ThaOGDreamWeaver

Well, if I had a comment on that... Barbie and Oppenheimer were two very different movies, which were ostensibly aimed at two very different demographics. They're also very good movies. So whether it was a genius marketing exec wheeze (and I wouldn't put it past Robbie herself to come up with it) or a genuine viral trend, people watched them back to back. Often with appropriate or switchable outfits. Result: two billion bucks. Plus an awful lot of Barbie merch, hats, iTunes downloads, etc . (Not so many Fisher-Price Oppenheimer First Atomic Lab For Toddlers kits, which was a shame. I might pick up a remnant for the nieces for Christmas). So my message to Whollyodd is: boot the marketers and analysts out of the boardroom at the pre-production stage. Make smaller bets - and these days, $100m to $150m is relatively small, compared to the likes of Fast X... ...on making more and better movies. A good flick, marketed properly will find its audience. Even the ones that don't will find a home on Netflix.

Suspect kids of a certain age will watch this on Saturdays with a bowl of Cinnamon Cheerios... Thoughts:

Amir Talai, Christian Borle & Chorus - Stayed Gone EXPLICIT LYRICS

We like Pedro: Mando, Joel in Last Of Us, Javi in Unbearable Weight... and even Max the manager in Bloodsucking B***ards - all benefiting from charisma by the bucketload. (Even Maxwell Lord from the misbegotten WW84 was eminently memeable.) All of which makes makes him very wrong in my headcanon for Reed. Who may be a superhero and one of the smartest folks alive, but also a bit of a milquetoast personality-wise. Not Zaddy type. Really is a missed opportunity to cast Krasinski for reals - and Blunt. That would have been one hell of a double act...

Now 18%... and falling. Even the "positive" reviews say it's not good. It seems almost as inexplicable Sony putting this out as WB burning Batgirl. I still haven't got round to seeing Jared Leto's magnum opus, btw. Just out of Morbid curiosity, are we talking: "so bad it's hilarious" (eg: Jason X, Doom, KISS's Phantom Of The Park) "switch off after 20 minutes bad" (Rebel Moon) "a crime against the Gods of cinematography so heinous that the director and actors deserve an eternity in career hell" (Battlefield: Earth)

Small post-cred spoiler if we haven't talked about this already:

So, for those of you not brave enough to Google "DP Movie" or who weren't watching the Swiftie Bowl, here ya go. Let the wild speculation and (hopefully fairly clean and Disney-friendly) begin!

Stealing that gif for many, many work purposes.

Playground AI can also use AI to expand on your prompts and come up with interesting stuff. Trying out some takes on DW with Playground v2's Fantasy Worlds preset: vs StableDiffusion XL with Masterpiece: Out of the two, #1's much closer to what I wanted, minus the hangover redeye, though #2 is probably going on my ParagonBumble profile. (and hey devs... I still want my jet bike flying mount when you get some time x x)

To a certain random player I saw on Excel yesterday... thanks for making me snort tea out of my nose. 🐇

Dragonforce - Strangers 🐉🎆🎉🌟恭喜發財!🌟🎉🎆🐉

It does help if you reinvent the movie at the same time. Nicholson's Joker and Keaton's Bat were iconic, and irreplaceable, in that particular series of flicks done in that particular style. Val Kilmer and George "Holy Bat-Nipples" Clooney didn't come close, and neither did DeVito, Carrey, Arnie or Uma: only the mighty Michelle Pfeiffer still lives on as THE Cat in our hearts, and in dark lurking corners of our minds. Nolan's Bat and Ledger's Joker are from tonally extremely different movies: they fit there in ways that they couldn't have in the earlier flicks, both from their performances and the way they were structured, so they stand on their own. (Again, Hardy's ridiculous Bane - and much as I love her everywhere else, Hathaway's tame lil' kittycat do not make the Bat-pantheon.) And I don't think anyone thought the trick could be pulled off again, especially with sparkly emo-boi Robert Pattinson. But again, we have a different film - very much a detective film, with a newly fledged and unsure Bat growing across his first real adventure. Backed up by a spiky Kravitz and an almost unrecognisable Colin Farrell, again, there is a new Bat. And there'll be another in the New DCU. If the story is strong, and it brings something new to the character for the actors to play with, things we've not seen before, yes, we can have new people in those roles. If it's just another sequel, or reboot or retread... you might find yourself wishing they hadn't bothered.

Even if he's a Decepticat, still a cat.😻

Tony Montana as the prime dealer of Girl Scout Mint Thins. (...no, zero connection with COH, but I made this and it made me laugh)

Oh look, I'm a collectible. ...and here's the MS template for it. (Tip: it doesn't like the word superheroine, because it contains a banned word related to the drug. Clearly it ain't AI about everything. Specify Superhero, female.) https://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator?p=Funko+figure+of+[an+activity+or+role]%2C+[female+or+male]%2C+called+[Name]%2C+wearing+a+[specific+clothes+and+glasses]%2C+[specific+hair]+and+has+[accessories].+Holding+a+[something].+The+Funko+is+displayed+inside+a+Funko+box+with+[text]+text+and+[logo]+logo+for+the+box%2C+allowing+visibility+of+the+figure%2C+typography%2C+3D+render

Industry wonk note: DJ switched agencies from William Morris to Creative Artists right after the first trailer dropped. And, given the Adrien-Brody-level run of luck with flicks she's had after the awful-but-awfully-lucrative 50 Shades trilogy ($1.2bn between 'em), I think the words "final straw" may have been used at some point. So let's take a look at it... So it looks like an attempt to do a time-twisting Tenet story in Spider-garb, with at least one GRIMDARKNOSMILESNOPARENTS Spider-Man as the antagonist. And either the trailer's cutting is ...not great... or they dropped it with half-done CGI, and the plot threads do not feel well spun. It's certainly gonna live or die by CGI. And from interviews I'm not sure DJ was terribly comfortable with all the green screen stuff. Pretending a green tennis ball on a stick is a TERRIFYING MONSTER because your writer tells you it is requires good direction and framing, which involving storytellers like Favreau, Spielberg and Patty Jenkins are all known to be good at. As for that director: SJ Clarkson is... well, let's say fresh meat to the Hollyweird grinder, turning out very decent BBC and HBO dramas before this. Helming a CGI-heavy cape flick for a desperate, dying studio is probably not the way you wanna get your first cred on your CV. Having been through that in a much smaller way, I have an inkling I know how she feels right now, and probably never wants to see the inside of a Burbank office again.

From what I've been reading on the socials, he does also seem to have been an absolute trouper. From Sarah Watson (Parenthood TV series' writer)... EDIT: I also like that Carl did so many games and voiceworks over the years... ....I wonder if they gave him the action figures?

James Brown - Living In America (ft. Carl Weathers)

Haven't got round to watching either season yet, but do love me a bit of Hamill. (And Headey too.)

Ever heard of Sheb Wooley? You may not have heard the name, but you've definitely heard him. Aside from being the vocalist on novelty track Purple People Eater, he's the most-credited uncredited V/O artist in history... I'm not sure folks outside the UK will be able to see this, but it made me laugh. If access to iPlayer is allowed where you are, the whole story's over heeeeeaaaarrgghh.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07p5l6y/inside-cinema-shorts-12-the-wilhelm-scream

Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing 💃