Disney's always been a risk-averse studio, but in the 2000s they were making inspirational sports movies (Miracle, Remember the Titans) YA adaptations (Holes, Tuck Everlasting) and occasional originals like National Treasure along with the IP tentpoles. Can they do that again?
Netflix’s Mindhunter—a show that’s just people talking in rooms and yet every scene is absorbing—shows that my attention span is not the problem, actually, when I can’t stick with a show.
Whereas in the sequel trilogy it felt like we’d get to a planet, have an action setpiece with the scope of a theme park, and then fly off to the next planet.
An underrated critique of the Star Wars sequel trilogy: the filmmakers almost never make use of the planet they’re on.
Recall just how many areas of Naboo we got to see by the end of The Phantom Menace. Or Coruscant in The Attack of the Clones…
Fun fact: Morocco was the first country to recognize U.S. independence.
The Moroccan-American Treaty of Peace & Friendship was negotiated by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1786, and remains the longest unbroken bilateral treaty in American history.
#America250
@GeeksGamersCom “rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so”. Not Black Widow. Or Wakanda Forever. Thunderbolts kinda counts too? This just isn’t true lol
The more videos I see of World Cup tourists enjoying American culture (the Scottish in Boston, the Japanese in Dallas, etc.), the more I’m convinced that the World Cup is the most uniting event on US soil since Pokémon Go 2016.