Yeah, the Hispanic draw would be what might save this thing. I wish exactly zero dollars for Zaslav, but I’d still like to see this end up doing well for the sake of representation. I haven’t seen any sort of marketing for the movie beyond the two trailers, so I’m not even sure if they’re doing anything at all. They’d…

That would be a good idea even if Gunn wants nothing to do with Blue Beetle and ditches the plan two years from now. Even if the character gets limited or no interaction with the main line up, at least giving the impression that he could have a future would probably go a long way.

I did appreciate the R.E.M. needle drop during the climactic end set piece though.

It’s a fine movie, but setting the credits to Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” is a bit on the nose.

I really liked a lot of the Loki variants, particularly classic Loki

It’s the correct and moral choice to take $19 from this idiot, right? Maybe even more than that if he’s got to pay one of those dumb service charges for these cards.

This is going to ruin Donald Jordan’s genius strategy for circumventing trademark laws

I agree with your first two points. The stuff that harmed The Flash is largely not involved in this, and Black Adam might have had a larger success if it had been a better movie. And the reboot of the universe has so little to do with this that a small percentage of perpetually unaware people might not even realize…

This looks like it could be a lot of fun. So what do we all think, $25m opening weekend? $15m?

Well that’s maybe about $400,000 each.

terrible time to not use thyme

I’ve always loved this basic inability of the algorithm to understand human behavior. “They bought a mattress yesterday, so they must really be into mattresses. Plug mattress ads for the next three months because they might buy another dozen.”

Hell, even publishers just outright selling roms themselves would be acceptable. But it would probably be far more expensive to archive and host all their software files than any profits they might gain from it. So why not just outsource it to the people already doing the work for them?

Too bad for her, even if she gets out early, Winds of Winter still won’t be out.

Because the unexpected financial success of any particular thing that doesn’t fall within the normal bounds of mass culture is oftentimes seized by Capitalists and subsumed into the culture in the name of profit. Theoretically, for instance, if someone were to produce a movie about niche comic book character…

Plus Elemental has surpassed Flash’s domestic take despite starting at a $25m deficit, and will almost certainly pass its worldwide total in a week or two. It might even pass the $300m mark.

Hoooow are you typing sooooo many words about this and stilllll not saying anythiiiiiing meaningful?

I really enjoyed the trilogy as a whole. As fun and inventive as the first one is, I think the world building in the following two is great and keeps the momentum going in a way not all sequels do. It’s been a long time since I revisited them, but I think I liked the third one as much as the first, with the second…

Really burying the lede that Styles apparently has a huge butterfly tattoo on his abdomen. He didn’t even bother to use it to cover those two unsightly moles on his midsection. Also, better keep that six pack, buddy, unless you want a moth on your belly.