Interestingly enough, in poker tournaments, players who are in the final table might decide to “chop”, and take an even payout based upon however many are left, rather than risk it. They’d all still get paid anyways, but given how steep the payout structure is, it’s often a better long-term strategy than vying for a…

What you say is absolutely true, but in the end, math is math.

The reality is that the last two Scream movies didn’t do as well, when adjusted for inflation, as the last Friday the 13th. Sure it had a precipitous box office fall, but my salient point (which I made clearly) is that relative to the box office and the…

I agree.

As a Lambo fan, as iconic as the Countach is, the Diablo (especially the VT and early-SV models) are the best designed Lamborghinis short of the Miura and certain Gallardos. The Countach gives you crazy 1980s excess, but isn’t a particularly beautiful car, and while the Murcielago has grown on me, the…

This stuck with me because I do remember they called out Hillary by name, and the way the article read made it clear the Houser brother in question personally blamed Hillary for all the flack Rockstar Games had gotten. Out of all the Jack Thompsons in the US, of all the Congressmen scapegoating video games, hip hop,…

also, if it’s a 40 million dollar budgeted movie and she wants 7-8 million that feels fairly reasonable to me. that’s how movie stardom works.

Samuel L. Jackson has also been contracted in the series since Iron Man, and knowing a little about these contracts, there’s probably increases that are baked in at a certain number of appearances. Between The Marvels, the other MCU films, and the TV shows, he’s been a part of no less than 10 productions. It makes…

Scream VI, when you adjust for inflation, earned as much during its run as the Friday the 13th reboot did back in 2009, and only did slightly better over its run than the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot did back in 2010, and Friday the 13th not only had half the budget, but adjusted for inflation, it actually had a…

The biggest star who ever appeared in these movies was killed in the franchise’s very first scene. I’m not convinced people go to these movies because of the cast.

My theory, which I laid out in another response, is that she asked for that much knowing that they’d never agree to it, so that she could leave and still look good by having everyone assume it was due to scheduling conflicts (which was the assumption). Or, if they agreed to it, she gets a huge payday far in excess of…

Honestly, while I enjoyed the last two films, the plots have been so increasingly bad that I truly believe they could slot in any two relatively young stars and do the same business.

Ortega is great, and while I’ve only seen Barrera in these movies, she was good as well, but people came out to see the movies because of…

I don’t agree that the Marvel villains need multiple-movie arcs to be effective. Most Marvel movies are at least as long as The Dark Knight, Star Wars, Silence of the Lambs, Misery, Training Day, No Country for Old Men, or Inglorious Basterds. If you can’t create an effective villain in three hours, six more hours…

*cough* Evolutionary *cough*

Also ya I have no clue how the investigator determined anything concrete by the single surveillance footage clip I saw. It looked pretty inconclusive, but that’s why they’re the experts I guess. Maybe they have another camera angle that isn’t public yet.

Only thing that makes sense is camera footage that shows the brake lights on, or internal GPS/black box data that shows pressure being applied prior to going airborne. I’m sure Bentley has the technology, considering similar technology is available to Hyundai/Kia, which allowed them to show that in the Tiger Woods…

I totally agree with you that you need to see the God Butcher butchering gods, but one things that stands out is that we largely didn’t. We see Gorr kill a god in his introductory scene. There’s apparently a campaign of butchering that’s been going on, but it mostly occurs offscreen.

Not that it narratively matters with Kang, but my guess is that if he does get recast, they’d want someone younger. Oyelowo is 47, Majors is 34, and Oyelowo in Kang’s main getup would look rather similar to Chukwudi Iwuji as The High-Revolutionary (who, interestingly enough, is 48).

Marvel problems (a plot that muddled with unnecessary characters and storylines).

I enjoyed Ragnarok, but lets be clear, coming from the original Thor and The Dark World, both of which were rather dour trecks with relatively unappealing characters (save for Loki), you could really only go up from there.

In my opinion, we saw what Taiki unrestrained would do with the character, and we got Love &…

Very true.

You really can’t discount how significant the sunk cost fallacy is once these cults lay on the financial grift.

True, but you have to consider that a lot of those Steam games simply aren’t available on consoles (indie titles), and many PC-only titleslikely had a lower entry price point because of the assumption that you’d pay significantly more over the lifetime of the game for DLC (The Sims-series and Paradox Interactive…