Adding onto what everyone else is saying: I feel like there was almost zero marketing for this. I didn’t really know it was even coming out until like 2 weeks ago, which was mostly because reports came out that it would probably underperform. Granted, all the other factors mentioned were likely even bigger factors,…

They only rose 49% last quarter so it’s really bad. /s

Business myopia has always been a thing. They believe that product sales in the early stage of its life cycle will continue forever, conveniently forgetting the concepts of saturation and competition.  

It tried to course correct in the Sensui arc after the Dark Tournament, at least, making the villains human psychics the heroes couldnt just blow away with their higher power levels. Actually had some fun set pieces. The Hospital and Game Master were definitely highlights. At least until they got to Sensui himself…

I mean ultimately the box office is always a roller coaster. The new Mission Impossible got great reviews and audience reception numbers, but still underperformed. Although that was also affected that it came just before the juggernauts that Barbie and Oppenheimer turned out to be, but still.

Which didn’t fill me with confidence, to be honest. It suggests that they’re really going to fold a bunch of alternate realities into the not-616 at the end of Secret Wars, which is such a dramatically unsatisfying approach.

TWO tournament arcs, in fact. I think the show leaned into power levels and energy blasts in the last leg just for funsies, but up until that point I think it kept itself fairly distinct by doing a much wider variety of powers and attacks than DBZ. Shonen stuff is always going to fall into that trap if it goes longer…

If you adjust for inflation, even the successful Marvel movies are performing less well. The box office hasn’t come back to its pre-Covid days. You had the strike which limited promotion. In this case, I think the promotion it likely would have benefitted the most from would have been throwing Iman Vellani into the…

You know? It mostly just reminds me of Vin Diesel’s The Chronicles of Riddick

People tend to forget that the X-Movies weren’t big hits for Fox — they did well enough, but were never massively popular like the first couple of Raimi Spider-Mans, Dark Knight, or Iron Man.

Surprised you didn’t mention that the new multiverse looks like Yggrasdil the World Tree. And that Loki repeats what he told Odin in the first Thor movie: “For you. For all of us.”

It’s getting harder to believe they’re still in high school than Demogorgons, Mind Flayers, Vecba, mind powers... COMBINED!

The Marvels looks fun. It’s a real bummer they couldn’t have the cast out there promoting it - I hope it does much better than expected this weekend at the box office.

As far as I’m concerned, anything with Softbank is radioactive.

I can. It’s another middleman disruptor idea and the VCs love those. One platform where you can do more diverse office leasing than the traditional way. Just like AirBnB is one platform where you can do short term (non-commercial) rentals different than the traditional way.

He may very well be the most successful con man in history.  

For a lot of people in general, meeting the opposite sex is a numbers game. Just because there are a lot of opportunities available on a campus, why would you ignore a giant group that is readily available in your immediate geographic area via a handheld device that everyone has? Even on campus, people still operate…

I’ve seen this, especially in graduate school. One full-time MBA cohort I knew ended up with 3 couples getting married after graduation.

You mean the one that AVClub put at sixth best?

They brought back one of Moe’s old girlfriends from a previous season and they got engaged. Also Comic Book Guy met a woman online and they got married.