We don’t know that Two-Face is the villain in the next one. Everything other than the marketing for this one suggests that he’s the villain NOW.

That Office one is v. hot.

If you’re looking for stuff from Hollywood that’s great in the story department, you should lower your expectations. To help in that regard, you should read this screenwriter’s screed about working for Dreamworks Animation. Or better yet, read these exerpts from Allan Weisbacker’s tell-all memoir about his experiences in the development process, which is also linked from the first story (the second is very long - 6 parts - but well worth it if you love behind-the-scenes stories about the kind of unbelievable idiocy only found in show business).

That being said, I’ll be right there with the unwashed masses this summer, shelling out my duckets to see many of the blockbusters listed here, as well as three low-brow comedies—STEP BROTHERS, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, and TROPIC THUNDER.

Sign me up!

It’s like the Animatrix of The Dark Knight.

Fuckin awesome

Oh yeah I’m not even an X-Files fan but I wanna see this. Xhibit is in it!

I’m watching it

I shouldn’t be shocked at anything coming out of Hollywood anymore, but i was actually shocked when I learned they were doing another X-Files movie. I’ll probably see it, but I’m not sure I’ll get to it in the theater. I just don’t get out to the movies that much (partly because I just don’t think many movies are worth seeing, period, much less in the theaters, and then I don’t even see as many movies in the theaters that I want to).

I am intrigued by it, though.

The Mummy is one of those films that I don’t mind so much. It’s basically harmless fun.

The Mummy II, however, was horrible and it really tainted that franchise for me. I guess I shouldn’t hold that against a movie that hasn’t even come out, yet. But I find it hard not to…

- Chinese dragons don’t breathe fire.
- The whole Westerners HELL YEAH vs Evil Chinese thing.

But I do like Brendan Fraser (really!) and I liked the first two Mummy movies. And I’ll watch anything Jet Li is in. *thinks of War * Well, almost anything.

I’m looking forward to Hellboy II. I thought Hellboy was pretty underrated. Ron Pearlman did a great job.

(My all-time fave movie villain.)

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That’s just how SBNation rolls.

And this does seem to be a particularly ripe movie season.

..why?!

yes, sometimes crowds can be annoying, but often it can enhance the experience. Plus the actual “going out” factor makes it more of an event. Seeing it on a huge screen will always be better than a plasma, the plasma just narrows the gap, that’s all

I don’t have big screen plasma, so the visual and audio experience for me is still superior at the theater. For most movies, home is fine, but if it’s a Big Epic Type of movie, in which the visual and audio size is important, then I’ll go to the theater… but NEVER in the first few days of release and I try to go at odd times. Why?

Because crowds are damn near intolerable. You mention the talking and the cell phones (not to mention the small ocean of glittering dots in my field of vision between me and the screen, which are actually youngsters txting—probably txting someone else in that very theater). I would add stupid people bringing little kids to late evening shows, stupid people walking in and out during the movie, likely catching parts of other movies while there to see a different movie. I also add stupid people walking in and out for restroom or concession breaks, because 100 minutes is like flying from here to Paris.

I would also add that 3 of 5 movies I have seen in theaters in the last few months had bad projecting—the dumbass projectionist was shooting the film too low on the screen, so we weren’t seeing the bottom little bit of the screen (haven’t seen the boom microphones at the top, but that’s just luck).

Customer service in America is generally in decline, and movie theaters are no different, I guess.