That makes sense, though, right? One consistent story element in the Mad Max series is that Max is the only holdover, and he seems almost more or less ageless - everything else changes.

Didn't the second one say that he was killed in action? Not that that's stopped anyone before.

I get the impression that he's the Sarah Kerrigan of the MCU, in that he's going to play some as-yet-unknown but critical role in defeating Thanos in the third Avengers two-part movie despite being an antagonist.

The film itself, no. But they have to pay back the Advertising & Prints cost before the studio-distributor can take its giant fee out of the revenue, and that fee has to cover whatever it actually cost them to make this. That can't have been huge, especially since the Advertising & Prints costs for these things can…

Hah! I for one would love to watch the 27-film Silmarillion series, when they rip the rights out of whoever succeeds Christopher Tolkien upon death (the guy is like 90 years old).

You figure the studio got about 50-60% of that $440 million, and then have to subtract the advertising costs, and whatever the studio takes back in fees to cover what it actually cost to make this thing. I can see why they don't want to bother with another one for a while - at best, they probably broke even or eked…

Ooh, I eagerly await such storylines as "Kvothe runs out of money again", "Kvothe fucks it up with Denna for the fortieth time", "Kvothe is a super-awesome sex god", and so forth. But if they're anything like the books, they'll be fast-paced enough for us not to care - until the last 20 minutes, which will feel like…

I wonder why they would be afraid of that? Let's be honest - Vin Diesel is going to be a part of these movies unless he deliberately decides he doesn't want to do them anymore and prices himself out of it. And they could always assign him a good set of second-unit directors to help out, plus a good editor.

I'm trying to think of what "life-altering money" would be to someone like Wan, who already probably has a fair amount of money from his movies. $50 million? 1% cut of the unadjusted domestic and foreign gross?

If you want to do an Americanized Akira, do an Americanized Akira like with the whole "Magnificent Seven" movie. Make the characters a mixed set of teenagers (preferably as diverse as possible, so you don't get a couple 30-year old white guys awkwardly calling each other "Kaneda" and "Tetsuo"), and give it a new name…

The "I trust you" line felt much more natural and good for me than the lame "Oh, I love you too Fry!" thing at the end. Ugh, this movie. I'm glad the show got more seasons, so it didn't have to end on this.

That should be a picture of Mr Peanut Butter's House.

Maybe another Damon-Bourne movie will be more fun that the fourth Bourne film, which just felt like a bunch of stupid wankery even when you consider it's a Bourne movie. I mean, once you've established that they're literally genetic superhumans and the CIA tracking them is some conspiracy theorists' nightmare of a…

Anyone else read this in John Oliver's voice?

That opening scene with the train and abandoned, flooded dream city is still pretty spooky. I think that one actually gave me nightmares as a kid.

That would be absolutely perfect. Seriously.

Don't bother. The only reason you'd get a physical copy of a Mad Men season is to watch the episodes with the commentary tracks (unless you have bad internet access), and you don't need a blu-ray player to do that.

. . . Okay, so are they actually going to do this right, or are they going to rampantly white-wash this and piss away any goodwill from the fans? Because if they're not going to do it right, then they shouldn't bother spending the $30-60 million this thing will cost only to earn $8 million back on the opening weekend.

YES.

I wish I could find a youtube clip of it. It was pretty hilarious.