“breadcrumbing”-- rather than presenting content in a convenient and easy to digest form a platform offers up an interesting tidbit and strings out the rest of the meaningful content across an interminable number of pages (each with their own ads and tracking cookies, natch) hoping to keep you clicking if not to the…

In fact, each of these cleverly-named tactics is already a well-known logical fallacy with a well-known name. It’s almost as if the author (or ChatGPT) made up new names for existing things to generate empty content for clicks.

Sorry hate to break it to you but the general audience, whom are the people who matter the most are getting sick of the MCU, multiverses, comic book movies in general.

Where do unnecessary slideshows fit into this?

the person youre replying to is almost exclusively using first person except for a couple of passive voice statements and mentions of their wife. doesnt suggest anywhere that the whole interconnected universe thing is going to work out for anyone other than themselves.

Wow so you want HBO outlawed for everyone just because you don’t like it?

Not so much ‘membaberries as Marvel taking a victory lap in the smouldering ruins of Fox. “Hey, remember those shitty movies based on our comics from another studio that came out twenty or so years back? Sure, Garner looked pretty hot in the leather bustier, but those movies really sucked ass, didn’t they? Anyway, we…

I think it best to see Foundation as, at best, “inspired by” or “informed by” and judge it as its own thing. When strictly judged as an adaptation, it fails. It’s more successful if judged as something “adjacent to” the books.

When a director is good, everything in every scene is there for a reason.  You may not even know it consciously, but it affects the overall experience.

I lost my original account because it was linked to Twitter, in retrospect idk how I ever got un-grayed cause it seems downright impossible now.

Same here. A terribly done gimmick account got an instant ungrey at jez the other day, yet my worthless submissions rarely get a temporary ungrey.

The schadenfreude of watching the Reddit overlords make attempt after attempt to increase the financial value of the site and achieving the opposite every time has added more than a little tickle of joy to my days.

How does an obvious sock-puppet account get Gizmodo approval, and I've been here for years and years without it

Yeah, it’s not a “superhero fatigue” thing (again) because five of the last six Marvel Studios movies have all crossed $340 million-plus in the US alone (and the one that didn’t is the solo hero with multiple movies who draws the lowest money in the stable, Ant-Man) and Spider-Verse is going to triple in the US what…

There’s also the fact that compared to Marvel, most DC properties are joyless slogs.

I was wondering what might have caused such a low box office too.

I suspect the problem of Miller had a smaller direct effect than you might expect — they’re just not high profile enough to make a dent in the consciousness of general audiences (unless you count their absence from much of the promotional rounds).

I kinda feel like this is the end of “shared universes are the future of movies.” Marvel isn’t going anywhere, but it has a first mover advantage. It’s like Star Wars was back in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Almost all of the studios tried to do their own big budget PG genre movies, and none of them managed to recreate Lucas’…

i think people are just kind of tired of superhero movies in general. And the actors don’t give off the fun-loving group vibe of Downey, Evans, Hemsworth, Johannson, etc. I think fans were invested in that franchise because they’d been together for dozens of years and films. DCEU keeps looking for that chemistry, but…

It’s funny how big of a deal it is when an MCU movie “only” makes 480 million (like Quantumania). DC would kill for that.