Well, greetings, imagination connoisseurs. Once again, it is I, your Duke of Dope Discourse,

and your existential Mr. Rogers, Robert Meyer, Burnett, here for the John Campy Show.

It's another companion video. I want to thank John Campy here for letting me do these,

and I want to thank all of you for letting me, well, letting me do these too, because John

seems to think you like him. So here I am, and I'm just going to jump right into it.

Alan sends in a tip and says, hi, John, Bob Chapeck said,

Shang Shi would be an experiment with the performance of Free Guy. Hasn't that been answered?

And does Free Guy's performance show Warner Brothers and Disney that releasing their movies

theatrically exclusively is the way to go? Well, Alan, you think, I mean, obviously,

Free Guy has been performing well, but, you know, I think, look, during the pandemic, I'm of

the personal opinion that all movies should be released theatrically. It ups their value in secondary

markets, and I think putting movies out day in date diminishes their box office. I don't know

if we're ever going to get to a time where we're going to have billion dollar blockbusters again,

but I think having movies come out in theaters and earning money, and I'm not even convinced

of the new 45-day window. But for the most part, I think that, yeah, movies should be coming

up theatrically, and I think that Free Guy proves that, look, Shang Shi, hopefully Shang Shi being

an experiment. I mean, what, what experiment is that? I think it's a wonderful film. I hope it

does well at the box office. We shall see. Anonymous sends in a tip and says, I got to see Shang Shi

last week for the IMAX early screenings. I agree with John. It's top tier MCU best origin story they've

done. I get why some felt there were pacing issues, but to me, lack of action wasn't lack of

momentum. Ooh, anonymous. I like that. Lack of action wasn't lack of momentum. I agree. I think

Shang Shi is a wonderful movie. You know, I saw it with John, and I have nothing but praise to

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