It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but it is a genuinely entertaining for how completely bananas it is. Definitely not the 2nd worst King movie.

“Bizarre” that Gunn is promoting his company’s Summer blockbuster, specifically a film in the DC division that he has been entrusted to shepherd and that has been in the works for years? Yeah, that’s a real head scratcher.

WB delayed the release of WW84 from Dec 2019 to Spring 2020 on its own. Covid then delayed the release to early 2021 where it was simulataneously released on home streaming HBO Max due to theaters still being sparse. Black Adam, Aquaman 2, the Flash, Shazam 2 releases were all substantially delayed by years due to…

Yeah, all of WB’s DC films were substantially delayed due to theatres being dark (WW84 being the exception).

Still 10 days until The Flash hits theaters, which means 12-15 more neurotic AV Club articles for everyone to click on. By next Tuesday, we should know what Chandler thinks about The Flash.

I finally watched Quantum of Mania and it was neither awful nor good. Just felt like another episode in a long season. The story doesn’t really further anything except “here is a Kang”. I think I enjoyed Love & Thunder more, but both are equally easily forgotten.

You just know Barry is going to get him killed.

Exactly, no one involved in the film is going to say anything that would potentially put more stink on the movie. If the merch hadn’t already been sculpted, printed, and on a shipping container in the Pacific while Ezra was in a Vermont court room, they would have recast the role.

People like Madix are obviously willing participants

This is just a distraction, the actual massive cameo in The Flash is David Mazouz.

The final villain reveal of the King of the Wicker People will blow your mind!

When the new franchise blows, proceed to fan service the shit out of it with the old ones that people liked (even the ones that didn’t make it out of pre-production, apparently).

I recall a new exec took over HBO in between season 1 and 2 of Rome, and was eager to cancel shows that were the previous regime’s babies. Rome’s high cost (even though it was a co-production with BBC) was cause for it to get the axe, but also the cause for it to get one more season to wrap things up (unlike Deadwood…

His media obits keeps citing Thor as what he’s known for, which makes me think they don’t really know who he was. I think people who know him from Rome, Dexter, Kill the Irishman, Punisher WZ, etc, would be surprised that he was in the Thor films since he’s hidden under 175 lbs of beard.

I think the point is that Blade’s success demonstrated to studios the box office potential for non-Batman/Superman comic book characters. Also, Marvel was bankrupt and having a fire sale of its properties to studios.

Also, Batman & Robin had just bombed a year prior and the franchise was dead in the water.

X-Men Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix above the first X-Men movie? What in the...?

the first of many Stan Lee cameos to come

“Very important” to Exhibitor Relations Co’s Twitter account and “theatre owners” in attendance maybe. Hey, I hope after all of these years it’s a fun movie that doesn’t waste Keaton’s return, but this hyping the pre-release hype feels like it was ghost-written by Zaslav.

Same. I really wanted to be excited about this movie, especially with Keaton returning as Batman, but this just doesn’t feel very Flashy to me. There just seem to be a bunch of little things that on their own wouldn’t matter, but add them up and I’m just not feeling it. Maybe it’s just the fatigue of hearing about…