High-functioning stoner? I guess there are high-functioning alcoholics (at least until they suddenly aren’t).

No wonder the approximately $160 million man is chuckling to himself at the end of the video.

That thing looks great - they actually made a mini-van look cool.

2nd gear: How long until Elon just doesn’t send cars to IKEA Country?

1st Gear: This eventually might push them to move more plants to northern Mexico, to take advantage of cheap labor there and a favorable trade regime (I think Mexican-produced stuff can take advantage of IRA rules as well when it comes to EVs).

Frozen 3 is probably going to heavily feature Anna and Kristoff’s kid or kids.

Maybe BH was hoping that GM would get a stock boost from the shift to EVs, but with production difficulties and the union contract covering them, the potential for profit is lower now.

1st Gear: There’s always folks who vote no even on a good contract. I think most of them are fine with it.

Maybe they’d find his corpse floating in the water, although given those waters the sharks might have gotten to him first. 

It wasn’t terrible, but it’s got some really annoying use of voice-over and unnecessary back-story padding, and there’s lot of parts where it’s tripping over its own tone - like something serious will happen, and then it will suddenly be silly or casual in a way where the transition isn’t handled that well and it…

It wasn’t terrible, but it had Too Much Taika. I could do with less Korg and much less Taika voice-over. 

It sounds like they’re trying to wait it out (by bringing in employees from elsewhere). Honestly not sure if Tesla will accept the deal or just pull operations from Sweden and lay off everyone involved, which would presumably trigger legal shit as well.

That would rule. Pull an Olivia Wilde and have him get served on stage - or see him comically try to run off stage to avoid it.

That’s worth keeping in perspective. There’s been a lot of “EV sales slowing down!” news coverage, but when you look at the details it’s along the lines of “EV sales went from doubling down to a ‘mere’ 61% increase in sales” and so forth. That was always going to happen - the EV car sales business was not going to…

Inflation applies to budgets as well - a $200 million film now is not the same as a $200 million film in 2014, etc.

It genuinely is an odd mystery as to why this one under-performed. You could point to the main leads not being particularly famous or the characters being relatively obscure, but that’s not totally true (Samuel Jackson featured heavily in the marketing) and it didn’t stop the first Captain Marvel movie from making…

Possibly believable, since she openly said that her role in Shazam 2 was a pay-check gig that she did because she needed work after West Side Story. Or maybe she’s more careful now. 

This one had positive word of mouth. As for the brand, it’s worth remembering that out of the MCU films this year, only one of them could be described as a disappointment (Ant Man 3), and the rest were successful (Thor 4, Guardians 3, Black Panther 2 - all successes).

I thought it had fun set pieces and the core cast was good, but it kind of gets a bit messy in the middle with pacing issues and the ending feels meh.

The marketing and lack of promotion due to strike rules really hurt this one. Captain Marvel was a big box office success, but it’s been nearly five years since it came out and the sequel really needed its cast out there promoting it heavily to build buzz.