The thing they actually care about is “how do we arrange things so that the tiny crowd of plutocrats who own everything make more money?” Disney can drop a bunch of turds and you can be guaranteed that the guys in charge will all still walk away with millions. One or two of them might occasionally get a relative slap…

I kinda hoped we’d be past the “I personally haven’t noticed a lot of marketing for this, so it must not be getting marketed properly” phase of our discourse.

I’ve avoided Tiktok, and I only even created an Instagram account when my teenager made one several years ago, so I could monitor. At this point I just use Instagram for watching Reels when I’m tired and need some brain candy, and it’s kind of hilarious how many of them are just republished Tiktok videos, complete…

I guess when you’re done, you just drop the mic on the ground. Savages.

I’m preeeeetty sure Bam was joking.

Oppenheimer at 2pm, then dinner, then Barbie at 7:30. Worked out well. The biggest flaws were 1) can’t hear the fucking Oppenheimer dialogue over the EXTREMELY LOUD AND PERVASIVE MUSIC, and 2) the group of 5 teenage douchebags in the row behind me who talked THE ENTIRE TIME but thankfully left as soon as it was clear…

Y’all motherfuckers need Jesus death of the author.

When will then be now?

No, not now. Right... wait... no wait... now!

I’ve been noticing the same thing as I (slowly) learn more about history. Almost every single civilization at every point in time is a small core of plutocrats exploiting everyone else’s labor.

Hey, the best time to start a revolution is always right now.

The X makes it sound cool him sound like a tool.

I told you not to call me that in public!

For complicated reasons, we’re seeing this on Monday night, so I went and bought tickets a little whie ago. And the show was already almost sold out, as were most of the other shows on Monday. And Tuesday. What the holy fuck is happening.

An additional revenue stream?

Or even that her power diminished when the stones were destroyed.

Four. The villain is a woman, too.

I would suspect that most of the marketing effect on actual viewership is from trailers (regular ads). I honestly don’t even know where you’d normally come across those press interviews. I’ve never seen those except excerpted in, like, Instagram reels, and it’s always from older movies that have already come out.

A24. As much as I love the MCU, I can’t argue that it’s much more than low-effort comfort viewing (especially since Phase 3 ended).

In NHIE he has an Indian accent (as his character is an Indian immigrant to the US). Ramamurthy himself is from Chicago and has a flat American accent; I learned this when we saw the Heroes panel (in person) at the Paley Festival in 2006, and found out simultaneously that Ramamurthy speaks with an American accent (his…