Loser: Film Screenings
In the past, film screenings at Comic-Con were the stuff of legend. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Shaun of the Dead, Superbad, etc. In the past few years though, the movie theaters near Comic-Con’s Gaslamp hub have folded up, which has all but stopped SDCC-related screenings. Movies that do screen require fans to shuttle out to remote theaters or take cabs away from the convention, which just sucks the Comic-Con energy out of them—and though that can work (in the case of last year’s Prey), reports were that same magic didn’t carry over to A24’s showing of Talk to Me. Plus, on Barbenheimer weekend, no one at the convention could partake in the global festivities.
