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Axelrod

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  1. Axelrod
    Ha! I got one you don't have! (yeah yeah, I know) Congrats on an amazing accomplishment.
  2. Axelrod
    I mean, if the actual review was a 3/5 then Rotten Tomatoes should be giving it a "Fresh" rating by their own standards. It's a little weird they would pick a representative quote out of the review that makes it sound unfavorable, but that's a different issue (and certainly not one caused by them gaming the system in favor of Disney).
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    Prediction time! My amazing box office instincts tell me that this film is probably strong/well-reviewed enough to avoid the status of complete flop; however, the continuing issues with it's star, protests, boycotts, unavoidable bad press and general super-hero fatigue will keep it from break-out-hit status. I am seeing a WW box office on the low end probably no worse than ~500m, but on the top end likely no higher than ~700m. (i.e. the primary "guess" is in the ~600m range)
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    This movie was ok! (really it was great.) Only somewhat disappointed by:
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    Seeing tonight
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    I did not know this! Seems silly that it's not an actual comic book, but is being graded like one.
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    Just looking at the "10" graded books is fascinating. Apparently there's a whole thing with "Pure Silver Foil" editions of books that basically all get graded "10". I mean, Amazing Spider-Man 1 Pure Silver Foil (2023) has 745 graded copies in the census and 741 of them are "10"s. And Incredible Hulk 1 Pure Silver Foil (2019) has 475 copies and 417 are "10"s. That must have been some kind of pre-arrangement with CGC, yes? Looks like the book with the most "10" CGC grades that might have been from actual customers sending the book in could be Batman: Damned 1 (2018) and there are 379 CGC "10" graded copies of that out there, out of 3557 total graded. And the "variant" cover for that book also has an absurdly high number of "10" grades, 319 out of 2452. Something probably going on there as well.
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    How do you do the search to determine books that have only been graded once?
  9. Axelrod
    Thanks! Looks like that site has exactly what I was looking for.
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    I'm sure this question got asked somewhere and/or there's an easy way to look up this information, but I can't figure it out atm, so I thought I'd just ask if there was a way to know which books have received the highest number of 9.8 grades, period? Like, I think I may have read somewhere that Spider-Man 300 was the book that has been graded the most, but I'm wondering specifically about the books with the most graded 9.8 copies recorded. Like is there a list somewhere? Thanks!
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    Hey, they got my money, so I feel entitled to criticize. Also, I definitely don't want any of these movies to fail. Put this on again on Disney+ tonight just to have something on, and, uh, yeah, it was worse than I remembered. Modok was soooo bad. And most of the humor...wasn't.
  12. Axelrod
    Inevitable.
  13. Axelrod
    So, since apparently they can't fix them, they've just decreed that Newton rings aren't actually a problem? I mean, that's just sad.
  14. Axelrod
    Well, I'm not going to bag on the guy, but Ant Man and the Wasp Quantumania did not appear to be well-written. Not sure how much say the screenwriter has in what the actual storyline is (probably not a lot), so it may be unfair to overly criticize him. But, think I still can say the writing wasn't great, and all the emotional beats that that movie was supposed to have fell completely flat. This may be for the best. EDIT: (what I said about this movie 3 months ago) *And - more specifically without being specific - it was incredibly formulaic. Were there any characters introduced who we were supposed to care about? I feel like the people making the movie thought there were, but then forgot to make them care-about-able. Literally every "big" moment felt almost completely unearned. And events that were supposed to be dramatic, or emotional, came off as just...flat. Maybe that's poor writing?*
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    I mean, the "rules" I read - which, I suppose might not be the ones actually implemented - are stupidly easy to comply with, and require zero changes to casting. You can satisfy these "diversity" requirements with tech people/marketing/publicity. Another one only says that the production, distribution OR finance company should offer "opportunities" to people from underrepresented groups. There are four categories (or what they call "Standards") and you only need to meet 2 of the 4 for your film to qualify as a Best Picture candidate. It seems so trivial to me it's practically meaningless - except as a way of raising awareness. Unless, as I say, something changed from what I read.
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    The impact from this will be negligible. The reality is that these "rules" are much more about raising public awareness than about mandating substantive changes.
  17. Axelrod
    For reference: The person I was betting against (he did not accept this bet, it was 1-sided)
  18. Axelrod
    So I'm going to win my bet!
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    Well, I saw it and it was good. If this one doesn't do well, that is the sure sign Marvel has peaked. Ant Man you could kind of write off since it was bad. But not this. If people don't turn out, it's because they just aren't that interested in Marvel movies anymore.
  21. Axelrod
    31st eh?
  22. Axelrod
    Better than estimated Sunday performance for a $118M U.S. weekend. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/box-office-guardians-galaxy-vol-151307933.html Maybe a sign that word of mouth will be good.
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    Technically, this drawing is visible in another post I made in the "Show us your comic book room" thread, but it's kind of in the background and you can't see it close up. So, here it is, my one and only piece of "original" art. Simonson convention sketch from 1985.
  24. Axelrod
    Ouch. I got destroyed by that Avengers. I said 6.5. +4 for all the others = 8 total. Ah well. Fun contest, and thanks to CGCMike!
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