Ha.
It’s funny, I like wheel of time. The show got me to read the books … and I noped out of them half way through book 4 … but will happily continue to watch the show.
Haven't watched it in years but it's a classic everyone should watch, absolutely gut wrenching. Some of it was later used in a Metallica music video bringing it back to notoriety somewhat.
La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia
The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death.
Lost Highway (1997) wikipedia
A David Lynch film. I've not seen his 90s films but always meant to. After hearing of his illness, I figure now is as good a time as any
The Cremaster Cycle (wikipedia)
This is probably as pretentiously art house as you can get ... I've never seen it but always meant to. It's probably hard to get a hold of ... but I'm putting it here anyway
Excellent suggestion!!
Thanks for the suggestion! I was worried no one would be into this "fringe" idea!!
It appears to be on Disney+ AFAICT (I'm not subscribed).
2013 and 2017 seemed particularly bad ...
From box office mojo, the listings were (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2013/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses)
2017
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
- Beauty and the Beast
- Wonder Woman
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- It
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Despicable Me 3
- Logan
- The Fate of the Furious
2013
- Iron Man 3
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Despicable Me 2
- Man of Steel
- Monsters University
- Frozen
- Gravity
- Fast & Furious 6
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- Star Trek Into Darkness
Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.
entering data is beautiful mode ...
It's not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.
It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that'd probably work too, but it wouldn't be as aesthetically pleasing.
It would be more damning if they said “part of a franchise”.
For sure, but part of what the MCU "unlocked" was a non-linear franchise, where it's not just sequels or prequels but an arbitrary network of films that connect in some way or another. Thus all of the MCU films.
The thing though, I suspect, is that a sense of linearity in the overall story was actually pivotal to the Ironman-Endgame era of the MCU. There was always a sense of the whole thing pushing in a single general direction. And post Endgame, that sense disappeared and Marvel frankly kinda shat the bed on recreating it in some way.
So given that, and the way IronMan/RDJ was the single linear thread through the whole thing, along with the rest of the "the band", I think it makes a lot of sense to treat that sprawl of films as a giant series of sequels.
Alright Sabre foregoing lightning wielding sith who throw their Sabres strategically then!