This also gets to the point I was making about what works and what doesn’t in general release. There was a time when Joss Whedon’s stuff was solid gold and seemed to keep fans wanting more.

Had it not generated any buzz and had the original Iron Man film not done all that well, that would have been that and we never would have had the Marvel movie empire as it is!

I was about to say something like “Jesus, what a piece of @##$ that was!” but I saw the look on the guy’s face and how delicately he handled the book (which, by that point, was several months old and he clearly was a collector of that stuff) and instead said something like “Hey! That’s my first ever professional work…

I think they did dip their toes into the “universe” concept with Snyder and Nolan being the ones at the forefront, perhaps Snyder moreso than Nolan (though he was the producer, I believe of Snyder’s films). The problem was that Snyder went into directions that, alas, audiences didn’t want.

Sadly for Julia Louis-Dreyfus... it feels like she’s been a little too pigeon holed into the “comedic” personality, whether it be Elaine in Seinfeld or her character in Christmas Vacation or the VP.

I list it as TSS (The Suicide Squad, its official name). It is definitely a victim of the Pandemic, but would have been a Shazam size movie at best if it wasnt. It might have suffered from the first SS movie having been revealuated as really bad, despite its box office.

Ok they have 11 movies in universe, 12 if you count ZSJL.

It is potentially a problem, for sure.

I think they are going for more of what they do in corporations. the DCEU is in Sunset mode. Existing projects will be allowed to run their course. This is basically what they have said is happening with The Batman and Joker 2, as well as the existing movies that are in the can: Aquaman2 and The Flash. Blue Beetle…

DC, on the other hand, seemed to hit it big with individual projects. The original Richard Donner Superman film and then the Donner/Lester Superman II did extremely well. Not so much Superman III and especially IV. Tim Burton’s Batman was a megasuccess while Batman Returns seemed to scare the studios by the darkness…

While I don’t disagree with anything you say here, I would point this out: James Gunn may well fail at what he’s doing as well and whatever “long term” plans he has may be aborted pretty quickly if his first projects don’t see the return that DC/Warners clearly expects of him...

I always wanted to eat one of those sandwiches.

My God, this comment is full of stars

“And what’s more, the anticonsumerist subtext doesn’t appear to have been covered by natural erosion or other forces. It seems to have been deliberately buried.”

Huh, Dusku would’ve probably been a pretty good Contessa if Agents of SHIELD had been more like the comics. No offense to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I’ve been a fan of since SNL, but she’s horribly miscast and always seems a bit confused and lost whenever she turns up in the MCU. It almost feels like maybe there’s some…

I have to confess I only saw a couple of Dollhouse episodes back in the day. But recently I was cleaning out my closet and discovered that I’d bought the first season on Blu-ray! Amazing. I keep forgetting that 10-12 years ago I was still regularly buying current TV shows on physical media. (Our broadband sucked until…

Yeah, but Star Trek had a pretty decent run for a show that never enjoyed more than middling ratings. And it had its share of ups and downs — the first season was pretty solid, the second less so, the third... well.

Having Linda Hamilton back was a treat. But I agree having Arnold back was unnecessary. Especially since the way they wrote him in was so. goddamn. goofy. It would have been better if the secret contact had been a new character, maybe someone tangentially linked to the events of 1 & 2 (Miles Dyson’s son is the obvious…

Yeah, I have to wonder if Firefly would’ve had the same following or. reputation if it’d run 2-3 seasons instead of like 16 episodes. I bet not. It’d probably be remembered as that weird space western from the early ‘00s. 

The thing about TLJ that no one seems to notice is that Johnson basically gave the franchise a big exit at the end. Everything TFA set up is gone. The First Order has been effectively destroyed — their leader is dead, their main fleet (which was also their industrial center) is destroyed, their military braintrust is…