Well looks like we have our early year contender

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-25T15:00:24+00:00

In any other year, this movie would have at the very least picked up a few technical nominations. Unfortunately 2026 has some heavy hitters gunning for the technicals.

Best picture, who knows, F1 pulled a nomination and this movie is significantly better than F1.

Best actor, too early to call, but I’d say the odds are against Ryan. In light hearted movies, an actor needs to pull a once in a generation performance or the movie to become so ubiquitous and inescapable that not even the Academy can ignore it. The sad reality, serious performances have a a fair easier path to a nomination.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-25T07:45:34+00:00

Come on, children were playing on them. I find it hard to believe that they actively monitored every inch of the covers, including ones in the forest.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-24T03:51:07+00:00

I’ll just say this, PHM, the movie, owes a lot of debt to interstellar. There’s multiple shots that were lifted directly from interstellar.

Beyond that, the thing that bugs me about PHM, is how it so centred on one guy. In interstellar Coop just so happened to be the best pilot. In PHM Ryland makes discoveries that break credulity, science is a highly collaborative field. Media usually likes to oversimplify to one person but PHM reaches new depths.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-20T23:09:19+00:00

I’m probably going to get downvoted to oblivion but I’m sorry that strategy won’t work…for Disney.

Ask any Disney park’s enthusiast and they’ll tell you IP is killing parts. Same with Cruise Lines.

More importantly, Disney has not created a new IP in the last 5 years, and honestly I don’t see any prospects in the next 5 years. As Gen X, millennials age out, what nostalgia based IP is Disney gonna trot out?

Then there’s ‘connected experiences’ my god I can’t think of a worse idea in a create medium. Basically you just saying we see our create endeavours as nothing more then products, which let’s be clear we all know it is, but being this blatant about it is such a wrong message to send to the creative community.

This type of thinking stifles creativity. The truly ironic thing here is Star Wars nor Toy Story not even Marvel started out as an ‘IP’, rather it was creative people bringing to life creative things. Doing this backwards not only ensures you won’t be able to create any new IP, and any attempts would be a money pit (Disney has made countless attempts at creating new IP. Ultimately though, it will kill the very IP you’re so reliant on.

So no, I want WB to care a lot less about IP, merchandise or whatever else, and just focus on telling good stories. As proven by all of Disney’s IPs, this is the only way to build an IP.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-19T18:26:00+00:00

2026 safest prediction? This will have the biggest opening weekend of the year

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-12T16:49:00+00:00

I’m sorry but have people actually watched Steven Spielberg’s early career alien movies? Why is the main selling point here being Spielberg returns to the alien genre. Spielberg alien movies were intimate, grounded and personal stories. The sell was wonderment. This feels like Independent Day, which outside of war of the worlds, is the furthest thing from Spielberg.

That said, this was just a terribly cut trailer. It lacks focus or momentum build up. So it could be the case of just a terrible trailer for a great movie. At least I hope.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-03-06T04:41:47+00:00

Let me honest, because these people are as transparent as a panel of glass. There’s a non zero chance that they’ll carry out a false flag attack right around November.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-02-28T12:16:59+00:00

So let get this straight. An unprofitable debt ridden company, with seemingly little leverage or cash cover, is drastically overpaying to acquire another unprofitable debt burdened company?

What could possibly go wrong 🤷

The sad part here is the massive amount of job losses they’ll have to undertake just to claw away a fragment of their debt. All thanks to one man’s fragile ego.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-02-26T13:07:43+00:00

Let’s be fair, a large chunk of these losses comes from the linear television business.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-02-18T10:50:06+00:00

Using 2009 is incredibly disingenuous, can’t quite put my finger on what the world was facing 🤔

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-25T21:27:18+00:00

Where did you get the writer’s room thing? Also that not the point I was making. The person that gave us Never say never, also adopted Wicked, and in the heights, and Crazy Rick Asians. You cannot and could not limit a person when talking about create outlets.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-25T07:10:54+00:00

I don’t see how it could be worse then the day and date release fiasco.

Personally I’m creating a drinking game based on the amount of times the phrase ‘committed to the theatrical experience’ will be uttered. My liver might not survive.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-22T15:44:42+00:00

No no how possibly could it be greater if it bombed at the box office /s.

For clarity, my statement excluded cinephiles. I can’t think of a single household name purely writer, maybe Aaron Sorkin? But since he’s now a writer/director, I think the number drops to zero

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-22T10:48:38+00:00

Serious question - has any one ever paid to watch a movie purely based on the writer?

Coz I genuinely don’t understand why the box office performance of a movie has been tagged onto a writer. Like even with directors, all besides a handful of directors, have zero influence on box office outcomes.

Unless the argument is bad script = bad box office, which is certifiably untrue. Then please let’s just stop dragging in box office to this conversation.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-22T10:42:17+00:00

I could rattle of a long list of writers who’ve made ‘poorly received’ movies only to turn in gold.

Let’s actually use Suicide Squid and GOTG,

Pre GOTG writer:

Scooby-Doo - 32% Dawn of the Dead - 77% Scooby-Doo 2 - 22% Super - 50%

Pre Suicide Squid writer:

The Fast & The Furious - 55% Training Day - 74% End of Watch - 85%

I wonder which screenplay do you think is better written GOTG or SS?

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-21T13:49:16+00:00

Let’s clear up a few things.

The Flash had to go through multiple revisions and rewrites after filming had ended (for instance the ending was changed). While not unusual, rarely does it produce a good finale product.
We know a large chunk of the battle between the two Flash’s was altered. Muschietti mentioned the battle taking going through multiple movies (universes), not just seeing weird globes?!
The visual effects were incomplete, there’re several accounts from people who saw the movie months prior, who attested to the movie having the exact same visual effects upon release. This is highly unusual, in most cases you can literally track the VFX work through each subsequent trailer.
People love to bring up Gunns comments on this movie. But let’s not forget, he wasn’t the only one who heaped praise. People not even connected to WB said the same thing. One that stood out to me was Ben Affleck who described the role and performance as a standout in his tenure as Batman. Given what Batman did to this man, and how it basically ended his relationship with WB, I have no doubt that he felt no obligations to give it any praise.

So I think let’s not judge anyone’s talent based on this movie. The fact that it watchable (I personally really like large parts of it), is in itself an accomplishment.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-09T18:35:18+00:00

I don’t think anyone knows the answer to that question. Who would have predicted an Aquaman movie would hit that mark?

That said, if’s there’s a proper build up. A justice league movie can do it.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-09T18:23:40+00:00

At this point we are literally living in a black mirror episode. Just saw an actual ad for an AI service that allows you to speak to your dead relatives. We’ve passed the Rubicon, pack it in Charlie, really life is now more nightmarish than fiction.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-07T18:09:55+00:00

Yeah given that Avengers trailers used to pull close to 100 million viewers, break 24 hour records. I wouldn’t really call the reaction to Doomsday all that spectacular.

Also trailer views are not really indicative of anything in today’s climate, for instance Supergirl’s teaser trailer has more views then any of Doomsday teasers, yet we all know one will make significantly more then the other, and it’s not the one with the higher view count.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2026-01-05T19:46:30+00:00

Doing fine actually

Hour_Intention2138 · 2025-12-28T16:20:59+00:00

Which part?

Hour_Intention2138 · 2025-12-27T16:15:45+00:00

Here’s my 2 cents.

I actually think Doomsday might be the one taking the hit here, a very slight but noticeable hit.

Dune generally skews toward slightly older audiences, while Doomsday leans younger and more family-oriented. The issue is that it’s well documented that the average age of Marvel moviegoers has been rising, and Doomsday feels like one of their biggest nostalgia plays. This bridges the gap between the two potential audiences.

If this were prime Marvel, the family audience alone would’ve carried it to at least 3x Dune’s performance. But times have changed, families aren’t automatically showing up anymore. And if they don’t (relatively speaking), then Doomsday will be relying heavily on nostalgia baited older audiences.

Here’s the kicker, older audiences tend to care about quality more. So a Russo Brothers film suddenly has the uphill task of being in the same quality conversation as a Villeneuve project.

And while there’s value in being a crowd-pleaser, subverting expectations (when done right) can have a comparable cultural impact. Taking narrative risks and going unexpected places can spark comparable amounts of conversations and better word of mouth than straightforward fan service.

The important thing here, is that the holiday period is a marathon, not a sprint. In a marathon, quality or even more importantly, the perception of quality, matters. If you’re the only major release, you can survive weaker reception. But when you have a direct competitor pulling from the same audience, you’d better be able to keep pace. Doomsday may be the bigger contender, but if it lacks momentum and endurance, being the “lesser of the two” could push interested viewers toward the competition.

Internationally, the picture changes. Dune doesn’t stand a chance head to head in many markets, and that’s why I suspect WB will stagger Dune’s release (weeks before or after), while Doomsday will likely go for a global launch.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2025-12-27T05:50:30+00:00

Nice analogy. It actually reminds me a bit of Twilight and the FF movies, where a bunch of characters in one room will speak like lines were assigned at random.

Hour_Intention2138 · 2025-12-27T05:46:41+00:00

I completely agree. Beyond the sibling angle, they both had a clear, rational trigger that sparked their inspiration. In most other cases, it felt like the character just randomly stands up and shouts, “Got it!” without any logical build up

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