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Cards on the Table has got a super fun gimmick just like ATTWN and MotOE and is very satisfying. It was also Christie's personal favorite I believe.

If anything, I'm actually annoyed that they picked Dia de Muertos as the theme for their first Mexican/Latin culture based movie. That's already been done before multiple times, in pretty interesting ways. Netflix's Legend Quest, an animated series produced by a Mexican company, has horror elements but it barely relies on Dia de Muertos and instead focuses on other, less explored aspects of Mesoamerican mythologies (and blends them with aspects of other world mythologies). It's refreshing and comes across as better because of it. Coco's direction seems as original and innovative as picking a leprechaun theme for the first Irish based movie. Very disappointed in Pixar and it has become increasingly clear how lazy they have become.

Children below the age of 15 do not share personal experiences of that depth irrespective of the social standing of their pack (and Pennywise appeared in a clown form to just 3 kids if I'm remembering correctly, while for the rest the appearances were representations of their personal fears which led them to believe they were hallucinating). The lower rung packs are not necessarily formed out of choice but necessity due to a harsh pecking order. In a town like Derry which discouraged its residents from speaking of its evils, the children would be the most vulnerable and have an inability to share their feelings. Even the adults were manipulating the children to keep silent. "Do those boys know you are my little girl?" wasn't just a declaration of dominion over Beverly by her father but him also trying to ensure she didn't reveal his abuse to her friends. The Losers were the ones to finally reject the silencing due to their experiences and perceptions, but that didn't mean they were invulnerable from the start. It was believable that an external factor like Beverly could finally get them to talk. And she too needed something tangible like a bloodied bathroom to prove herself.

Children have an uncanny ability to put up a facade and not share their experiences no matter how traumatic, in fear of not being believed and then ridiculed of. Least of all share them with their peers. Even Beverly didn't initially tell the boys what happened and just showed them her bathroom, waiting for their reaction. I liked it because it is realistic and shows how lonely and vulnerable children can be even when they were in a group. When they finally opened up to each other about their experiences, it was a therapeutic process and the first strike against It and all of their respective personal demons.

Shazam is pretty much confirmed for April '19. WW2 may move but maybe we will get one DCEU movie in summer and one in fall (2 out of Flash, Batman and Batgirl). Batman is rumored to begin production next year and Geoff Johns had said Whedon starts working on Batgirl next year too.

I quite enjoy the DCEU being obsessively discussed 24/7 all year round

Eddie has always been one of the characters I could most relate to in fiction and Jack Dylan Grazer absolutely killed it. Interested in seeing what he does in the future.

And maybe that is part of the reason It isn't performing like a typical horror movie. At least one character in the film strikes a deep emotional chord with most members of the audience, which enables it to stay as an experience with you much longer than the typical fright film stuffed with funhouse jump scares and nuance lite characterizations. The main appeal for me regarding this story wasn't really the monster but the themes of childhood trauma and the relationships children share with their parents and how that impacts their relationships with each other. And this cast of kids is way superior to the one from the mini-series. No comparison whatsoever. Muschietti changing the "greatest fear representations" It appears as for the kids as reflections of their respective psychological issues as opposed to standard monster movie characters was also incredibly effective.

Ah, that beloved Disney classic

The vid for the folks too lazy to click and visit the other site As I had said previously, I could see Vaughn/Goldman delivering an honest-to-goodness take on Superman (and Lois too) without it coming across as Donner lite like Superman Returns. Hope everyone involved work things through and make it happen, though I'll survive either way.

The Best Supporting Actress field is stacked this year. Usually it's the weakest of the acting categories.

Did you notice that the nifty clapboard is sporting some serious imagery from The Demon Bear Saga?

Okay... that was short. In fact so short that the last post in this thread was just before the start of filming 9 weeks for a superhero film seems like a record. And I wouldn't be surprised if this cost even less than Deadpool.

Lol yikes, I had forgotten that the graphic novel had been based on his original script. I misremembered the artist (Kent Williams) as also being the writer. But the graphic novel and Williams's visuals were created when the film's initial production had been cancelled. So the GN came before the film.

It was based on a graphic novel and the imagery and themes were heavily borrowed from the source material. Most of Black Swan's themes and imagery were taken from Satoshi Kon films like Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress. Haven't seen Requiem since a long time but that had themes and imagery taken from Perfect Blue as well.

They already tend to lowball blockbusters. WW's first three Sunday drops were all underpredicted. Irma simply widened the range.

Could you imagine the salt blizzard if she pulled an upset and shut out a certain other blonde actress in her 20's? oh brother!

Could Hall be a lock for a BSA nom at the least? Other than Pfeiffer and Janney, who else are currently frontrunners?

Dove & Hawk in Titans

I know that Annapurna is milking 75 years' worth of WW fandom's validation after being repeatedly told that the character will never work on a massive scale, and that's ok. But I have reservations about depicting the women here as the ones being sceptical over Marston's ideas. Wasn't it his wife who suggested the character be a woman in the first place? Agreed that the BDSM element was too kooky but that was just one aspect to the character. Kind of pushes the "Women are too practical to be creative" belief (a belief which only exists in creative fields, otherwise of course women are too overtly emotional and namby pamby to handle traditionally significant male roles ) It's just a clip though so obviously I can't judge the entire movie from it. But I hope they show the contributions Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne made to the character and her world. The comics were a major success when they released in the 40's. This was during the height of World War II when women were, for the first time, encouraged to be more independent and take on traditionally "male" professionals to make up for the lack of men who were overseas fighting. So the character proved to be an incredibly inspiring figure for women who were taking charge. Throughout most of the decade, the comics had massive sales. It was until the 50's, after Marston's death and weaker successors took over, in a post-WWII era when men had returned from war and taken back their jobs while women were encouraged to return to traditional domestic roles, that the character saw a drop in her sky high popularity. This also coincided with the launch of the Comics Code, the result of the witch hunt-y like paranoid mentality against anyone and anything that bucked the norm in the 50's. I don't think Marston was alive during the enormous backlash the comic saw, am I right @Cochofles?