#max favreau

[thelaurenshippen]

so was anyone going to tell me that the mandolorian takes place over the course of THREE YEARS or did I have to figure that out myself by looking up star wars timeline articles!!?

[peakvincent]

ok love you @okaynowkiss for tagging me in my favorite kind of writing game, an opportunity to toot my own horn.

rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

In a Shocking Conclusion You’ll Never See Coming, Season 28 of The Bachelor ended when Daniel Garcia found love where he never expected it: not in the crowd of twenty-five suitors, but in the production staff. (the right reasons, wrestling, cowritten with @pucklingrevisted)

“I don’t understand,” Ace says, “She got what by what?” (instead of carving up the wall, nancy drew cw)

They talk about it, just once, really early on. (a church with a locked door, wrestling)

You’d think a guy like Max would be angrier about it. (the altar is your hips, wrestling)

When Punk gets back to his dressing room, Max is waiting. (sick sense of a calling, wrestling)

Max lets Punk into his hotel room. (i want the wolf inside the wool, wrestling)

He can feel Max’s eyes on him in medical, and he very deliberately looks anywhere else. (you cracked me for real this time, wrestling)

The thing is, Claire's landlord is useless. (we better make a start, bon appetit)

“Weren’t you going to go home for Thanksgiving?” Jon hears Tommy ask Lovett from the other side of the aisle of desks. (i know you know that here is home, podsa)

Lovett had picked PSCI218, The American Presidency, for exactly two reasons: one, he was completely on track to graduate at the end of the spring as long as he shoved this last bullshit social sciences general education requirement into his schedule somewhere, and two, Professor Jonathan Favreau had a low difficulty rating and a little red chili pepper on ratemyprofessor.com. (he can't help but let me in, podsa)

ok, six of them are very short and punchy, and those are pretty much all followed by a longer one in contrast. i love a very blunt opening line that then needs to get expanded. two of them are dropping you in the middle of a conversation, which also i like very much. also, two of them have hotel rooms! we love sports rpf.

if you wanna do it, please consider yourself tagged!!!!

[merrysithmas]

I think the only reason people ship dinbo is because he literally doesn't interact with anyone else, like at all. Dins literally only interacted with like 5 people MAX this season

the thing that baffles me the most lmao is that not ONE OTHER PERSON in din's covert has a name besides Paz. LMFAO. NOT ONE. even the armorer doesnt have a name.

Din hasn't spoken to a SINGLE OTHER PERSON IN HIS COVERT IN 3 SEASONS!!

and then Paz dies. lmaooo. you can't make it up. favreau's "visionary" writing.

but yeah this season is "about Mandalorian culture" for sure

that's code for "it's about Bo Katan. din and grogu and other mandalorians - who?"

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

SUPERHERO CHOOSINESS

It’s strongly being suggested that the superhero movie bubble is bursting…

There’s the more mixed critical reception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s remarkably stuffed but hasty Phase Four, and then there’s the equally fast Phases Five and Six… whose ending feature AVENGERS: SECRET WARS is still set to open in the summer of 2026… Meaning that this Multiverse Saga only will last five years, compared to the eleven year span from IRON MAN to SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME… Like, wow!

And not only are there a lot of movies, but there were plenty of shows. So many from 2021-2022 alone: WANDAVISION, THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER, LOKI Season One, WHAT IF…? Season One, HAWKEYE, MOON KNIGHT, MS. MARVEL, and SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW. In addition to those, you had the “Special Presentation” featurettes WEREWOLF BY NIGHT and the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL.

For me, it was starting to become homework to keep up with what was going on. And this is coming from someone who has seen all but two Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in a theater. The two that I missed were THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER.

Then of course you have the DC movie-verse, which is being hard-reset in a few years under the new leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran. Prior to that, it was an always-changing mess of visions and intentions. Faithfuls kept up with the series, some left afterwards because of these changes, general audiences seemed to stick around for most of the movies. It’s a clustercuss of its own, and further discussing that will likely get me into hot waters… But what happened with The Rock and his apparent strong-arming of the DC movie-verse with his BLACK ADAM project and plans really shows just what kind of directionless mess the whole thing was for ten years…

So we’re now left with a few movies that were locked and ready to go before the Gunn/Safran take-over, the first of which, SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS… Opened with roughly $30m. A pretty blah take, and well below the $53m take the first SHAZAM! took in back in 2019. It’s been said before, but the whole “these won’t matter in the long run” attitude has probably deflated attendance… But many other things do as well… People being choosier with movies, ticket and concession prices being absurdly high… A statistic in 2014 stated that the average American family hits the flicks four times a year. I believe it. I’ve been working at a movie theater since August of 2015, and I see what I charge my customers… Both movies and for snacks… Yeah, I do not wonder why… Especially in the pandemic era, that people are choosier with movies. I feel we see the same thing with animated movies as well. Those are also usually four-quadrant family titles... And then around the corner, them being on streaming. Be it Disney+ for an MCU movie, or HBO Max for a DCU movie.

A month earlier, ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA opened pretty great with $106m. That was way above ANT-MAN AND THE WASP’s mid-70s opening weekend haul, and an overall fine opening for an MCU movie... but the legs? Abysmal so far. It looks to barely score a 2x multiplier, which is pretty bad… It might be the first MCU movie to completely miss that. I don't even know if I'll make time for it, myself. (I've missed a lot of movies in theaters lately because of other lifestuff going on at the moment.)

What does this all tell me?

Is it truly superhero movie fatigue? Are audiences catching on to the perceived problems of these big budget shared universe movies?

Here’s what I think is happening…

Choosiness...

I, in true form, am going to relate this to animated movies… And I mean “animated movies”, because let’s face it… There’s lots of animation in your average MCU or DCU movie. QUANTUMANIA, from the looks of it, is an animated movie with some real people in it. Much like GRAVITY, AVATAR and its sequel, Jon Favreau’s THE JUNGLE BOOK, LIFE OF PI, etc. etc.

Once upon a time... $100m at the domestic box office was a magic number for an animated feature film. And I mean a $100m gross on the film's first ever theatrical release, not $100m via the original release and added theatrical re-issue totals (like classic pre-Renaissance Disney films, like SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS and 101 DALMATIANS)...

Only Disney scored $100m domestic totals for their animated movies. Hybrid WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, released through Disney's Touchstone banner, broke the barrier first and grossed $156m in the summer of 1988. Then, an all-animated movie broke the barrier nearly four years later in early 1992... That was Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, which got to its high total through strong word-of-mouth and legs throughout the holiday and post-holiday season. It was slow to start in November 1991, because back then... Theater-to-video release windows were longer. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST was released in American movie theaters in November 1991, and the videocassette and LaserDisc release wouldn't be until... October 1992!

So, an unreachable number for everyone else. Don Bluth, former Disney animator and hot competitor, seemingly peaked with AN AMERICAN TAIL and THE LAND BEFORE TIME, both of which collected in the upper-40s at the domestic box office. His last box office hurrah, the 20th Century Fox-released ANASTASIA (now owned by Disney), grossed $57m by the end of its run in early 1998. Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes hybrid movie SPACE JAM came very close with $90m, two years prior. BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA put up a decent fight, with over $60m in 1996/97. That was a record high for a TV-to-movie animated adaptation back then, beating out A GOOFY MOVIE, JETSON: THE MOVIE, DUCKTALES - THE MOVIE: TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP, and plenty of others.

In fact, Disney *themselves* missed $100m on occasion. HERCULES, made up at Feature Animation, the mainline studio, just missed it with a $99m domestic gross in 1997/98. The Disney MovieToons GOOF TROOP movie, A GOOFY MOVIE, made less than $40m stateside. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS made an impressive $50m back in the day, and became a massive cult classic through video and TV. Hybrid JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, which was also a Henry Selick-Tim Burton Skellington Productions joint, missed $30m.

Then there was a little movie called TOY STORY... The first-ever all-digital animated feature film.

By the end of its theatrical run in early 1996, TOY STORY grossed $191m domestically... No doubt helped by being a Disney release and being the first of its kind, and a genuinely really good movie that audiences loved. So in a way, the only movies to make $100m domestically *before* TOY STORY were Disney Feature Animation movies (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, THE LION KING, and POCAHONTAS), and a hybrid movie made by Amblin and Richard Williams Animation but released by Disney...

So Disney still had $100m under lock and key, and TOY STORY was their first non-Feature Animation endeavor since ROGER RABBIT to get it...

Believe it or not, the first-ever animated movie that was a NOT a Disney release, to score $100m domestically... Was... THE RUGRATS MOVIE. No doubt getting there off of the show's sheer popularity at the time. Despite first airing on Nickelodeon in 1991, some seven years earlier, RUGRATS seemed to be at the peak of its popularity in the late 1990s, after the show was renewed for more seasons following highly successful re-runs and the few specials that Nick and studio Klasky-Csupo did after the show's early seasons. I was there. I was 6 when THE RUGRATS MOVIE came out, and I felt the hype. Everybody I knew back then watched and liked the show, I watched it frequently with my sister back in the day. RUGRATS was one of those cartoons that everyone knew and everyone watched. Almost as ubiquitous as THE SIMPSONS, I'd argue. Paramount released THE RUGRATS MOVIE, and it broke that barrier, in addition to being the highest grossing TV-to-movie adaptation animated movie... By a country kilometer.

THE RUGRATS MOVIE came out in November 1998, just one month before DreamWorks rolled out THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, the second animated movie to cross $100m domestically... Two months prior... ANTZ came out, and grossed an impressive $90m. Pixar's sophomore feature A BUG'S LIFE opened, infamously, amidst this four-movie fall shakedown, and won the race with $163m.

So two not-Disneys made $100m domestically, and two not-Disney Feature Animation movies made $100m domestically... This was a turning point in theatrical feature animation, and it would come to benefit - for a brief while - all CGI animated movies.

We'll focus on those now...

1999 saw the release of Pixar's TOY STORY 2, which broke $245m. That was above every Disney animated movie *except* THE LION KING. Wow!

In 2000, Disney released their hybrid live-action/CG feature DINOSAUR, which has been counted as a Walt Disney Animation Studios canon movie since 2008... While that movie didn't make enough money to justify a sequel or to keep the collaboration studio behind it (The Secret Lab) alive, it still broke $100m domestically.

2001... DreamWorks' SHREK and Pixar's MONSTERS, INC. break past $250m domestically. Paramount/Nickelodeon's pilot movie JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS takes in a respectable $80m. 2002... Newcomer Blue Sky's ICE AGE makes over $175m domestically. By this point in time, several hand-drawn animated movies... From all the studios: Disney, DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, Columbia, etc. Largely losing money theatrically, with few exceptions in between. Many of them are missing the titan $100m threshold. For context, only Disney Feature's LILO & STITCH broke that barrier in mid-2002. CGI movies seemed foolproof. Guaranteed blockbusters...

2003 brought Pixar's FINDING NEMO, which became the highest grossing animated movie of all-time, unseating THE LION KING... Then SHREK 2 came out the year after, made that record look like nothing, becoming the first animated movie to break **$400m** domestically. In addition to SHREK 2, 2004 saw the release of DreamWorks' other CG hit SHARK TALE ($160m+), Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES ($260m+), and Warner Bros.' motion-capture pic THE POLAR EXPRESS ($160m+). In 2005, DreamWorks' MADAGASCAR came super-close to $200m, Blue Sky's ROBOTS cleared $120m...

So, unstoppable, right?

The one exception seemed to be the 2001 release FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, a mocap feature based on the game series of the same name. That one puttered out at $32m domestically, and fell well below its hefty budget with all the worldwide take factored in... But this seemed like an anomaly more so than anything. You also had a few super-limited releases of foreign CG films, like KAENA: THE PROPHECY, which was a French film.

2005 was when it all seemed to be up... VALIANT, a British animated movie distributed stateside by Disney, performed quite badly... Despite it being a CGI movie and touting "producer of SHREK" cred. Disney Feature's first all-CG feature, CHICKEN LITTLE, managed to make more than $100m domestically, but its worldwide total didn't measure up to the budget. HOODWINKED!, an independent venture that only cost $8m to make, was released by The Weinstein Co. at the end of 2005. It made less than $60m domestically.

Then... 2006 happened...

The features that crossed $200m domestically: Pixar's CARS, and only CARS. ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN and Warner Bros.' HAPPT FEET came very close. ICE AGE 2 won the race worldwide.

The features that crossed $100m domestically: DreamWorks' OVER THE HEDGE.

Everything else... Missed $100m. Some movies got by on being lower budget, like Sony Animation's debut picture OPEN SEASON, and the Nickelodeon TV show launcher BARNYARD. But some of the big flops included DreamWorks/Aardman's FLUSHED AWAY, the Disney-released Canadian feature THE WILD, and Warner Bros.' THE ANT BULLY. CGI and celebrity casts and talky scripts couldn't save them. Then you had movies that just did abysmally, like Fox's EVERYONE'S HERO, and DOOGAL: the Weinsteinized version of THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT.

For a little while, computer animated movies were a novelty for audiences. No one had seen anything like TOY STORY when it first came out in Thanksgiving 1995. Like, this wasn't an episode of REBOOT or a glossy production company ident... This was over 70 minutes of fully animated 3D characters in convincing 3D environments, that stayed watchable the whole time, and on top of that... It was really well-written! Lots of people tend to make remarks about TOY STORY's more, dated, visual qualities... But it remains a classic because of the passion that went into it. And despite some of the aspects that didn't age well, it still *looks* appealing and watchable. Woody and Buzz and the rest of the gang have pretty much kept the same designs over the sequels and shorts/specials, only the human characters have seen slight design changes that matched the much-better rendering over time. (It's already a big difference with Andy and his mum from TOY STORY 1 to 2.)

But enough about that. My point is, audiences ate CGI up circa 1995-2005. Big time. It was the future, it was the **way** to make animated movies. Even with CG incorporated into them, hand-drawn movies failed to keep up. Whether the movies did actually appeal to audiences (TARZAN, LILO & STITCH) or not (TITAN A.E., TREASURE PLANET)... It just wasn't enough. $171m from TARZAN just didn't compare to, say, SHREK's $267m haul. When even your best isn't enough...

Capitalism, ya know?

But soon, audiences began choosing what computer-animated family movies they'd go to see, not seeing all of them each and every calendar year. In 2007, for every RATATOUILLE, there was a HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER. Even a good film like SURF'S UP that year had trouble. Release that movie in 2002, it would've made **bank**... In 2007, it had a hard time appealing to audiences. Let's apply this to 2008 as well. WALL-E and KUNG FU PANDA do great, THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX - a book adaptation - makes $50m and fails to double its budget. So every year, there are the family-friendly CGI movies that do pretty great! And then the ones that lose money.

And eventually, it caught to everybody. Even the heavies.

Pixar saw their first money-loser in 2015 with THE GOOD DINOSAUR, breaking an astounding 15-film hit streak.

Disney Feature Animation's CHICKEN LITTLE did so-so, MEET THE ROBINSONS two years later outright lost money. BOLT did so-so as well. They wouldn't have a genuine CGI flop until STRANGE WORLD, because we gotta mulligan RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON and ENCANTO. Ya know, COVID and release strategies and such.

DreamWorks suffered badly in the mid-2010s, with money-losers like RISE OF THE GUARDIANS, TURBO, and MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN... It was to the point where it seemed like the lights would go out.

Blue Sky's final film, SPIES IN DISGUISE, lost money. After a streak of successes (the ICE AGE sequels) and respectable hits (FERDINAND). That likely played a big part in its shuttering, after Disney had bought 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets.

Sony Pictures Animation had some financial losses, too. The aforementioned SURF'S UP was one such flop, and there was also their Aardman collaboration ARTHUR CHRISTMAS.

So much, like a good hand-drawn animated movie, a competently-made CG film wasn't gonna cut it every single time... Even from a big studio. That's why many of those studios got smart with budgets... Especially Sony Animation and DreamWorks.

Now... Superhero movies...

Superhero movies have been around for a while. Serials, yes, all the way back to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Max Fleischer's SUPERMAN cartoons from 1941-42, every modern superhero movie owes it to those in particular. Long-form superhero movies, I believe, really got their start with the 1978 SUPERMAN movie... But you'd get a big superhero movie every once in a while, or a comic book action hero movie if you will. In the 1980s, you had SUPERMAN II - starting off the decade, and then Tim Burton's BATMAN ending the decade with a blockbuster gross. A big phenomenon. What else was in-between? Well, there was Lucasfilm's infamous adaptation of Marvel's HOWARD THE DUCK that tanked hard. You did see a brief boom in this kind of movie in the 1990s because of BATMAN '89, but plenty of those movies actually went belly-up. DC adaptation STEEL did poorly, movies like THE PHANTOM didn't make much of a mark, but you did have the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES movie doing quite well, ditto BATMAN RETURNS and BATMAN FOREVER. BATMAN & ROBIN's not-so-great performance in 1997 put the Caped Crusader's theatrical future in limbo. SUPERMAN puttered out back in 1987 with a badly-received fourth movie. So, this was a bit of a false start, if you will? Batman, Ninja Turtles, maybe something else that did okay-ish at best... That was about it, circa 1999.

Then along came BLADE in 1998, which would be the first Marvel movie to do pretty well. HOWARD THE DUCK bombed back in 1986, and the 1989 PUNISHER and 1990 CAPAIN AMERICA went straight to video in the states.

Then, X-MEN came out in 2000, that did even better.

Then, SPIDER-MAN came out in 2002, made a **gargantuan** amount of money...

After the release of X-MEN and SPIDER-MAN, both Marvel adaptations, you saw **some** action going on. More Marvel movies came along. HULK, an ambitious film from Ang Lee, opened big in summer 2003 but had trouble staying afloat. FANTASTIC FOUR did okay in 2005 despite poor reception. GHOST RIDER did okay in 2007. SPIDER-MAN 2 and SPIDER-MAN 3 made biiiig money, and there was also a FANTASTIC FOUR sequel that also did okay. The next Batman-inspired DC movie, CATWOMAN, came about in 2004 and bombed quite badly. The year after CATWOMAN came BATMAN BEGINS, Christopher Nolan's then-bold new take on the Caped Crusader *and* the superhero movie in general. It did pretty well, a sleeper hit that relied on strong word-of-mouth. Then in 2006, a year later, you had an attempt to reboot SUPERMAN with SUPERMAN RETURNS. While it made money, it wasn't enough to cover its then-titanic budget, so it seemed like a non-starter. The other DC adaptation released amidst this was CONSTANTINE, whch did pretty well (and is finally getting a sequel after all these years). Funnily enough, amidst these Marvel and DC movies, you had Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES... A then *rare* animated superhero movie, and it did great business. There was also HELLBOY, too. Non-Marvels and non-DCs had their time to do pretty okay, too. So, superheroes had a healthier time in the early-to-mid 2000s...

But where it really all took off was in 2008...

IRON MAN started the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a BANG! in May of that year, and BATMAN BEGINS sequel THE DARK KNIGHT - no doubt accelerated by the tragic passing of Heath Ledger, who gave his iconic performance as The Joker - was **massive**. It was the first movie since TITANIC to clear $500m at the domestic box office, and make the then-magic $1b worldwide... Only TITANIC, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST made that amount of money... Nowadays, it seems like there's one billion-dollar smash every year, excepting 2020 of course... Back in 2008, though? Magic number. Very few movies did **that** well...

And from there... Lots of hits. The MCU had barely a stumble, and their highest highs at the box office went very high. They had no trouble getting audiences to come out in big numbers for... Checks notes... Movies based on THOR, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and ANT-MAN. Warner Bros. had tried very hard to keep a consistently successful DC movie-verse going, but despite the valleys (JUSTICE LEAGUE, BIRDS OF PREY), they too saw some big peaks: WONDER WOMAN and AQUAMAN. BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE and SUICIDE SQUAD made a lot of money, too, despite not meeting particular expectations. Animated superheroes brought home bacon, too! BIG HERO 6, INCREDIBLES 2, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, need I say more? Sony's own Spider-Man villain movies VENOM and its sequel did very well, too! Almost everybody was winning the superhero sweepstakes post-2008, with very few actual losers in-between.

But now... Well, with so many of them around, and both cinematic universes from the heavies... Again, Marvel and DC. Known commodities... We don't see any movie-verse for, say, Image Comics, no do we? Well, again, money is tight, theater visits are costly, and the movies aren't always delivering satisfying experiences when other endeavors are next door...

Last year, we saw TOP GUN: MAVERICK, a legacy sequel to a 1986 blockbuster that isn't a superhero movie in any way, mop the floor - domestically and even worldwide - with both Marvel and DC's most anticipated movies. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER was in second place domestically, top dog worldwide. We're starting to see other movies have a say again, and smaller movies are having their fun again, too. ELVIS and NOPE did very well, as did BULLET TRAIN and THE LOST CITY. Bread-n-butter movies that used to fill up the yearly box office charts quite nicely. We see that nowadays in the form of things like WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, THE BLACK PHONE, THE WOMAN KING, TICKET TO PARADISE, BARBARIAN, SMILE, VIOLENT NIGHT, A MAN CALLED OTTO, M3GAN, CREED III, etc.

So... With QUANTUMANIA and SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS past us... Here's what I think... Much like in 2006, where some computer animated family movies did great and others not-so-much... That'll happen with this year's crop of superhero movies.

I think the guaranteed hits are GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE. The former? Well, those two movies functioned well as a standalone story not connected to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like you had some things here and there, like an Infinity Stone or the presence of Thanos, but they're both self-contained, VOL 2 even more-so. They're genuinely good space adventure movies that audiences actually quite dig, the characters are so likeable, and the movies have director James Gunn's authorship all over them. That's a night and day difference from many of the other MCUs... SPIDER-VERSE... Need I say more? The original is beloved, it was a passion project for everyone involved. It was not just a great Marvel or great superhero movie, it was a great movie, period. Rian Johnson himself described it as "The Velvet Underground of superhero movies." That is *high praise*.

Those are both poised, I feel, to make beaucoup bucks.

Everything else? Well... The DC movies coming out this year are much like FURY OF THE GODS. They don't really matter, because the hard reset is coming up with SUPERMAN: LEGACY two years from now. I suppose THE FLASH could do well because of Michael Keaton **and** Ben Affleck's Batman returning, in a sort of NO WAY HOME-esque manner. I don't think much of the general public is in tune with star Ezra Miller's controversies and wrongdoing, so I think this one's appeal hinges on whether fans/audiences see it as pointless or not. I think the novelty of both Batmen being back, alongside some other DC faces (such as Michael Shannon's go at General Zod from MAN OF STEEL), could help it a bit. BLUE BEETLE? I couldn't tell ya, it'll probably come and go. AQUAMAN made over a billion back in 2018/19, and is the highest-earning DC film ever... But will fans and audiences be back for, again, a movie that seems pointless in the long run? Also at the end of the year comes the MCU film THE MARVELS, the sequel to CAPTAIN MARVEL and also a follow-up to the MS. MARVEL TV series... Plus you have Monica Rambeau in it as well, who - as an adult - was a major character in WANDAVISION. That all could help it, but I'm starting to think it falls quite short of CAPTAIN MARVEL's impressive take in 2019. CAPTAIN MARVEL had the benefit of opening right before AVENGERS: ENDGAME, the penultimate episode to the big climactic event... THE MARVELS is just, well, the sequel... With two other faces. I think it'll do pretty well, but not excellently. Disney and Marvel Studios were smart to delay the film from July to November after the CEO-switcheroo with Bob Iger this past autumn. I can only hope they delay all of the other movies, too. Like, two a year is fine, guys. AVENGERS: THE KANG DYNASTY and AVENGERS: SECRET WARS can wait. They don't need to come out in 2-3 years from now, in addition to like 10 other movies and 10-20 other Disney+ shows...

And next year, I think, will show as well where this is all going... Like, I don't see the likes of CAPTAIN AMERICA 4, THUNDERBOLTS, DEADPOOL 3, and BLADE hogging up the top slots anymore. I forgot to point out that these movies seem a lot more frontloaded. Big fans and those who were always going to be there *will* be there on opening weekend, but it collapses after that, as OTHER audiences save their money for other things that they'd rather see... Maybe the JOKER sequel, not really a superhero movie but still based on a DC villain that's tied to one of their most well-known superheroes, could repeat the massive surprise success of the original. Maybe not. BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE should do pretty great... I think other biggies are what's gonna surprise this year and next year, and take the Top 3 slots... A new INDIANA JONES movie, a MARIO movie, a two-part MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE epic, AVATAR 3, maybe even something like GLADIATOR 2. 2025 is when the DC hard-reset comes, so it'll be interesting to see how SUPERMAN: LEGACY does, in addition to whatever Marvel movies end up coming out that year. KANG DYNASTY or no KANG DYNASTY...

If anything, the budgeting should be smarter from here on out. Then these movies can come and go, make adequate amounts of money, give *other* kinds of movies the Top 3-5 for once, and then the wheels will spin. Something new will come along and spam up the top slots, even. Maybe we're in for an area of legacy-quels following TOP GUN 2's massive success. I really do think INDY 5 has the chance to somewhat repeat that, and GLADIATOR 2 even. How long till, say, another sequel to a beloved '80s or '90s movie drops? And then too many of those happen and they get tiresome?

All a cycle in Hollywood...

But yeah, I do see the parallels between superhero movies now and CG animated family movies circa 2006...

[stenka-razin]

Every Film I Watched in 2022

The Matrix (1999, dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski) Bidoof’s Big Stand (2022, dir. Shaofu Zhang) Samurai Cop (1991, for. Amir Shervan) The Matrix Resurrections (2021, dir. Lana Wachowski) Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles) Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (“鉄男II BODY HAMMER” 1992, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto) The Elephant Man (1980, dir. David Lynch) Grandma’s Boy (2006, dir. Nicholaus Goossen) Always Be My Maybe (2019, dir. Nahnatchka Khan) Game Night (2018, dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein) When We First Met (2018, dir. Ari Sandel) The Kid (1921, dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1972 rerelease) Menace II Society (1993, dir. Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes) Duck Soup (1933, dir. Leo McCarey) 30 Minutes or Less (2011, dir. Ruben Fleischer) Chimes at Midnight (1965, dir. Orson Welles) Money Plane (2020, dir. Andrew Lawrence) Man with a Movie Camera (“Человек с киноаппаратом” 1929, dir. Dziga Vertov, Cinematic Orchestra soundtrack) Godzilla (1998, dir. Roland Emmerich) City Lights (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin) Krull (1983, dir. Peter Yates) Klute (1971, dir. Alan J. Paluka) The Lawnmower Man (1992, dir. Brett Leonard) Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997, dir. Jeff Broadstreet) Ratty (2020, dir. John Angus Stewart) Heavy Metal (1981, dir. Gerald Potterton) The Northman (2022, dir. Robert Eggers) Autumn Sonata (“Höstsonaten” 1978, dir. Ingmar Bergman) Battles Without Honor and Humanity (“仁義なき戦い” 1973, dir. Kinji Fukasuka) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (“仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇” 1973, dir. Kinji Fukasuka) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (“仁義なき戦い 代理戦争” 1973, dir. Kinji Fukusaku) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (“仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦” 1974, dir. Kinji Fukusaku) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (“仁義なき戦い 完結篇” 1974, dir. Kinji Fukusaku) Logan’s Run (1976, dir. Michael Anderson) The Vietnam War (2017, dir. Ken Burns & Lynn Novick) The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel) Best in Show (2000, dir. Christopher Guest) Shaolin and Wu Tang (“少林與武當” 1983, dir. Gordon Liu, dub) Shin Godzilla (“シン・ゴジラ” 2016, dir. Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi) The Legend of the Suram Fortress (“ამბავი სურამის ციხისა” 1985, dir. Sergei Parajanov) The Six Directions of Boxing (“六合八法” 1980, dir. Hsu Tien-Yung, dub) Shaolin vs Lama (“少林鬥喇嘛” 1983, dir. Lee Tso-Nam, dub) Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022, dir. Andy Mitchell) Prey (2022, dir. Dan Trachtenberg) Marathon Man (1976, dir. John Schlesinger) Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong) Final Destination 2 (2003, dir. David R. Ellis) Final Destination 3 (2005, dir. James Wong) The Final Destination (2009, dir. David R. Ellis) Final Destination 5 (2011, dir. Steven Quayle) Mulan (1998, dir. Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook) No Time to Die (2021, dir. Cory Joji Fukunaga) The Munsters (2022, dir. Rob Zombie) House of 1000 Corpses (2003, dir. Rob Zombie) One Night in Miami… (2020, dir. Regina King) Magnificent Obsession (1954, dir. Douglas Sirk) The Knight Before Christmas (2019, dir. Monika Mitchell) Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter) Noel Next Door (2022, dir. Max McGuire) Ice Sculpture Christmas (2015, dir. David Mackay) Alexander Nevsky (1938, dir. Sergei Eisenstein) Love Hard (2021, dir. Hernán Jiménez) Falling for Christmas (2022, dir. Janeen Damien) A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm) Holidate (2020, dir. John Whitesell) Cyborg (1989, dir. Albert Pyun) Full Metal Jacket (1987, dir. Stanley Kubrick) Star Trek Generations (1994, dir. David Carson) Christmas Vacation (1989, dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik) Star Trek: First Contact (1996, dir. Jonathan Frakes) Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001, dir. Sharon Maguire) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, dir. Steve Barron) Waterworld (1995, dir. Kevin Reynolds) Elf (2003, dir. Jon Favreau) Feliz NaviDAD (2020, dir. Melissa Joan Hart) Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977, dir. Jim Henson)

[kxalive]

Here is a list of my favorite Jewish celebrities:

- Dave Grohl. I love this man. I would do anything for him

- Jeff Goldblum. A national treasure

- Natalie Portman. Do I have to explain this?

- On a similar note, Harrison Ford

- Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar

- Lisa Kudrow. The OG manic pixie dream girl (not really but she’s an icon)

- Billy Joel. A New York icon like myself

- Doja Cat. Does this need an explanation?

- Hailee Steinfeld. Kate Bishop my love

- Kat Dennings. An icon. Darcy, Max. Amazing characters

- Andrew Garfield. Who doesn’t love him?

- Zoe Kravitz. She did something to me in the Batman

- Mila Kunis. Jackie!!!

- Adam Lambert. Queen is my favorite band

- Jon Bernthal. I want to marry Frank Castle

- Mayim Bialik. I love every character she has ever played

- Alyson Hannigan. Willow my love, Willow my darling

- Lenny Kravitz. Love his music, in love with his daughter

- Robert Downey Jr. You know, my mom always did want me to marry another Jew

- Jon Favreau. One of my favorite directors ever

- Marlee Matlin. I saw her first as Joey in the West Wing. I love her

- Paul Rudd. He’s on my TV screen as I write this

- Lars Ulrich. Legend has it he has a tiny dick but he’s literally Metallicas drummer

- Carrie fucking Fisher. Oh my god. The goddess herself

- David Lee Roth. I named my first wandering Jew plant after him

- Paul Stanley. I was made for lovin you baby you were made for lovin meeeee

- Richard Schiff. Speaking of the West Wing. My grandmas maiden name is Schiff

- Bob Dylan. He wrote a song about getting stoned and got a Nobel prize for literature. I love him

- Art Garfunkel. The underrated one of the duo. I would give him a hug

- Olivia Newton John. If you don’t know who she is I’m sorry

- Lou Reed. One of my college professors was married to him. He divorced her and I now know why. Ironic because she was really antisemitic. But anyway Lou Reed is amazing

- Paul Simon. Mrs Robinson.

- Leonard Nimoy. Live long and prosper

- Marilyn Monroe. An icon

- Mel Blanc. I tawt I taw a puddy tat

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The Book of Boba Fett - Episode 1 thoughts

hello hello! as promised i'll post my thoughts, ramblings and any further analysis of each episode of tbobf here! please don't take it too seriously, i'm doing this for fun and it's just my running thought process as i watch each episode <3 this isn't my first time watching the show but I haven't seen it since it came out so a lot of it was forgotten. please no arguments in the comments and tags, spoiler alert beneath the cut

the visual inside the sarlacc makes my skin crawl i can feel that shit eugh

poor boba honestly jawas are such shits, and the tuskens literally just woke him up only to drag the poor man goddamn

those kids are MEAN good to know kids are the same basically everywhere what the fuck

i do genuinely love the tusken visuals and the deeper delve into their culture though, they're so interesting and i always enjoy their screen time, especially since they're usually cast in such a terrible light in star wars

massiff <33 ever since i've seen din treat these like the doggos they are i've just been a bit in love with them tbh, they're big puppies!!!

BOBA NO DON'T HURT THE DOG

i really like that we get all of this in flashbacks idk it works so nicely

temuera morrison the man that you are <3 love the contrast between pale sickly terrible looking boba and healing getting much better boba, like, the contrast is stark and pleasing and a good visual of passing time

fennec i love you and appreciate you and i know you'd shoot me but god how i wanna kiss your hand

i absolutely love seeing this wide overhead shot of mos espa, i think it's the first time i've been able to grasp the infrastructure of a city on tatooine - we rarely see the cities from any view other than on the ground so i always kind of assumed it wasn't very big but low-key, it's sizeable!! at least to my eyes (i have never lived in a large city don't quote me on size)

JIZZ HELL YEAH!! I LOVE THAT SILLY LITTLE BLUE DUDE (had to google "little blue jizz player star wars" to remind myself that his name is max rebo rip)

boba and fennec have massive sibling energy to me (i do not have siblings) - their riffing just really reminds me of watching others with their siblings growing up

sick ass parkour hell yeah - fennec is an assassin and she's parkouring, does this make her an assassin's creed character? methinks yes (i would kill for her as a skin in one of the games but d1sney would never)

low-key those gamorreans are loyal as fuck and i respect that, they didn't have real reason to keep their word to boba but they did because he also treated them with respect

seeing that water being wasted hurts my soul since it's so hard to get a hold of on tatooine

god i love massiffs

that rodian really fucking pisses me off dude boba is so right

NOT THE FUCKING JUMPSCARE WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT I DON'T REMEMBER ANY OF THIS - what is that??? WHAT is that????

boba is so fucking cool idk i am so obsessed with this man, thank you jon favreau for bringing temuera back to us

the offering of the black melon oh yeah + the music ludwig goransson you are a legend <3

if you made it this far, thanks! hope you enjoyed my rambling and if you want to discuss anything feel free to comment! pls don't argue with me or others though i'm absolutely not in the mood to fight any hardcore fans, i only got into star wars because of the mandalorian and i genuinely enjoy the content and lore, but i'm not as well versed in it as i am with say tolkien or the witcher 🙏

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Estúdio : Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, 21 Laps Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, 20th Century Studios, Kevin Feige Productions

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Creating a list of the top action movies from 2000 onwards involves considering factors such as critical acclaim, box office success, cultural impact, and overall entertainment value. Here is a comprehensive list with details for each film:

### 1. **Gladiator (2000)**

- **Director:** Ridley Scott

- **Synopsis:** A betrayed Roman general seeks revenge against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family.

- **Accolades:** Won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe.

### 2. **The Dark Knight (2008)**

- **Director:** Christopher Nolan

- **Synopsis:** Batman faces the Joker, a criminal mastermind who seeks to create chaos in Gotham City.

- **Accolades:** Won two Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger.

### 3. **Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)**

- **Director:** George Miller

- **Synopsis:** In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Max teams up with Furiosa to flee from a tyrant and his army.

- **Accolades:** Won six Academy Awards, including Best Editing and Best Production Design.

### 4. **Inception (2010)**

- **Director:** Christopher Nolan

- **Synopsis:** A thief who enters the dreams of others to steal secrets is given the task of planting an idea in someone's mind.

- **Accolades:** Won four Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

### 5. **The Avengers (2012)**

- **Director:** Joss Whedon

- **Synopsis:** Earth's mightiest heroes must come together to stop Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.

- **Accolades:** Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

### 6. **John Wick (2014)**

- **Director:** Chad Stahelski

- **Synopsis:** An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.

- **Accolades:** Became a cult favorite and spawned a successful franchise.

### 7. **Casino Royale (2006)**

- **Director:** Martin Campbell

- **Synopsis:** James Bond's first mission as 007 takes him on a journey to stop a banker from funding terrorists.

- **Accolades:** Nominated for nine BAFTA Awards.

### 8. **The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)**

- **Director:** Paul Greengrass

- **Synopsis:** Jason Bourne continues his quest to uncover his true identity while being hunted by those who made him a weapon.

- **Accolades:** Won three Academy Awards, including Best Editing and Best Sound.

### 9. **Iron Man (2008)**

- **Director:** Jon Favreau

- **Synopsis:** Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist, becomes Iron Man to save his company and protect the world.

- **Accolades:** Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects.

### 10. **The Matrix Reloaded (2003)**

- **Directors:** Lana and Lilly Wachowski

- **Synopsis:** Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity continue their fight against the machines while uncovering deeper truths about the Matrix.

- **Accolades:** Known for its groundbreaking special effects and action sequences.

### 11. **Logan (2017)**

- **Director:** James Mangold

- **Synopsis:** In the near future, an aging Wolverine cares for ailing Professor X while protecting a young mutant from dark forces.

- **Accolades:** Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

### 12. **Black Panther (2018)**

- **Director:** Ryan Coogler

- **Synopsis:** T'Challa, the new king of Wakanda, must defend his nation from an enemy who threatens to bring it to ruin.

- **Accolades:** Won three Academy Awards, including Best Costume Design and Best Original Score.

### 13. **Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)**

- **Director:** Christopher McQuarrie

- **Synopsis:** Ethan Hunt and his team must race against time after a mission goes wrong.

- **Accolades:** Highly praised for its stunts and action sequences.

### 14. **Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)**

- **Director:** Quentin Tarantino

- **Synopsis:** A former assassin known as "The Bride" seeks vengeance against her former teammates who betrayed her.

- **Accolades:** Known for its stylized action and martial arts choreography.

### 15. **The Raid: Redemption (2011)**

- **Director:** Gareth Evans

- **Synopsis:** A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers.

- **Accolades:** Acclaimed for its intense action and fight choreography.

### 16. **The Dark Knight Rises (2012)**

- **Director:** Christopher Nolan

- **Synopsis:** Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Batman must come out of exile to save Gotham from the merciless Bane.

- **Accolades:** Praised for its epic scope and conclusion to the trilogy.

### 17. **Skyfall (2012)**

- **Director:** Sam Mendes

- **Synopsis:** James Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her, and MI6 comes under attack.

- **Accolades:** Won two Academy Awards, including Best Original Song.

### 18. **Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)**

- **Director:** George Miller

- **Synopsis:** In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Max teams up with Furiosa to flee from a tyrant and his army.

- **Accolades:** Won six Academy Awards, including Best Editing and Best Production Design.

### 19. **Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)**

- **Director:** James Gunn

- **Synopsis:** A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.

- **Accolades:** Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects.

### 20. **The Winter Soldier (2014)**

- **Director:** Anthony and Joe Russo

- **Synopsis:** Captain America teams up with Black Widow and Falcon to uncover a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D.

- **Accolades:** Acclaimed for its action sequences and political thriller elements.

### 21. **The Revenant (2015)**

- **Director:** Alejandro González Iñárritu

- **Synopsis:** A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead.

- **Accolades:** Won three Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio.

### 22. **Django Unchained (2012)**

- **Director:** Quentin Tarantino

- **Synopsis:** A freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

- **Accolades:** Won two Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay.

### 23. **Avengers: Endgame (2019)**

- **Directors:** Anthony and Joe Russo

- **Synopsis:** The Avengers assemble once more to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.

- **Accolades:** Became the highest-grossing film of all time and received critical acclaim for its emotional depth and action sequences.

### 24. **The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)**

- **Director:** Justin Lin

- **Synopsis:** A teenager becomes immersed in the Tokyo drift racing scene while avoiding criminal elements.

- **Accolades:** Became a cult favorite and reinvigorated the Fast & Furious franchise.

### 25. **Wonder Woman (2017)**

- **Director:** Patty Jenkins

- **Synopsis:** Diana, an Amazonian warrior, leaves her home to fight a war and discovers her full powers and true destiny.

- **Accolades:** Acclaimed for its portrayal of a strong female superhero and its action sequences.

### 26. **Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)**

- **Directors:** Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman

- **Synopsis:** Teenager Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man and meets other Spider-People from different dimensions.

- **Accolades:** Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

### 27. **Deadpool (2016)**

- **Director:** Tim Miller

- **Synopsis:** A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary seeks revenge on the man who subjected him to an experiment that left him with accelerated healing powers.

- **Accolades:** Praised for its humor, action, and unconventional approach to the superhero genre.

### 28. **Edge of Tomorrow (2014)**

- **Director:** Doug Liman

- **Synopsis:** A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

- **Accolades:** Acclaimed for its innovative premise and action sequences.

### 29. **The Hunger Games (2012)**

- **Director:** Gary Ross

- **Synopsis:** In a dystopian future, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in a televised fight to the death.

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incredible. what a way to get away from the news cycle!

Hes gone Offline. Checkmate, Favreau and Max. Your move

[alexlacquemanne]

Décembre MMXXIII

Films

Chef (2014) de Jon Favreau avec Scarlett Johansson, Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr. et Dustin Hoffman

Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver Hollywood ? (The Naked gun 33⅓: The Final Insult) (1994) de Peter Segal avec Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Fred Ward, O. J. Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, Kathleen Freeman, Ellen Greene et Ed Williams

Quai des Orfèvres (1947) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Claudine Dupuis, Henri Arius, Charles Blavette, René Blancard et Robert Dalban

Maintenant, on l'appelle Plata (…più forte ragazzi!) (1972) de Giuseppe Colizzi avec Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Cyril Cusack, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Riccardo Pizzuti, Ferdinando Murolo et Marcello Verziera

Moi, Michel G., milliardaire, maître du monde (2011) de Stéphane Kazandjian avec François-Xavier Demaison, Laurent Lafitte, Laurence Arné, Xavier de Guillebon, Guy Bedos, Patrick Bouchitey e Alain Doutey

Noël blanc (White Christmas) (1954) de Michael Curtiz avec Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes et John Bascia

Rendez-vous avec la mort (Appointment with Death) (1988) de Michael Winner avec Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove et David Soul

Bridget Jones : L’Âge de raison (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) (2004) de Beeban Kidron avec Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Jacinda Barrett, Shirley Henderson et Sally Phillips

Les Trois Mousquetaires : Milady (2023) de Martin Bourboulon avec François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Lyna Khoudri et Louis Garrel

Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver le président ? (1991) (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear) de David Zucker avec Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O. J. Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths, Anthony James et Jacqueline Brookes

Wallace et Gromit : Le Mystère du lapin-garou (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) (2005) de Nick Park et Steve Box avec Jean-Loup Horwitz, Jeanne Savary, Philippe Catoire, Frédérique Cantrel, Patrick Messe et Mireille Delcroix

Rivière sans retour (River of No Return) (1954) de Otto Preminger avec Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye et Douglas Spencer

L'Ange de Noël (Christmas Magic) (2011) de John Bradshaw avec Lindy Booth, Paul McGillion, Derek McGrath, Kiara Glasco, Teresa Pavlinek et Tricia Braun

Joyeux Noël (2005) de Christian Carion avec Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl, Dany Boon, Lucas Belvaux, Bernard Le Coq et Alex Ferns

L'Assassinat du père Noël (1941) de Christian-Jaque avec Harry Baur, Raymond Rouleau, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Robert Le Vigan, Fernand Ledoux et Jean Brochard

Danse avec les loups (Dances with Wolves) (1990) de et avec Kevin Costner ainsi que Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd Westerman, Jimmy Herman, Nathan Lee, Tantoo Cardinal et Wes Studi

Noël en trois actes (Christmas Encore) (2017) de Bradley Walsh avec Maggie Lawson, Brennan Elliott, Art Hindle, Tracey Hoyt, Mercedes de la Zerda, Mika Amonsen, Sherry Miller, Sabryn Rock, David Tompa et Erin Agostino

La Souffleuse de verre (Die Glasbläserin) (2016) de Christiane Balthasar avec Luise Heyer, Maria Ehrich, Franz Dinda, Dirk Borchardt, Robert Gwisdek, Max Hopp et Ute Willing

Le père Noël est une ordure (1982) de Jean-Marie Poiré avec Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko et Bruno Moynot

Le Lion en hiver (The Lion in Winter) (1968) de Anthony Harvey avec Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow et Nigel Stock

Les Mystères de Paris (1962) d'André Hunebelle avec Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Jill Haworth, Dany Robin, Pierre Mondy, Georges Chamarat, Noël Roquevert et Jean Le Poulain

Derrick contre Superman (1992) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Patrick Burgel et Évelyne Grandjean

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer, Joël Martineau, Jean-Claude Montalban, Roger Rudel et Gérard Rouzier

La Grande Course autour du monde (The Great Race) (1965) de Blake Edwards avec Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance et Dorothy Provine

Séries

Life on Mars Saison 1, 2

Bienvenue en 73 - La Loi selon mon boss - Le Pari - Corruption - Rouge un jour, rouge toujours - Compte à rebours - Cas de conscience - Mon père - Meurtrier en puissance - La Chasse aux ripoux - Peur sur la ville - Pièges pour jeunes femmes - Kidnapping - Héroïne - Recherche du coupable - La Promesse

Doctor Who

La Créature Stellaire - Wild Blue Yonder - Aux confins de l'univers - Le Fabricant de Jouets - The Snowmen - A Christmas Carol - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - The Return of Doctor Mysterio - The Church on Ruby Road - Eve of the Daleks

Les Enquêtes de Vera Saison 12

À contre-courant - Un homme d'honneur - Au nom de la loi - Une soirée funeste - Marée montante

Coffre à Catch

#144 : La Draft 2009 : Les bonnes affaires du mercato ! - #145 : La ECW débarque à Londres et l'Undertaker à Strasbourg! (avec Carole) - #146 : Christian enfin champion de la ECW ! - #147 : Un coffret à Noël, ça c'est une idée !

Kaamelott Livre III

Le Jour d’Alexandre - La Cassette II - La Ronde II - Mission - La Baliste - La Baraka - La Veillée - Le Tourment III - La Potion de fécondité II - L’Attaque nocturne - La Restriction II - Les Défis de Merlin II - Saponides et Détergents - Le Justicier - La Crypte maléfique - Arthur in Love II - La Grande Bataille - La Fête de l’hiver II - Sous les verrous II - Le Vulgarisateur - Witness - Le Tribut - Le Culte secret - Le Mangonneau - La Chevalerie - Le Mauvais Augure - Raison d’argent II - Les Auditeurs libres - Le Baiser romain - L’Espion - Alone in the Dark - Le Législateur - L’Insomniaque - L’Étudiant - Le Médiateur - Le Trophée - Hollow Man - La Dispute première partie - La Dispute deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

Gérald Thomassin : l'étrange disparition d'un coupable idéal

Top Gear

Spécial Nativité

La Voie Jackson

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3

Meurtres au paradis

L'étrange Noël de Debbie

Spectacles

Le Muguet de Noël (2021) de Sébastien Blanc et Nicolas Poiret avec Lionnel Astier, Frédéric Bouraly, Jean-Luc Porraz et Alexie Ribes

Sinatra (1969) avec Frank Sinatra, Don Costa & son Orchestre

Le Professeur Rollin a encore quelque chose à dire (2003) de François Rollin

Alain Souchon : J'veux du live au Casino de Paris (2002)

La Bonne Planque (1964) de Michel André avec Bourvil, Pierrette Bruno, Robert Rollis, Roland Bailly, Alix Mahieux, Albert Michel et Max Desrau

André Rieu : White Christmas (2023)

Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas (2011) avec Michael Bublé, Gary Barlow, Gino D'Acampo, Dawn French et Kelly Rowland

Michael Buble's Christmas in the City (2021) avec Michael Bublé, Leon Bridges, Camila Cabello, Jimmy Fallon, Kermit the Frog, Hannah Waddingham, Dallas Grant, Jarrett Johnson, Julianna Layne et Loren Smith

Michael Bublé's 3rd Annual Christmas Special (2013) avec Michael Bublé, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Red Robinson, Jumaane Smith, Patrick Gilmore et Cookie Monster

Un fil à la patte (2005) de Georges Feydeau avec Thierry Beccaro, Marie-Ange Nardi, Valérie Maurice, Églantine Éméyé, Ève Ruggiéri, Tex, David Martin et Patrice Laffont

Vintage Getz (1983) The Stan Getz Quartet live at the Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California avec Stan Getz, Victor Lewis, Marc Johnson et Jim McNeely

James Brown : Live at Montreux (1981)

Livres

Le seigneur des anneaux, Tome 3 : Le retour du roi de J.R.R. Tolkien

Détective Conan, Tome 18 de Gôshô Aoyama

Lucky Luke, Tome 27 : L'Alibi de Morris et Claude Guylouïs

Détective Conan, Tome 19 de Gôshô Aoyama

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Birthdays 10.19

Beer Birthdays

John Barbey (1850)

Ron Pattinson (1956)

John Tucci (1967)

Joe Wiebe

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Gambon; actor (1940)

Philip Pullman; writer (1946)

Robert Reed; actor (1932)

Jason Reitman; film director (1977)

Peter Tosh; reggae singer (1944)

Famous Birthdays

Jack Anderson; newspaper columnist (1922)

Umberto Boccioni; Italian artist (1882)

Mordecai "Three Fingers" Brown; Chicago Cubs P (1876)

Thomas Browne; writer, physician (1605)

Rodney Carrington; country singer, comedian (1968)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; astrophysicist (1910)

Tracy Chevalier; writer (1962)

Lynn Dickey; Green Bay Packers QB (1949)

Jon Favreau; actor, film director (1966)

Jennifer Holliday; singer, actor (1960)

Evander Holyfield; boxer (1962)

Patricia Ireland; feminist activist (1945)

Martha Jefferson; first lady of Thomas Jefferson (1748)

Tor Johnson; actor, wrestler (1903)

John Le Carre; English writer (1931)

John Lithgow; actor (1945)

Tony Lo Bianco; actor (1936)

Peter Max; artist (1937)

Charles Merrill; stock mogul (1885)

Lewis Mumford; writer (1895)

Annie Peck; mountain climber (1850)

Jeannie C. Riley; country singer (1945)

Lou Scheimer; animation producer (1928)

Andrew Vachss; writer (1942)

Edmund Beecher Wilson; zoologist (1856)

Daniel "Woody" Woodgate; rock drummer (1960)

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Carson Genger

September 29, 2023

Professor Tracy Simmons

Story and Visuals Assignment #2

Warner Bros. Demolish Movie History

            Just a few blocks down the road from the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, sits a lesser-known movie ranch that has been home to many films and television productions from classic movies like “Christmas Vacation” to Marvel’s 2021 superhero series “WandaVision.” Last week, Warner Bros. began to demolish their movie ranch to make space for 16 new soundstages on the property.

Hollywood is constantly in a state of change, with productions coming and going from studio lots, sets being built and taken down, and soundstages used and emptied. The film industry itself has been steadily shifting away from shooting on location with physical sets to using soundstages where productions have complete control over the environment. The demolition of such a legendary filming location doesn’t come as much of a shock today. Just a few years ago, Universal Studios demolished their historic “Phantom of The Opera” set and soundstage to make room for expansion of their theme park attractions.

Tonya Meyer, a former Warner Bros. Ranch employee, said, “We’ve known about plans to demolish the ranch since late 2019 and although it was sad news to hear, it didn’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows the industry closely.”

The Warner Bros. Ranch will be completely demolished and redeveloped in a $500 million overhaul project that is already well underway. All of the physical sets and buildings on the 32-acre lot will be replaced with 16 state of the art soundstages, parking structures, office buildings, and animation studio. These will join Warner Bros. Studios already existing 32 soundstages located on their main lot.

Hollywood’s seemingly sudden need for soundstages is the result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the demand for new content from streaming services like Netflix and Max. In 2021, Universal built eight new soundstages on their backlot and just this year Fox Studios announced plans to construct nine additional soundstages on their lot in Century City.

Batisse Favreau, a tour guide at Warner Bros. main lot, said, “The ranch was special. It was like stepping into a movie time capsule. Hundreds, if not thousands, of pop-culture defining movies were filmed on the Warner Bros. Ranch.”

Stars from the 80s like Danny Glover and Mel Gibson used to call the ranch home while filming their “Lethal Weapon” movies. The same went for Chevy Chase and the National Lampoon production for their 1989 comedy “Christmas Vacation”. More recent productions include television shows like “The Middle” and “Young Sheldon,” which both used an extensive amount of the ranch for filming.

The demolition of the Warner Bros. Ranch marks a poignant moment in the ever-evolving landscape of Hollywood, but also as a reminder that change is the only constant in the entertainment industry. The decision to replace it with 16 modern soundstages among a growing demand for content from streaming platforms, highlights the film industry’s adaptability and push for more new content. Even though it’s sad to see the legendary movie ranch go, it’s a sign of Hollywood moving forward. The new soundstages will provide many productions with the space they need to bring new and exciting stories to life for everyone to enjoy.

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So Din WAS going to find the circuit board for IG-11 himself. We just had to interrupt that with the Bo-Katan scene where she tells him to go to Mandalor (which he already was going to do...?), end the episode, do the circuit board quest on Tatooine at the start of the next episode, then he goes to Mandalor like Bo-Katan said.

I don't want to tell Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni's hat how to make TV shows, but maybe do the Peli Motto thing at the end of Episode 1, then Episode 2 starts with him trying to join up with Bo-Katan, she says fuck you, he goes straight to Mandalor.

Why would you do it the other way? It doesn't make sense. I really don't understand why they did it this way.

I like the part when Din and Grogu and R5-D4 were exploring an ancient ruined mine and got attacked by frost trolls.

Why do I suddenly have an urge to play Skyrim? Huh.

And I feel bad saying this, but stop trying to make R5-D4 a thing. Seriously. He is a one-off sight gag of an exploding prop robot from a 46 year old movie. Leave it alone. This season of course has Grogu, and also those cute little mechanic guys. You don't need to be pushing Wacky Broken Coward Robot on the 6 year olds.

I mean, it didn't work back when Lucas tried it with C-3PO. And that was when the only alternative was a 7 foot Sasquatch who screamed like a walrus all the time. And kids picked the Sasquatch.

Also...I'm not saying this show has become a stunt man gesticulating in Mandalorian armor while Pedro Pascal got paid to record lines out of context over Skype on the set of the Last of Us. But I am saying that if they decided to make the next season that way, I can't imagine it would look radically different.

[Aside: Disney, out of all the streaming apps I use, yours is not the worst, that would be HBO Max, that shit crashes every time you dare to use your phone for anything besides watching 20 year old Adult Swim cartoons. But only the Disney+ app keeps coughing and sputtering every time my wireless connection gains or loses a bar. Shudder doesn't do that. Fucking TUBI doesn't do that, and Tubi is free with ads.

Stop arguing with DeSantis about what the King of England said you can do for 10 minutes and fix your shit that you keep making me pay more for.]

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ROCK

Three 5-minute AMRAPs 

AMRAP in 5 minutes 10 Power Cleans (135/95 lb) 12 Burpees 14 Box Jumps (24/20 in) 20 Sit-Ups Max distance Row Rest 1 minute

Total distance rowed, cumulatively in all three AMRAP.

Sgt Renata Rock was born March 10, 1986 in Seattle, Washington. Sgt Rock joined the Marine Corps on December 29, 2008. She did one tour in Afghanistan on a CST (Cultural Support Team). Sgt Rock was also named the NCO of the year in 2012 by her Battalion and upon returning from her time overseas instructed Marines as part of a pre-deployment training cycle.

Not only was Sgt Rock an ideal example of what a Marine should be, she was also a very driven individual when it came to fitness. She began martial arts at the age of 5 and went on to box in the Junior Regional Golden Gloves competition. This combination of being a challenge-driven individual and a determined Marine made her a valued asset to any operation. Her mother Cherie Rock elaborated by saying that she was always able to find success in what she did as a Marine while maintaining an “irreverent sense of humor” with everyone she came in contact with.

Marines that knew Sgt Rock described her as “a badass Marine” (Armond Johnson) and said, “she was a good woman and an even better Marine” (Thomas Favreau). Unfortunately, at the age of 27, Sgt Renata Rock, took her life on July 13, 2013. Too often do things like this happen where you find a Marine, like Sgt Rock, who personified our esprit de corps but was unable to get the help that she needed during her transition back to US soil after her time overseas.

This WOD “Rock” is designed to bring awareness to this epidemic that plagues our Marine Corps, as well as the other branches of service, and to honor her with a WOD worthy of the name “Rock”!