This film went and got itself some corporate sponsors. They’re in it for the money, not the science!

But not speaking ill of other directors is one thing.  Spielberg hired Michael Bay to make Transformers and Nolan worked with Snyder on “Man of Steel.”  So it goes well beyond not wanting to shit talk people.

The praise seems over the top:

If you want to keep working in Hollywood, you don’t say anything bad about anyone in Hollywood.

To me, this is even weirder than when we learned that Spielberg liked Michael Bay. So much of what Zach Snyder does looks like what Nolan is purposefully avoiding to do.

They make too much money with the Online modes for a fraction of the costs. As a person that only plays single player on these types of games, I would have gladly paid for DLC content for both 5 and RDR2, but I knew it wasn’t happening once GTA Online took off the way it did.

Didn’t they basically come out and say this 7 years ago? Something to the effect of GTAO made so much money we felt no need to create single player DLC?

Bandwidth my ass. All that cash money made from shark cards because everything is price-gated unless you have hours and hours of time to grind or you happened to have modded money back from the old PS3/Xbox days. And yet, all that money goes towards the shareholders and the CEO. There's nothing of value in GTA online…

So they could drop it on Disney+ for October.

Same. Saw it with my sister in an empty theater and had a fun time.

That would have been a better plot by far.  Not introducing Black Adam in a Shazam movie was a huge mistake...well really, hiring The Rock to play BA was a mistake because he’d never be in a move where he’d take the fall, especially from Zack Levi. 

Speaking of hand-wringing...

Right? Most of these are “Yep, that was pretty much what I expected.”

I didn’t hate 65.

Had a brief moment of terror when I clicked “Next slide” after the intro one and saw “65.” No way I’m digging through that many disappointing movies!

I read that Helen Mirren said she had no idea what her character in Shazam was supposed to be doing.  After watching the movie, I can see why she was confused.

Maybe an apt metaphor would be the way you feel after eating too much sugary, unhealthy food. It doesn’t matter how decadent the food looks now, you feel sluggish, a little nauseous, and just don’t have the appetite anymore.

Exactly. Movies like The Flash and Rebel Moon aren’t disappointments because nobody actually expected them to be any good.

Mustn’t one have expectations in order to be disappointed?

Not really, a large portion of complaint about AI, ESPECIALLY around here, are not of the “Sci-Fi, Skynet” sort of deal, but the shittier reality of generative AI which is

(a) sought after by executives to replace creative types, even though the dataset of that AI is trained on the works of those creative types,…