Yeah of all the two dozen MCU films (and growing), five of them have involved the Avengers. And yeah, those made the most money, but the solo films aren’t slouches either. You gotta play the long game instead of betting everything on one big payday. 

Because to do that you have to be happy with making a handful of moderate hits before you can cash that Avengers level paycheck. These companies just want that Avenger box office and think they can just skip the work of making us care about these characters.

Feige definitely gets a lot of the credit but also some really inspired casting choices that paid out really well.  

I still don’t understand why everyone didn’t just copy the MCU format beat for beat.  They knew how to do it:  develop the characters in stand alone movies.  Build up references to the big crossover movie.  Then, do the crossover movie and move on from there.  But NO!!!!  Universal and Warner Bros. wanted their own…

I have no recollection of this film. The only Mummy films in color are starring Brendan Fraser. 

It’s fairly miraculous that they pulled it off. Not only the whole concept of so many interconnected movies each building on the last, but keeping that many superstar egos in check to the point that basically everyone involved remains on very friendly terms.

A lot of it probably goes down to very astute casting, but…

The failure of these is one a many examples that I think shows just how impressive it is that they managed to pull off the Marvel movie universe as well as they have. It took them almost 15 years to actually get to a movie generally considered to be an outright failure (“Eternals”).

100% this. Best political advertising scam we’ve seen in five years. 

There are a bunch of similar (though not entirely identical) taxing districts in my state (Texas) that were set up to build a bunch of infrastructure for some new development that gets paid for by municipal bonds issued by the taxing district and backed by additional taxes put on the eventual residents of that taxing…

Not the point. He’s framing this attack as a war on the LGBTQ community. Maybe rescinding that Reedy Creek situation was the right thing to do, but the fact that he chose to do it now means the decision was ENTIRELY partisan politics.

There was a plan for that - direct trains from Orlando International to Disney.

DeSantis’ name was mentioned in 50 states yesterday and today. Mission accomplished. This will be thrown out because the State doesn’t have the authority to dissolve a special district. There are dozens and dozens of special districts (water control, mosquito control, Everglades, etc.) and DeSantis thought he could…

I’m also in the ‘Disney are Dicks’ camp. I’d usually have a hard time rooting for anyone in this story. But I really liked Moana. And I really dislike, maybe even hate, Ron DeSantis. So this one’s an easy call

I don’t really get why so many people seem to think Disney shouldn’t have this ability to govern land that they themselves turned from swampland to one of the most popular tourist attraction in America. They benefit from it, yes - they basically get to make changes to their park without going through red tape or…

Maintaining infrastructure costs money and resources. Permitting construction projects costs money and resources. Disney bears those costs right now and allows the counties to concentrate on non-Disney things. Basically, Disney pays for efficiency. They don’t need to wait in line to get a permit for a new hotel or get…

Posturing is what the GOP does best!

Since this wasn’t born out of principled opposition to Disney’s grab for sovereignty and was all done in a couple of weeks out of spite, it’s going to kick off years of court challenges if it’s not settled in Disney’s favor. It’s potentially unconstitutional. There is no coherent plan for reintegrating the area into…

I understand that this isn’t final until the residents of the special district vote on it / accept it…which will never happen. So, this is just posturing?

In the immortal words of Switch from the Matrix, “Not like this”

That’s not even subtext, by the way; DeSantis literally said he was retaliating today because Disney was “injecting sexuality into the programming that is provided to our youngest kids,” i.e., acknowledging that gay people, like the families of many of those youngest kids, actually exist.