Sean’s movie thoughts

Britney Runs a Marathon is supposed to be pretty good. Jillian Bell stars as Britney and Bell gets to show a more dramatic turn in this movie. I hope it will open in a theater near me soon. I am not a huge fan of Bell but I have seen some things with her, it could be interesting to see her be dramatic. Apparently Terminator Dark Fate is supposed to be the first of a new trilogy.  So were the last two Terminator movies. Why? I guess can guess why (money) but maybe it would be okay to make the best Terminator movie you can and then if it hits figure out a sequel. I’d like to give this film a fair chance but I’ve been burned by the last two or three films in this series. Maybe I am not talking about films with enough people but the number of website articles about Terminator Dark Fate seems high for the level of interest in it I’ve observed. I think I said this before but I wonder at times if the film websites are just guessing about how much interest there is in an upcoming film....

I was wrong about there not being a romantic subplot in any of Mike the Miz Mizanin’s Marine movies. His sisters were dating guys in the Marine 3. I think that counts. It is a bit interesting or odd that his character had four movies without a love interest. The Disney Fox merger is complete. I am not sure the results are going to be good for consumers in the long run. There were stories about Disney flexing their muscles towards theaters recently and now Disney has more muscles (or bigger muscles). I am okay with the X-men being in a separate film universe than the Avengers and company. (The X-men and the Fantastic Four being in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is seen as a benefit of the merger.) It worked for years, even if a few of the X-men movies were not good.

Comcast has made an offer for the Fox entertainment properties. This complicates the Fox Disney deal, which seemed to be a done deal at one point. The Disney/Fox merger might not happen and maybe that is not a bad thing. Disney is already pretty powerful. They have leveraged their power recently, an example being the conditions theaters had to meet to play the Last Jedi. (Basically they won some concessions from theaters that made the deal better for Disney, not for the theaters.)With the Fox entertainment properties, Disney would be more powerful. The marketplace would go from having six major studios to having five major studios and maybe that is not good for fans. Also would a combined Fox/Disney studio make as many movies as the two studios do now? I don’t think so. After a point the company would be competing against itself. I could be wrong about this but I could also be right. The X-men series has been pretty good at times but it had its ups and downs too. Logan was really...