The Road isn't a bad movie. It's just a bad adaptation.

I'm with you, Burt.

Why?

It tries to add more of a conventional human element/narrative, but high kind of gets in the way of the elemental bleakness/hope of the tale

I've seen the trailer for Hypnotic a few times now and it looks so bad. It looks like the type of movie that should be going straight to Netflix.

I really wanna see it

Why's that?

It looks fun

Oh ok. I hope you enjoy it.

Conflict avoided

I miss the box office news wrap-up from box office mojo.

Also, I think superhero fatigue might actually be a thing finally.

Finally

If that's the case, then why am I excited by the news that Krypto the dog is going to be in Superman: Legacy?

Me too. IMDb seems to not really care about making that site useful anymore. The all time adjusted numbers aren't being update anymore either, it seems. It used to be a really great, basic, focused site but IMDb just doesn't seem to be paying attention to it. They bought it and then forgot it, it seems

Marvel just needs their new slate of heroes to catch on. Not sure they have actors with enough rizz though. And the one that did, Rudd, was taken down by a terrible installment.

Time will tell I suppose.

Despite being one of the most popular Marvel series, Guardians 3 only took in $114 mil this weekend, compared to $142 mil for part 2. It's not entirely fair to compare the two, but it did fall slightly short of expectations regardless. I see nothing else in Marvel's lineup except Spider-man that is even close to the same popularity.

yeah I think the guy that ran it isn't even there anymore.

Good word of mouth will keep this one strong for a couple of weeks. At the very least, it won't have the monumental fall-off that Ant-Man 3 had (precisely due to negative word of mouth)

When you factor in ticket inflation which is sharply up over the last few years its pretty clear that Marvel has lost part of the audience. If they went by a tickets sold metric it would be incredibly obvious. I don't know if its superhero fatigue or if its Disney cause Lucasfilm and Pixar are struggling as well at the box office and TV ratings. Used to be a license to print money. Oversaturation is my guess and a string of underwhelming products. There's probably some taking the audience for granted. They'll watch anything with this label on it type of thing. GOTG 3 is one of the few recent releases I'm interested in from them I might see it next weekend. Indy V scares me to death but I'm at least curious. After that I don't know what they got worth getting excited about. The Little Mermaid remake will probably go a long way in finding out how much trouble they are in. If that underperforms it'll be a disaster.