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Axelrod

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  1. Axelrod
    So did John Mulaney!
  2. Axelrod
    omg, I remember the first time I actually read Jaws and was stunned by the amount of time that was spent on the subplot of Brody's wife having an affair with Hooper. I was like, wtf is this?
  3. Axelrod
    Nah. It is more than possible to make a decent, or even great, film using any character. Provided you have a good story to tell. The problem with the Sony Spider-U-Verse is that they have put the horse before the cart. Which is to say, someone went "Hey! Spider-Man is popular. We have the rights to all these Spider-Man adjacent characters. We need to go make a movies out of all of them and just wait for the cash to come rolling in!" And then Venom happened and it was a big hit and thus they determined that this strategy was obviously correct. So we got Morbius. And Madam Web. And soon-to-come Kraven the Hunter. With no one actually giving a **** about the story (or, if I'm being generous, only giving the barest of *****. Someone probably cared, but didn't have the ability to make it good on the schedule the studio pre-determined)
  4. Axelrod
    Can't see this until 3/10 'cause that's the earliest I can get good seats at the IMAX screen I want to see it on. Normally if I start looking to buy seats on Monday for the upcoming weekend that's plenty of time, but not for this one.
  5. Axelrod
    I'm sure everyone has eagerly been waiting for my reaction to this movie. Here it is: I fell asleep during the final climactic fight sequence.
  6. Axelrod
    I mean, in the end it's just this. As long as a graded book will sell for a premium over an ungraded one, then they can impose a surcharge on the service because the book will still be "worth" more than what you paid to get it graded, and people will pay it. Now, should the market decide that for some I-can't-imagine-what-this-could-possibly-be reason, a graded CGC book is no longer worth the premium it costs to get it graded, then, suddenly, that premium goes away. Will the market decide this? Probably not, but one can at least imagine it.
  7. Axelrod
    Is this one of those "they give the award to the person who agrees to show up to the award show" awards?
  8. Axelrod
    In fairness, looks like they are the (co)creators and writers of the Lost in Space reboot on Netflix, which was pretty good. So, maybe when they're doing their own stuff they're okay. Probably still getting some business off residual goodwill from that series as well, as I don't see any of those other shows being particularly anything to brag about on one's resume.
  9. Axelrod
    I will pay to see this movie! Probably this week even! I do this fully knowing it is going to be bad. I will probably enjoy it more that way.
  10. Axelrod
    Man, it's stuff like this that just makes you go, hmmmmmmm. Like, I have to assume these writers are NOT coming up with the story for these movies. That's got to be some executive/director saying "this is what I want" and then they just go hire some dudes to "write" it. Which probably involves putting it in proper screenplay format and not a lot else. There's no way these people would keep getting hired based on their brilliant ideas or the cleverness of their dialogue, or, basically anything creative they might have to do. They are (probably cheap) hired guns. Maybe they work fast too.
  11. Axelrod
    The Twitter hype is strong with this one.
  12. Axelrod
    I am not sure what casting they could have announced that would have gotten me excited just by virtue of the cast, but, it definitely wasn't this. I tend to not get excited just from knowing some actor is in a movie. Experience says that means very little in terms of quality. There may have been times, just can't remember. Doesn't mean they can't make a great movie. Just have to focus on the story.
  13. Axelrod
    Swear I almost considered submitting all 5s with a As it was, I bounced over and under and only hit 1 bullseye. 6 pts.
  14. Axelrod
    I made this point in the now defunct thread. Repost of my more specific likes/dislikes: This is what worked for me:
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    Something something ...ESG! Something something...Social justice! Something something...Sexism! Kidding!
  17. Axelrod
    I am doing this tomorrow!
  18. Axelrod
    I am almost nostalgic for this movie after some of the more recent superhero offerings I've seen.
  19. Axelrod
    "Trying to be too cute for it's own good" would be my one sentence review. The lesson here may be that your audience will only follow you so far down the rabbit hole. Feels like the (semi?) success of the Kingsman films may have gone to Vaughn's head just a little. I still like the way he shoots his actions scenes, and there's some fun stuff here, but I am also about 98% sure the plot of this movie doesn't make any sense at all. I haven't actually tried to work my way back through it yet, but it suggests a kind of disrespect for one's audience. i.e. "they won't care if it doesn't make any sense as long as we make it big and flashy enough. They'll just go with it...."
  20. Axelrod
    We are nothing if not consistent. 5 R1; 6 R2; 5 R3.
  21. Axelrod
    Was expecting a second pic. with the caption "this is what it would look like today", and it's just him standing in front of a green screen. I guess that's implied.
  22. Axelrod
    Slightly infamous?
  23. Axelrod
    That writing in and of itself wouldn't prevent an 8.5 grade, I don't think. I don't think you have to worry about being accused of fraud if you sell it either, given it's right there on the front cover. Presumably, any buyer will see it. You can always point it out to them as well if you're really concerned.
  24. Axelrod
    First book was a 4. Maybe you did better than you thought!
  25. Axelrod
    Almost a good round, except for a serious overgrade of the Mopsy. 3 pts on that one alone. As it is, 3 on the other 4 books means we avoid complete disaster and a total of 6.