Axelrod

You know Holly was in the Outsider as well, right?

As it happens, I'm watching this right now! (because I got the "Hulu" for a year for $12 thing) It's pretty good! Other Stephen King adaptations are so very, very hit-or-miss for me, but I felt most of the early horror movies were a miss. Cujo? Christine? Firestarter? Silver Bullet? Eh. Sleepwalkers remains one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Along with Dreamcatcher - what an absolute mess of a film. Even some of the "acclaimed" ones, like The Shining I felt were kind of "meh." Carrie, I have never seen all the way through, just in pieces, but including some of the "big" scenes. I have also never seen The Dead Zone, except for the ending scene.... Seems like some of the not-pure-horror ones tend to adapt better, such as Shawshank, Stand by Me and The Green Mile. Other favorites would be: Misery The Outsider (HBO adaptation) It (the recent films, not the old TV mini-series, which had it's moments, and also Tim Curry, but was still kind of bad). I won't call it a favorite, but the original Pet Sematary was legit scary. I also respect The Mist, though it's way too bleak for my tastes. I am looking forward to watching the Mr. Mercedes adaptation (since I also got the Black Friday Peacock deal. I am a sucker for streaming services BF deals).

I have been in the 50's both times I have done this. And yet! Still got cool stuff!

This theory hinges on the seller either (1) having a way to crack an existing slab, replace a book and seal it again well enough to fool CGC, or (2) the seller being a CGC employee who is swapping out books on site? That right?

Generally speaking and most commonly, it's someone who won't shut up. But 15 counts is extreme by any measure.

I was looking at this, but I guess this isn't strictly Phase 5? That started with Ant Man?

If you take out the Deadpool numbers, which are only kind of tangentially X-Men, the R.Ratio drops to something like 2.9. Which is...the same as Phase 5 Marvel?

Well, I have occasionally been wrong before. I did think the Flash could get to $600-700m. I'm not wrong about this tho'

Um, are you predicting A2 will do more box office than A1? If it's common sense? Because there is no way that is happening. I would be happy if it was good and did well, but I can see this writing on the wall from very, very far off.

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I'm sure it's specified that if he puts in a value and they lose/f-up his book, that's the max value he gets, even if the book was worth more. That's kind of how insurance works. But, on the flip side, if he over-values his book and they lose/f-up his book, they will only give him "fair market" for the book, and not whatever it was he valued it/paid for. But if you're asking if they upcharge him because (they say) he undervalued his book and he pays the upcharge, then I would assume they are back on the hook for the value they said it was when they upcharged him. Don't think they can upcharge him, lose/f-up his book, and then say "well, we're only compensating you based on the value you originally claimed....

Ima pat myself on the back for even being third.

A very, very, random $1244.21 will be my guess.

It's kind of criminal for them to charge such huge fees based on what they think the books are worth. I mean, you really ought to be able to submit a book and just say, please grade this, and get it done for a flat fee. Not like the service changes. They are not an auction house to be demanding a cut of the total value like this. Now, if you want insurance, that's a whole different ball game. I understand declaring a value, and then they might have to charge more to cover the insurance. But if you want to set your own "risk" level as far as that goes, they shouldn't be bumping you up because they decide the books are more valuable than what you decided. Meh. What do I know. I guess this happens everywhere, but still annoys me.

This looks amazing. Something upcoming to actually be excited about.

I mean, I have no dog in this fight, but "threatening suicide" as Majors appears to have done on more than one occasion here, is a classic abuser tactic. Because it results in the person who you have abused suddenly being placed into the position of having to comfort you, to tell you that it's going to be okay, and to reassure you that you are not, in fact, a terrible person. That ******* who abused Melissa Benoist did the same kind of ****.

Man are you saying that if I expressed my opinion here in sufficiently strong terms I might make it into the lawsuit? Cool.

I bought some books! They were packed very well! This was a very easy and pleasant transaction!

I read somewhere that the reason was that the "rights" to use the Human Torch specifically were tied up at the time, like they were sold separately somewhere. I assume to some entity that was interested in making a Human Torch solo film?