…as private as an Instagram account can be, anyway.
As a kid, I was obsessed with the Captain Underpants book series, so you could imagine my excitement when Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie came out 7 years ago(!). “Dog Man” takes place in the Captain Underpants universe (it’s one of the comics that George and Harold create), though as I’ve gotten older I haven’t been able to keep up with the Dog Man books.
Long story short, if this is anything like Captain Underpants, I’ll be first in line to see this.
As a kid, I was obsessed with the Captain Underpants book series, so you could imagine my excitement when Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie came out 7 years ago(!). “Dog Man” takes place in the Captain Underpants universe (it’s one of the comics that George and Harold create), though as I’ve gotten older I haven’t been able to keep up with the Dog Man books.
Long story short, if this is anything like Captain Underpants, I’ll be first in line to see this.
So what do you think? Did we dodge a bullet or miss an opportunity?
Krusty: So he’s proactive, huh?
Network Executive Lady: Oh, God, yes. We’re talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
Writer: Excuse me, but “proactive” and “paradigm”? Aren’t these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I’m accusing you of anything like that… [pause] …I’m fired, aren’t I?
Roger Meyers, Jr.: Oh, yes. [gets up to leave] The rest of you writers start thinking up a name for this funky dog - I don’t know, something along the lines of, say, “Poochie”, only more proactive!
Krusty: Yeah!
— The Simpsons S08E14 “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”
No, what happened?
Okay, thanks!
Who is the original artist?
For this movie, no it isn’t. Joker (2019) opened at $96 million, and critical response was stellar. It also had a budget of only $55 million, so it didn’t need much to make a profit.
This one has a budget of $200 million, so it will need to make at least $500 million at the box office to break even. But compared to the first movie, the reviews aren’t looking so good.
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Their calculations show it will ‘pass within the distance of the moon’ but that it ‘will not hit the moon, so what’s the point?’
They scrapped most of the movie for creative reasons? Wow. The way it was written, I would think the second half was mostly laid out.
This is how most of Across the Spider-Verse was produced as well. Vulture even wrote an exposé on the behind-the-scenes drama, it’s an eye-opening read.
If you have potatoes or onions in your diet, you’re probably safe.
Looks like I’m in the clear!
Every day we stray further from a Shang-Chi sequel.
“Look at the stars. The Great Kings of the Past look down on us from those stars. […] So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you…and so will I.”
— James Earl Jones as Mufasa in The Lion King (1994)
…we’re never getting Shang-Chi 2, are we?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism