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Movies with black leads clearly have a disadvantage in Asien markets, but some buck the trend. Will Smith in his glory days was as big in China as everywhere else and stuff like MIB III, I am Legend and I Robot rocked the chinese box office. If this is sold as Marvel-stuff and not as "black...

Compared to what? Idiotic stereotypes about black audience because some lead actors are also black? Ticket sales clearly seem a step up or ten from that for sure :) Also shaping up to be a real MCU contender. Opening blew GoTG, Civil War, Thor Ragnerok, etc.. right out of the water ... and it...

Pretty normal for movies to film wherever the tax is best. And once you're talking Disney money for FX, set design, etc.., it probably doesn't matter anyhow.

Dash Rendar is/was a not-Han-Solo character first created for Shadows of the Empire, which was set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and thus Han Solo was frozen in carbonite, yet they still wanted to have a swash-buckling smuggler with a super-fast, crappy-looking donut-shaped...

Most of it looks fun, but yeah, guy is no Han Solo. Should've made him something like Dash Rendar or new kinda-Solo Smuggler-guy having his story criss-cross Nu-Star-Wars lore. TFA send-off was sufficient. Should've left it there.

Also, because almost every Marvel new-character's first solo movie does it. It's the Iron Man formula, found everywhere from Norton-Hulk to Ant-Man and even stuff like Dr. Strange. They ain't gonna fix what's not broken (financially thus far, at the very least). It's also popular in comics as...

Is that why people here need to go supernova on their tinfoil hat nonsense to somehow convince themselves of a giant conspiracy that's hiding how the "secret majority" allegedly agrees with the minority of online haters to validate their dislike of the movie? It's not a bad movie. It's a pretty...

If Disney throws out a shit movie, they get shit reviews like everyone else (e.g. recent Pirates movies). TLJ just happens to be a good movie, and no amount of storm-in-a-teacup-raging by alt-right-snowflakes desperately trying to make a deluded social/political point by hating on the movie on...

But that's why the whole Luke force projection thing is so ingenious. Kylo Ren is a whiney Darth Vader cosplayers, trying to become a genuine villain. Rey is a Star Wars fangirl literally growing up in an AT-AT and collecting Star Wars OT memorabilia and fantasising about some bad fan-fiction...

Funny how some people who didn't like TLJ are so insecure about it, they desperately need it to be a financial flop to validate their opinion. Just say you didn't like it and move on ...

Lol. If TLJ is underperforming, it is because of the massive damage done to the Star Wars brand by Rogue One. If anything, TLJ is a nice rebound and a silver lining after Disney did prove the impossible of doing a Star Wars movie worse than Attack of the Clones some 12 months ago.

Rogue One wasn't that bad. I'd probably rate it on par with Attack of the Clones.

ESB TFA TLJ ANH RotJ The 4 prequels need to be removed from reality.

No.

It isn't "80s" strictly. It's the dead trillionaire's nerdy childhood. A lot of key puzzles in the book actually reference 70s computer stuff too, as well as 70s D&D. And post-80s geek culture obviously also comes up (and the movie clearly will do similar things, as we've seen Overwatch...

No. Anakin was the Chosen One. Rey's parents are nobody. The end. The explanation in TLJ was that she's a kind of anti-body reaction of the Force to Kylo, since there is only dark side (Luke being cut off and all), so "it" creates a counterweight. This of course runs off the George Lucas...

Why would the audience expect that? It's a stupid throwaway line from the prequels, right up there with Midichlorians, which for some retarded reason turned the simple fact that the original trilogy just happened to have 2 bad guys into some kinda rule, just like the pilot helm Han happened to...

A. It's a good movie. Basement Neckbeards getting their panties in a twist because Snoke isn't Darth Plague-eggs doesn't change this being one of the 4 (or 4 1/2, if you count half of RotJ) good Star Wars movies. B. 93% of critics don't need to say it's great. 93% of critics simply need to give...

I liked the movie a lot, but something that seemed off was why things were so so desperate for that "spark of hope". As (it seems) the movie picks up literally a day or so after TFA, shouldn't blowing up Starkiller Base be that "beacon"/"story"/whatever that spreads across the galaxy, proving...

JJ will just throw in his stupid Lost "Mystery Box" again and kick off another few years of Neckbeards going into retarded Reddit-vs.-YouTube theory-fights about Darth Plague-something and Grey Jedi for a few years until the Episode X-XII trilogy rolls around.

Saw it finally and I liked it. Poe (and Finn) running the "we're the only ones who know how to save ya'll" but ending up in the wrong was unexpected for a Disney blockbuster and pretty cool. Visuals were great. Mark Hamill was fantastic (I can see the criticism in where they took Luke, but I...

/shrug Guess Cameron is into that. It's not like Avatar's Navi weren't Anime-bait either (and I suppose the entire plot of that movie would have played very differently if the Navi had been a species of fat, smelly troglodytes, full of warts).

Book was a pretty good page-turner, I thought. Obviously wasn't going for a noble prize in literature (or pretending to). It always was the written equivalent of popcorn blockbuster movies with easy underdog-good-guy vs. evil bad guys + heaps of nostalgia-bait for the older generation of nerds...

Lol @ another Ninja T-Rex. That aside, feels like I've seen the movie now. 6/10. Was alright. 2.15 felt like they were stretching the 3rd act. Should've stayed under 2 minutes.

Woot! MCU finally getting some quality villains!

Why not? Holland is their guy. Homecoming was their movie. Presumably they could use him as long as they don't put in references like Capt. America, Iron Man, (or Star Wars Merch) that belongs to Disney-Marvel. Depends on the exact details of the Sony-Disney deal of course. Disney-Marvel...

Well, on the other hand, Dr. Strange also has the entire story around Benjamin Pratt essentially becoming a Wizards just to walk again and Strange (pre-discovering magic) going on and on about how it is impossible this could've happened.

Well, free universal health care, free social housing, public universities, etc.. makes it a lot easier for second generation of piss poor immigrants (or just piss poor domestic parents) to get somewhere.

Somebody clearly missed 30 years of pop culture's collective Boba Fett obsession.

So Marvel just cast WB's Nu-Dumbledore for the MCU? Not giving an inch :=)

So what do you think Kevin Feige/Marvel/Disney would do with Affleck, being-on-off-on-again, directing, not-directing, pissed-because-not directing (with some added hyperpolitical groping shit possibly brewing most recently)?

Not sure about that. RDJ wasnt unknown and having a reasonable post-90s comeback since Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Tropic Thunder, the Soloist, etc.. were alsomostly filmed before IM1 hit theatres. Nothing to make him the world’s best paid actor by miles, but not so different from non-Comic Book...

This! Feels like all this is increasingly being graded on a curve. Imagine you could go back in time 5 years and post on FoH that a) 2017 will see the release of a Justice League movie with Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, the whole shebang b) That same movie will also open below...

Well, if WB wouldn't pussy about with review embargos and shit until 5 minutes before the release, RT and critics wouldn't need to do crazy stunts just to do what they're supposed to do and make their opinions available for the public so people can access other people's opinions (or aggregated...

Spiderman is still at Sony, despite (or because of) the cooperation agreement. Spiderman Homecoming was a Sony-distributed movie, not a Disney-distributed movie. Marvel and Sony essentially traded extended cameos of Spidey in (Marvel's) Civil War vs. Iron Man in (Sony's) Homecoming, along with...

Comic book characters all started out in their own universe. Flash doesn't share the same universe with Batman. Wonderwoman doesn't share the same universe with Superman. Iron Man doesn't share the same universe with the Hulk or Ant Man. Alien doesn't share the same universe with Predator...

I am sure they will as soon as Disney streaming is somewhat functional and they can dangle Star Wars to make people sign up for it. They already said they will do separate Marvel TV series for their streaming, though continue the ones running on and developed with Netflix. Though I doubt they'll...

Why not have more than one if you can? Stupid bureaucracy about passports and countries is super 19th century anyways. Wouldn't get emotional about arbitrary lines drawn on a map for governments to swindle people out of money by claiming they belong to this or that colourful piece of cloth...

Having a visa for a film shoot or a charity event isnt the same as having a citizen's right to live, to work, buy property, etc... in Italy (and through Italy in all countries of the Schengen Agreement, which the UK isnt fully part of and will likely distance itself further from). He likely...