I really want a political thriller involving Wakanda, with T’Challa never donning the panther suit or physically fighting anyone.

The best part was when they somehow had a 70-foot apatosaurus caged up in Lookwood’s basement. She gets released with the others and is milling around the basement as the room fills with gas.  Where did THAT thing come from?  Who knows.  

If it is legally justified for 99% of other movies to be predominantly men, I’m sure the lawyers for the all-female crew can come up with similar legally justifiable reasons why their crew is all women (“coincidentally, all the best qualified people were women”; “privacy reasons require our crew to be the same…

No, you’re not alone. I’d still like to know how it ends, but I am losing the desire to actually watch it happen. I think just reading how the show ends is good enough for me.

I had zero interest before any of the trailers. Then after seeing the desaturated colors that are usually used to hide bad cgi, my interest remained at zero. Nothing in the trailers appealed to me — not the characters, the visuals, nothing.

Every ad makes this movie appear dark and grey, desaturated colors like bad cgi (even when it’s not actually cgi). I HATE that trend in movies, it’s my pet peeve. I would skip this movie for that reason alone, if I hadn’t already decided to skip it for other reasons.

Totally agree. In Honolulu we had an off-duty federal agent from the mainland who was out drinking all night. He went to McDonalds where a local guy (i.e., brown skin) was sitting around and asking customers “Can I help you?” So the agent goes over and kicks the man. The man fights back, and the poorly trained agent…

Waikiki “beach” is man-made. So is Ala Moana beach. The City (State?) brought in sand to create a beach where nature did not intend for a beach to exist. Consequently, the sand washes away, with ever-increasing frequency, and blankets and kills the coral. Now, I’m not saying global warming and sunscreen do not ALSO…

“Grounded” is not a word I would use for the ridiculous Mission Impossible movies, or any James Bond movie other than the 2006 Casino Royale. Mission Impossible is more like a spoof of The Bourne Identity; and Bond was always silly and over the top.

They’re all coming back, except Loki and Heimdall. To have an “emotional” ending where somebody, finally, dies and stays dead, they will kill off Captain America.

But at least Amy looks like that in real life too. It’s a TINY step forward for Hollywood.

The poster IS ridiculous. The water would have to be pretty deep for a shark that large, at yet when have you ever seen THAT many people congregating in the open ocean? Yeah, I know it’s a dumb movie, but when the poster is that silly, it makes me think the movie can’t possibly be scary or exciting.

I didn’t watch the trailer, but these screen shots all have that horrible, desaturated color that the awful DC movies have. If I wasn’t already planning to skip this movie, that alone would have done it.

Oh, the “why” is interesting, no doubt. I was just responding as to why I believe adjusted box office still matters.

Alternative entertainment (whether Netflix, or horseracing, or however else people spend their time) only explains WHY fewer people went to see a movie in theaters. So comparing how many people paid to watch certain movies in theaters is entirely fair. Of course there are many reasons WHY more Americans watched Gone…

But whether a movie had competition from Netflix, or Babe Ruth playing baseball, or heavy snowstorms, or whatever, only explains WHY some movies were more/less popular than other movies. It doesn’t change the fact that a movie’s popularity ranks where it does; it only explains WHY the movie is ranked at that number.

I only watch movies, so I don’t know what the comics say, but: doesn’t Iron Man at least design and build his own tech? Batman just pays other people to do that for him.

This was my view as well, although I’d also throw in Rogue One at the end (updated special effects, a little something extra beyond just the 3 originals, and it didn’t “ruin” Star Wars).

It’s too late for me, because my son has already seen the prequels and Eps VII and VIII, but in hindsight (or if/when I have grandkids), I’d show: Star Wars; Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jedi; and Rogue One, in that order. I liked Episode VII and VIII well enough, but I don’t know where Ep IX is heading, and…

I skipped it because (1) I hated Snyder’s previous movies; (2) stories that the movie was being rushed, which is not a good sign; and (3) the trailers looked bad — desaturated colors and CGI fights, the usual here-today-forgotten-tomorrow crap that I make a point to avoid. I liked Wonder Woman, but I have no interest…