FYI, here’s how to see a full grey reply (and star it, should you choose to, which will make it appear in the normal thread from then on).

i just can’t shake the impression of how fake and g-rated this fight is. are they actually on a bus? no. of course not. a camera couldn’t move around a bus like that. also, it feels like the star of the film and the stunt men were filmed separately. there’s no feeling of contact. not helped by the undersold sound…

As someone initially fretted when Michael “Mr. Mom” Keaton was cast as Batman, only to be blown away by his performance in 1989

Yeah I was wondering about that. Feels like you’d need a crazy high rez video source AND screens in the headset to trick your brain enough.

Most people do not have a 120" projector screen, so not really relevant to this conversation but good for you.

I love my home setup as well, but nothing private could compare to a laser IMAX experience, so I’m definitely watching it on the big screen first.

That’s a lame, clichéd excuse for being antisocial. Do you live in a prison? Going to the theater is fun. People are not that bad.

Not so much the marketing as the fact that Blade Runner was never a popular movie in the way that Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or E.T. were. From the ‘80s onwards, it was a cult movie beloved by SF/Philip K. Dick fans, home entertainment enthusiasts, and film buffs. Outside of those three groups almost no one…

I mean, if he wanted to make TV, he would make TV. He wants to make movies. The least important difference between the two is the length.

“Content is just content! Movies are just as good on my iPhone as they are in IMAX 3D!”

It’s really not, and to say it’s like a Kindle vs paper books is a bad faith argument.

I was at the first showing of Blade Runner 2049 on its opening night in 2017. If that crowd is in any way indicative of the turnout for Dune, social distancing inside the theater will not be a concern.

Uh, Raya was pretty much south-east Asia and not China.

True enough, but the more important factor for this discussion is that they would’ve fully expected those films to be hits outside of China (and Asia) too.

Yeah, the greys are basically doomed at this point. There was a period after the last big deterioration of functionality where there was a workaround to star a grey comment, which would make them appear in full, but that’s vanished (and was not fun anyway, because you could only see the first couple lines of that…

The other way of looking at it is that if not for the pandemic Disney would have put out three major theatrical releases with all Asian leads (and only a handful of non-Asian cast members) inside of 12 months (Mulan: March 2020; Raya: November 2020; Shang-Chi: February 2021). Between them, a box office take…

Stop repeating what the girl at the bar said to you last night, and add a substantive comment.

Ok, so I’m not the only person thinking this.  

Wow. Three separate replies.

What a terrible explanation. I guess it fits. Gunn thought time skips would add something to his movie, instead of detracting from it. It ended up being as incoherent, loud and messy as the last one, but with better acting.