What an odious comment.

I don’t know what its international numbers are, but doubling its budget means it has broken even once you account for the revenue split with exhibitors. The question is going to be just how wide it can go now that blockbuster style summer movies will be clogging up theater space in cineplexes

Agreed. I really disliked it when I first saw it, but it’s grown on me a ton. I need to watch it again soon. I can at least say I’ve thought about TLJ infinitely more than the other two sequel films since release. The whole theme of democratizing Star Wars fandom and challenging its canon and mythology is way more…

Why bother? Seems like a lot of work, given your... Questionable baseline taste.

In part for how they reacted to TLJ.

No. I will not change your mind, because I agree 100% with you! 

I still prefer Episode VII to TLJ, I thought it captured the tone of SW very well if nothing else. TLJ did a lot of interesting thing when it was willing to play on SW’s ground (like for the themes of family and Rey being no one, that was a good example of taking a traditional SW theme and doing something different…

Great point, and having a supporting character be a devoted but under-appreciated wife is too much of a trope. It was refreshing to have a man’s caring “soft side” celebrated.

This is the kind of burn Chan normally only experiences when sliding down a three-story pole covered with lights, then falling through a glass roof into a mall kiosk.

I agree.

Next you’re going to tell me Tig Notaro never met the cast of Army of the Dead.

they already remade it as Booksmart anyway

Directly from her first writer, G. Willow Wilson, this was probably a good call. "I think there're some characters who are very much set up for the big screen; they're very naturally sort of cinematic. But with Ms. Marvel, we really weren't interested in creating something that had very obvious film potential. [...]…

no pun intended but i’m very morbidly curious.

Maybe they can’t afford to move to LA.

They went an entire year without one and people still complained that they cause no one to see the “good” stuff...what do they need to do to make it easier for indie or whatever deep film win. The little guy is screaming and wants attention but no one cares. 

Watch it twice. I saw it in the theaters in 3d on mushrooms and it felt like a long chase scene that ignored all of Wanda’s character development in WandaVision. Then I watched a bootleg at home and it was actually kind of a perfect movie. It fits in great with the rest of the MCU while being a distinct Raimi flick…

You know, something irked me about these superheroes movies. The inconsistency of flight.

Saw it tonight. Not rating it super high but I think it’s better then Iron Man 2 and The Eternals. Probably around Thor 2 level(which I honestly don’t rate as the lowest, see above).

I think maybe it’s just tonally discordant with what people might expect from an MCU property? I’m ambivalent about Raimi (Liked Spider-Man, don’t generally like horror, especially his style) but I thought he did a good job infusing horror into this movie, even if it’s not actually scary. Still, some of those horror…