See also: shitty books hitting the best seller lists because publishers/agencies buy them by the boxload.

Donations, mostly. I mean there were tweets online how theaters were sold out and only a few people where in the theater.

No, I get it. He’s one of those actors who doesn’t seem like a real person. Perfectly symmetrical face with a perfect hairline and jawline and this designed-in-a-lab smile. I remember the first dead dad flashback on Never Have I Ever where he pops up, and my reaction was just, “get the fuck out of here.”

This story would make for a great I Think You Should Leave sketch.

I guess it would have been more accurate to say “no one, with the benefit of hindsight, is claiming the cartoon was great.”

It’s as big as Marvel and DC

I ended up putting the captions on for Tenet because I couldn’t understand a damn thing that was being said and I’ve never had to do that with a movie before or since.

The guy who directed Tenet finds the “audiovisual experience” more important than plot? Yeah, that tracks.

Yes, absolutely. But to frame it as “CEOs are not the only one who are going to have to share their wealth” is absurd. The value Tom Cruise added to Top Gun: Maverick’s success didn’t cost workers money.

Tom Cruise made 100 million because audiences went to see him perform death-defying stunts on camera. Ted Sarandos made 50 billion for cracking down on password sharing.

“but I thought it was a shame she looked so old. I think it would have played more sympathetically for Mom if the daughter had looked younger.”

“ ...it’s a lack of you engaging with the marketing.”

I think you might be overestimating how much attention the general public pays to this kind of stuff. Sure, you and I knew that Spiderverse might end on a cliffhanger because we read sites like this and we remember when they were calling it Across the Spiderverse Part 1. But my coworkers and my parents and my son and…

I was vaguely aware that Spider-Verse was being developed into a franchise and that there would be more movies. That’s far different from a movie announcing “this is Part 1" and/or constructing a movie in such a way that its main plot actually resolves satisfactorily before “cliffhanging” into the next. Having 2.5…

Less “weird”, more “exactly the same thing as sending money to a televangelist”. It’s sad people being scammed out of their money to make rich grifters even richer.

I am a complete Marvel nerd (username checks out) and I was totally blindsided by the Spider-Verse ending, but that had just as much to do with how poorly constructed the film was. As I commented above, if your movie is basically 2.5 hours of build-up (the ending of Spider-Verse is quite literally “oh now we got the…

The daughter easily could’ve passed for 21.

I get where the mom is coming from too, but the point is, kids need to make mistakes and learn from them. And instead of coming clean to her daughter that she got worried and peeked at the iPad, using it as a teaching moment to discuss safe sex, ask about the boy, etc, she selfishly secrets it away so she can still…

As someone who JUST watched “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, this was a great week of watching parents making terrible yet sympathetic decisions that may or may not have ruined their families.

“Your response just sounds like you’re justifying someone giving another person Plan B against her will so . . . ?”