The two people who have raved about it to me said they weren't sold at first, but now they really like it. So I'd guess it gets better. Or it's a TV version of Stockholm Syndrome?

The two people who have raved about it to me said they weren't sold at first, but now they really like it. So I'd guess it gets better. Or it's a TV version of Stockholm Syndrome?

I haven't read the books, but I've always assumed the witch poisoned/made the wound worse (or at the very least didn't actually do anything to fix it). It really wasn't that deep a cut - it seemed like something basic enough that even a Dothraki could fix it.

Yeah, I've come around on the dancing, but those villains range from poor to shit.

Eh, he's done something similar in Central Intelligence, Pain & Gain, Be Cool, and Southland Tales, and I think it worked pretty well. Although only one of those was really a box office smash, so maybe you're right?

I've done it once. To be fair, I had previously met her in a group setting once, and I believe I even said "This is a terrible first date idea, but I want to go see Gravity."

Wait, what? Just from the way the trailers portrayed him, he looked like a goner. I would have bet my life that he would die in that movie.

I'm fine with the wizard did it ending too, although the post-credits scene of X3 has Xavier possessing the comatose body they show earlier in the movie (allegedly his twin brother).

it's good to know I'm not the only one who found that game incredibly hard. I think they were both supposed to have two each - but I wouldn't know because I never got past any of them, even when I tried again as an adult.

Hasn't the rumor's always been that Ike Perlmutter (Marvel's CEO) was opposed to female-led superhero movies, ostensibly because they don't sell as many toys? Now that he's not in charge of the movies, maybe that helps.

I think it's actually a little of both - the second half drags, but that's because it becomes big, emotional story scene > Dev Patel moping/searching > emotional story scene > Patel moping (repeat). Meting out the story in smaller doses likely would have worked better - his relationship with his friends and family…

Yeah, I can't hate it because it's so well-acted/shot/edited, but I got nothing from it beyond the surface. That's why I'm surprised by Josh's comment that the drama part was better than the thriller portion - I thought that emptiness is more glaring in the relationship sections.

Yes, I actually really liked OOTP and DHPart 1, putting them and POA in the top three. DH Part 2 actually works for a while but the final battle abandons anything good about the book's fight for a sparse CGI duel.

Mostly agree. I have 3 and 5 as roughly equal. 5's the better single season, as it's the entire show cranking everything to 11. But that approach left nowhere for future seasons to go, which is at least part of why 6/7/8 are significantly worse.

It actually made over 3x its budget ($210 on $70), but most of that was overseas.

Yeah, I don't think DoFP is great, but it has enough plot momentum and residual affection for those characters/actors that it works out. Apocalypse also introduces a ton of new/old characters, but does a really poor job of giving them motivations.

The interesting thing is I think Fassbender/McAvoy/Lawrence/Hoult's contracts are all up now. One of the reasons Apocalypse wasn't a flop is they were all on pretty cheap deals, making it relatively inexpensive (i.e. $70+ million less than BvS and Civil War).

I don't disagree, but it would be more impressive if the films cared about any character other than Magneto, Xavier, Wolverine, Jean and recently Mystique. Angel, Storm and Beast stand out as getting the short end of the stick.

I actually just showed Sunshine to friends who'd never seen it yesterday, as we'd been talking about non-Captain America Chris Evans roles. I had to preface it with "The first two-thirds of the movie are really good, but…"

Yeah, it's kind of weird that some of my biggest memories of Dark Knight/Dark Knight Rises in theaters are people laughing pretty hard.