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I used to think we don't need another Toy Story.

I thought it was another pointless cash grab from Disney but after seeing this teaser I'm interested like mad.

The villain being an iPad is such an interesting idea that is too good to pass up.

I want Toy Story 5 to show how too much screen time can limit a child's interest and hobbies and even contribute to social anxiety in children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBgf8dcgyY?si=mUn6tFnzuMmkOl3U

abduleez1:
Frankenstein (2025)........8/10

It was a really good film. Great dialogue and acting.
While Oscar Isaac was the focus & mad genius; Jacob Elordi was the force of the beast, Mia Goth was the heart of the film.

Great film. The cinematography and production design was breath taking. This is one the films/projects that really do explain the views of the Creature so well. My fave of all remains what they did with this tale in Penny Dreadful. It is the best version of the Creature to me.

But still Guillermo Del Toro's version does a good job also of portraying the Creature as having good intelligence as opposed to some early versions. His rage, grievances and vengeance against Victor was well documented.

Some changes here and there in some characters and storyline especially Elizabeth's who's now betrothed to Frankenstein's brother instead of him....but overall the film was a very good one and handled the changes well where it actually served the story Guillermo Del Toro wants to tell.

It was a top top entertaining film. The visuals is just beautiful and this continues the tradition this year whereby horror genre has the best looks ans production design.

Best part of the movie fr

I keep seeing high praise for this show all over the Internet.

I have added it to list of shows I'm going to binge during Christmas alongside Welcome to Derry and Stranger Things 5.

Christmas go sweet o.

abduleez1:
It is here.....
E be like say Billion $$ go sure oo. 👀


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUpGzJLiQ-A?si=oiu5R-uRlA_VjZSk

For this movie to make a billion, they have to recreate what his concerts felt like.

A significant part of the movie should show the iconic concerts and performances.


The super bowl halftime show which to this day remains one of the greatest super bowl halftime shows ever.

They need to recreate that from beginning to end.

bentenny:
Three home games starting from the midweek EPL clash against crystal palace may determine the future of Slot as LFC coach!

Three wins against crystal palace,Aston villa and real Madrid will calm nerves and ensure the victories will be a turning point for Liverpool!
Three defeats which of s most unlikely but very possible could cost Slot his job or even make the Liverpool board start looking for alternatives!

So if that happens,my first option will be the return of Klopp but knowing him too well,he would rather allow other managers to take over instead of him....which brings me to my second option which is the bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola!
Probably and arguably one of the best managers that could become head coach of Liverpool if and only if he wants to!

However,this can only happen if Slot doesn't start winning football games starting with Crystal palace and Liverpool goes on a free fall!

If Iraola doesn't want to leave.

I would suggest a wildcard option.

CESC FABREGAS

He took charge of FC Como and got them promoted to the Serie A for the first time in 21 years.

He finished 10th in his first season and he currently has them sitting 5th on the Serie A table.

He's a very intelligent young manager who understands football. He's not stubborn like Amorim.

Cesc Fàbregas's preferred formation is a 4-2-3-1, which he adapts in possession to a 3-2-4-1 by having a full-back push forward. He also uses a 4-3-3, a 4-1-4-1 when defending, and a 4-2-2-2 system, showing his flexibility in formations. His tactics emphasize building from the back, controlling the midfield, and fluid movement.

Gone are the days when big clubs in Europe rotate the same high profile managers.

Young managers with zero experience coaching elite clubs are stepping up nowadays.

Bayern Munich took a risk by getting Kompany after he relegated Burnley and he transformed the club in less than two seasons.

Young managers are 50/50 but you'll never know which one will turn out great until you take the risk and hire them.

HBO is going strong right now with their new shows.

Welcome to Derry looks like another banger.

I just finished watching episode 1 of Task and I must say HBO really cooked here.

This show is going to be one of 2025's best.

Fantastic show. Check it out if you haven't.

Peacemaker season 2

Not as good as season 1 imo.

I liked the multiverse story. It was personal, emotional and incredibly well done.

I did not like everything else. Episodes 1 and 2 were good but the story starts going back and forth instead of moving forward steadily.

I don't see the justification for 8 episodes. This season could easily be just 6 episodes. Some episodes are barely 35 minutes with mostly filler and sub plots I didn't care for.

But the season peaks with episodes 6 and 7.

I consider those two episodes as one of the best episodes of TV I have seen in 2025. It was remarkable, emotional and incredibly well written.

John Cena delivered arguably the best acting performance of his whole career.

The season finale was terrible. It brought down the whole season for me. It didn't resolve Peacemaker's arc and it left me confused and unsatisfied.

The finale was basically a one hour post credit scene. It was just a means to set up future DCU stories and it was done at the expense of this show.

Also does James Gunn realize that he just made Peacemaker a must watch with the whole Salvation set up?
Skipping Peacemaker season 2 will leave you confused when you see salvation universe in future DCU projects.

This is one of the problems MCU had. Their Disney+ shows became an unnecessary homework you had to get through to understand the movies.

I admit I'm having a "James Gunn" fatigue.

I'm tired of the man and his style. The DCU started with too much James Gunn imo. All first three projects were written and directed by one man.
Even worse, all three projects were written within 2 years and it shows.

I can't wait for next year. I want to see other filmmakers with their different styles and tone.
The DCU needs some variety. James Gunn should take a break.

Peacemaker season 2 is a 6/10

If I stopped at episode 7, I would have rated it 7.5/10.

That finale is so awful.

pu7pl3:
Ah
Wont some cliffhanger in s2 make me want to see s3?

Westworld fell off really hard after season 2.

Stop at season 2. Do not bother with season 3, you'd be wasting your time and data.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/gUZIcao1TRg?si=JyiGYUCAD0UDw-Tm

PEACEMAKER SEASON 1

Slow start, strong finish

Nothing much happened in episodes 2 to 4. Just jokey moments and some character development.
But episodes 5 to 8 were especially strong, emotional and compelling.

Awesome finale too.

8/10

Now watching season 2

So far, so good

oyaskii:
This show started in 2016 and this is the fifth season!! I have all but forgotten what even happened in the last season, which was 3 whole years ago! 😭😭. This show is all that is wrong about TV shows these days, because there wasn't a logical reason it has taken this long. Millie Bobby Brown was 12 years old when this show started, now she is married with a kid!!

Yeah, the show should come and go abeg...i have zero anticipation for it, infact, i am having an inkling this final season sucks balls.

I blame the Duffer Bros and their over inflated ego for this.

Even Game of Thrones didn't take three years in between seasons.

We had eight seasons of GOT in exactly eight years.

It took Duffer Bros 9 years to do five seasons of a show that didn't cost as much as GOT.

Baddestguyp:
The 2.5 multiplier is used when we don't know the advertising cost.
Cinemas take 50% of movie earnings and a base 0.5 or 50% of a movie's production budget is used as it's advertising costs...that's where the 2.5x multiplier comes in...

Now that the advertising cost and other costs have been revealed, then you can't just apply a base 2.5x multiplier.

You just don't want to admit the sad reality that Superman 2025 was a box office bomb.

Don't worry, it will still make money from streaming to cover it's loses

You don't use advertising cost in the calculation.

Only use the budget.

It's only in rare cases that marketing budget is used and even then, the formula is different.

It's production budget + marketing budget x 1.5

The most widely accepted and simplified calculation is still budget x 2.5

You're forgetting that marketing is a different department. Every movie is marketed, big or small regardless of the production budget.

How come no one calculates marketing for low budget horror movies and other movies below $100m.
Do you think those smaller movies don't get marketing too?

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Baddestguyp:
From the article, it didn't break even. It lost about 50m.

It broke even.

Whoever wrote the article doesn't understand Hollywood maths.

The most simplified formula is budget x 2.5

Superman's budget is 225m

225m x 2.5 = 562m

That's the break even point

Chikena

joseph1832:
Is it good or is it that good?

Not good

RELAY

Well written, intense thriller.
Great performance from Riz Ahmed and Lily James.

The twist at the end. I didn't see it coming at all.

8/10

abduleez1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa1KLXuW0Y?si=wFLq7a1pLcip2zEH

First Star Wars movie in over 6 years and it looks like a TV show.

They are not ready.

Ibime:
He is already there counting Community Shield

007

He got an assist in that game

Court of Owls
Hugo Strange
Firefly
Clayface

Just a handful of popular Batman villains that have never featured in a movie.

I think we're most likely getting Court of Owls

Paramount

Ewwwww

A merge with Universal would be so much better.

Missed opportunity.

My apologies to Marvel Animation

I wasn't familiar with your game


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twHYF506-9Y?si=RRJUsbDi4QN-wT27

StarchAndBanga:
The blame should be on Liverpool.. They left it too late

They left it late to force Crystal Palace to agree to favourable terms and it worked until the coach said no.

Liverpool would have ended up paying close to £50m if they tried to sign Guehi too early.

They still have the advantage because next year they can get him for free.

Crystal Palace are the biggest loosers here.

It's up to Liverpool to sign Guehi to pre-contract agreement in January to fend off interest from other clubs that might attempt to get him for free.

Silentgroper:
Crystal palace no get Sense ...


Sweet 35mil wey Dem go get on top this guy Dem don gawk am .. Now except this guy signs a new contract , they wouldn't be getting nothing ..


Shebi Dem don even buy am CB from tolouse ..


This must be one of the stupidest decisions ever made...

It was the coach that made the final decision to keep Guehi.

What does coach know about business anyway?

He's not the one who will bear the consequences of loosing Guehi for free. It's the stupid owners.

I can't believe they let him have the final say.

Omoluabi16:
So basically crystal palace betrayed me nice guy Guehi by cutting it off at the last minute? But rebels like wissa and Isak get their deal. I honestly don't blame some of these players who become the 'bad guy's just to get their move. see Harry Kane for example, who has missed so much trophies just playing catch up now.

This transfer window has taught me that as a footballer if you want to move to a big club, you have to fight for it.

Guehi played nice with Crystal Palace and that is why the move failed.

If Isak and Wissa didn't fight for their right to move, they would still be at their former clubs by now.

Vischy:
Ademola Lookman has given the green light for a move to Bayern, but Atalanta are resisting.

An agreement on the offered terms (loan with an option to buy) is highly unrealistic at this point.

Source: Sky Deutschland

Seria A clubs are maximum security prisons for African players.

F1 is a my second favourite movie of the year after Ne Zha 2.

This is coming from a guy that does not care about Formula 1 motor racing.

This movie was top tier. A perfect blend of a heartfelt story, great cinematography, amazing music by the legendary Hans Zimmer and incredible directing from Joseph Kosinski—the same guy that directed Top Gun Maverick.

While F1 is not as great as Top Gun Maverick, it did have me on the edge of my seat multiple times.
The race was intense, emotional and immersive. Incredibly well shot and directed thanks to Joseph Kosinski and the music by Hans Zimmer.

The cast was perfect.
From Brad Pitt to Damon Idris, Javier Bardem and the lady that kinda looks like Rebecca Ferguson.

I wish I saw this movie two months ago in cinema. This is the type of movie you'd enjoy even more on the big screen. It would have been an epic cinematic experience for me.

F1 is a very good 9/10

bentenny:
As for Superman,there isn't much to add to what I have already said!

I'm not saying that the man of steel should be perfect but being undermined and always assisted by everyone including his annoying dog?
Thats no Superman....thats a mini-man!

Even if there was an intention for Gunn to introduce other superheroes,superman should be the focal point in terms of strength not weakness!

Enough said!
Let me go and watch F1

This is my biggest problem with James Gunn’s Superman.

He’s the weakest Superman I’ve ever seen.

The way Superman gets captured so easily in this movie bothers me. Yes, he’s vulnerable to Kryptonite—but it's not that easy to render him powerless. The Man Of Steel would definitely fight back when facing a life-threatening situation.

For comparison, look at how CW Superman in a similar situation, reacted to Kryptonite:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPeezd_OFyI?si=k00BN7L0EiqyQlly

I'm happy for him.

After his breakout role in Severance, his stock has been rising.

He's in the new MI movie as well.

I watched Superman again, and as much as I liked the movie, I can’t shake the feeling that James Gunn tried to do too much.

The plot isn’t strong enough, and the pacing is off. This movie lacks proper build-up.

Emotional scenes fall flat because they’re just thrown at you with no setup. And without build-up, there can be no payoff.

Take one of my favorite scenes, for example, Clark talking with his dad. That moment could have been powerful, but the Kents barely got any screen time. They appear at the start of the movie, then disappear until the end of Act 2. So why should I care?

The twist with Jor-El’s message didn’t work for me either, because the movie never showed us that Superman is who he is thanks to his human parents. Clark Kent’s background is completely ignored. In fact, Clark doesn’t even exist in this movie, it’s all Superman. And in a film stuffed with characters, Clark gets the least amount of screen time.

James Gunn clearly thinks introducing the DCU is more important than telling a standalone Superman story.

I couldn’t care less about the Boravia–Jarhampur conflict because this movie commits one of cinema’s greatest sins: telling instead of showing.

The film is weighed down by exposition, especially in the first hour.

Take the interview scene, for example. That’s where we learn Superman interfered in global politics by stopping the invasion of Jarhampur and threatening the Boravian president. This ends up being a major part of the plot, yet the movie never shows us what Superman did in Boravia.

Instead, everything is crammed into five minutes of exposition. Why?

I thought the Justice Gang was okay, but let’s be real, the only reasons they’re in this movie are:

1. Gunn wants to establish that the DCU is a shared world with other heroes.


2. Gunn loves throwing teams of D-list characters into his movies and could not resist doing it again.

The worst part for me was when Superman gets captured and poisoned with Kryptonite. The movie then shifts focus to the Justice Gang so they can get some spotlight in a Superman movie where they had no business being in the first place.

Mr. Terrific was great, Guy Gardner was fine, and Hawkgirl had her moment when she killed Netanyahu. But this was the wrong movie for them.

They got way too much screen time, time that should have gone to Clark and the Kents.


When the movie first came out, people said Superman was weak and lost too often. I defended him.
But after a second viewing, I can admit those complaints are not completely wrong.

The movie tells us Superman has been around for three years and is the most powerful being in the world. But if that’s true, the world is cooked. Who’s protecting Metropolis when Darkseid invades? The same guy who got beaten by Hammer of Boravia? Definitely not.

Lex Luthor countering Superman in a fight should not even be possible. Superman has superhuman speed. In the comics, he’s fast enough to race the Flash. But here, it feels like this Superman has not even unlocked his full speed, which makes no sense after three years.

Clearly, Gunn intentionally nerfed him. Otherwise, how would the Engineer have time to fill his body with nanites?

And don’t get me started on how easily Superman got captured. He sees Kryptonite and immediately collapses. His heat vision just stops working. A stronger Superman would have at least tried to break the glass with heat vision. This one didn’t even try. If Metamorpho hadn’t switched sides, he’d still be trapped.

Speaking of heat vision, I almost forgot he had it until the third act. He spends most of the movie just flying around and throwing punches instead of using his full power. No wonder a mindless clone pinned him down until Krypto bailed him out.

James Gunn needs to fix this and make Superman stronger. I want to see him unlock his full potential. Because right now, Omni-Man would rip him apart in seconds. It wouldn’t even be close.

At this point, Superman is my least favorite James Gunn project. All three Guardians of the Galaxy films, The Suicide Squad, and Peacemaker are better. Gunn is clearly at his best when working with D-list characters, which makes it surprising he insists on writing and directing a Superman sequel.

That said, I still like the movie. Gunn did capture Superman’s kindness, boy scout naivety, hope, and optimism.

But after my second viewing, I give it a decent 7/10.