Hatebox

Hey, in the barren desert of blockbusters this year (and increasingly every year) I’m as hopeful as anyone this delivers, so fingers crossed they’re as bafflingly wrong this time too. The runtime and “it’s leaning more into plot over action” aren’t things I relish hearing though. Don’t start getting all deep on me, miller

movies with mixed receptions are usually the most interesting but I feel like that doesn’t bode well for this particular one given the unanimous “that was fuckin awesome” reactions to its predecessor. There’s rarely an in-between with the action genre.

This’ll obviously be shit but it’s morbidly fascinating to see a film that all but knows it’ll get bad reviews. Can’t imagine many critics declaring “that sympathetic biopic about the superstar weirdo who had suspect friendships with kids is great!”

I think people are massively lowballing here. The gross of DP1 + DP2 = 1.6b, solo wolverine films = 1.4b, jackman x-men ensemble films = 2b … so not even accounting for inflation this movie could be looking at 5 billion

Ehhhh. Look, I’m sure the movie will be fine but I feel like deadpool of all franchises should have amazing promos, and none of these film’s have been. Logan’s a top 3 SH movie as far as I’m concerned but seeing jackman here still does nothing for me.

Cox giving zero fucks in interviews continues to be great.

I’m not one for predictions but I’d be astonished if deadpool beats this WW

It is sort of weird that Richie keeps being allowed to make fairly big movies. He’s clearly likeable enough on set that big actors keep coming back to work with him.

Edwards is a competent enough director that feels like a final test of whether a Jurassic Park sequel is at all capable of not sucking, or if the setup just makes it fundamentally impossible for follow-ups to good

Hey, if reeves want to ignore that crappy deleted scene as canon I’ll be the first to say ‘phew’. Premature of him to release it in the first place to have his cake and eat it in that case, but hey-ho.

The joker the reeves film already has looks absolutely awful and phoenix’s joker would pose zero threat to any Batman so it’s safe to say I’m in the ‘give joker as an arch nemesis a rest for a decade’ camp

yes, it’s getting very tiresome. Strong echoes of the first movie where complaints about the incel concerns outnumbered actual incel concern 100:1

tfw when you’re two weeks into your film major

[Lisa Simpson doing a presentation meme] Multi-million dollar hollywood pay checks are an unhelpful battleground to fight the (very worthwhile) gender pay disparity war on. We all know why phoenix is getting paid more for this film, and it’s not because he has a dick.

I don’t love the first film but I internally reconciled the character as someone who basically fantasises about being the joker. It’s certainly more interesting than taking him as literal version of the joker, because he’d be fucking useless if he was.