Spidey Freak

Lolz that was my first impression as well and I was like, "WTF what have they done to Baymax?!" And then I was like "Oh.. oooh!"

I don't necessarily agree about 2012 which was a golden year through out (Django, Zero Dark Thirty and Life of Pi by themselves made the "award films" seem epic). But yeah, 2008 is a classic case of biggest films = best films of the year.

Making the TDK snub seem all the more egregious.

2008 was superb on the summer blockbuster front. IM, TDK, Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, Wanted, Tropic Thunder, even Speed Racer though it bombed spectacularly, was an incredibly fun romp. IJ4 and Hancock were disappointments, and TIH was so-so, but overall, one of the stronger summers.

Yup, they tried to follow that darker route for the Marvel universe initially but I think the tepid reception of The Incredible Hulk made them change tactic and provide the brighter and lighter foil to DC's bleaker fare.

2008 was the dawn of the "evolved superhero movie" with the one-two knock-out punch of Iron Man and The Dark Knight. That's the main reason for remembering that year in pop culture history, movie wise. Oh, and it also gave birth to Twilight.

We all know that the true numero uno is Speed Racer!

If it hits 390 I would want it to make it to 400M! It's always sad when a movie ends on a number where the tens' is 9. Unless the movie is crap like Man of $hit.

This just goes to show that if the King genre at the BO is currently superheroes, then animation is most definitely the Queen.

Imagine if Disney had pushed Frozen instead of Banks for Best Picture nom and Frozen, unlike Banks, would have bagged one. The holds would have been CRR-AA-ZZZ-EE!!

Depends on how lesbian sex is presented in media I guess. If they find it objectifying to pander to hetero men, they won't like it much.

Not that many though. Even the female creator of the original graphic novel that Blue is the Warmest Colour is based on, Julie Maroh, found the sex scenes unnecessary and felt the male director was pandering to hetero men with the graphic lesbian sex. According to her, actual lesbian women would find the sex scenes in the film "too ridiculous".

Harmless? More like soulless!

But they do right? Steve Rogers is considered to be the ideal superhero and all HE ever wanted was to serve his country. Tony is the wisecracking, irreverent capitalist but his foil is the honest to goodness Captain Rhodey, Katniss Everdeen is the most sincere soldier and inspiration to ever walk among the people of her world etc. etc. If you actually go to see, almost all of our major movie protagonists are self-sacrificing reflections of real-life soldiers. That is the greatest compliment the "entertainment" world and society in general could give to any one set of individuals.

Umm.. I don't think loving superheroes really diminishes the love and respect for people in service. But we can't have war related blockbusters on a regular basis as superhero films because that hits TOO CLOSE TO HOME. That's why the biggest hits are movies that provide escapism but are also parallels to the real world (the theme in The Hunger Games of unnecessarily straddling our youth with weapons and making them go and kill youth from other regions/or get killed in the process, Tony Stark disavowing weapon production after his harrowing experience in Afghanistan etc.) And besides, there are many folks in the armed forces who LOVE superheroes (and I am sure there are some who will even say they were inspired to join the forces by their favorite superheroes), so fictional superheroes serve their purpose in their own special way too.

Excited to see how Frozilla performs in Japan.

What previous series had a movie gross 350M+ and then have its sequel increase?

That vein is as legendarily distracting as Christian Bale's eye mole!

That throbbing vein across Julia's forehead needs the extra screen space.

Damn this weather. It's like Elsa got a little too excited while nearing 300M and lost control.

And lol at that fanboy-driven IMDB list!

I was ecstatic when they cast her. I was slightly disappointed when RDJ couldn't do the movie but Clooney proved to be more than capable!

Hope so. Wouldn't mind if snow day weekdays help boost Frozen as well.

It was good but better than 2012? Naah. Summer was pretty weakass and fall/winter had to do all the heavylifting. 2012 was uniformly awesome!

Wasn't Tangled hurt by the horrible tsunami that hit Japan in early 2011?