Panron

As a NIN fan, it pains me to say you're right. Having only heard it in the movie and not standalone, I'd say this was basically NIN's "paint by numbers" soundtrack. Worse, it actually detracted from some scenes (somewhat specifically, the tracks with vocals).

Of the 19 soundtracks I have by Trent Reznor (& Atticus Ross), I'd probably place this somewhere in the vicinity of #15 (I'd need to give them all a proper listen first though; I don't really have a current ranking for them. Other than Quake probably being #1.)

Given some of the bad dialogue (e.g., Ares talking about why he likes Depeche Mode), my impression is that Jared Leto used his role as producer to push the production in certain directions that appealed to his personal preferences. I went in wanting to like the movie (I love Tron: Legacy and NIN so I was definitely excited by certain aspects of the movie), but the movie felt too much like a Leto vanity project. So yeah, I think that, in this case, it's fair to blame Leto for the movie's failure, even though, like you say, there were failures across the board, from many people involved.

Naked Lunch was my first thought, but, if not that, possibly Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

(I haven't seen either in many years; I don't recall anything about a talking horse, so am not very certain about either.)

Maybe try looking it up on IMDb first? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30519830/releaseinfo/

It's still playing in film festivals. The first festival showing was in September last year.

I don't pay much attention to film festivals (there are none near me, so not worth it), so I can't really say how long it usually takes for a film to be made generally available, either in a wide theatrical release or streaming/home video (I'd guess about 6 months to a year for the most popular films?) but I'm pretty sure I've seen some that have taken a couple years or more. (Hopefully someone more astute can chime in here.)

I'm not entirely certain what would be considered uplifting, but I think D&D: Honor Among Thieves would fit alongside some of the movies in that list.

Beyond that, going down my list of movies I've rated on IMDb:

Fly Me to the Moon, maybe? Honestly, I don't remember it all that well.
Bullet Train is probably a stretch, but it does more for me than a lot of things on that list. shrug
Top Gun: Maverick. I've been meaning to watch this one again at some point. Perhaps not really uplifting on its own, but it was certainly uplifting for me in how it bucked certain movie trends of the time and was really solid.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Batman. It's a fairly somber, morose film, and at three hours long it's a bit of slog, but hey, the climax is the Dark Knight learning to be a beacon of hope for the downtrodden. I debated whether or not to even mention this one, but then I saw that list includes The Force Awakens... so... at that point, I'd say pretty much anything is fair game. And with that, I'm not going to bother searching for more.

Eh.

Better to spend it than keep it in the bank, honestly. Maybe not for keeping their business afloat, but better for everyone else. And when they actually make something enough people want to see, they'll earn even more than they spent, so, yeah...

Fortunately, price info is actually tracked! If you use the SteamDB browser extension you can see the historical low price right on a game's product page on Steam.

For example, Terraria is on sale for it's 2 year low price of $4.99, but the lowest it's ever been is $1.99 (a little over ten years ago).

Not the person you're replying to, but for my own POV:

I think the new Dune movies are the best they could be and I'm glad I was able to catch them in theaters, but they've also convinced me that Dune just isn't a franchise I'll ever be interested in. I'm not sure if I'd bother with the third movie, and any spin-offs are also fully out of the question for me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12299608/trivia/?item=tr7746222

Adding fuel to the fire that is the sub vs dub "war."

I personally enjoy both subs and dubs, but default to dubs where they're available (except in cases where the dub is notably bad or otherwise detracts from the story). If this AI slop catches on, I may stop watching dubs altogether (well, new dubs, anyway). I really hope Amazon faces some serious consequences for this, even though I know they won't. :(

I like the spirit of this, but I'd never introduce a third party dependency into production for such a use-case.

imo, it already crashed (or at least is inches away from a crash). Into the Spider-Verse was an unexpected, yet solid 10/10 for me. Whenever I think I have some sort of "comic book movie fatigue" I can put that on still be blown away by how good it is, which drives home the point, for me, that it's just modern MCU and DCEU movies specifically that I'm tired of because they just aren't very good (I'll agree to disagree with anyone on this point).

Across the Spider-Verse took all of that and crapped out an extremely ill thought out attempt at tying into the MCU multi-verse (thus tying itself into my growing dislike for the MCU). The idea of "canon" events that have to be allowed to pass is so antithetical to the genre I'm shocked it wasn't tossed out during the brainstorming phase. You're telling there's a whole universe of heroes and all of them (except for Spider-Punk) accept the idea that they have to stand by and let people die because it's canon to that timeline? Nah. A hero is someone who risks their own life to save other people's lives. Full stop. An ordinary person will make a choice about which track the trolley goes down, saving either one person or many people. A hero would sacrifice themself to (at least attempt to) save all of the people on the tracks. Then when the movie came to a fairly natural stopping point, it kept going for a few more minutes to end on one of the worst cliffhangers I've seen in a very long time.

Across the Spider-Verse is a 4/10 for me. I would still give the third movie a chance (only because of how good the first movie is) but it will have to do some incredible course correction to redeem the second movie (if it's even possible). Otherwise, I'll just keep Into the Spider-Verse and think about how it's a shame they never made any sequels to such a good movie.