https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/after-barbie-mattel-is-raiding-its-entire-toybox

To me the suit really makes it look like a CGI head on a body.

The first one made bank in Asia and the audience there did not give one shit about the plot. That is completely worth making a sequel for. I’m actually shocked they didn’t do it sooner.

One round of reshoots are total normal and expected.

Civil war was not a cameo (I think someone counted and he actually has the most lines in the film). I also think that Homecoming is enough that I wouldn’t count it as a cameo (but it’s on the edge). Only the Incredible hulk stinger is what I’d consider an actual cameo.

I’m not sure if I can think of a single group of people in Hollywood more capable of shutting the whole place down than the VFX houses if they went on strike.

He used Legos to make solid models (the whole glue thing).  The irony is, Lego was been fighting an internal war for years with the huge money they make on IP kits.  For a lot of people that want Lego to develop kids imaginations, the IP kits are the single worse thing that ever happened to Lego.  Lego should be all…

As good as this movie might be, let me tell you with 100% confidence, Mattel is taking every wrong lesson they can from the success of this movie (read the new yorker article).

I think cast Will Ferrell was actually a mistake (as great a comic actor as he is). It made the comparison too on the nose.

There are real questions about how many of those 4000 are still operational. It cost a huge amount to keep them working. At this point Russian has a smaller GDP than Italy and the full impact of the sanctions haven’t even gone through their economy yet. I’ve heard estimates that less than 10% are operational at this…

What is this absolute garbage? This show needs to be retroactively canceled and Apple should apologize to anyone who ever read the Foundation books.

As a massive fan of the books (I’ve read the entire series over a dozen times at this point in my life) I simply do not see any way that they can work anything even slightly like the second foundation from the books into the show at this point. Literally the entire driving force behind third book, and a major player…

Easy money.  I would have happily paid to watch the past films.  Especially now that I’m finding out that the new one has some callbacks to the earlier ones.

I totally agree. It was unclear what the trigger was that brought back Pike’s memories. And thanks everyone for the explanation! It also makes the line atht end about the old man deciding to stay make more sense (he decided to stay long enough that his memories would come back).

It really makes me wish that some theaters were showing some of the old ones again as a run up to the new movie.  They still hold up great and I’d love to take my kids to see them.

I feel like MI:1 is actually trying to keep the framework of the original TV show - with a movie budget adding action. MI:2 was a weird placeholder, and MI:3 on had basically nothing to do with the show - which was framed around an impersonation / heist plot for a TV budget.

There were plenty of ways that you could adapt Foundation. If you were set on keeping some characters throughout multiple seasons you could have easily kept the Lee Pace clone Emperor change (I thought that was clever and did nothing to hurt the concepts in the books) and interleaved the stories of Foundation and…

Legacy is actually not that bad on repeat viewings.  I think a lot of people had very different (higher) expectations.  When you see if again with an idea of what’s is in store, it’s a pretty well crafted film with a great unique look, decent dialogue and a second to none soundtrack.  Not a bad set of qualities for a…

Not a popular opinion, while Voyager was not a great show, Janeway is my favorite Captain of the whole franchise.  She just has that perfect blend of command and humanity that makes her seem slightly more real then any of the rest of them, while still being an incredibly impressive role model.

After this weekend I’m questioning whether WB is even going to continue making any DC movies except for the Matt Reeve’s Batman movies.  I wouldn’t be surprised if they just pivoted into a remake of LOTR and let the comic book connect movie thing rest for a decade.