I was totally unimpressed by the trailers, particularly the writing and the humor in them. The movie is much better in both respects. In hindsight, I think the trailers suffered by having to bastardize the dialogue into something that could be approved for all audiences. The film itself is a very hard-R, especially…
Both movies were cooked up in labs years ago and play into a decades-long commitment to the extended comic universes and the money that comes with it.
Every other outlet was more than happy, for business reasons, to announce that the anti-Beyoncé rally was real, and happening, and preposterous. Any more preposterous than the hordes of reporters standing out in the rain right now waiting for phantom reactionaries?
It’s borderline emotionally abusive how well they can manipulate me with just a couple images and a snippet of score. I just watched this seven or eight times on loop without even consciously deciding I was going to do so. Goddamn it, Disney. Just have it. Have my money.
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This looks like an excellent video game.
Hey, have you not heard! My Knicks drafted Khristgod Porzingawd this year, fully absolving all previous errors. Yours is an easy if unacceptable mistake to make. I will now accept an apology, thanks!
Django Unchained: $425M worldwide against a $100M budget.
Even if your figures are correct, one movie under-performing is hardly proof that a director “is dead” or that “people are tired of his shtick.”
If Ashoka dies at Vader’s hands, I’ll be sad. But if she goes out in epic, heroic fashion (as I suspect she will) it will be a tremendous improvement over the way her arc in the Clone Wars series ended. Or, really, didn’t end so much as just fade into ambiguity.
Psyched that Young Justice’s second season is on Netflix now! I randomly watched the first ep. of season one recently and was so hooked I binged the whole thing. One of the best-written, most thoughtful TV series about the lives and struggles of teenagers, super-powered or not, that I’ve seen.
Saul Katz, is that you?
Assuming that Burneko’s stuff for Concourse counts in Deadspin’s favor, I’d totally agree that Deadspin’s politics commentary is better.
I recently got into an argument about whether the many fuckups and oddities of the Roger Goodell-era NFL were more the result of evil or incompetence. My tendency was to lean toward evil — the NFL seems like too unstoppable a Brand behemoth to be actively bad at its primary function of hosting professional football…
Dear Jim Murray,
I don’t know if they’re public record in Massachusetts, but, man, I would love to see his visitor logs.
This is actually an underrated rock bottom for poor Johnny Football: When a guy who has agreed to coach the Raiders AND Browns (taking the latter job when he was still reportedly a prime candidate with other, non-cursed franchises) decides that YOU are not worth trying to fix.
Watch IV-VI first. Honestly, don’t feel any obligation to watch I-III. They are as bad as people say, and the almost-complete lack of references to their events in Force Awakens makes clear that any future Star Wars movies will mostly pretend the prequels didn’t happen.
The point isn’t that he “realized” this was a good strategy.