The Nerd Thread (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics, Games, Collectibles, Lore, etc.)

ANoobis
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Ghibelline Omnipotens
The outrage from Willow’s cancellation is proceeding along predictable lines. Disney is being accused of bigotry by their selected audience. They’re going to have to learn what pandering to these people leads to.
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ANoobis
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Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
Shazam 2 pulled in $11.7m for the Friday box office take. Since Friday’s numbers are always bundled with the Thursday previews as “Friday+” in the reporting, Thursday’s $3.4m is included in that number.
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ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
Shazam ended up pulling down $30.5m domestic opening weekend. That’s lower than the most pessimistic pre-release projections, but right in line with estimates made after the Thursday preview numbers came in. Combined with its international take, it made about $65m.
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ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
This is the fifth box office loser in a row for the DCEU, with three entries to go before the DCU reboot, none of which are a sure win. I don’t even know that The Flash is that important anymore, since Blue Beetle and Aquaman 2 are now coming out after it. Near as I can tell, instead of ending everything with Flashpoint and picking up with the DCU, they’re just going to quit the DCEU unceremoniously after the next Aquaman.
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ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
Victoria Alonso is gone from Marvel. She’s the one who was behind the identity politics turn that the MCU took in Phase 4. She’s also the one responsible for the degradation of the MCU’s visual effects, as well as Disney becoming such an abusive client to VFX artists.
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ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
@AlsoSprachOdin
Except for how important she was. She was both head of production and co-president of Marvel. She had as much creative control as Feige, as well as all the power when it came to actually making the movies.
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ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
The Dungeons and Dragons movie had a decent opening weekend. It came in at the higher end of its lowered estimates after the writers tanked their prospects. From what people are saying, the movie doesn’t appear to be bad, especially not in the way they suggested, and they really shouldn’t have said what they said.
The Mario movie’s projections are exploding. They’re so high that Universal is trying to manage them back down. The last thing they want is for journos to set the bar on the moon, and then start asking if the movie’s failing because it’s only the biggest movie of this year.
The Mario movie is being attacked on Rotten Tomatoes. I’m actually not surprised to see this, and was kind of hoping to, in fact. The early reactions were glowing, and the YouTubers who have seen it have been loving it. That the mainstream critics are trying to bury it is a good sign.
ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
There’s a controversy brewing around the DCEU’s upcoming Blue Beetle. A character, who is supposed to be a crazy conspiracy theorist, calls Batman a fascist in the trailer. Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem, considering the character speaking. The director saw fit to throw gas on the spark, and paint the film as another ‘own the chuds’ project, as though it’s still 2016.
Warner was already facing a challenge with this movie. The DCEU is a narrative dead end, and their Flashpoint movie that obsoletes it is coming out first. They needed to give people a reason to show up, not this. The director deleted a bunch of his old tweets and privated his account, so it seems someone at Warner gave him a talking to.
ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
The Flash is on track for a 75% second weekend drop. That would be the second worst drop ever for a superhero movie, franchise film or not. Even Morbius’ second weekend drop wasn’t that bad.
ANoobis
A toast - Incredibly based
Fried Chicken - Attended an april fools event
Book Horse - A user who has contributed to 5k+ metadata changes.
Chatty Kirin - A user who has reached a combined 1000 forum posts or comments.
Liberty Belle - Sings the song of the unchained

Ghibelline Omnipotens
@Officer Hotpants
It’s the DCEU’s butchering of the Flashpoint Paradox storyline. This is the movie that’s supposed to pave the way for James Gunn’s rebooted DCU continuity. Even that’s been botched, since Blue Beetle and Aquaman 2 failed to come out before The Flash, so we still have two DCEU films coming out after the transition.
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