Don’t try to make this about me when it’s obvious that everything centers around what you think.

This is all just an INCREDIBLE amount of take for the circumstances...

Here’s how life works: You - you, personally - get to set your own goals. You get to determine your own motivations. So does everybody else. You - personally - get to have all sorts of opinions about what makes someone else pretentious or an…

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Something that might be worth a try: Just come in and make your point. Don’t preface your point by pre-emptively predicting someone else’s point to make fun of it (especially in this case when you make fun of the point and then make the case for it actually being valid). Just make your point.

I never have a doubt that…

“Nobody ever says a thing about men’s bodies. If you’re muscular, cool. If you’re not, cool. If you’re rail thin, cool. If you have a dad bod, cool. If you’re pudgy, love it! Everybody’s happy with it. You know why? Because girls are nice. They don’t give a fuck because we see people for who they are!”

I love how…

“A small credit I can give Trump: At least he talks his shit right to people’s faces.”

This says more about you and your capacity to be impressed by smoke and mirrors than it does about him. Superficially: He’s doing the “fuck around” part right in the middle of the “find out” part, sure. He also already has a clear…

My enjoyment is contingent on my consumption. Full stop. If you have an argument against that position - as it relates to my enjoyment - please do offer it. That’s a separate question from the one I’ve already answered:

Someone was comfortable suggesting that Marvel’s inevitable end was commercial failure. I’m still…

I wasn’t disagreeing with your point; I was pointing out that it’s Monday and “we” are talking about a movie that isn’t even out until Friday. It’s tough to examine anything neutrally in the framework of a narrative that we can’t actually evaluate until Friday at the earliest. So, returning to your point with my…

I’m just going to put this here as a note to anyone who works for this web-entity who might actually still be reading the comments section:

When you’re writing, take a pause and think about your audience, for just a moment. More specifically, I’m asking you to consider whether or not the fact that you get paid to…

Sometimes we can wait until a movie is out before we determine things like:

Especially when one’s popularity is based entirely on being mean and the other gives off “popular in backseats” vibes. Greene dislikes Boebert for existing. Boebert dislikes Greene for cause!

Squishes gonna squish, squish, squish, squish...

“It’s like a Rangers-Millwall fixture.”

That was SEXY! You get a star!

Here’s a dirty little secret: I watch movies for entertainment. I don’t get paid to do so. My energy is not dictated by the successes or failures of others.

Meanwhile:  Your response was all snark, with no substance whatsoever. I have little doubt that you’ll continue to have this same energy for the rest of your life.…

You know what I’ve decided? Just like”Hit dogs holler,” thirsty haters who have never done anything worthy of actually warranting “fanbois” always rush in and pile on. You’re obviously not a big substance guy, but let me try again... Same question to you as to the original commenter:

Which of the movies I mentioned…

Who’s doing the bulk of the lifting in this reply? Apparently. Usually. Seem. About. I love how you focused on what you think I’m not aware of but didn’t provide any actual numbers. Let’s skip past apparently and usually and seem and about and go back to facts:

We don’t need to put box office in quotes; it means…

“The MCU narrative is essentially done for me. It was right there in the title: End Game. Perfect ending to a great story. On to other things.”

“OK fine, I stayed invested.... until Guardians 3.”

Commercial failure? When?

Quantumania was a turd, and it made $476M on a 200M budget.
Guardians 3 (go away, Star-turd!) made $845M on a $250M budget.
Black Panther 2 made $859M on a $250M budget.
Thor: This Should Never Have Happened - a disjointed turd in a blender - made $760M on a $250M budget.

Why don’t you log off…

Are we even sure that is 100% of what happened here? Or is it possible that the world of media consumption is different in 2023 than it was when the MCU started, and we need to calibrate accordingly before we make sweeping assessments of anything except actual quality...

I don’t know how we test for “Superhero…

Just curious: As a DC fan/someone having a laugh at Marvel’s expense... have you seen Joe Russo’s dog?