You're right, that budget is probably the reason it got greenlit. (Delgo, for comparison, cost $40 million)

And people say The Onion is Hillary propaganda now.

How is this tracking? It looks like a spectacular failure in the making, something that should have gone direct-to-Netflix like Veggie Tales and Adam Sandler's modern oeveure.

They could scrap the entire publication history of every character to ever use the name and no one would care. The most memorable story ever told about any of the Captains Marvel is the one where the original died of cancer.

It's not so much looking at least a decade younger that the rest of us can't get away with, it's being 44 and hooking up with twentysomethings without it being creepy.

That's sweet, thank you. There are antibiotic drops that help, but it's very hard to keep your eyes open wide enough to use them, and even harder not to touch the tip to your eyeball, infecting the drops and rendering them useless. Especially at $80 for a thimble-sized bottle, without insurance.

Man, I used to be prone to keratitis, and it was torture I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Eyes like cherry tomatoes, feeling like knitting needles were being stuck in them, super photosensitive, with even a sliver of light resulting in a migraine.

Yep, that's what I meant. It looked like a reference we were either supposed to understand, or remember for a callback.

Refresh my memory — my other personality might have taken over — but do we know what Mrs. Wellick "Cheese Danish" was in reference to, or was that foreshadowing a sidestory of her's we haven't seen yet?

Hahaha, "Presidential Debates."

Black Manta is more afraid of the LAPD.

More like ISIS and a paper cut.

I think having him be down with other people's property was just meant to make us reexamine his innocence.

I did, in fact. That was the point of quoting from it again.

If it's Nonsense, it was widely reported Nonsense.

For the same reason they moved his(/her) temple out of Tibet.

Oops, you're right. I was actually thinking of Ant-Man opening #1 against Trainwreck and despite it being a big hit for Apatow.

I'm curious to see if they show Doctor Strange.

Probably the most important metric is that all those films faced fiercer competition the following week.

It can mean that a substantial part of the demographic pre-ordered tickets before reviews were in, and that the people that were dying to see it have already seen it.