It would’ve helped a little. But let’s be honest, this movie never stood a chance. It’s a sequel nobody asked for, to a 5+ year old film that was itself just average MCU filler. Then Disney swapped its premiere date a couple times and now they’re barely promoting it at all compared to their usual marketing efforts.

I think the trick is that reviews by critics were embargoed until today. However, Marvel (like other studios) tends to let select people see the movie first and post quick takes on the movie first. These people are overwhelmingly not critics, but people who are more like professional fans. They’re people naturally…

Uhh... “everywhere” else?

They are fucked and this trailer shows it. Frontloading it with clips of other better movies to build hype by association. And it doesn’t even work at building any hype - that first chunk with the Avengers nostalgia gives way to a quick sketch of the threat, setting the stakes, the music gains intensity and builds to…

You aren’t wrong, but if Disney put out ten superhero movies with female leads and directors and nine of those each made a billion dollars with the tenth merely making $600M, all the focus would be on chuds tweeting out “get woke, go broke.”

1. The Republicans are majority.
2. There’s no obligation for the minority to come to the majority’s aid in determining the majority’s Speaker.
3. I cannot find a single, recent, historical example of the minority party having come to the rescue of the majority to elect a Speaker.
4. If the shoe were on the other foot,…

You don’t understand how political parties work. How many Republicans voted for Pelosi or Jefferies for speaker over the years?

Feels like a lot of hand-wringing going on. But if there’s one thing to be said about directors not having a lot of autonomy or control on Marvel projects, it’s that it’s not their fault when something goes wrong either.

I like Nate. Maybe the only good thing to come out of the strike so far is getting to see him live out one of his dreams on SNL.

The size absolutely is the problem. It’s all about resource management.

Part of the problem I have with so many open world titles (especially the Ubisoft ones) are that Devs brag about how much space is in their games, yet when you really look at it, most of the time these spaces are virtually empty, copy and pasting…

I like to think Diesel saw Van Damme first express his support for Trump and then say that the Illuminati, Rockefellers and Rothschilds might prevent Trump from winning the election and went “nah, thanks”.

“The GOP can’t even govern itself, why should anyone trust them to govern the country?” should be the Democratic refrain for the next 12 months.

“[Jordan] supposedly said ‘stand down’ and they haven’t stood down. Leaders are followed.” This.

It’s 4% of the conference … it’s 4% of the conference and all the Democrats that want this chaos

Allowing you to change your appearance and doubling down on the fluidity of form doesn’t change that V’s pronouns are determined by their voice, which you can’t change alongside every other facet of their appearance.

Wow Dishonored 3 is such welcome unexpected news. I love those games. 

This is a strange argument. Apatow’s responsible for finding funny people to be in his movies, and for making sure those people behave professionally during the movies. Brand is very funny in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and none of the allegations here concern any conduct during the filming of an Apatow movie. I don’t…

It’s always the person you least suspect. Here, Brand is the person you most suspect, which makes you think you shouldn’t suspect him, which makes him the person you least suspect.

Sean, please stop trying to help.

‘I am on the board’