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but Superman, Thunderbolts, and Fantastic Four have all done extremely well in both the critic and fan review parts as evident by their RT and Metacritic scores

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Hmm, maybe that should tell you a bit about how RT is doing things rather than what people think about the movies. Superman has a 7/10 rating on IMDB, FF has 6.8/10, Thunderbolts 7.1/10, which matches up much better with what people I know think about them as well as how they performed in their second and onwards weekends. If a movie impresses audiences it will have good word of mouth and sustain success. Project Hail Mary and Obsession are both recent examples of that in action.

The response to the three you just mentioned was more along the lines of it was decent, but wait for streaming (except FF, I don't know anyone personally that was impressed with that). Whereas with Project Hail Mary I had a bunch of people I know ask if I had seen it and suggest I watch it if not.

I personally thought Superman was a solid popcorn flick, but ultimately forgettable and I don't have a real urge to rewatch (7/10 is about where I would rate it). My wife liked it much less, and none of the high school students I teach that have mentioned it were very impressed. If you aren't appealing to Gen X like myself, millennials like my wife, or the youngsters, you are going to have a hard time making money.

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poor fella just doesn’t enjoy anything, especially Auburn athletics.

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I mean, he seems to enjoy making negative comments about Auburn athletics, at any single time he gets a chance to make one.

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Seems like most it was an early fantasy series they read and it hooked them but there is prob better stuff out there now.

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This is a lot of it with Hobb. When she came out there wasn't as much good fantasy around.

I enjoyed all three Fitz trilogies, but I've never reread any of them and don't plan to. And I didn't bother to read the last trilogy until about 7-8 years after they came out, to show my interest level :lol:.

As Iwy mentioned the Live ship books are better in terms of action and being more pure fantasy, but if you don't enjoy Fitz at all I wouldn't bother.

It's definitely no Cradle series (particularly once Cradle takes off around book 3-4).

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Assassins Apprentice. Much different pace after Dungeon crawler Carl to say the least but liking it 6 chapters in. Curious the boards thoughts on it too

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It's a solid book series to me. It's very much a slow build, character driven series though. Not a ton of action, at least particularly in the first trilogy. She's not someone I find myself suggesting much these days due to the abundance of good fantasy authors, but she's very solid.

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But when the heat turned up in this one….. man it’s good. Probably my second favorite of the series so far.

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Yeah, it took me a bit to get into it as well. The racing theme just kinda put me off, as well as the pace of the floor in general. A little after the Carl in the kangaroo suit bit is when it started to take off for me. I'd definitely put it in the top 3 of the series for me probably.

I had just finished a reread before starting it, and the seventh book was way better for me on reread than the first time through.

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Riley has been one of if not the best hitter on the team after Drake over the last 10-14 days

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Austin has hit .231 with .759 OPS last 7 days .245 and .744 OPS last 15 days, so if he's been the best hitter that's more a sign of how bad our offense has been rather than Riley being good. He's still been bad, just not worst hitter in baseball type bad.

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Does it really matter whether we are a four seed or an eight seed?

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It matters a fair bit in terms of the quality of the opponent we face in the super regional. But if we are expecting to make it to the CWS we will have to beat good teams regardless.

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Well that, and I also didn't like the preaching that Sanderson did towards the end 

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None of that would really be an issue as long as it was just part of who the characters were and part of the story because of that. Sanderson made it be almost the entire story during Wind and Truth, which made it so the book had no flow. Shallan, Dalinar/Navani, Kaladin, and Renarin had nothing to do for 90% of the story, so it was nothing but infodumps and pointless trauma porn for most of the book.

I honestly thought Dawnshard was a good example of how to do it right. Her disability was just a part of who she was, and didn't spend an inordinate amount of time on wallowing in it. Shallan and Kaladin having major trauma and working through it is fine, but it shouldn't be the same ole BS in book 5.

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don’t follow international as much so I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure fuesntes was signed as a big time prospect

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He signed for 75K, so nah. We've had way more success with those types of guys (see Albies and Acuna) than our big money signings though. John Gil would be another one if he works out.

Our big money signings have tended to bust badly. Hopefully Tornes is an exception.

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that I was very disappointed in the end of Wind and Truth.

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Yeah, it took me forever to finish that book. The last two books of the 5 had so much pointless filler. Sanderson is in desperate need of better editing and people not blowing smoke up his butt.

Wind and Truth pretty much killed my interest in the next 5 book series. Adolin's story and to a smaller extent Szeth's story were the only interesting parts.

And as you said it was a BS way to end a huge 5 book series.

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Just started Eye of Bedlam Bride reread. Gonna be avoiding spoilers for a couple weeks it looks like

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Same. On the 4th book doing a reread of the series myself.