But I’m not asking would the movie have been more successful or not. That’s completely besides the point of my question as we can’t know that.

On positive notes from the show, the TikTok sketch delivered for me again, but the real highligh of the was Villasenor’s Cesar Perez. Also, poor, poor Carlitos, that freaky embarrassing little man.

While I overall agree that this was one of the worse SNL episodes in a while, although not to the hyperbolic degree of the article, I actually the fundamental issue here was Lizzo herself. Now don’t get me wrong, she’s came across really charming and the way the cast kept cracking up made it seem that the mood on set…

I’m not ignoring. In the comment you are responding to, I literally directly admit that I think most likely affected the box office success of this film.I just think that the performance of the first two movies, especially the very negative response to te second film, was a much bigger impact here. Also, and this…

Oh, I absolutely do think it is a combination of two of the two factors. I even stated in my points that I’m not denying that Rowling’s comments didn’t affect things, it’s just that I do feel that the bigger component was the overall reception of the previous two films in the Fantastic Beasts series.

You know normally I wouldn’t respond to something like this, I mean this is such bad-faith arguing that what you respond? However, in this case, I could not help myself as I couldn’t stop laughing at this. Like this is legitimately one of the most hilarious things responses I’ve gotten in ages and there have been some…

It’s almost as if Crimes of Grindelwald was a sequel of a film that was the best received of these three and had some momentum, or hope that the films might turn around quality-wise.

I need to really confirm this. Are you genuinely arguing at the moment that the failure is primarily due to Rowling’s comments and not because the previous films were received? Like that this was completely independent of the downward trajectory that we already saw there?

It is also a sequal of a film that was considered deeply underwhelming to say the least. So why exactly would the audience that didn’t like the preceding film be excited to see the sequel?

That is a brutal number. It should be taken to account that one of the reasons it was a bit surprising was that the film has been doing well abroad and is expected to outperform the NA market even this weekend. However, it might have also had an impact here as the buzz for the film was already out and its not like…

Yeah and not just the first one, but the response to the second one, which is this is the direct sequel of, was pretty brutal. One might jump to the conclusion that might have a bigger impact than what JK Rowling thinks about transpeople, but then again that doesn’t give that same room for feeling good about moral…

To be honest, this is to me the biggest shock. That there hasn’t been an effort to put Jamie Reyes on screen yet or that CW!DC didn’t do anything with this character. Don’t get me wrong, kind of glad about it as man those CW shows, but still.

Michael Keaton is such a great choice for Batman here and makes me so much more hyped for this film as they can actually play a lot with the mentorship here.

I meant rather the world of the movie. The Reeves movie verse doesn’t feel like something that would work with superpowered beings flying around.

Completely fair point and if they were now starting to consider the infrastructure as well as the larger plan, then I’m actually thinking this is the right decision. They have movies that are making money now, so it would give that comfortable buffer to really craft how they are going to implement this when hitting…

Except it doesn’t mean less money. In anyway.

I don’t know if MCU’s popularity is on the way out, but I also do feel there’s a bit of a lack of looking at how the non-sequel MCU films have not been massive hits. I guess the Doctor Strange 2 is going to be a big test and I do think there are reasons to be wary of how huge of a hit it is going to be. Note I don’t…

I’d even expand on that that it isn’t even carrying baggage of those previous iterations unlike Aquaman and Wonder Woman, but that especially with Superman and Batman, they are almost representative of these ideas. I feel it’s almost impossible to currently do a movie with those two characters as they will always be…

Oh boy. I’ll start by admitting this comment made me laugh pretty hard.

Joker also had a higher age rating. I don’t think anyone saw this playing such a part in the RoS saga.