats (dir. Tom Hooper)!

That trailer... You know what I'm truly speechless, I don't think I will ever get Taylor's jiggling cat tits out of my head and everyone else looks even more like nightmare fuel

I like the song a lot! Not my favorite but it's beautiful and while I'm first to admit Taylor isn't exactly Whitney Houston I think she sounds great in this one. It's better song than this probably terrible furry-bait movie deserves Also, I don't want to derail this thread any further but it's absolutely hilarious to act like she isn't one of the most successful and influential artists of all time. She has shaped modern country and pop music, broken literally hundreds of records, won ridiculously many awards and pretty much made many people's careers (like Ed Sheeran and Shawn Mendes). During the last election she almost turned Tennessee blue. So many artists and people in the industry including probably your faves are taking after her. I doesn't matter whether you like her or not, these are just simple facts. But anyways, can't wait to see this clusterfuck

After seeing Joker I instanly knew it would have a great wom in Europe, but these numbers are still crazy. Like I know my country is obsessed with Batman mythos and loves this type of movies but the fact it technically increased on the second weekend and could outgross Endgame (?) is kind of hilarious. Interesting to see will it continue dropping softly.