I’d say the bigger problem is that Elemental cost nearly 300 million dollars to make, not even accounting for advertisement, which, although awful at selling the movie, were fucking everywhere. Which means the actual cost of the movie was problem nearly twice that in the end. That is a BIG investment to ask any movie…

Why pay $15+ for a movie ticket when you can wait a couple of weeks and just watch it on streaming or on demand? Heck Fast X was released only like 2 weeks after it came out in theatres. Parents know that elemental is going to be on Disney+ by the end of the summer. Why bother going to cinemas? 

As it stands, this is the lowest domestic box office for Pixar—which recently saw job cuts ahead of the movie’s release—since 2015's The Good Dinosaur and 2020's Onward both opened to $39 million.

$220 million to make this turd, and all the fanboy buzz in the world is not going to alter the fact that more people just plain can’t afford to go to a theatre to watch it, and are already paying for a streaming service so....see you in a couple of months. With better cheaper popcorn.

Shut. UP.

Universal should make a dark & gritty remake of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein with Natasha Lyonne & Melanie Lynskey as the comedy duo, Mads Mikkelsen as Dracula, and Bruce Campbell as the Wolf Man

“This looks bad”

Yeah, I’ve struggled a lot with 20th century science fiction. Some of it I absolutely love (2001, 2010, Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead) and some if it has been a real struggle for me to get through because oftentimes it’s way more idea-driven, to the point that even plot takes a back seat.

They brought Zathras back, but not Zathras? I bet this is why Zathras is shunned in every time zone. Zathras knows.

Ah man, now I really want another Tintin movie.

Yeah, that’s what I heard too. And ehile I was never a big fan of Hellboy II (spectral German excepted), I still think that style would have worked for the Hobbit.

“Indy has gone woke!” is right up there with “Star Trek has gone woke!” in terms of utter insanity.

I haven’t clicked through your link, but your stated premise involving “unspeakable violence” is, at best, exagerrated nonsense. We’re talking about punching people who want to violently eliminate entire cultures. We’re not talking about rounding up nazis, stealing their land, burning their houses, and salting the…

The deal for the Hobbit was always for two movies. Originally The Hobbit would be adapted as one movie and then there would be a second “ bridge movie” that would chronicle the 60 year gap between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

I avoided this series for quite awhile because of the massive amount of “it’s NOTHING like the books!” angst that came up every time I looked for reviews. I finally very grudgingly decided to give it a try a few months ago. I almost immediately started kicking myself for letting source material snobbery make me nearly…

“Then, he tried it again with prequel The Hobbit, and while those films didn’t reach the heights of the first three, there’s no one else you would’ve wanted to see at the helm.”

A lot of posts end up with comment counts in the single digits (or none at all!), something that never used to happen. The ones which gain any sort of activity beyond that are the spicy takes which energize troll accounts, who then bait readers into participating. It’s depressing.

I found the first book to be excruciatingly difficult to get through by modern standards. Given that it’s a series of short stories, with no clear central conflict, and each largely consists of two people sitting in a room pontificating. At some points, I even thought they were describing events that would have been so…

So are right wing extremists going to come out and protest and review bomb the latest movie for being all “woke” now?

I mean, have you opened up a Gizmodo or AV Club article from 2012? None of those classic commenters are here anymore and a lowly article back then got 5x the number of total comments as in 2023.