yeah, the original movie sprobably hit at a good time for nostalgia for the TV show but despite making a lot of money i never got the feeling they were widely beloved. i’m not sure there is going to be a wave of nostalgia for those movies, so it would have to just be a good movie and it apparently was not.

the charlies angels one is particularly bizarre- its not like they took a beloved franchise, changed the genders and then could point to that when it failed- those first two movies were action comedies that starred women. if people showed up to see them with ladies 10+ years ago, why would this reboot fail based on…

whoppers also have mayo by default- which contains eggs. 

i wouldn’t have thought this could look worse, but boy golly they managed to nail it with this trailer.

wait- this isn’t the version we all watched on PBS as kids?

yeah, i was just going off of the trailer- the jokes, the jim carrey mugging it up, the very obvious predictable arc teased (the real friendship was inside of us all along) and the very cartoon-y violence against robots which could get a PG rating. if this isn’t a movie for children, then they are even worse at…

well, yes and no? I wasn’t planning on seeing it (it appears to be a straight up kids movie) but it also seemed like it was missing its target market. the kids want to go see a movie with sonic, like from the video games they play. if the sonic doesn’t look like sonic, they’re going to be unhappy if they see it or…

Im not sure lost city of z can be called quixotic when his theory was 100% accurate but he just didnt live to prove it. He has been validated by modern archeologists- there were massive sophisticated civilizations through out the modern amazon jungle and he correctly figured that out

i was in a wegmans ad when i was two and now i take my 16 month old there every week to do our shopping.

you know how these younger generations are- hang dong or don’t waste their time

true on shelby, but when i think of him i do think of the mustang and not the GT

yeah, i am a dad (in my 30's) who does not care about cars at all (i would buy a minivan if i could) and i’d watch this, but i’m not going to a theater to do so. i feel like the theater audience- which is what i assume the studio cares about for something like this- is going to be beyond the dad range.

but i have a…

this feels more like a ‘for the grand dad’s’ then for the dads. how many men in their 30's and 40's (or heck, 50's at this point) are going to have grown up with this car poster on their walls?

they have to do something though- the market no longer exists in the same way it used to. maybe they just fold up the shop and call it, who knows

all my children went purely online, so they may be planning something like that

oh, i’ve had living people tell me that. i don’t even know what molasses smells like normally- its now such a relatively unusual ingredient for anyone who isn’t a very dedicated baker. maybe it still does and i just don’t know what that means

yeah, i think thats a big part of the charm- they flip your expectations and really land it

everyone in that movie is having a good time, the setup and characters are far more interesting then you’d expect from the marketing and i could watch an entire movie of mccarthy making fun of that german henchman. the plot is ultimately nonsense, but its not why you’re there.

They should make a sequel to Spy. that movie was a lot of fun

i think the better argument here would have been that serial tapped into a very mainstream and long beloved genre of true crime fiction and used it to drum up a huge amount of interest in podcasts by becoming an ambassador to a less tech savvy but large audience