Counterpoint: with inflation and premium screenings pushing ticket prices to more than double what they were in 1995, this film only needs around half the audience of the first one to clear the latter’s gross. That’s . . . not a difficult thing to achieve.

Inflation is also nearly 100% since 1995, to say nothing of the additional inflation to movie tickets specifically for premium formats like IMAX and 3D. This film needs maybe half the audience of the first one to clear the latter’s numbers, and it’s obviously going to be able to pull that off on opening weekend, if…

Who cares about relevance when you have marketing and built-in name recognition? Speed Racer opened at $18.5M in 2008, 40 years after its peak relevance; John Carter did $30.2M domestic despite not even including his most distinguishing feature in the name.

From what I’ve read, the Zeo Crystal is already the Macguffin of this film, which would seem to preclude following the original arc of the television series. It seems much more likely the arc follows the fall, redemption, fall, and then rise of Tommy.

The first theatrical film cleared $13M against Apollo 13 *22 years ago.* You seriously think this one is going to do worse with no competition and ticket inflation jacking up the numbers?

That said, I’d pay big money to see Jeremmy Irons chewing the scenery as Lord Zed or, even sillier, Ivan Ooze

-1 for failing to include Batman: the Animated Series in response to someone whose entire complaint is trying to make stuff too much like Batman.

It wasn’t great, but Salvation came the closest to taking Terminator in a good direction. You just don’t need any more time travel stories after T1 and T2.

As someone who spends upwards of 75% of my time within a 3-mile radius of the U.S. Capitol, I have a sneaking suspicion this information will never be of significant use to me.

The only hope we have to hold onto is that, so far, they don’t seem to have done anything contradictory enough in the TV shows that would prevent a 2-way connection later on

Is this problem unique or disproportionate to women who participate in Marvel projects? Hugo Weaving and Jon Favreau have both expressed varying degrees of dissatisfaction with their Marvel experiences and aren’t slated to ever come back; meanwhile, Edward Norton had a leading role and still bailed.

Yea, I’m not sure how or why Marvel is supposed to handle actor/actress departures in ways that still promote the departing character. I mean, is hand-waving Blonsky away as in a prison somewhere treating him as “disposable?” How about simply forgetting for the past 2 films that Tony Stark employs a personal driver…

None! It’s going to be a city planet, obviously.

Do they ever stop with the island flashbacks or will I eventually see a young Clark Kent being fed a kryptonite cocktail, which reveals Supes is not an alien but actually one of the 1,000 DC characters who originate from the island?

It doesn’t even have to be an issue of bias. A show is allowed to be bad, and if it is bad, just say so.  

It’s offensive because he’s supposed to be the best but it never fucking shows in the actual show.

Because Star Wars has no history of estranged family members failing to recognize each other upon reunion, or of wizened old mentors shading the truth. This is definitely useful information that sheds light on questions we were asking.

If I ever get unblocked, I can tell you it was Braden Holtby

That would be a logical reason for Cap to have different uniform options.

At least Iron Man explains it with him constantly tinkering and modifying the suits. For Cap there’s really no reason for him not to still be wearing essentially the Winter Soldier getup.