…The Marvels, to make that film under two hours. …it’s the shortest Marvel movie of all, at 1hr 45m. (Though given The Marvels is regarded as one of the weakest Marvel movies, such brevity doesn’t always equal quality.)

Superman director James Gunn had to deny rumours Warner Bros had ordered him to make the film shorter

…watching The Fantastic Four that it strives to stay under the two-hour mark. In doing so it perhaps over-corrects a little: a blossoming romance between Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s The Thing and Natasha Lyonne’s schoolteacher suddenly vanishes midway through the movie – or more likely was sent to the cutting room floor by clockwatchers. Still, that did probably contribute to a film that, while not without flaws, felt appealingly brisk.

Maybe I’m alone but my chief complaint of all three of these films were how quick they were and how they didn’t give certain characters or stories the room to breathe, or in some cases room to be told.

Two hours is the minimum I expect, and an extra half hour is appreciated. Obviously I don’t want to slog through a film, but if you’re going to tell a rich epic story, it probably takes time, and I want to see it.

Now if I’m going to see a wacky comedy like The Naked Gun, that’s fine if it’s 90 minutes. A “kids” movie like Pixar, 90 minutes is fine.

This will sound every three seconds unless something isn’t okay!

Correct!

Oh no! Dad’s been drugged!

Just tested again with a few different games.

• Counter Strike Source, same results.
• VVVVV, played just fine.
• Animal Well, wanted a controller and then threw an error.
• Binding of Issac Rebirth, failed to load.

So it looks like I’d have to dig in and figure out why some failed to play. Any big games are probably out.

I’ve installed Steam using Crostini in the past and played CounterStike using it. It was technically playable, but not good performance wise. Although I do have a higher spec Chromebook now, so maybe it would be better. Although many Chromebooks are lower spec, so it’s possible there aren’t enough games that are reasonably playable.

I’m guessing the point of this project was to make it as easy as installing Android apps, a “one click” install.

Tracy Ulman is alive, so every day is an Ullman day. ( But yes, this is season 1.)

Many of them with cool gory pictures. Correct!

I think making them too perfect was the idea.

The entire world knows that the Fantastic Four can solve anything, so when they return from Galactus and haven’t defeated him, it’s meant to be truly scary. It’s also why the citizens turn on them. Oh they can save us but they won’t? But conversely it’s also how they convince the entire world to work together. They can solve anything.

A “Superman & Supergirl” film seems the most likely. Although that sounds like a Superman 2, which would be great, but I feel too simple.

The other possibility would be Superboy/Connor Kent/Con-El, but it seems too early for that. We know Luthor can make a clone of Superman. He kept repeating brains & brawn. Maybe Waller will give him access to his cloning devices? The pieces are all there, it just seems early. We should at least wait until we get a Bizzaro storyline, just to sell that cloning Superman is a bad idea. Then we can bring in another clone who we’re unsure of.

I saw a headline that claimed South Park’s creators “apologized” for the Trump episode, but I knew it had to be bullshit.

It was at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) after the first episode aired. The 14 second clip has Trey give an insincere apology. Some news articles were more clickbaity with the title.

Of course they’re not sorry. They made a funny episode.

Yes, but she’s severely underutilized.

Originally she was supposed to appear in the Black Widow post-credits, but we got her a little early during Falcon & The Winter Soldier.

She also had a brief storyline in Wakanda Forever, but that hasn’t really gone anywhere.

The Black Widow setup gave us a Hawkeye storyline that didn’t really make sense, but it did get Yelana into the main story.

The Falcon & The Winter Soldier story gave us Thunderbolts.

Thunder is finally when she’s really doing things, but that film needed a little more breathing room.

I expect she’ll be wayyyy out of her element during Doomsday/Secret Wars. (Plus no need to be secretive when the world is falling apart.)

I hope she gets a chance to really shine in the future.

I just hope he comes back someday.

Martin you fool.

Correct!

I do think they should have delayed Fantastic Four until at least mid August if not later. Maybe even save it for 2026.

2023 had three MCU films, 2024 had just one MCU film, 2025 was back to three, 2026 will have just two. There was plenty of space for this film, to put it right after Superman was probably a mistake.

Another thing not explored in this article is the 100 days to streaming rollout that we’ve seen.

A film comes out, ~60 days later it hits Premium VOD, ~30 days later a physical release, shortly after it hits Disney+.

A lot of people are willing to wait for a number of different reasons, economic, hype, quality, etc

I share Homer’s view on Neapolitan ice cream.

I appreciate his insistence buying Neapolitan.

What’s the matter? Ain’t you never seen a naked chick ridin’ a clam before?

Correct!

Correct! And that’s the end of that chapter.

I’m looking forward to digging into the discussion. I know Bart is a big fan of Leon Kompowsky’s music.