Considering studios keep 52% of domestic BO and 30-40% of international BO, their sub-900 million dollars of ticket sales might not have even broken even, since the estimated production and marketing costs were $400 million and up.

Ghostbusters II is a bad film, but as a young kid, Vigo the Carpathian absolutely terrified me.

You’re delusional if you think Rebirth was done for any reason other than increasing sales after the disappointing reception of New 52.

She said tuition fees, not all education-related expenses.

You’re right. If this was real life, it would be odd that no other characters were mentioned. However, this is a book, and they want to keep the cast of characters down. It means nothing.

“attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.”

Better to be average than to be a smug dick who looks down on others and berates them even when they cause no harm or offense to anyone.

I am not doing the same thing. Your initial comment seemed to attack the author for his choice of word rather aggressively, rather than asking for him to elaborate on the choice or simply explaining how it came off to you, and asking whether or not that was his intention. You started out aggressive.

If you were interested in adult conversation, both your initial comment and your response to me would have been civil and mature. As soon as the author responded to you, your vitriol vanished. Suddenly you realized you would be held accountable, you started behaving. Try starting from that place, not running there…

It’s funny how often people backpedal when someone responds to them being a dick.

You say pretentious; I say the general audiences are just getting used to better movies.

“Takes itself too seriously” typically means “tries to be profound but fails”.

Did you see Civil War? 90% of the comedy was in the airport fight scene. That movie went a long time between jokes. Certainly didn't have any slapstick that I remember.

I really liked Wayward Pines for the first few episodes. But it seemed that every new episode made the story worse and introduced more plot holes. I can’t see how Season 2 will be any good.

It’s an elephant head eating a bush.

I can tell you are good with words.

It’s not worth it. It could potentially be huge because the years have raised interest and expectation to some degree. But because it’s been so long, the game has to be brilliant and somewhat revolutionary, but also learning from more modern shooters (even while intentionally breaking off from them in significant…

You start with your lead character fairly developed, typically, but other characters get changed a lot and quite often in ways that make some aspect of the storytelling or characterization of the lead protagonist stronger. You set out with a purpose of telling a story, usually focusing on a character, and that story…

Do you honestly think Half-life 3 would be this huge amazing blow-out at this point? Twelve years after 2? No - the hype for that game has faded, and has been replaced by a meme, that meme being how badly everyone wants it.

Ooh, a dig at Call of Duty. Edgy.