It’s no secret that since the 2019 Avengers: Endgame, the company was asked to scale up in an unprecedented way to feed its fledgling streaming service, Disney+

There’s the problem

“Some of our studios lost a little focus. So the first step that we’ve taken is that we’ve reduced volume,” Iger said on a Feb. 7 earnings call.

And there’s a big part of the solution. Another is giving actual creatives more control over the final product, which they also alluded to.

My hope is that with scaled back Marvel production, they can direct some of that money towards new, original IP.

But it is possible to recover, and many do. There is no recovery from being murdered. Personally, I’m glad I’m still alive even if I’m still dealing with my own SA-induced trauma 20 years later.

Murder also has further externalities. When you kill someone, you take them away from their friends and families, who now have to live forever without that person in their lives.

But this whole conversation feels a lot like we’re asking “who was worse, Hitler or Genghis Khan?”, and it’s weird to put either side on the defensive even if there is an objectively true answer to be found.

it’s no longer a mystery why Disney turned down Snyder’s pitch for a Star Wars movie, if that ever even happened and wasn’t just a story fabricated to drum up hype.

“Arithmancy” is their name for math classes and is mentioned several times throughout the books. It is one of Hermione’s favorite subjects.

At one point, the real world evil witch that is JK Rowling suggested that Arithmancy is like dviniation, but with math, saying they use numbers to predict the future. I take this to mean that the wizarding community discovered calculus independently from the rest of the world and mistook it for a new form of magic.

“Arithmancy” is what they call their math disciplines and it’s mentioned a fair bit in the books, though understandably never really shown in the movies.

Gerwig also still got a nomination for the screenplay, so it’s not like she was completely snubbed

Not surprised Robbie didn’t get a Best Actress nomination, but I really felt Gerwig was a shoo-in for Best Director. Gerwig can still walk away with Best Picture and/or Best Adapted Screenplay though, so it doesn’t feel like a total snub.

He co-stars with Lily Gladstone, he is also one of two main villains (the other being DeNiro).

Yes

the fuck are you going on about? who is the “white savior” in this movie?

i just watched the trailer, and jesse plemmons isn’t even in it. he didn’t even show up in the film until near the very end.

go complain about something you actually understand instead of whining about the existence of a movie that very explicitly goes out of its way to not do the things you accuse it of doing.

I’m sick of that guy being in everything.

dicaprio has been in 5 movies over the last decade, i would hardly call that “being in everything”.

tell me you know nothing about the film without telling me you know nothing about the film

an interactive medium offers unique avenues for storytelling not available to something more static like a film or a novel.

think things like environmental storytelling or branching narratives.

I can see that.

However very little of what I’ve ever seen at a Chinese buffet in America has made me think of real Chinese cuisine.

I think the cakes OP is talking about are just shitty because every one of these cheap buffets gets them from Sysco.

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I find this behavior annoying, I actually like to place windows in corners with a small margin

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Scorcese’s problem with “marvel movies” is the lack of creative control afforded to the filmmakers rather than their derivative nature. These two concepts are often intertwined, but not mutually inclusive.

He was actually in talks to direct Joker a film highly derivative of his own work, but ended up turning it down because he did not want to have to answer to the studios demands for how this existing world and characters should be handled.

Why do writers feel that heroes don’t deserve a happy ending?!

why do movies always need a picture perfect “hollywood ending”? it’s hard to build tension when the audience expectation is that everyone will always get out ok and ride off into the sunset.

i was a fan of the original for many years before the sequel came out and i still think 2049 is the better movie.

it manages to expand on the themes of the original without succumbing to sequel-itis or feeling like a re-tread. it does not over-use legacy characters. and the big one for me is how much the sequel improves on the original’s pacing without sacrificing that slow methodical burn it was famous for.

i find some movies more fun in a full theater too. there is a theater in my neighborhood that is also a full service bar (no kids allowed) and we always make a point of seeing comedies there.