United Airlines halts flight departures across US over 'technology issues'
United halts flight departures across US over 'technology issues'
The technology issues affected flights going to Chicago, Denver, Houston and other major airports.BBC News
Is this happening more and more or is it just reported on more? I feel like in the last few years, I've heard of multiple ground stops from various US airlines due to technology issues.
Hopefully it's not a Crowdstrike-like "technology issue" like Delta dealt with last year. As a traveler during that time, it was a nightmare. Good luck to anyone traveling over the next 24hrs!
Fleet Street Pumping Station
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I was in Ottawa today and wanted to make sure I checked this place out.
How 150-year-old technology keeps Ottawa's water flowing
The Fleet Street pumping station just celebrated its 150th birthday, and we got peek inside.Blair Crawford (Ottawa Citizen)
Can we all agree that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is killing it as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine?
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I think you mean Contessa Selena Allegra de Meyer.
Seriously though, watch Veep, and if you've already seen it, watch it again. JL-D could play this level of self-justifying narcissist politician in her sleep.
And yes, she is killing it.
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Yes, but she's severely underutilized.
Originally she was supposed to appear in the Black Widow post-credits, but we got her a little early during Falcon & The Winter Soldier.
She also had a brief storyline in Wakanda Forever, but that hasn't really gone anywhere.
The Black Widow setup gave us a Hawkeye storyline that didn't really make sense, but it did get Yelana into the main story.
The Falcon & The Winter Soldier story gave us Thunderbolts.
Thunder is finally when she's really doing things, but that film needed a little more breathing room.
I expect she'll be wayyyy out of her element during Doomsday/Secret Wars. (Plus no need to be secretive when the world is falling apart.)
I hope she gets a chance to really shine in the future.
'Fantastic Four' Box Office Dive Is a Bad Omen for Marvel's Future - The MCU’s appeal beyond its most hardcore fans is in question after its second-weekend “First Steps” drop
'Fantastic Four' Box Office Dive Is a Bad Omen for Marvel's Future
The 66% drop for Fantastic Four's second weekend at the box office is a bad sign for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Jeremy Fuster (TheWrap)
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This is true. Sure they’re Marvel’s “First Family” but even before the MCU or any of the fox movies they were less popular than The Avengers, who were less popular than the X-men.
Also, putting the movie up against Superman, who is DC’s #1 or #2 character, was a bad call.
I thought the movie was great though.
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Basically, yeah, but with everything.
Regurgitated rehashes of rehashes of rehashes. Ai slop has been our reality since before Ai slop. The only time I even get remotely surprised, it's usually an indie thriller or horror film.
It's no wonder Invincible is popular. It's no wonder Severance is popular. Yeah, they're good, but they're also fresh to the general public. They're innately interesting and new.
Marvel doesn't do "interesting and new". They're a nostalgia factory.
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This is, IMHO, why Superman is doing so well. It's the type of unapologetically wholesome shit I didn't know my soul was so desperate for.
EDIT: My wife just called it "hope porn" and I think it fits.
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I've been burnt out on superhero stuff for a bit, and had zero interest in checking out Superman as the DC stuff has been of no interest to me since the Nolan Batman movies.
I put it on the other night for background noise, but it got my attention right from the start, and I really enjoyed it.
The biggest thing for me was when he saved that squirrel mid-fight. The guy has everyone trying to kill him and the city, and he loves everything about Earth so much he can't see any living thing suffer.
There is so much unspoken collateral damage in all these action movies, and Superman wouldn't even let a squirrel suffer for actions linked to him.
I want someone to look out for me, dang it. Where's our Superman?
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I just went back and watched the scene. The squirrel part is so quick compared to the other rescues like the dog in that same scene.
The dog got a lot more direct attention, and that makes sense since a lot of people have or really like dogs. But I've never seen anything where the hero stops to save an animal nobody would ever even put in a scene.
It wasn't played up like a bit like the dog, and that made it feel like a more natural thing this Superman would do. It turned a throwaway gag into a bit of character development that in 3 seconds showed us this Superman would put himself on the line to save any life.
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I do think they should have delayed Fantastic Four until at least mid August if not later. Maybe even save it for 2026.
2023 had three MCU films, 2024 had just one MCU film, 2025 was back to three, 2026 will have just two. There was plenty of space for this film, to put it right after Superman was probably a mistake.
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I fell asleep during Fantastic Four. It was boring as hell.
Didn't see Superman though so I can't compare it.
This drop-off tracks with the brand. I say this as someone who likes the F4, they just don't have a broad appeal with general audiences that other comic brands have. They're a property that only comic nerds care about and always have been.
Edit: They also had to complete with Superman. The F4 have never been able to compete with Superman.
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I'm already two movies behind and yeah, I opted for Superman as well with zero regrets.
I know I'll see Fantastic Four on Disney+ eventually, and that's Disney's main problem.
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Future Foundation is pretty much the definitive modern F4 story. Hickmens run as a whole is peak.
A problem with the F4 is that their golden age of stories was back in the Silver Age of Comic Books. They were a cornerstone a lot of the early world-building of the Marvel Universe. Their lasting legacy has been the characters and ideas these stories introduced to the Marvel universe: Dr Doom, Galactus, The Silver Surfer, Black Panther, The Negative Zone, ect. Marvel has long struggled to adapt the team to the modern era.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but IMO the best F4 stories are ones where they aren't so much a team of super heroes, but rather a team of scientist and explorers with super powers. They are better suited to telling sci-fi stories rather then traditional superhero stories.
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Interesting article. I'd say one fact it misses the importance of is that Fantastic Four is the 37th film in the MCU in 17 years. The MCU a huge sprawling and bloated mess, and it's not surprising mainstream cinema goers have disengaged from it. That actually could hold a movie back - it's not see as a "fantastic four" reboot, it's seen as MCU installment 37 even if it tries not to be that.
Add to that, 17 years is a long time. Frankly a lot of the original audience have "grown out" of watching these movies, and younger cinema goers are not watching MCU movies so they're not replacing their audience. Plus streaming took off in that time and people who are now in their 30s and 40s are not going to the cinema anywhere near as much.
For me, none of fhis is surprising. If anything I'm impressed they stayed at the top for as long as they did. But it had to end eventually - tastes change, people grow up and move on. Super Hero movies aren't gone, but they're not automatic mega hits anymore - things are just going back to "normal". There isn't anything much wrong with the MCU to fix, audiences just aren't as interested in what it offers now.
Marvel/Disney will keep making them just as they do with Star Wars because they're in the business of franchises, but it's beyond it's peak and that's pretty normal in entertainment. Nothing dominates forever.
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Another thing not explored in this article is the 100 days to streaming rollout that we've seen.
A film comes out, ~60 days later it hits Premium VOD, ~30 days later a physical release, shortly after it hits Disney+.
A lot of people are willing to wait for a number of different reasons, economic, hype, quality, etc
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For me it’s health related reasons. Even if I wanted to, I can’t go to a cinema to watch a movie.
That’s why I don’t mind paying for premium VODs (that’s the closest I can get to real cinema) but it’s just cruel that in this COVID-era of ours films are still released cinema first with a huge delay until the digital release.
Just let me watch it at home same day it releases for everyone else, I’m willing to pay for it.
Bit off topic but I wanted to watch a YT video about James Bond and like 30 seconds in the guy launches into spoilers for the new Mission Impossible movie. Had to close that tab real fast like; shit like this could be prevented.
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