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    MCU's THE ETERNALS (11/6/20)

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    On 11/19/2021 at 8:40 AM, @therealsilvermane said:

    I don't deny that those four American movies have a higher worldwide box office gross than Shang-Chi. However...

    In my "wall of text" post a few posts above, I "carefully" laid out my reasons why I said Shang-Chi qualifies as a bigger hit than F9 and No Time to Die (that also includes Venom 2 and GvK), even though those four American films have a larger world wide box office than Shang-Chi. 

    I left out worldwide box office because China, the world's largest movie market, is going through a government imposed nationalist isolationist movement right now and has banned a lot of Hollywood films including Shang-Chi. China is continuing to move away from Hollywood movies and wants to rely mostly on its own China-made movies going forward. The fact that The Battle of Lake Changjin's $900 million is all from China is proof that they can probably do it. But this year, the four American movies above Shang Chi in worldwide box office grosses were all given a pass to screen in China. For F9 and GvK, it was a majority of their box office gross.

    Even still, the most important market to American films is the country they were made in, the world's second largest movie market, America. The North American movie market, which includes Canada and Mexico, is still the biggest barometer of a film's box office success.

    So with that, concerning Shang Chi as possibly the biggest hit of the pandemic, I stated that I took into consideration North American box office, critics' reactions, fans' reactions, how much expectations were met or exceeded, and how much of an effect the movie had on culture and the industry. And oh yeah, that we're in a pandemic.

    In the pandemic era, Shang Chi has:

    1. the highest North American box office gross of any North American movie,

    2. has higher critic and fan scores on RT and Metacritic than those four other American movies,

    3. exceeded box office and critical expectations whereas those four other films just met or fell short of expectations,

    4. had a discernable effect on pop culture and the movie theater industry. Concerning that last one, movie theater CEO's were tweeting the good graces of Shang Chi (and Venom 2 I admit), not F9, not GvK, not No Time to Die. 

    Are you going to deny that? Of course you are...

    You think a company's biggest concern is their SECOND biggest market? Sir, do you business? Haven't you ever wondered why so many stars give tearful apologies to China on a weekly basis while telling America where to shove itself? 

    This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection

    in Comics General

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    Despite my ongoing disaster with BBTS (not their fault, it's a shipping thing, package left late August, last tracked September 6th) I managed to get some other purchases today. I received the latest Silver Centurion Iron Man, which looks great, especially compared to the original, which was a favourite of mine at the time. Two Storm Collectibles Mortal Kombat figures also came; unmasked Sub-Zero, and Raiden. Neither are favourites, particularly that look for Subbie, but he has a lot of extra parts coming with the upcoming Kintaro, so I may as well get the most out of them. 

    Worstest Deal On Ebay

    in Comics General

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    On 11/16/2021 at 3:40 AM, thehumantorch said:

    typical robojo, most of  his auctions have colour touch, always disclosed at the end of his auction where a buyer is least likely to see it.

    Yep, same old RoboJJJo. He'll never change. 

    Video games

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    On 11/15/2021 at 11:33 AM, Namtak said:

    Just finished house of ashes,for the first time ,in the dark pictures anthology series so far its their best one,i was reluctant after little hope.....that one was bad .this one is more cinématographie than the others quite well done,of course until dawn was in a different league of its own.highly trcomend house of ashes:shy:

    Is there a new one out? Damn, I need that (and someone to play it with). I played the bus group one and the witch hunt one, loved them both. Oh and the ocean tanker one. Good stuff.