I don’t know how the book handles it, but the show has made it clear from the Red Wedding, “there cannot be a wedding if there isn’t a bedding”. Even Talisa remarked how odd a custom it was.

I’ll just skip past the Dorne stuff because it’s so amateurishly bad. I would be happy to never see the Sand Snakes again. The Sansa stuff made me uncomfortable, too, and some of that is due to how well executed it was: the lighting, the performances, the insidious music. I was clutching my chair from the bath scene…

The scene was terrible in every way. Frankly, the entire Dorne stuff has been badly executed. I love looking at that water garden, too, but I’d be happy never to see Dorne or the Sand Snakes again.

New owners, same Clippers.

Yeah, I also noticed a lack of douchebag behavior at my screening. Not a single cell phone check or chatting in the theater. Actually, lots of applause throughout, which is odd since that hadn’t happened for me since Gravity. Really surprised it didn’t do better at the domestic b.o. Well, maybe not that surprised.

Seriously...I thought I just read this a couple of days ago. Memo to i09, there is not shortage of material if you want to do a write up about the shortcomings of CGI. Don’t need to lift from another site.

Guy Norris and his team should get a special Oscar for this achievement. But the blue hairs in the Academy would never sit through this movie.

Wasn’t this a scene in Django Unchained?

Charlize Theron and Halle Berry didn’t exactly take off in their post - Oscar attempt to start an action franchise. Granted, Theron is still in the game with Fury Road and that new film from the John Wick guys, but Berry, not so much, outside of standing around in those X-Men movies

Unfortunately, early Friday numbers are already in and it looks like Pitch is headed north of $50 million and Max settling around 40 -45 million, so it’s really fighting with Avengers for second place as #1 seems out of reach. Max is killing it overseas, though. http://deadline.com/2015/05/pitch-…

Yeah as much as I like Brad Bird, it doesn't even seem like Disney knows what Tomorrowland is about. And San Andreas..whatev.

I’m still hoping for a Gravity-esque wave that would compel it to #1, if only to encourage WB to let Miller do a sequel (or Justice League, again). But I agree that word of mouth and the already big business its doing overseas (WITHOUT China) will do what domestic audiences might not be ready for this weekend. Either…

Pitch Perfect is the consensus #1. The real question is if it can beat Avengers in its 3rd weekend. The upside is that Fury Road is killing overseas.

The upside is that word of mouth is so good it could outlast other movies in the coming weeks.

I’m really depressed that most box office prognosticators are saying it could be 2nd or even 3rd this weekend. I don’t usually care about box office, but this one would sting if that happened.

I recall in the 80s there were stories of him being a jerk on set and that attributed a lot to his career stalling after the whole teen thing ran its course. When he came back with Grey’s it seemed that marriage and time had matured him. At least he seemed to do and say the right things. But apparently not.

Will Sony do a male version, too?

I agree it seems a little thin on atmosphere and heavy on shocks and effects, but I'm hoping that's just a product of studio PR playing to a general audience.

Thanks for the rec. Sounds interesting.

I have a hard time believing he’s 70. Fury Road looks like a movie that would exhaust a director half that age.