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Well, Gunn's wife is one of the regular cast members on Peacemaker, sooo...

I just don't get the choices they are making at all. Burst DC fandom's balloon two months after Cavill's surprise return generated enormous amounts of excitement and goodwill. Imply a line-wide reboot as you're beginning the marketing for two now-irrelevant movies in the pipeline for next year, one of which is a sequel to a movie that got audiences to pay over a billion dollars to see frickin' Aquaman. Lead actors who were almost universally loved and did near-perfect jobs embodying their iconic characters (despite the questionable quality of the last couple of films they appeared in) while behaving professionally are disposable, while actors who range from problematic to leading candidate to be the next David Koresh are irreplaceable and their projects are being released with them still spotlighted no matter what.

I'm done. Henry Cavill verified he's out as Superman today, and with Patty Jenkins also gone it's exceedingly unlikely that Gal Gadot will return as Wonder Woman in the near future. I won't feel a twinge of regret over missing out on anyone or anything else remaining in the DCEU stable at this point.

I've never heard of bystanders having major problems with the scent of ivory soap and Old Spice deodorant, so those are my go-tos in the workplace.

Looking at it, the one thing I really cast a side-eye at is the girls' outfits being two-piece short enough to expose their midriffs. Otherwise I don't think they're too brief for kids doing something active like dance routines, and the makeup looks fine to me.

It's probably due to Jamie Lee Curtis being a familiar name. I mean, not that her performance wasn't great, but for the most part it didn't involve the emotional heavy lifting that Stephanie Hsu's did.

Lisa, the older one. Looking her up, she was played by Jennifer Robertson, who's been nominated for multiple SAG awards. I would not have guessed that in a billion years.

The actress who played Peter's sister was really playing to the cheap seats in the back of the mezzanine, though. When Michael Urie seems placid and understated next to your performance, the director needs to have you dial it down a few notches.

Maybe they should see if Allan Heinberg has enough free time left over from The Sandman to write the screenplay?

I'd say the problem with WTF costuming decisions at DC goes back at least as far as the Schumacher Batman era. Remember the nippled bat suits?

I suppose Marvel is the biggest franchise draw in entertainment, so it makes sense for it to win a popularity contest... I guess Wakanda Forever came out too late in the year for consideration?

Usually RDJ makes me roll my eyes in interviews, but I think he hit the nail on the head here.

I honestly think even if they'd done everything right, releasing a gay rom-com with leads who aren't major movie stars into the current post-Covid environment would have been extremely lucky to equal Love, Simon's box office. Which made that movie a modest hit, but might have broken even at best with the Bros budget and marketing blitz.

It's not so much upset as disappointed that the US marketing revolved around an aspect of the film that's nice but just not important to about 90% of the moviegoing public. I don't think I saw many people get upset until Billy melted down on Twitter after the opening weekend box-office numbers came in and articles started commenting on it.

George III? That is clearly Jesse St. James!

I thought it was good, but it didn't convince me it was actual beef. Since I have no objections to eating the latter, I'll leave Impossible meat to the vegetarians and just eat vegetables prepared the regular way. Back in my mid 20s a local restaurant had a veggie burger that was even better than their (also really good) hamburgers, though it clearly did not involve meat. I heard through the grapevine that they used Morningstar Farms patties, but they must have done something fairly significant in their kitchen to improve them over the supermarket variety.

I bought the blu-ray, and am now disappointed that we didn't get to see the deleted Pride Fight scene in the theater. It was hilarious, packed to the brim with funny moments, and would have been a highlight if it hadn't been cut. What, they had to cut a third of the movie's jokes out to make room for Billy repeating the last sentence everyone else said to him in a whiny, mocking tone? (Also disappointed that the Aaron full frontal clip from the pre-Christmas party dating montage that Nick Stoller mentioned wasn't included among the deleted scenes, but I can at least understand the rationale for that decision even if I disagree with it...)

Agreed. It's my favorite movie of the year by a wide margin. Edit: And George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing is my next favorite, so it's not as if I'm just rating it above superhero movies and raunchy comedies.

Ha! You got the same experience I got with A Game of Thrones by having my first (and only) episode feature the Red Wedding!

Considering Grimes' history, I won't be surprised if she one-ups Jocelyn Wildenstein and has her brain transplanted into the body of a puma at some point.

Counterpoint: I myself am an old school comics nerd from the mid 70s onward, and I'm largely happy with the way Marvel is adapting stories for the MCU. While I haven't been as thrilled with the quality in Phase 4 aside from No Way Home, some of that is natural in the wake of an epic multi-year story reaching its conclusion, and some is a matter of the projects branching out to suit a variety of tastes. If Thor: Love and Thunder and Ms. Marvel are targeted at people with sensibilities different from mine, well, it's not an outrage that not everything is aimed at me.

I believe the idea is that we're set in our ways and brand-loyal, so advertising is ineffective on us. Not so, while it's not terribly likely that a commercial will make me switch brands because I like it so much, it's still VERY possible for one to be annoying enough that I resolve never to use the product. Looking at you, Uber Eats and Carvana!

Ever since Bros (briefly) hit theaters I've been on a Luke Macfarlane Hallmark Christmas movie kick. Some—like Chateau Christmas—have been good, some—like Sense, Sensibility, & Snowmen—have not. The latest, A Magical Christmas Village, was all right in terms of acting and dialogue but the premise could easily have been a horror movie or Twilight Zone episode instead (young girl plays with supernatural holiday trinkets that strip her mother and others of their free will and control their actions and circumstances Voodoo fetish-style, turning them into living puppets!). Tonight I watched Maggie's Christmas Miracle and the quality of the script and acting seemed really top notch for this sort of movie. It wasn't treacly or saccharine, characters experienced sadness and had believable motivations, and the romance, though rushed, felt like real adults interacting rather than a checklist of tropes.

Wasn't the whole network created as a result of its CEO leaving Hallmark in protest over diversity & inclusion becoming a priority? Then he presumably raided the former network for all its talent that couldn't bear to be associated with content that features people of color or non-heterosexuals.

Hey, I'm not complaining. I always wanted Cavill back as Superman! 😁