It might not have been better, and it could always have gone to shit in a hundred other ways... but at least it wouldn’t have face-planted in such a preventable way.

Three Body Problem has the same isse which makes Michael Chricton books hard to adapt- a lot of it is long stretches of scientists just talking science. For the right reader (me) that’s fascinating, but it’s really hard to adapt in any film that doesn’t involve Steven Spielberg bringing dinosaurs to life.

By all accounts, it was also their call to blow through the last two seasons in 13 episodes rather than full seasons.  I don’t begrudge them wanting to move on after living in that world for close to ten years, but my sympathy ends when they chose to rush through the ending instead of handing off the reins so they…

There’s a lot of factors that go into judging the quality of a movie. Reviews, both critical and popular, are one. Cars 2 is dead last in terms of aggregated reviews of Pixar films, and the only one that has a “rotten” ranking: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/all-pixar-movies-ranked/

Box office has never and will never equate to quality.   It’s correlation, at best.

I think people expect too much. The studio had like fifteen years of amazing films, most of them flat out masterpieces. And no matter where you cut off their “golden age” (probably either Cars or Cars 2, let’s be honest), there’s still multiple films after that which any other studio would kill to have made.

Saw TS3 in a theater, can confirm blubbering mess.  My wife and I also saw Up together very early in our relationship.  Its the only time I was glad for 3D glasses.

I’m not saying they didn’t adapt the first three books capably- they did. But I’m saying the quality of the books being adapted isn’t equal. GRRM writes amazingly complex characters, interesting even when his plotting is for shit, and that’s by far the hardest thing to get right. GRRM writes scenes that are dripping…

True.

Fair enough.  Gunn and Safran are probably annoyed by it.  I should have clarified that, because I was thinking more along the lines of their bosses, who don’t really give a shit about cohesive storytelling in general, as long as the stock price keeps ticking up.  (Even though cohesive storytelling is the best way to…

Wonder Woman—>Wonder Woman 84—>Man of Steel—>BvS—>Justice League. And the Harley Quinn movies and the Aquaman movies fit in somewhere that I can’t be bothered to waste time figuring out.

It’s not that I don’t think the books can be adapted, it’s that I don’t think Benioff and Weiss are up to it. They barely managed GoT, with some of the best characters in fantasy (at least up until books 4-5). To call the characters in TBP paper-thin would be giving them generous depth.

But they weren’t complaining about the artists and their $250 tickets in the first place?  That’s the thing that doesn’t track.  People won’t blame the artists- there’s too much motivated reasoning to love them.

They were never going to come out and say that they weren’t doing a sequel to The Flash or recasting Miller, at least not before the movie premieres. But when Gunn announced ten new movies and it wasn’t on the list, it’s pretty obvious it’s not happening.

OTOH, they don’t seem to be at all concerned with having internal continuity the way Marvel is, so maybe they don’t care at all. The DCU has barely been a “U” in any meaningful sense of the word. There’s at least three distinct timelines going on even before Gunn’s new slate blows it all up (Snyderverse, Matt Reeves’…

People always ask this, and I’m always baffled.

Who are these people who fork over hundreds of dollars for tickets already, who are suddenly going to clutch pearls because the final price appears up front?

Ok, now that’s where you’ve gone wrong. Seriously, I read through the entire thread, and I was pretty much on your side (if you know you’re going to get screwed, it’d be nice to know how badly before you start the whole process to decide if it’s worth it). But if you think this goes any further, you’re crazy. The…

This looks like a joke, but it really is the best option.  Shanty towns of fans camped out overnight in front of venues waiting to buy tickets at the box office was a world better of an option.

I doubt they had any clauses like that, I think they just had the clout at that point. As you say, everyone expected them to be the most in demand showrunners of all time after GoT was done. Their stock didn’t fall until the show was over, and at that point, well, the show was over, so what was HBO going to do?

And now…