In a sense, yes. But not really. Most of his movies actually underperformed at the box office, when compared to the money invested (especially in marketing) and the estimates that were given before. Justice League is notorious for it. The major “problem” in all cases was word of mouth. People just hated the films, and…

Oh mother of all fuck, can we just stop with the ‘verses already? Jesus fucking Christ, the Marvel CU is the only one THAT WORKED OUT. Because it wasn’t heralded with fanfare (remember the Universal monster CU? Yeah.), it grew organically over 10 years of planning, but planning that went from one successful movie to…

Is it just me or does anyone else suspect that Nic Cage actually *is* an alcoholic dragon who’s been cosplaying as a wacky actor for years? 

First off, thanks for the thoughtful reply! I’m always weary of commenting on Gizmondo articles (io9 native here) because people often tend to misunderstand or just misconstrue my arguments. I always welcome the opportunity to adjust my stance or my arguments, so thanks!

One of my dogs does this, but she’s getting better. They will usually both bark when someone’s at the door (but that’s normal, and it’s something I learned not to discourage when they scared off a thief), but the younger one goes into hysterics, especially when her humans come home, and will bark for like five minutes…

I always found this fascinating. I have two mixbreeds, dog 1 (the older one) is a “village dog”, a total mutt, while dog 2 has some poodle and some schnauzer in her (probably). Dog 1 has always been more independent and mellow, and would problem solve on her own, while dog 2 is often anxious and is a “velcro dog” i.e.…

Counterpoint: the way science works most of the time is by trying to disprove that a hypothesis is true. When it fails, it proves that the hypothesis is sound. This works better than trying to prove that something *is* true because of the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. All human reasoning is…

There’s that lovely saying: “The plural of anecdote is data”, and as an anthropologist specializing in human-animal relations, I AM HERE for the comments on this post.

This is literally like the boy who cried wolf story. Nobody is gonna see this movie if it ever actually gets released.

Dude. Rogue One is awesome. It is the best Star Wars movie of the Disney era, and it is my favorite Star Wars movie, period. Yes, I like it more than the original trilogy.

Why am I not in the least bit surprised? Whedon has become as predictable as his strong female characters(tm). 

I don’t care if it was staged, this was hilarious. 

I think you guys might just want to write one article with all the movies that were supposed to come out in 2020 and just keep updating the dates, because this is getting ridiculous. Maybe use a shot from Wonderwoman 1984 as the image for the article. Also maybe just make it like an excel spreadsheet so it’s easier to…

This sounds awesome. I like the suspense aspect most of all.

If you liked the story about royalty in prehistoric Ireland, just wait until you hear about modern day European royal families. 

Omg I thought I imagined the prototype Chewbacca thing! I was looking for some info on it online a while back and couldn’t find jack shit. They did base Zeb on early ideas for Wookiees!

I don’t know why, but this comment made my laugh so hard tears are streaming down my face.

But in the end does it matter? If we help we help, the rest is nitpicking. And this sort of nitpicking is especially present in research on animal cognition and emotion, even when it’s superfluous, and is usually absent in similar research on humans.

They should just go ahead and cast Sam Witwear as Thrawn. They can age him up with makeup and prosthetics, he has the face for it and could pull off the voice. And he’s a mega nerd which is always a plus.

I want a show where Lucifer and Constantine just go around smoking and swearing and being British.