Problem is that’s a good recipe for killing those genres altogether because guess what? Streaming’s not that good a profit generator either! That’s what the studios all found out, the revenue from streaming is weird and unreliable. If Netflix makes a comedy, maybe that contributes to their total subscriptions, maybe…

is it possible that the general trend is superhero movies, but there is some small sign of a few kids being interested in classic films? Nice swearing! Sounds like a tantrum

The last time I tried to go to a regular theater that wasn’t the small one close to me that’s now closed, I was with 2 friends.  We showed up half an hour before showtime and they did not have 3 seats together for us.  So we walked out and went to a showing of Spaceballs for like $5 each at a small local theater. …

I was noting to my nephniecews that the degree to which they’ve been familiarized with songs from forty years ago is like if we grew up loving “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B”. Stuff like that did indeed filter down to us through cartoons, but not to the point where we knew all the words or anything.

Showing event TV in theatres is such a great idea. I bet a theatre showing two eps of something like “TLOU” every weekend for a month would be really popular. 

I like pre-selecting my seats. It allows me to show up 30 mins past the posted start time to avoid the 30 mins of trailers and commercials before the actual film starts. Although they appear to be ratcheting those ad times up, because when I showed up my usual 30 mins late for Furiosa I still had to wait an additional …

Now that’s interesting! I can see that being the case, now that you mention it. It’s a very breezy watch despite its deliberate pacing, and those old slasher go-tos still play wonderfully to this day.

As a theater and streaming patron: Both services suck.

Wait, where’s all the hand-wringing and blaming the consumers? We need another Nicole Kidman commercial reminding us that we the common folk should be putting our collective health on the line in the midst of a pandemic to save the movie theatres.

IMO the big difference is that in s1/2, Neil Fak was part of the main cast, constantly interacting with the main crew. In s3, he is essentially “spun off” with his far less interesting cousin to basically be bumbling idiots. Fak is no longer part of things; almost every scene with the Faks could be excised and not…

Since many of the posters here (me included) are often criticizing the writing on the site, it’s worth saying -- this review is very well written.

While I also share your distaste of the sheer quantity of fan service in the middle act, I do love that Raimi proceeds to have Wanda gruesomely kill each of them and presumably (after the cast announcement of F4) put most of them in the MCU grave for good.

And why would anyone want a script doctor credit for Love and Thunder?

At this point I almost wish they never made season 2, expectations are so high now it can only disappoint. But I would love to be proven wrong.

This explains why this is one movie I see alot of billboards for, and I live in a smaller city where film billboards are seldom seen. 

Good point. He was on House of Cards when he got cancelled, but they had already finished season five. Makes me wonder if his career was already on a downward spiral because people were just tired of him playing grab ass.

Having seen the movie at an advance screening, and the trailers before this week, and the commercials this week, the marketing of the movie was disjointed. It was a perfectly charming alternate history comedy but agreed that it was way too expensive for that quality. But it’s also not really a romcom, so I was…

Anyone But You is how ya do a rom-com: $20 million budget so it’s all profit after that, and who gives a fuck what the critics think.

Sheesh, even Spielberg didn’t have a $100 million budget until Minority Report.

he’s so lacking in charisma that she tries to hire an actor to play him in interviews

They also seem to think that fame and fortune works like a ratchet and once you reach a certain level, slipping back is an unfair punishment.