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    God no. I was excited for that movie. Wonder Woman AND the 80’s! No way you can screw that up for an 80’s kid like me. They found a way.
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    That’s real sh*t. A Marvel writer put that down and thought it was awesome.
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    You have an interesting skewed perception on his movies and while I have not seen them all, I disagree with your Scorsese take. If you are referring to extended single take shots, this is nothing new and not something pioneered by Scorsese. You’ll have to go a little further back in the archives. But you would know that being the cinephile that you are. I’m sure you have some range outside of comic book movies? As far as critics loving him, who cares? You seem to hate him despite the research you have done on him. Just give his new movie a hard pass. You don’t need to subject yourself to that. I mean, there’s probably not gonna be one cape in it.
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    I was hooked since Spider-Man started appearing on The Electric Company in the 70’s. And as a young child with no way to record it, that made its appearances even more special. And then seeing Superman 78, oh man forget about it. But after that, what were the ones that made an impact? Certainly Batman 89. Iron Man 1. The Dark Knight. The Avengers. Logan. And the rest were mostly just a fun diversion. I haven’t gone back and revisited many of them. They are fun popcorn movies and nothing more. I’d rather rewatch the first season of True Detective or Band of Brothers than any comic book movie out there. I’m not the target audience right now so it doesn’t matter. If I was, they would focus less on the huge spectacles and give me something more along the lines of Joker. Even though I’m conflicted on that movie, its the direction I would like to see it go for DC. They are killing it on tv though. Loved the Watchmen and Doom Patrol series. They should just give Batman his True Detective moment on HBO. I’m looking forward to Spider-Man but not in the way I was looking forward to it in 2001. I think that World Trade Center trailer blew us all away. But I’m ready to take a break from capes and see some films with substance. Films I’m not really anticipating but ones that will stay with me in a more meaningful way.
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    You’re right. 25 Academy Award noms. It’s probably political. And the audience score for that trailer I posted is 100% on RT but I’m sure it will drop to Captain Marvel levels as more reviews come in.
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    I’m not making a comparison. I’m talking about the total amount a film makes regardless of how wide of a release it gets.
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    If someone asks you how much Shang Chi made are you going to say 224 million? Of course you’re not. You’re going to give them the worldwide total which is 431 million. You know it. We know it. You and silvermaniac are too much. Hey, check out the 2019 Boston Marathon winners. My man Scott Fauble was first. Out of North America.
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    This may be the first movie in history that needs a billion to break even. OR, maybe it has been profitable but not so much that they can’t fudge the numbers and call it a loss to get a tax break. Seriously, no one really knows what actual figures are out there for any movie do they? They can say anything. We just know what the box office is bringing in. We have a general idea of production budget and maybe marketing. But these guys use movie math and can probably write them off like a gambling debt. It’s not as simple as the budget/box office charts posted.
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    I enjoyed the interaction between Venom and Eddie but thats about it. The Woody/Carnage interaction was not well done at all. Carnage looked like a PS4 game. Woody is always fun to watch but I thought his dialogue was just bad. “Something wicked this way comes?” Really?
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    Not sure actors have a prime time like athletes. There are many actors in their 50’s and 60’s that have given the best performances of their career. Granted, Stallones not one of them but he’s still a pop culture icon.
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    Me walking out of this movie.
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    Ok this is an 80’s classic. Yes there’s cheese but it gets a pass as this is classic Cronenberg.
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    That may have been a bad movie but Days of Future Past is still better than most MCU movies.
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    One word: Monica Bellucci.
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    Random trailer to help you forget this Marvel turd.
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    As for the clubhouse rings, I call it a tie.
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    Aren’t you forgetting someone?
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    Hulu has an amazing Black Friday deal for new members or members with expired subscriptions. One dollar a month for one year.
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    I asked around at work and I find it interesting that normal people (not nerds or sci-fi fans like me) liked this show. I’ll check it out in the next few days though. I’ve never heard of the books or source material.
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    If you don’t have Hulu or your subscription expired, now is the time to get it. Act fast as its a limited Black Friday deal. One dollar a month for one year.
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    You can still see Nic Cage as Fu Manchu in Shang-Chi’s deleted scenes.
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    I don’t mean to answer for Bosco but here’s my take. I don’t know if the film needs to make nearly a billion to break even. The only people who would know are the ones who wrote the checks. And the variety article names “insiders” and “other industry sources” for their information. Not one named source. Of course that means nothing and if the movie did indeed lose money, it may be in their best interest to downplay it as opposed to tarnishing the brand. I don’t know enough about the industry but I do know the movie made its production budget and marketing back. The only question is how much was the cost of delaying the movie for 16 months?
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    Agreed, a younger established Bond between 30 - 35 years of age. Maybe a more solemn cynical Bond that blends elegance and ruthlessness better than his prior iterations.
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    I was disappointed again.