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Yeah I'm interested in real theater reactions at this point. Would be funny if the wheels fall off the wagon once audience gets a hold of it.

Strong early reactions. Opens today. Hearing it's on par with Silence of the Lambs and The Ring. It's being compared to genre-defining movies/award winners. Not sure if it's hype, the bar is pretty low these days-- but I've got people going to check it out 7pm tonight.

The people who do the trailers can be pretty disconnected from the entire production

i.e. Destiny 2

Though it's never really happened in someone that comes from outside football (Stephen Neal, Adam Coon, Brock Lesnar), Stevenson could just as well have an NFL career. I don't think him coming to MMA is a sure thing. That said, Stevenson did not play highschool football and has no football...

Still waiting for the payoff.

Went for a stroll outside and spoiled the whole movie-- shut it off when I got back.

Sapochnik out as showrunner-- all the actors are pretty annoyed with it. He was a major creative force and credited as being solely responsible for the blending and editing/transitions ala "big GoT moments" by Matt Smith. Smith made specific reference to this. The question this season was...

"remember that Gen V stuff" forgettaboutit, he's just a faggot. They said there would be Gen V payoffs in Season 4 plot-wise. But so far that isn't the case.

It jumped the shark in season 4.

There's interest in seeing him get smashed by a true HW. Aspinall comes to mind. I think Blaydes could outwrestle him as well.

If Jones wanted it as a warmup and planned to take another fight against a top contender at HW and wasn't baiting retirement, the fight would move the needle a lot more. Jones threatening retirement and using the Stipe fight as some sort of capstone achievement on a long career really throws...

If they had spent more time on an iconic cast it would have helped Rise get over. A big part of JJ's movie not hitting was nothing was compelling with the Rey character, and even if it was, casting a non-binary face with wooden acting skills was questionable. Per JJ's own words during TFA...

Other releases occurred at the same time. Probably cleaning up the roster. https://www.mmamania.com/2024/7/2/24191210/ufc-frees-up-roster-spot-with-seven-year-late-release-of-travis-browne-mma

Wasn't mutual. https://www.mmamania.com/2024/7/1/24190108/how-come-andrei-arlovski-complaining-wondering-why-dana-white-cut-ties-ufc-303-loss-mma he had been making 325k for a win, more than headliner Glover Teixeira...

oof

Post-profit society. ESG rating comes first.

DW has been hardballing people who try to change opponents. Conor was pushing for Nate Diaz behind the scenes and he had to keep shutting that down too. Wondering now that the Chandler fight officially didn't happen, if they will reschedule it or cave into Conor's demands for "legacy" fights for...

Jones camp kicked the tires on Pereira even before UFC 303. They prefer Stipe get replaced if people want to see Poatan. UFC is the one saying no. DW has been very hardline on the Stipe fight happening. At this point, he's against the fans. It feels like he just doesn't want to renegotiate...

Smith looked like he belonged at HW with that tiny gas tank.

Should have just copied the roguelike mini-game from Immortal. Huge missed opportunity the expac is almost out and there is no sign of it. Seems this "event" in season 5 has elements borrowed from it, except used here for no real reason.

Echoing that. Felt OK pace wise-- but the scenes didn't have the same pop and bang as the previous movies. First hour went by and I was ready for more, but seems I had already seen the best in that first 1.5h. CGI escalates in badness, becoming downright terrible at times, to the point of...

i see arlovski is getting another fight at 45 years old

It's likely the showrunners may have viewed some criticism by now re: Galadriel. Rather, them simply sitting down and watching Season 1 final cut could have been enough. You don't need critics to tell you how unlikable she comes off. It's a glaring flaw of the show from day 1 and the loudest...

DEI first, story second. Whatever story is written or changed has to be changed to center or feature the DEI characters-- regardless of their importance or existence in the original story.

Good to hear at least there was a succession from Borealis even if Fromsoft couldn't take the time to name it properly. I became addicted to trying to find windows on bosses to freeze them in the base game. Nothing gave me as much of a rush as getting a fully powered breath off given how...

Any upgraded Breath or Dragon Communion stuff in the DLC?

They kicked the tires on the original cast and broke the bad news to Warner Bros Zaslav they're "too white", no doubt some consulting agency said they can't possibly make any movies set in the original. So instead we get this piece of shit TV series for HBO Max. It's a good demonstration that...

I can't even find 1 person that's watching it. During GOT and even HOTD S1 to a lesser extent you'd run into people all the time at the watercooler. Maybe total views are steady, but the buzz just isn't there. Nobody seems to be spending any of their summer watching this. If people are...

Complete trash. At least I can stop following ES6 development.

Everything I've heard is the original Guccione cut is better.

Except make it suck. Gay and lame.

An actual on the button punch isn't a great example. If there was other examples of him getting whiffed and grazed with that reaction I'd buy into it.

Episode 2 was edited down for modern audiences. https://decider.com/2024/06/23/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-episode-2-alicent-criston-cole-sex/ New principal showrunner is cited as the cause. Again, the loss of showrunner Sapochnik was felt. Not only by Matt Smith-- but now also by...

George touched on that recently at a film festival. He was frustrated by the amnesia over at Disney Lucasfilm pertaining to Star Wars. Plenty of women, plenty of allegory, plenty of messaging possible to make something compelling and check all the boxes-- yet what he created is still viewed as...

Overdue.

Then they can't pretend its popular.

hoping it leans away from Batman as much as possible

It's like when Cucuy kicked a steel pipe to get out of a fight.