YAY!
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Day Break
Itās ABC/Disney but there were problems with the soundtrack rights? I would imagine itās at the bottom of the pile of things the lawyers are going to be re-clearing for the new service.
Historical fiction in the style of The Andromeda Strain, no doubt dumbed down so us non-molecular-biologists can understand it, but they describe what the characters are testing for and what different results would mean. Itās not just technobabble injected into the story. The science itself is the story.
But unfortunately the normal human dialogue is pretty bad. There is not much distinction between conversation and de facto narration. One character even introduces himself, in the third person, with his whole CV, to people he already knows, for the benefit of the audience 
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Maybe read the book instead?
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This is probably the show Iāve been most excited for in a good number of years.
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āWelcome to the Hot Zone. Population: meā
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Captain Brannigan, is that you?
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Oh yes. I could not put that one down. Well written, and the science is written so anyone can understand it and scary as anything real can be.
I will say no more as there would be spoilers.
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I used my last few hours of Prime to access a free trial of HBO, and I gotta say this is so very good.
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Avengers 4. Kind of confusing, I think Iāve seen Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Avengers 3, Ironman 1 or 2 or possibly both, and the Sam Raimi Spiderman 1 +2, and thatās about it.
Decent film, tho.
What really irritated me was the trailer selection. Which included this worthless piece of trash.
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Butā¦it has the star of Black Panther showing he can be something other than a guy in a costume beating up thugs.
Probably contractually required to show it
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Yeah, itās a film thatās meant to be watched by someone who has seen pretty much all of the MCU movies to date. It pretty much drops you right into the middle of Avengers 1, Thor 2, GotG 1, and the aftermath of Cap 1. I canāt imagine you got half of the callbacks with the selection you watched.
The Raimi Spider-Man movies, as good as they are, are unrelated to the MCU, though; Spideyās been rebooted twice since then. Theyāre still pertinent to Spider-Verse, though.
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and yetā¦ it made 2.7 billion in ticket sales.
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ā¦I donāt see why one couldnāt follow from the other.
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https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=avengers.htm
The Avengers 623 million
Thor, the Dark World, 206 million
GotG, 333 million
Captain America The first Avenger: 176 million
strongly implies that people didnāt fulfill the prerequisites.
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I didnāt. Iāve seen some of the movies, but not even half. And, I still enjoyed Endgame. I probably missed some of the references, but it was worth the price of admission.
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They were also shown on tv multiple times.
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Three points.
First, the set āsaw the filmā contains, but is not only composed of, the set āsaw the film in theatresā (Iāve seen all 22 films, but I didnāt see all of them in theatres).
Second, gross box office revenues are a good way to measure how much money people are willing to spend to see a film, but theyāre pretty crappy as a way to measure the number of eyes watching a screen. In addition to standard ticket price inflation, thereās also the issue that certain films try to attract viewers to watch them in more-expensive formats (3D, IMAX, etc.), with big blockbuster films tending to be more successful in that push, meaning that as a film gets more popular, its revenue will increase at a greater rate than the number of viewers watching. Then, take into account that people will want to watch more popular films more times in theatres, and the whole thing gets blown way out of hand.
Sure, thereās a general correlation between āThis movie made more money in theatresā and āmore people have seen this movie in theatres,ā but itās not as strong a correlation as you seem to imply.
Finally, my claim wasnāt that Endgame was made for the sole enjoyment of people who had watched the first twenty-one movies (although Infinity War is probably a necessary prerequisite), but that its target audience is people who have watched most or all of the MCU films, and that a whole bunch of references are going to go over everyone elseās head (āI can do this all day,ā cheeseburgers, āOn your left,ā Tony hugging Peter, and the kid at Tonyās funeral are just the ones that come to mind first).
So, sure, there are going to be some people who havenāt made the whole 22-movie slog. And Iām sure theyāre still going to find the movie enjoyable. But, there are probably more people who have made that whole journey than you think, and this movie was clearly made with the intention of rewarding them.
Edit: whoops. Blurred out anything that could be a spoiler there; I know one thing in that line is definitely a spoiler, so I might as well blur the rest.
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