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I dunno, I think people expected it to be able to maintain the high watermark (in terms of both audience reception and box office) that crested around 2018-2019, which was just never going to happen. I think the MCU can keep going at, say, 75% as successful as it was in that 18-19 period for a pretty long time.

MY MCU PHASE 4 RANKING as of this afternoon 1. Loki 2. WandaVision 3. Hawkeye 4. Black Widow 5. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 6. Spider-Man: No Way Home 7. Ms. Marvel 8. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 9. Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings 10. Moon Knight 11. Thor: Love and Thunder 12. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 13. She-Hulk 14. Eternals I left off What If and the Werewolf thing on purpose

I don't think the finale episodes of Wandavision were that lame. I liked the flashback to Agatha's origin and Agatha going through Wanda's memories with her, I thought the Boner reveal was funny, I liked the Ship of Thebes scene between the Visions, and I liked the sequence of Wanda saying goodbye to fake kids and fake Vision. Were the confrontations between Wanda/Agatha and the Visions a bit disappointing? Sure, but not enough to sour it all.

There's really not much to discuss after the initial reactions to the nominations and before it's closer to the ceremony. I get that they want to give voters a chance to see the nominated movies/performances they've missed, but nearly 7 weeks between noms and ceremony is a bit much.

I honestly forget that Eternals was a thing that happened. Let's hope Feige & co. forget too!

After this past weekend's box office results, I'm feeling much more confident in my Yes vote.

I liked Doctor Strange 2 significantly more than Love and Thunder and Wakanda Forever, which were both the biggest Marvel disappointments for me in a while. I think both were essentially failures, and I'm a big MCU guy!

It’s kinda funny for him to group Stravinsky in with Schoenberg there considering that Stravinsky, while his music can be challenging, is vastly more popular and widely performed. There’s a difference between music that’s challenging and worth the effort and music that… isn’t.

I’m halfway through the single player campaign of Goldeneye. Very glad I have the switch N64 controller.

Another attempt at Tomb Raider? 3rd times the charm maybe

She's made of code, sir! I assure you, she can.

JWfan will founder

RIP Tom Verlaine. incredible guitarist and songwriter with a style that was all his own

For a second I thought you meant Garber himself had died and I was like, how did miss that?!

bang bang jason's silver (ban)hammer came down on my head, bang bang jason's silver (ban)hammer made sure that i was dead

Don't count Morbius out yet

Your naive self-righteousness and moral smugness are all too common and indicative that this is unproductive. We are all of us fallen. Peace!

Speaking of straw men, I see you’re creating them with ease. The problem I see is multiple generations brought up on the mentality that victimhood, or at least perceived victimhood, is how to define moral worth. I see huge groups of people searching out whatever marginalized status they can lay claim to and feel that sweet sweet dopamine of moral superiority. And then keep chasing the high of rooting out wrongthink and bigotry, addicted to meting out justice and self-valorization, which of course requires constant maintenance of and renewal of their marginalized status. To be clear, this mindset is just as insidious on the right as it is on the left. It actively distracts from the truth and is based in hate and pride just as much as the bigotry they think they fight against. Anyway this whole thing on the thread goes back to the specific claims of the director of Till that are so transparently the claims of a sore loser trying to seek whatever leverage they think they have. And because the Academy is a modern liberal institution they have to pretend, or worse believe, that instead of being a sore loser, they are a noble victim of injustice.

Yes!

Our Town is my personal favorite of Copland's 8 film scores, an incredible piece of work. The complete re-recording that Naxos released 15 or so years ago is essential, now I just wish we'd get complete modern re-recordings of Red Pony and Heiress (as great as the Intrada release of the original recordings is). But @AC1 you skipped my favorite of the Our Town piano pieces, "The Resting Place on the Hill," adapted from what is the greatest cue in the original score IMO.

There aren’t hundreds of amazing composers of either sex alive today

Watching Radio Days for the 500th time. Perfect in every way.

It’s the backbone of the modern liberal worldview: absolutely nothing about you is more important than the color of your skin, and we must focus on each others’ to the point of mania

I knew season 3 was coming but didn't realize it had started until last week, binged the first four, and now have to watch the last two week to week like a plebe I think it's good that Happy Valley is limited to just 3 series though, Sally Wainwright's shows tend to get really bad when they go on too long. Grasping for ever soapier and outrageous character developments. Looking' at you Last Tango.

Actually no, that was a different market. Dumbass.