1. The studio only keeps like half the box office, since the theaters get a cut. Generally less internationally. So it still cost more than it made even if we pretend they didn't buy any advertising.

1) Watchmen was a flop. It made less than Green Lantern. Sure, it beats things like Catwoman or Superman IV but they cost way way way way way less.
2) There's two Batman movies that beat Man of Steel by every metric. Like three more and a couple Supermen jump in there if you adjust for inflation.

Both things are true. Just let shows be the length they should be instead of everything* being compressed down or stretched out to 13.

♫ Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot / They plan and plot but they always get caught / Their evil schemes all come to naught / A superstitious, cowardly lot! ♫

It could be a spot-on adaptation of the newspaper strip Spider-man.

"In a WaPo interview, he said if he loses, it's not such a big deal. He'll take a nice long vacation, and go back to a great life. He doesn't even give lip service to the policy priorities of his supporters or the future prospects of the country. He doesn't hide that it's all about him, he advertises it."

They're both successors for the heroic aliens who had their names before them. A movie trying to be mostly faithful to the comics origin *and* establish Carol as THE Captain Marvel would presumably need to fold Mar-vell's death into the same incident, so at that point they both involve the alien predecessor dying as…

I can go maybe three weeks at most without needing to hear the Timekeeper's voice. Same with New No-Nos.

"Who's this guy?" and "How can he/she do that?" are excellent questions to ask about X-men 3, regardless of how many X-men movies/comics/cartoons/guides you've read. Should probably add "But why?" many many times and over the credits a few instances of "THAT's who that was supposed to be?"

More like "They've taken the comic book approach to continuity. Here are a few problems comic books have run into with that approach that the movies haven't yet because they're too comparatively new, except one that the DC universe is actively not hypothetically experiencing," with a bit of "Also real people age in a…

I think a squad of second- and third-generation Avengers feeling the in-universe pressure of living up to the original Cap/Iron Man/Thor team could be an interesting movie. I guess the start of Civil War had a little bit of that idea in it.

Wonder Woman is up next. It's remarkable that Hollywood is *finally* getting around to making a Wonder Woman movie and it's immediately hamstrung by sort of being the fourth movie in a "series" where the first three films were met with either mixed or negative responses.

Now that's a good idea! Thanks for that.

You mean that time he talked about his penis in the debates?

"I didn't know you couldn't do that!" - Eduardo Saverin

I like to imagine that Tommy Lee Jones asking "Why would he come back now?" is followed by one of his underlings saying "Because the Renner movie didn't perform as well as investors would have liked."

I think if a majority of Republicans suddenly believed eating lead was good for you, "eating lead" would become considered politics as usual, several state legislatures would endorse lead as their state food, the media would carefully give weight to both sides of the "controversy," John Oliver would "obliterate"…

I loved that Tony Hale, Buster Bluth himself, thought first and foremost of the word "Mother" and not "Mom."

Great Scotty!

The only justification I can come up with is "Best in Weed" = "Best of Breed." I hated that question.