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Koepp also wrote the original Jurassic Park, the first Mission: Impossible, and even last year's Black Bag. Yeah, he has a lot of stinkers on his resume, but he's been in Spielberg's roster of regular writers for decades.

Should I know who the non-drunks are? Also found out the other day I've driven past the VCR Repair Shop hundreds if not thousands of times in my life.

The last movie of Spielberg's I've seen more than once was Catch Me If You Can, as minor as it was, nearly a quarter century ago. Since then he's had a wide variety of movies that didn't quite grab me, from big budget misfires (War of the Worlds, Ready Player One, Crystal Skull), likable enough...

Most of the reviews I've seen are as expected - it's Bridge of Spies-era Spielberg combining Close Encounters with Minority Report. Which is definitely better than another Ready Player One or Crystal Skull, but that's not necessarily causing me to race to the theater.

Probably getting a combo-breaker here, as I'm guessing they are unlikely to review Disclosure Day this week, and even less likely to do The Death of Robin Hood next week. Unless they decide to go back to the Kyle Gallner well and Carolina Caroline plays in Milwaukee / Chicago. Hell, I don't...

Eh, it is true audiences like to wrap things up - The Rise of Skywalker still made over $500M Domestic, even after the damage Solo and The Last Jedi did. It's also worth reminding people that Deadpool and Wolverine made over $600M in 2024. That's 50% more than the highest grossing movie of...

Just a reminder, this is directed by Travis Knight, the guy who also made the 'better reviewed than you expected' Bumblebee. He's also the kid of Phil Knight, the (mostly-Republican-leaning) founder of Nike. Travis isn't making these for a paycheck, just nostalgia. My complaints aren't about...

Just a reminder that the biggest movie of last year (Minecraft) was a videogame movie: Domestic Box Office For 2025 A videogame that was heavily played, even foundational, to Millenials and Gen Z (both of whom are now bigger than Gen X and the remaining Boomers). MK, Street Fighter, etc. were...

Apparently this version started life at Netflix before _they_ got cold feet over the budget (cue unrelated look at The Electric State budget) and it ended up at MGM. But yeah, a 40 year old property whose only revivals the vast majority of fans seem to revile (the Netflix cartoons) seems like...

The Rams were already my NFC pick, and likely SB winner, but it is good they aren't messing around.

You people taking Sunday off?

In regards to profitability, the number is actually much closer to needing to hit $500M than not. The "production budget" is listed at $165M. But that doesn't include a major amount in advertising, reportedly at least $100M (remember when their Super Bowl ad had nothing from the movie, and we...

Friday estimates are in, and the horror movies (Obsession / Backrooms) are not splitting their audience - M&G is likely #3 for the weekend in the vicinity of $25M. That's probably not hitting $200M, much less Solo, that may not even reach any of the Marvel movies from last year (Thunderbolts...

Male fertility declines far slower than female fertility, and a male looking for a mate, regardless of his age, should want to maximize his number of possible offspring by prioritizing more fertile (aka younger) females. Note however that male sperm quality decreases with age as well (not...

Obsession also beat out M&G for Thursday. M&G is just a pile of contradictions - a kids movie that's too violent for most kids, a streaming property Disney wants people to pay theatrical charges for, and a theatrical release that currently doesn't tie into any theatrical releases, past or...

Yes, box office predictions are based on advance ticket sales. For _most_ genres, those predictions are accurate enough (it's very unlikely to do double or half the predicated range)... for the opening weekend. Overall box office can vary signifiicantly depending on quality, public buzz, and...

Eh, it's the Summer (Movie Season) of Our Discontent. Mando and Supergirl don't seem to be anything beyond IP +1, and the more The Odyssey gets discussed, the less people want to hear about it. If Spider-Man sucks it'll be a long haul to see if Villeneuve wraps up Dune 3 cleanly and Doomsday...

Can take the player out of the Raiders, but not the Raiders out of the player? Wayne Brady-ing certainly doesn't sound good, but we've seen similar domestic disturbances poof when the misses doesn't press charges

You're forgetting that M&G (probably) did slightly worse than Solo even without adjusting for inflation, although it is worth reiterating that Solo had Deadpool 2 to deal with (Infinity War had already been out for a month and was a non-factor). Week two of Deadpool 2 was much stronger...

Bungie would sell to Sony because Sony was willing to pay far too much because either Sony's executives thought they were behind the ball on live service games or Sony's board thought they were behind the ball on live service games, or Sony's excuse to their board for some quarter was that Sony...

Didn't Renegades come out 6 months ago? So either: 'Almost all' of Bungie didn't notice that they had zero major D2 projects in the works, even after Marathon came out, or far more likely: Daddy Sony said "We'll let you live as something like 50% of your current size for another 12-24 months...

There was little Bungie could do about the PS4 era hard drives being so tiny. In retrospect, Beyond Light and after should have been Destiny 3, available only for PS5-era systems, with some seasonal passes stretching out D2. Portray zombie-D2 as being a Vex simulation with the real world being...

The ending was deeply mediocre, bordering on sucking, with limited scale, nonsensical motivations, and terrible blocking / action, but it wasn't in the GOT tier. Frankly, my biggest problem was it made Seasons 4 and 5 even worse, as giant chunks of their runtime did not matter (e.g. V1). All...

It seems like every team has a tough schedule. Part of it is there are few terrible divisions - you might like seeing the Cardinals on your schedule, but you won't like seeing the 49ers, Rams, or Seahawks on it. Even getting the Jets and Dolphins also means getting the Pats and Bills. There's...

Reviews seem to be that it is mostly okay, and feels exactly like what we expected - that a 3 episode Season 4 arc and its wrapup in the season finale was converted to a movie, and is more aimed at kids, than as an actual action movie for adults.

Not sure the Charger's best idea was bringing up the Patriots' cupcake 2025 schedule given how the Chargers / Patriots playoff game went, but... Not a lot of new material in but it is nice to be reminded of when The SImpsons were good - though the best joke was them referencing their yanked...

I sure the hell hope we have a bye or at least Thursday game before, because a Wednesday game with a team traveling half the continent is bullshit.

The book goes into all of this, but: Only 1 in 7000 people can survive the book coma; Grace happens to be one of them. Book Grace is the one doing all the testing of their scientific equipment, and thus is familiar with everything*. When the accident happens, the book Hail Mary is in an unstable...

Johnathan Nolan's really going with the Westworld playbook again, isn't he. Doesn't look like we're getting another season this year if they're still casting people.

Two caveats: 1) I only saw it once, so I may have forgotten dialogue. 2) Again, there's a lot of stuff that was edited out of the movie. Movie Grace writes down something like "Always muscles?" on his whiteboard when he wakes up, and the one shot where he's sleeveless shows beefy arm muscles...

Am I the only one that is both looking forward to one of the few directors left that gets to spend big money on non-franchise properties, and also not optimistic the results will be anything I like? Because Oppenheimer did nothing for me, Tenet was both too convoluted and not explained enough...

I would rate it as "It's fine". Trying to judge it objectively, I just don't see The Boys being something I ever think about (much less rewatch) again. At least half of the episodes from seasons 2+ feel like wheel spinning (at least this season is better than Season 4 on that front); but at the...

1) Yes. 2) That was arguably one of the best adjustments the movie script makes. When seeing Rocky's ship, Book Grace is only worried that if its an Aliens situation, the mission to save Earth will fail. Movie Grace is also concerned about his own well being, which matches the bits you mentioned...

I would point out that 'Focus on other time periods' does not equal 'Retconning the sequels out of existence'. You could have Star Wars focus on more post-Original territory (like Mando), midquel territory (like Solo, Obi-Wan, or Andor), pre-prequel territory (like KOTOR, the High Republic, or...

As a Milwaukeean, I can confirm that the high point of Milwaukee's cultural relevance... was used as somebody's garage (or whatever) in Transformers 3. Appropriate. I still remember one thing about Bridesmaids - that Hollywood thought a federal interstate between Chicago and Milwaukee was a two...

I would hesitate to compare any number from The Before Times (before covid, streaming, and strikes) with modern releases. In your specific case, it looks like Pirates 5 made just about as much in China as it did in the US. That is very much not the current trend for China - their movie industry...

The numbers I have seen suggest that barely 20% of players even do Normal raids, with higher difficulties an even smaller percentage, even after 20 years of players self-selecting to play the game via subscriptions. Spending a large percentage of your development time on something the vast...

Did you get that in the green pools up north? Other than Blood Seekers, none of the other Midnight fishing triggers (treasure chests, pools, etc) fire for me up there, even with a blue rod with perception enchant.

Apparently Jack 2 married Neuman last weekend, meaning one of the last thing he did as a bachelor was visit RLM. Man has his priorities in order.

Just a reminder, the Rams barely lost to the Seahakws in the NFC Championship, and probably would have crushed the Patriots in the SB. Would McVay and Stafford like another weapon (though how many rookies are that signficant) so they can win another SB and Stafford can retire off to the sunset...