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Gatsby77

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  1. God D*** are the critical reviews for this bad. And - at 23% positive, its Rotten Tomatoes score is even worse than that of BvS. Even for Snyder, that takes skill.
  2. Don't see why this project would succeed... Given it's only been a few years since the last attempt at The Wolfman (ahem, "Wolf Man"). The last version had a script co-written by Andrew Kevin Walker and a cast that included Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins. It still bombed.
  3. Interesting article. I mean - the math doesn't lie. Napoleon was obvious Oscar bait, and instead it: Opened to # 2 over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend Received an atrocious B- CinemaScore Dropped out of the top 5 in its 2nd weekend Did less in 10 days domestically than The Marvels did in 3. At this rate, it'll be available for streaming by New Year's Eve.
  4. Yeah - all of this. I love John Woo - but his moralizing about superhero movies when he made A Better Tomorrow and Face/Off? To be clear, Face/Off is one of my favorite films of the '90s - and among my top 10 all-time action films, but it's almost a cartoon. And with few tweaks, it could have been a really good Punisher movie. Ditto - I can respect Jodie Foster not wanting to appear in superhero flicks, but I'd much rather see her as a one-off character in a superhero project (a la her colleagues Annette Bening, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, & Amy Adams) than in some of her own past misfires (like Nell). You can't headline a mediocre episode of Black Mirror on the one hand and then write-off an entire genre of film on the other without absolutely drowning in hypocrisy.
  5. Sure - but that's not what the original looked like at all. This is the 2009 reproduction of the original 1965 doll.
  6. Re. b) I'd disagree with the "in recent years" bit. Barbie has been showcasing wide-ranging aspirational careers for women (beyond just teacher or nurse) for decades, since near its inception. Astronaut Barbie is a perfect example - the first Astronaut Barbie doll was released in 1965, years before the moon landing.
  7. Gitesh is not necessarily right, tho. Steel also dropped 78% in its 2nd weekend. Have to wait to see weekend actuals to determine if it actually bombed harder than Steel.
  8. Yup - this looks like another Sony Spidey-adjacent flick. I mean - looks better than Morbius, but I was more excited to see New Mutants than I am this. Although I also have zero exposure to Madame Web. May have mentioned it before but my only exposure to her was in the 1984 text-based Incredible Hulk Questprobe video game. I'm pretty certain I've never read an actual comic in which she appeared...
  9. This. I was (and am) a *huge* fan of the first Captain Marvel movie - primarily because of the script, but also due to the performances of Brie Larsen, Jude Law and Annette Bening. And I likely won't see this one in the theater...because having watched a few of the trailers, I have no idea what it's about. Who is the villain? If I can watch two separate trailers for a film and not have a clear understanding of the villain or threat, you've lost. I mean - I can *guess* it's some combination of Kree or rogue Skrulls, but the first movie made it's purpose 100% clear, even with the ultimate villain misdirect. See also: Shang-Chi Thor Love and Thunder Neither of these presented the villain clearly in the trailers either - and I skipped them. Sure, I vaguely knew that the Thor villiain was Bale's character, but the trailer placed more of an emphasis on comedy than his threat (or purpose). At least with Doctor Strange 2 we knew exactly who the villain was - an unhinged Wanda, fresh off of WandaVision and ready to destroy nearly everything in her quest to save her kids.
  10. I'd love to see her as Dazzler - and think shed kill it. This is one of my favorite SNL skits of the last 5 years:
  11. Honestly, I don't imagine they can do much with # 428, the way the story in that issue unfolds. As in, only the last page matters, unless they opted to add 3-6 more pages. I'd be far more interested in an alternate version of # 429, if it exists. That said, 429 blew me away as a kid on several counts: Superman's appearance The twist that Joker now has diplomatic immunity That both Ronald Reagan and the Ayatollah Khomeini cameo
  12. Huh. It seems like all of the alternate unpublished art was featured in a "Deluxe Edition" trade of A Death in the Family a few years ago. Word is the single page featured in Batman Annual 25 was the only one that was finished and colored - but there's a subsequent full page with unfinished pencils featuring Jason in a coma as Bruce talks to . https://www.comicsbeat.com/batman-a-death-in-the-family-deluxe-edition-alternate-artwork-jason-todd-lives/
  13. So...this is the same alternate ending by Aparo & Starlin previously published in Batman Annual 25?
  14. I'm confused. Given that Amazon bought MGM, wouldn't their library presumptively be available on Prime? Why the need for a separate MGM streaming platform? I understand the Hulu / Disney+ split, because Hulu predated Disney+ by several years and was only co-owned by Disney to start.
  15. Heard a piece on the BBC this week that said Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran were currently the top two contenders to do the song for the next Bond film. My prediction: If Nolan directs, not only will Harry Styles do the song, he'll also play a role in the film (though not necessarily as Bond).
  16. Reviews I read said this isn't even really an Expendables film - but rather a straight-up Jason Statham action film -- even Barney's reportedly only in it for a few scenes. Also weird that the last one spent time setting up the next generation only to have basically none of them return here.
  17. Recall that even 20 years ago, Jet Li dropped out of The Matrix 2 and 3 because the studio was demanding to digitally scan him and (according to him) effectively own the trademark to his martial arts moves, effectively allowing them to use them (without additional payment or credit to him) in perpetuity. He did multiple interviews about it.
  18. Saw a trailer for this last night. I'm intrigued - gives off "Children of Men" vibes.
  19. She can also act. She was *phenomenal* in A Star Is Born.
  20. I thought we've known this was a musical for months now. The main question in my mind is: Can Joaquin sing? Countless talented actors have stumbled when they found themselves in musicals that asked too much of their abilities: See: Russell Crowe in Les Miserables Edward Norton in Everybody Says I Love You Pierce Brosnan in Mama Mia!