“Jenna Ortega rewrote their horrible scripts which I will never read or see onscreen, so who cares?!”

While we’re at it: Richard Chew, at the time Oscar-winning editor of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was the lead editor on A New Hope and not only came up with the trench run as an alternate ending but also created it nearly whole cloth out of barely-useable footage.

The most successful Star Wars movies ever made, even adjusted for inflation, are A New Hope, The Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi. The fact that the last two cause endless strife among prequel fandom is evidence enough that we’re already in the age of tribalism.

I can easily remember the MCU villains. My real issue is that they don’t get talked about ever again. They don’t persist with consequences in the universe other than Ultron and Zemo and Thanos.

Thor Love and Thunder didn’t release in China, IIRC. Seems like the gap between the Ragnarok and L&T box office numbers is actually explained by the missing China ticket revenue.

Any random Marvel movie is guaranteed to make $700M or so with the highest grossing ones competing for top-5.

Adam Warlock is that guy who fans of Adam Warlock insist is the most important character in the Marvel Universe but is also, for some reason, completely uninteresting.

I don’t think Greg is an oaf, it’s more like he’s plain-thinking and straightforward. The tech-house snap, the Economist rambling, he’s a guy who’s consistently smart enough to see a problem but not stupid or sadistic enough to think that’s the point.

Awesome! And this is incredibly smart because it sets ground for recruiting a whole new generation of writers who’ll be versed on your style and format for when the strike ends. [Edit: To clarify, Andor has a half dozen separate writers on Season One while Jon Favreau has written all but eight episodes of Book of Boba…

I’m sure this is directed at the matte black gloss-coated tongues wagging in the comments.

“We have chosen to protest your decision to use AI generated scripts.”

You ever wonder who’s watching those shows that keep getting new seasons while having no idea why your favorite show is being canceled on Netflix?

The market understands that $60 is still the price point for gamers no matter what that douchebag from Zynga declared unilaterally as the new standard they should apply during a public earnings report a couple years back. So same-week ten dollar off coupons aren’t going to be disappearing anywhere anytime soon.

Kendall’s not smart, though. We’ve seen him crash headfirst into a disaster over and over again only to get bailed out and pandered to.

Except they’re completely right.

But those YouTubers didn’t ASK for 10K, RAID just independently decided that was the value of the marketing because they had a crapton of money to blow on marketing with the expectation of easy returns.

The movie industry is FULL of middle-ground movies, we just ignore them because they don’t get heavily marketed. Same with games. The gaming industry is FULL of middle-ground games that even win top awards, we just ignore them because they don’t get heavily marketed.

Is that really IGN’s fault? The top 10 is filled with games from 20 years ago. Number 10 is Disco Elysium. Number 13 is Hades. 20 is Undertale. 23 is Portal. 28 is Tetris. Most of that early list is 20-50 year old games.

Strange didn’t see all possibilities, just the millions of ones until he could find something with results he found acceptable.

Delivery fries = garbage in the half hour it takes to get to you.