The “homework” argument has always been way overstated. If you’re watching a Marvel movie that’s a direct sequel to another movie it would probably help to watch the movie(s) that it’s a direct sequel to, but even then it’s probably not necessary. These movies explain, and I’d say overexplain, everything that an…

Except...The Marvels is good. Critics have been generally positive and audiences seem to like it, so it seems like if it’s not doing as well commercially there might be problems outside of the movie itself. If you want to pick on a movie, Ant-Man 3 was not good. Perhaps that movie left a bad enough taste in audiences’…

There’s nothing wrong with The Marvels other than people are tired of the MCU. When it was one movie a year or every other year? People were all about that. When you have to watch two movies a year plus 3 different TV shows to keep current, people tuned out. Especially because they’re moving onto smaller and lesser…

Is it even B5 if you don’t have to make allowances for extremely limited budgets?

You can make an “adult star” out of a younger-skewing movie. Cruella did very well by pandemic-era standards. And to pull another example, the movie that made Amy Adams an overnight, immediately in demand, future multi-time-Oscar nominee superstar wasn’t Catch Me If You Can or Junebug, it was Enchanted.

I think Piotr Michael could be playing Sheridan and Delenn’s son, who was named David.

“Godzilla ‘F Kong.”

X? Calling it now — Kong impregnated Godzilla, there will be ape-lizard hybrids.

Maybe. If it has eight episodes and the first four are slow but the last four are mindblowing then maybe it’s worth it.

If a show has eight episodes and the first four episodes are slow it’s a waste of time.

For some shows that’s reasonable, for others I hear so many good things that I power onward even if the first two eps felt slow.

Andor was also just way better than Rings of Power.

I don’t know that I’d call anything about The Rings of Power "excellently crafted", nor did I find the silly revelations at the end to be a reward.

I thought Andor was very good and worth the investment. On the other hand, Rings of Power was pretty tedious from start to finish. If I wasn’t a nerd with fond memories of devouring Tolkein as a child, I would have bailed as well.

I mean, that’s the Doylist explanation.

Dance with Wolves is #3. The others you are right, but Dance with Wolves made 80M more than Dick Tracy.

Wasn’t Spiderman the real turning point in comic book movies?

I enjoyed RoP for what it was, but I honestly cannot tell who the hell it’s for.

They cycle through so many temp-writers on this site, it’s no wonder this one doesn’t know/care.  Just need to meet article/slideshow quotas lol

I would push back on “Not a single one of us would go to work if we could afford to” in that a lot of conservatives use that as bullshit reasoning against things like ubi and unemployment benefits. A lot of people find meaning and value in their work and work because they want to. But under the circumstances Chris…