Oooh word that. I couldn’t get into most of those live/CGI remakes, but this one … this is what CGI was invented for. This is magic.

The studio only gets a percentage of the box office; the rest goes to other players like the movie theaters

Empire Strikes Back did eventually end up making a profit over time the reason why the actors never got paid for residuals was because residuals was never a thing back then since the home video market was just starting out.

people need to stop bashing this film. Solo was fucking amazeballs. It was horribly promoted and had drama with directors. Ron Howard was fucking great and alden did an amazing job. Stop it. 

I’m not sure you realize just how big a billion is. Black Panther made $1.347 billion, and it cost about $200 million to make. Even if we estimate an extra $100 million for marketing, that's a full billion in profits. Solo needed to make $500 mil to break even, and it fell a little over $100 mil short of that. That's…

Disney had THREE billion dollar movies this year. They are ok.

“In the hole” is relative though, given that between Black Panther, Infinity War and Incredibles 2, Disney had three films this year which made over a billion in profit each vs their production budget.

Holy shit - you need your own column space here.

I feel like that deserves an amen...

Yeah, a lot of commenters out here have the writing skills and critical insight to do a better job than what they publish these days. The best writers and critical essayists have almost entirety left the site to move on to bigger and better things, which is fantastic, but these days... a lot of clickbait slapdash is…

This is basically the same problem DC/WB is having with their movie series. They have 70 or 80 years of stories they can adapt but instead they come up with crap like Batman v Superman or Suicide Squad and got lucky and made money from people waiting to see these characters in the movies. Notice when they do make a…

It always seems like people today want movies to depict actual realistic things and miss the whole point that these movies are not depicting what the future necessary will be like but it’s conveying a message today that is relevant to today as you said and which can easily continue to be a message tomorrow with the…

Well, duh.

That’s how it should be looked at now. Cyberpunk is no different from steam, atom, or dieselpunk. A look at the future that never came to pass but can still be enjoyed, tropes and all.

Isn’t that like saying steampunk should start using solar panels? It just wouldn’t be steampunk anymore, it’d be something else. Which is fine, but we’d probably use a different term to refer to it.

That’s the stuff right there. Even this image chokes me up every time:

I sure hope you’re missing a hyphen.  

Just a reminder, this was Chistopher Reeve’s screen test. Putting lots of muscle on a good actor is far easier than putting good acting skills on someone with lots of muscle.

This movie still makes me well up. It's decades later and I know how everything ends but still with the moist eyes and lumpy throat. "Oh, Timothy!"