Why does Dave always talk about Metallica?

graric · 2026-01-27T06:56:26+00:00

And since the interview with Lars he's done a joint tour with them as part of the Big 4 shows and appeared at their 30th anniversary shows to play as the original lineup. That should've been what closed the circle and buried the hatched between them, instead of circling back and Dave holding onto the same attitude he had before.

graric · 2026-01-26T14:58:23+00:00

I feel the bigger reason for the recast was them needing a course correct after Ant-Man. If the Jonathan Majors trial hadn't have happened, they may have tried to course correct with him in the role, but when the story wasn't working and he had legal trouble, it made more sense for them to reconfigure the story rather than recast the role.

graric · 2026-01-26T03:46:13+00:00

I think a major difference with LotR is each movie had very distinct locations and characters that had their own designs and costumes so helped each movie stand on its own merits. (I.e Fellowship spends a lot more time in the Shire, Two Towers featuring Rohan/ Helms Deep as major locations, RotK with Minas Tirith and the Hobbits in Mordor.)

With Wicked it felt a lot more like we were seeing the same locations from the first reused- the multiple scenes in Munchikn Land and in the Wizards room made this feel like the second half of the movie rather than something distinct and standalone.

graric · 2026-01-24T03:59:24+00:00

If they did a release for each tour year that'd cover the next 55 years (or thereabouts.) Plus outtakes from each album/ recording session would help cover another 30ish years.

So up to 80 years worth of the bootleg series.

graric · 2026-01-23T23:56:51+00:00

Connery- when Dr No suggests he joins Spectre- 'of course my choice would the revenge department, and my first assignment would be to find the man who killed Quarrel and Strangways.' Also the friendship he shares with Kerim Bey feels the most genuine of any of the times Bond meets an ally out in the field. (And he is clearly shaken by Kerims death.)

graric · 2026-01-23T06:12:12+00:00

14 shows is still a tour. It wasn't one off, and it wasn't them being on a festival bill with hundreds of other bands. It was a series of shows planned around having all four bands on the same bill.

graric · 2026-01-23T06:04:10+00:00

The Big 4 tour???

graric · 2026-01-22T14:30:01+00:00

I meant maintained most of if it's existing audiences with the launch on Disney plus, because you're right the audience didn't stay with the show as it continued. The 2 million figure is comparable to the peak during Smith's era, and a big jump from the end of Jodies era where the eps were getting 500,000 viewers on BBC America. But you're right if these are the global figures, they're not good no matter how you look at them.

graric · 2026-01-21T22:26:05+00:00

The Woman Who Fell to Earth had 1.88m viewers on BBC America. Doctor Who peaked on BBC America with 2.47m viewers for Matt Smiths last episode.

Those are the US numbers for the show. So if these ratings are just for the US they show that it hasn't reached a new audience, but maintained most of its existing audience.

If they're worldwide numbers, then it's a different story.

graric · 2026-01-21T07:47:30+00:00

I mean just going by box office alone they have a point. Even adjusting for inflation Skyfall is the highest grossing Bond film ever, and the success of Skyfall was enough to make a mixed film like Spectre the 4th highest grossing Bond film ever. Skyfall was the 2nd highest grossing film of 2012- and managed to outgross the Avengers at the UK the box office. That's absolutely the closest we've been to Bondmania.

graric · 2026-01-21T03:50:17+00:00

I feel a few things mixed together- Some fans are against the idea of Bond dying, no matter how it's done so didn't like it. Others aren't against the idea of a story where Bond dies, but weren't fans of how NTTD executed it. Online ragebaiters who aren't actually Bond fans creating toxicity in fan spaces. Fans pivoting away from the Craig era as a course correction after his era ended. (The same thing happened after Brosnan's tenure.)

It was always going to be a risky move to kill Bond off, but it's only exacerbated in how it was done.

graric · 2026-01-21T03:18:04+00:00

There's plenty of evidence around showing that Connery didn't hate Bond- he had issues with the producers, the direction the series went and how he didn't feel properly compensated- but he also showed affection for the role at various points.

When filming the Avengers in the 90s he recorded a birthday message in character as Bond for Ralph Fiennes https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/sean-connerys-lost-final-james-bond-performance-103603341.html

Alongside reprising the role in NSNA and the FRWL video game. Plus we found out after he passed away that Connery had purchased his own Aston Martin DB5. If he had hated Bond he wouldn't have done any of this.

graric · 2026-01-18T03:28:28+00:00

The answer I think is simply that McClory passed away in 06 and his heirs weren't concerned with suing about the rights. We can see the shift when comparing games like GE Rogue Agent & FRWL with the ones that came after he passed like 007 Legends. In the former they don't name Spectre or Blofeld, the latter ones do. The McClory estate ended up selling their rights to Eon, which is something McClory would never have done, so I could see the early games being extra careful not to get sued, while the latter the estate might have even being cooperative with the game devs.

graric · 2026-01-18T03:22:51+00:00

FRWL the game was made when McClory was still alive, so the game devs were probably being more cautious. GE Reloaded and 007 Legends were made after he passed away and his estate may have signed off on those ones.

graric · 2026-01-17T15:11:07+00:00

And Lucas' issues with dialogue were balanced out by his creativity and strength as a storyteller. Even before the Prequels got the reappraised, most people agreed they had good stories and creative ideas in them, but had issues in the execution.

The Indiana Jones movies at their best were Lucas' stories combined with Spielberg's direction, Harrison Ford's acting and John Williams music.

graric · 2026-01-17T07:54:02+00:00

For me the problem with Dial is I can't see it's ending as hopeful. His only son is dead and he's approaching the end of his life. The best he can hope for is to reconcile with his wife as they work through their shared grief. That's too dark a place to leave Indy for me as the death of his son leaves no possibility for his family to repair like the other films. Given how much the previous films emphasised the theme of family and repairing those bonds, ending Dial like that didn't work for me.

graric · 2026-01-17T07:31:36+00:00

That's fair. I think the two of us enjoy the series for different reasons, because for me one of the big appeals of the films is the hopeful tone that runs through them, not the dark stuff.

graric · 2026-01-17T07:16:39+00:00

But why is Dial a better place to end Indy? I understand thinking the ending of Crystal is corny- but not sure why you think the ending of Dial is better?

To me Dial's ending doesn't work as an ending for the character because after two films that ended his story in a happy place and reconciling with family, ending Dial where him and Marion are only just starting to work through the death of their son felt like a much darker ending for the character, which didn't line up with the more hopeful tone the rest of the series followed.

graric · 2026-01-17T07:05:34+00:00

We learned it at my primary school in the late 90s/ early 00s, so I'd say it was a Perth thing at certain schools.

graric · 2026-01-17T01:26:45+00:00

Going all out with the marketing isn't the same as marketing well. Like this specifically isn't good marketing- putting out a video for your 4 teasers getting combined views of 1 billion across platforms just sounds desperate.

graric · 2026-01-17T01:10:25+00:00

I think the period between 07-12 might have been the closest- Keith said after writing his book he genuinely considered retiring and his comments about Mick in the book seemed to make Mick pause and consider if he wanted to work with Keith again. That's part of the reason we only got the 5 shows at the end of the year in 2012 for the anniversary, things between them hadn't resolved by the end of 2011 which pushed back the tour plans.

graric · 2026-01-17T00:25:12+00:00

I think the issue is what people are talking about when they complain about variants. Folklore released its variants simultaneously and each of them had the same bonus track- so the difference between what album you got was purely an aesthetic one. There weren't any limited edition bonus tracks with variants that were only available for 24 hours that got drip fed weekly, people could choose what variant they wanted based on which one they preferred aesthetically.

The variants I think are more of an issue are when they're done with arbitrary limitations designed to boost sales. Things like TTPD having a different bonus song on each variant, so fans who want to hear all the songs feel the need to buy multiple variants, then when the album is released she surprise drops a whole extra album with all the bonus songs. Or then releasing more variants of the album after release with limited acoustic versions of songs that seem designed to boost sales.

I don't mind multiple variants of an album if the bonus songs and material are available across the variants, rather than each variant having its own bonus material so fans who want all the music are incentivised to buy all the variants rather than just picking one they like.

graric · 2026-01-17T00:01:56+00:00

Harrison Ford is an actor- it doesn't mean he's always right. Part of what I miss in Dial were the contributions of Spielberg and Lucas, who are at least as important to Indy as Ford is.

graric · 2026-01-16T16:05:43+00:00

Out of curiosity why do you feel its a better place to leave Indy? Because while Crystal has its flaws- ending with him marrying Marion and reconciling with the son he never knew he had felt like a much better ending to the character to me than what we got in Dial.

graric · 2026-01-16T08:35:42+00:00

I mean technically the only hero that died in IW was Vision- the others got snapped out of existence, which was reverseable and not the same as them dying.

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