By the metric that we’re literally talking about it here, and have been for years. Why are you digging your heels in at this, if not for it being a pervasive opinion for ages now? Superhero fatigue was a pervasive opinion for more than a decade, even when it wasn’t actually in evidence anywhere. And now it’s real,…

Just imagine I said ‘individuals’ there then, instead of ‘audiences’. A lot of individuals, enough to make a significant portion of the audience, if not anywhere close to a majority. Enough that the opinion begins to percolate through both fans and media, even if the box office totals don’t conclusively prove that…

That “wow factor” is almost always audiences becoming accustomed to something that was once novel. Pixar was once new and shiny, and now has lost its luster. And that’s the normal course for most things, I think. Even if they maintain quality, audiences lose interest because they lack the self-awareness to understand…

Plus, I heard he was eaten by wolves.

lol, time to start a new account again. Maybe next time you can manage a few weeks before everyone knows what a pantswetter you are.

What’s weird is even Disney/Hulu does this sometimes now. I’m rewatching some of the Netflix Marvel stuff, and while most of the ads are at proper act breaks, every now and then it misses by less than thirty seconds. Even some D+ original stuff sometimes does it.

Buddy, I fucking love the Avatar movies.

My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullsh*t. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to f*cking want to see those.”

Blade? More like Belayed

Some of the designs bear a passing resemblance to Avatar, but it reminds me much more of Samurai Jack

I don’t know, if I was in charge of Disney and every other decade or so I was able to wring out 40%+ of the annual box office by jamming the same button over and over again, I’m not sure I would stop even if I knew it would eventually come to an end. Especially now, when a bad year for Disney means they only collect…

They should rename it A.

I seem to remember a cool little network of blogs that was struggling for years to find a devoted userbase and dozens of talented writers until a kindly old group of billionaires stepped in to help them out. And that little network of blogs, whom nobody liked, grew up to be... sold off piece by piece until maybe one …

Trolling doesn’t change any minds either, so I’m asking why you do it.

I don’t know, why do trolls troll, troll?

“Renner speculates that maybe when things calm down Cruise might pass the baton, but observes that Cruise is “laying into his lane” as an action star and doing pretty well: “His franchises are billion dollar franchises!””

Not that I think there was a huge groundswell of demand for this movie, but it certainly didn’t help to wait nine years. I do think a lot more people were excited for more Furiosa after the first movie, and interest just waned over time.

I was going to ask, did this get delayed or what? I’ve been waiting for this movie for a long time. The trailer would recur every few months, and it would just be like “Coming soon”. The last time I saw it was about a month ago and it finally said Summer 2024, but I could have sworn it had been released and I just…

Rory Kinnear? The person who’s always standing and walking?

Right, so “cancel culture” is mostly just one community setting the norms for themselves, and so it’s perfectly understandable that Republicans would be using this method to monitor and discipline themselves. And also, the left successfully cancelled Jon Stewart because as someone who claims to be unable to keep up…