The sad thing I’m learning lately when it comes to any part of pop culture that existed before the rise of our post-Web 2.0 culture, is that if it was either (A) popular amongst the adult (re: non-web-using) crowd, or (b) something that was mildly popular at the time, but not popular enough to generate sequels and/or…

100% agree. If anything, Rick and Evie’s banter in Returns is even better because there’s no worry about whether those are going to spontaneously stop being a couple. (Poor Mario Bello. Homegirl is an amazing actress, but she got a bum deal replacing Rachel Weisz in the third movie. The chemistry just wasn’t the same)

I absolutely agree. It’s really tiresome how often screenwriters don’t know how to make a stable relationship be interesting, so they just resort to pushing the “break up/get back together” button. It’s as lazy as it is everywhere.

Just because one iconic character is, himself, an imitator, doesn’t mean that he can’t be successful enough to spawn even more imitators (who may or may not even know the original crop exists).

It’s also the movie where even Dwayne Johnson himself looks tired at his own schtick. Dude’s mind looks like it’s a bajillion miles away from any given scene he’s filming.

The literary Quatermain, sure. But the movies starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone didn’t happen until after the success of the Indiana Jones films made movie execs go “Hey, what do we got that could compete with that?”

...huh. Never thought about that before, but you know? I think you’re completely spot on. Even starts with an archaeological excavation and everything!

I’ll see you that, and raise you one Relic Hunter.

That’s an astute observation, but if it were truly the case, then I think both The Goonies and National Treasure would be disqualified (just off the top of my head. Can’t be bothered to re-look at the slides). They also hew to that same “we’re slightly more cinematic version of average realism” dynamic.

Huh. You’re right. You didn’t specifically use the term “streak.” I guess my brain just assumed it, since the list of movies you provided did, in fact, show that Disney had a streak of movies from 2012-2016 that were pretty much all all-timers in some way shape or form.

All I have to say is: “relatable.”

...mainline Disney alone had a major creative resurgence with the likes of Wreck-It-Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Moana.

I’ve also said before that I think that’s an excellent idea, but once again: that’s a great idea.

It’s especially lazy because none of the slides have any additional text writeup. Like, at all.

Eh, no need to apologize. It happens. I was mostly just idly wondering rather than actually put out. The extra salt I put on my snarky commentary was meant for a laugh more than anything.

Oh, I get what you’re saying now. I misunderstood the comment as “This is D&D stuff, so it doesn’t have to abide by English language rules” or something like that, not “D&D is the generally-accepted abbreviation over DnD.”

“You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts.” (orders Peanut M&M’s at the theater counter)

...Which was written in the English language, and is thus subject to its semantic rules.