Disney owns Marvel now, right?

It's the 20th anniversary of The Rocketeer movie? And some French animation studio made a short to celebrate it that is ding-dong-adorable, you say? D'awwww.

I remember really liking The Rocketeer as a kid. It's one of those movies that, though I don't love it so much now, I can pinpoint it as being part of a general geek awakening. I grew up watching Star Wars and it was so ubiquitous in our house that I just didn't realize that liking Star Wars made you a geek. But movies like The Rocketeer that arrive with almost no fanfare (that I was aware of) and don't seem especially mainstream (whatever its production pedigree) that entirely transported me as a kid? Those are the ones I can look back on and say, "Yep, I was always going to be a geek." Because I really liked The Rocketeer and thought it was just about the awesomest thing ever. Of course, I thought the Billy Zane Phantom movie was about the neatest thing ever, too, proving that a burgeoning geek can survive on bad comic book movies for just as long as it takes Hollywood to make better ones. (Adult me wishes she still liked the bad ones more. Then things like Catwoman would hurt me less.)

One thing I noticed, though, is how similar the helmet from The Rocketeer is to the one on the Iron Monger suit from Iron Man. I immediately began to wonder if the rocket pack was some half-forgotten Stark Industries product. And then I was thinking crossover. And then I wondered about the rights issues. And then I remembered that Disney and Marvel, like, merged, and this is a thing that could have happened. Wow.

I wonder if I could make the most of this?

$50/month, unlimited movie pass to movies still in theaters.

On the one hand, this would be nice for those times when you want to see something but not so much as to pay the highway robbery price of $13 a pop. But, then again, that's what matinees are for. Plus, even if you see four movies a month, that still only saves you $2 over the standard ticket price. You can get a better deal online with deal sites that let you buy Fandango money or AMC gift cards for something like 10% off of the price. There's also the issue that the theaters playing stuff I might make more of an effort to see, were I to have such a pass, would probably be independent theaters that wouldn't buy into this plan.

It boggles the mind that you'd have to see more movies than I do already to make the most of this pass. There have already been some summer weeks, notoriously the most jam-packed with lots of genre films I want to see, where I haven't wanted to see anything. (Bad Teacher? Are you kidding? Cars 2?) If even I cannot make the most of this pass, what hope do mere mortals have?