IMO it’s less ‘amount fatigue’ and more ‘quality fatigue’. Marvel and Star Wars are both seeing diminishing returns, because they keep pumping out stuff that just isn’t that great. Don’t get me started on the sequel trilogy...the biggest waste of potential in cinematic history. It’s TV has ranged from awesome but…

I’m not even interested in any of the TV shows except for Mandalorian. RoS effectively killed my desire for more Star Wars movies while Disney is running the show.

There are already rumors regarding Daisy Ridley coming back for more Star Wars, probably sequels to eps 7, 8 & 9.

Lets just stick with the TV shows for a while, no? Theres still the whole, “What the hell do we do with the train wreck(story wise) of the last trilogy?”. That has to be decided before they can make new movies. Unless they are brave enough to start an entirely new saga, sans Skywalkers.

I mean, chess boxing is a real thing.  It’s like that.

Yeah it’s pretty all over the place. I prefer Climbing for Dollars, myself.

Tyson Apostol, who dominated all season long, ultimately ended up dropping after he couldn’t finish a Sudoku puzzle.

well i’m just teasing, obviously he can’t not make a superman movie.

It’s even more impressive because the majority of other movies in the top 25 are either Marvel, Star Wars, or Disney branded, all of which have huge subcultures of people who have built their identity around their fandom. If you take out Cameron, you could reasonably conclude that reaching the top ten requires a…

To all those saying “I don’t get it, what’s the massive/historic appeal”... more and more, I keep thinking of how unapologetically environmentalist and anti-oligarchical these movies are.

there’s no logic here. for whatever reason cameron is really good at making movies that have broadly popular worldwide appeal on a scale that basically no other filmmaker can consistently accomplish.

I guess I’m not surprised but I am... at a loss. I never saw Avatar until I watched it the week before Way of Water came out. It was fine... good even. I mean, a pretty good action movie with really impressive CGI. I would say Cameron himself has made several movies that I thought were a lot better, and Avatar…

That’s fine...benign even. But then Oz kept! talking! “You know, that’s why children, girls don’t like their fathers’ smell. Their pheromones will actually repel their daughters because they’re not supposed to be together,” Oz told the hosts. “My daughters hate my smell.”

This. 

He’s not wrong biologically speaking, which is why 2nd cousins can legally marry in all 50 states. At that level, problematic recessive traits getting excessively reinforced typically only become a problem over several generations in a small population (a very small town, or perhaps early-modern European royalty)…

I don’t know.

It’s not that hard to tell a good Superman story. He’s a good guy who stands up to bullies. That’s the gratification the audience gets. The stakes come from the way sometimes the bad guys’ schemes are so villainous that Superman may not be able to overcome them. The dramatic growth comes from the fact that Superman…

Nerds will prefer to consume something familiar and terrible over anything new and good any day of the week. 

Donnie Yen’s character was. But yeah, mostly it was regular people.

Rogue One is top five SW for me (OT + Last Jedi), so if this is capturing its vibe then I’m optimistic.