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"CM" gets the "MCU Asterisk". Well, the "pre-'Endgame' MCU Asterisk". In that era, MCU coulda made a movie that was me eating Cheetos for 2.5 hours and it woulda earned $1 billion WW! :laugh:

Sure. Probably Gosling too!

Yeah, that was where I was going. Those weren't movies any sane person thought would be big hits - especially not "Babylon", given its extreme depiction of "lewd behavior". Of course, few thought "Oppy" would be a smash, but Nolan is a "name brand" in ways Chazelle and Russell clearly are not...

Sure, but I just don't think they were flops that the "Average Person" noticed were flops because they were expensive art house movies. Everyone and his brother knows "Indy" and "Flash" were bombs. But I don't think "Ams" and "Babylon" registered among the masses. Anyway, even if they did, I...

As I posted on another board*, I think MR doesn't get viewed as "box office poison" because it's rare that she's the true "main draw". She's usually part of an ensemble and rarely the true top-billed actor. "Birds of Prey" was the biggest exception I can think of, and that one disappointed...

Ha ha ha! Great joke! ;)

Methinks WB gonna spend whatever it takes to get them back in the fold.

I agree with you here - on Opposite Day. "Lady Bird" was really good, "Little Women" was a tedious drag.

Agree. His sniffy looking-down-the-nose at superhero movies ensured his spot in the Movie Snob HOF! :D

Yeah, movie nerds wholly different than movie snobs! :D

You have a pink avatar but you're not going??? 🤨

Yeah. The true movie snob insists that only "sophisticated" movies for serious adults are worthwhile.

I think we view "movie snobs" as people who look down on popular entertainment. It's not about whether a movie's good or not - it's whether the movie is "sophisticated" enough. I have an old college friend who always looked down his nose at anything he considered to be "kiddie movies" - ie, if...

"Madagascar 3" works better than the 1st 2 because it has a "we don't give a f--k" energy about it. Like those involved said "we made 2 hit movies - we gonna do what we want". It's crazed and anarchic - in a good way!

Yer cubic zirconia at best! :D

BTW, I don't claim Gerwig and Baumbach are "movie snobs". And if they are, more power to 'em - I have no problem with that. I just dispute the notion Nolan is a movie snob.

Don't know your siblings, but as for the question of whether YOU turned out fine?

In "Russians", Sting refers to the A-bomb as "Oppenheimer's deadly toy", so Sting disagrees! ;)

Yup. Though Baumbach did co-write "Madagascar 3", which is this weird anomaly in his otherwise hipster filmography. But "M3" is the best of the franchise by a mile, so I guess he helped!

Most of his movies have been action flicks or thrillers. Not genres embraced by some snooty snob.

Which I've seen 4 times - not sure what joke I'm missing here.

Oh, obviously Nolan's movies aren't anything like Will Ferrell comedies. My point was just that Nolan doesn't have the filmography of a snob.

Nolan clearly likes popcorn movies. Sure, he gussies up his films with complexities, but the Batman movies, "Tenet" and "Inception" are still action flicks. He wouldn't have made so many movies like that if he didn't like 'em! :)

When the Blu-ray comes out, I guess. I won't see it until next week.

Precisely. Some people still can't acknowledge that maybe - just maybe - "Barbie" isn't the cheap 2-hour toy promotion they thought it would be. They're still digging at it like it's a substance-free POS. Movie's getting great reviews and audiences love it. I'm also sure he appreciates that...

While the studio did promote the heck out of it, I do think the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon helped it a lot. Even when people didn't do a double feature, that social media cross-promotion made it more intriguing to people. Helped both movies. I'm sure now studios will try to replicate it, but...

Yeah, I only ended up seeing it because a friend and I were out of town, wanted to see a movie and "Ruby" was the only thing I'd not seen on which we could agree. (I coulda done a couple of horror movies but my friend hates those.) I didn't intend to avoid "Ruby" but I also didn't seek it out!

I did see the movie's trailer a bunch of times. Not sure how else they did - or didn't - advertise it, though I think I saw some ads on Twitter. It's not a bad movie, but it seems a little too reminiscent of "Luka" on the animation front - and "Dear God It's Me Margaret" in a weird way, since...

Oh sorry - I didn't read the question closely enough. No, I think the Air and Space IMAX is "laser digital". Still 1.44:1 ratio but not actual film.