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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Well that would still involve Rey going black hat and let's be honest here, Kathleen Kennedy isn't gonna be down for that. She may put a toe over the line to going bad but never take the step over to the other side. I could see something more along the lines of Kylo coming to the realization...
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    Justice League (2017)

    They don't have any qualms about playing around with the power level of characters at Marvel. I think if Quicksilver hadn't already been a part of the X-Men movies he'd still be alive in the MCU. He had already been used to great effect in DOFP by the time he showed up in AoU. Keeping him...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Supposedly he would be playing Mar-Vell.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    It really is hard to tell where things are going to go right now because we know in the past they've engaged in so much misdirection and close holding of details in promoting the movies. But, there are some interesting tidbits to be culled from some of the statements of Rian Johnson in the...
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    Justice League (2017)

    Depends on what you mean by successful. The majority of them follow the same model as horror movies. They're made with a relatively small, tightly controlled budget and pull in a big chunk of their targeted demographic out of genre loyalty. And they're usually profitable as a result. That's...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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    Justice League (2017)

    I dunno. I'd pay money to see da Jesus have his come to Cap moment.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Mostly old shots but Asian dude narrator is always a plus.
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    Justice League (2017)

    I think the back and forth with Affleck continuing with the DCEU has mostly been WB trying to manage the situation from a PR perspective prior to JL's release. I think the decision was made mutually months ago to part ways but you can't put that out there to hang in the air while you're...
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    Justice League (2017)

    Marvel didn't move away from Ed Norton just because that movie didn't work. Norton ended up being a gigantic pain the ass to work with. Marvel didn't dance around that with niceties when they announced he was being replaced for The Avengers either: We have made the decision to not bring Ed...
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    Justice League (2017)

    The Forbes article cited in that linked article above is a great read if the nuts and bolts of motion picture financials and how movies make their money are of interest to you. The comparison chart of 20 comic book movies from the past 5 years is particularly damning for Zack Snyder. All three...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    They always do the international promotional tours leading up to the premier event back home. From what I understand they haven't mentioned there being an NDA for the US premier yet but attendees may well show up and be informed of one. You messed that quote up in the edit btw. That was Miguex.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Don't play games with us cancer boy. We got a connect with some pull in the afterlife.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Lucasfilm exerting an iron grip on accurate information about their movies prior to release is old hat at this point. Those random fans probably don't want to damage their future chances at randomness so I wouldn't expect much in the way of leaks from them. They probably only saw the first 10...
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    Marvel's The Punisher

    On Episode 5 and the series has officially secured it's position in greatness with an appearance by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
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    Marvel's The Punisher

    To be fair the previous Netflix series have only had the most minimal of connections into the MCU by mentioning "the incident" here and there, usually once per season. As for those series acknowledging each other, they were building towards the main characters joining up for The Defenders. Not...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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    Justice League (2017)

    Animation can subsist on a smaller audience because the budgets are orders of magnitude smaller than a tent pole live action film. As a result they can drill down deeper into the source material to satisfy the core fans. Interestingly enough, Snyder's feature length animated movie is actually...
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    Justice League (2017)

    Yeah one question you can always ask yourself with a big budget movie is "Am I seeing where all that money went up on the screen?". For all of the problems a movie like Blade Runner 2049 created for itself with it's budget, there's no question they put it to good use as far as the film itself...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    They're reusing a lot of the same footage for the TV spots over and over but they tacked on a extra half second to the Rey and the rock scene that, when you pair it with one of the new Lego set box covers, is a little revealing.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    The crystal fox aka vulptex.
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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    The Daredevil rating is a combined rating for both seasons. S1 has a 98 score and S2 a 74. Agents of Shield is so high because some of it's later seasons have pathetically low numbers of reviews with most of them being positive. So basically the only critics who still bother watching it are...
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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    Yeah they had an uphill battle marketing this movie in a way to grow it's audience so they pulled out all the stops. I know I would have been more amazed sitting in the theater seat had I not watched the trailers but the trailers helped get me there and I enjoyed the hell out of those trailers...
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    A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

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    Justice League (2017)

    To add a little insult to injury JL, in spite of it being it's opening week, was actually playing on slightly fewer screens nationally than Ragnarok.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    It's probably just some creative editing but Rey saying she sees light, darkness, and something else with the visual hint that the something is Snoke would suggest that he's truly something different than anything else we've seen before him. And I wonder if that music is part of the score...
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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    Blade Runner was my first experience with Dolby ATMOS at a new theater that just opened near me. I kinda felt sorry for those at the screen that shared a wall with the one I was in. It had to be shaking the building down to it's foundation so I'm pretty sure they could hear it over whatever...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    They've been sowing the seeds outside of the movies for going in that direction though. That doesn't mean they'll ultimately follow through on it necessarily but I think they're trying to get longtime fans used to the idea of believers in the force as something other than 2 exclusive...
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    David Cassidy dead (?)

    His mug sold a lot of issues of Tiger Beat if the girls back in elementary and middle school were any indication.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I don't think we'll see grey jedi as they have traditionally been defined. It will probably more along the lines of light side force users who don't prescribe to all of the Jedi dogma just as we're seeing dark side force users who don't hold with the ways of the Sith.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Blame Kenner. You couldn't just buy his action figure back in the day. You had to send in proofs of purchase from other figures to get him. You could almost add the diaper head Dengar to the always forgotten list but he does get plenty of love on the Lego Star Wars show, though hardly anyone...
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    Justice League (2017)

    A bit early to call it that just yet. It's international numbers have been good enough for it to take in a little over $280 million world wide. If it has a decent hold through the long holiday weekend it could end up being one of those movies saved by the foreign box office (with saved meaning...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I don't know how consistent Laura Dern's character will be with how she was depicted in the Leia novel but she was very eccentric in that. Her oddness would put some people off much the same as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies. Getting along with her often meant just being able to look...
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    The Beer Thread

    Isn't Otra Vez a gose?
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    Justice League (2017)

    Great video. I've only seen a few of this guy's vids but they've always been on point.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    As did I. Cheadle seems to be a very likeable guy but when he tries to bring attitude to a role it doesn't come off as very believable imo. Though he did it well in the Oceans movies. I dunno, maybe he does it better when feigning an accent.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    War Machine was replaced to. I guess it helps that Rhodey didn't become WM until Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard in the role.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

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    The Incredibles 2 (2018)

    Aww man ... I wish they'd given us a little more than that. They've kept everything about this movie so deep under wraps. But I guess that's what teasers are for. And they're pushing 3D for it. I might actually end up seeing it 3D if it's good enough for a repeat viewing.