I have to think they can get those rescue boats deployed pretty quickly.  It would be hopeless to try to track a single person bobbing in the water from the main ship.

I was a bit surprised to read that they found him.  I guess someone knew right away where he’d been so they could use GPS but even being next to the beach in yellow-flag water makes it hard to spot a person.

Disney is the only one I’ve been on as well (Alaska, 2x Caribbean) and as usual the customer service and general attention to detail were top-notch. But I don’t have much interest is the floating drunkfests that most others seem to be.

In fairness, it probably wasn’t excruciating. More like “hey, what’s that sound?”

I saw Vescovo speak a few years ago. Interesting dude, and yeah he’s been to all of the six deepest spots in the ocean in his Triton with no incidents.

Presumably this thing will be tested repeatedly at depth and thoroughly inspected afterwards before anyone actually goes down in it.  

I’d say he’s getting there, if he isn’t already. He seems to pick winning projects and now has the name recognition. How Twisters does will be telling.

Cruise is a loon but everyone he works with is highly complementary of his professionalism and how he treats people, so this isn’t entirely surprising.

Now there’s a band name I haven’t thought about in a while...

Completely forgot about Puffy using Kashmir as the main riff in his song.  Ugh.

How is Kinja superior to anything?  It doesn’t even have nesting comments, which makes reading threads basically impossible.

To me that’s the funny part of all this. Just the snake eating its tail.

“...but they’re just going to say people want a movie revolving around Max.”

Seriously, bunch of cranky people around here...

I plan to see Furiosa, but a Mad Max Saga without Max is definitely going to be a tougher sell to the general public.

I think Maverick is a great example of the importance of telling a good story. That movie was far better than it had any right to be, and word of mouth made it a smash. When I first heard it was being made I was sure it was going to be a nostalgia-bait suckfest. Then it turned out to be a good movie in its own right,…

That model has to evolve. Knowing I can see a movie weeks after it hits theaters without getting my ass off the couch (and shelling out $30 a head all-in) makes me far less likely to go see it in a theater.  There’s no question that is crushing the studios and theaters.

Schools also aren’t out yet in most of the U.S. If it can hang in at box offices for a couple more weeks I think you’ll see the numbers accelerate, if anything.

I have a friend who’s a producer on major films, and his perspective is the strikes blew a hole in the schedule for the better part of a year.  That doesn’t really explain this weekend’s box, but it will definitely have an impact on the industry in general this year.

I’m far from a comic book movie guy, but will absolutely be seeing that.  I think it will have reach well beyond the typical MCU crowd.