Too close to Cabin in the Woods, I expect.  But Tremblay (the author) isn’t thrilled with the name change either.

Rules which pretty clearly contradict everything I ever did as a budding Jedi, too.

Very true. Whether consciously or not, I think audiences are getting tired of being amazed, for lack of a better term. When you can do literally anything with CGI, nothing is impressive. Until you do it for real.

And that doesn’t even get into the absolutely un-fakeable reactions of actors who are legit flying fighter…

Folks, don’t overthink this. Matt Schimkowitz nailed it in his first sentence: To me, Top Gun: Maverick exemplifies something we get very rarely these days: A competent, well-made, well-acted, and well-told popcorn movie.

You want to make a shit-ton of money with a movie, make it something that’s fun, well-done, easy…

One might hope that watching Musk blow 44 billion dollars on buying a company, then take it into a crash dive so steep that it threatens to get him kicked off of the board of a SECOND company, and generally make an ass of himself on a daily basis would convince all the trolling dude-bros that worship Musk that he’s an…

There may have been a time where Elon Musk had some good ideas, but they have long since disappeared and been replaced by a progression of dumber and dumber ideas, culminating in the largest vanity purchase in history (which only served to make him look even dumber by the day).

If you dig that scene, this is pretty great.

“Disruption” is going to go down in history as one of the all-time dumb ideas that made virtually everything it touched worse.

Yeah, I’d hate for him to become full of himself and start trolling people on Twitter.

I’ll thank them for making them, but I’ll thank the fans more for going.  People complain all the time about how there’s not enough original movies being released... while they’re in line for the next Marvel movie.  Horror is the only genre out there that consistently sees original ideas not only produced, but succeed.

“horror movies have the most unforgiving fandom of them all”

I’ve never owned anything Barbie, but I think the movie looks like it could be fun- potentially very weird, but fun.

Except Knives Out is a pretty great title. No one knows or cares who Benoit Blanc is unless they’ve seen the first film.

The nice thing about making stand-alone stories is that you can drop in at any point- but it does help to have the name recognition, both to catch casual viewers of the first film and new viewers who…

Virtually every Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple novel has a line on the cover somewhere identifying it as such. This is not that big a deal.

It is NOW. Sad thing is, it used to be the kind of thing that they wouldn’t even need to check, because they’d have had a writer assigned to the article who’d actually read Agatha Christie novels, and were likely lifelong fans.

Honestly surprised it took that long to get to this title suggestion.

“raising the bar lower”

Old was... ok. I watched it on a plane and it was interesting enough. Not great, but it was watchable, and at least the twist wasn’t as dumb as some of his older films have been.

No there wasn’t. There’s wah pedal even on Kill ‘Em All.

Exactly. Just look at the new Avatar. Yeah, it’s going to make an absolutely mind-boggling amount of money, but an awful lot of money went into it too.