A point about Azrael and the replacement supermen. Those deserve credit for being intentional. Azrael was supposed to be an over the top anti hero and serve as an extended fuck you to the rising glut of baseball cap and pouch wearing marvel anti heroes. And the way he’s defeated is an excellent example, where batman…

Mine is a a pet peeve... not just one movie, but a whole pseudoscience subgenre:

Love does not transcend time and space. The movie would have been much better if the protagonist just was spaghettified the moment he entered the black hole. It’s not that I don’t get the movie, it’s just really dumb.

I suppose it was entertaining enough in a generic way, but it did require a temporary lobotomy to suspend your belief.

The scientists in this movie were genus!

Here’s the thing about mass media: it is built to appeal to the masses. A movie like Star Trek can’t get made if it can’t get built in a way that makes it appeal to millions of people. And Pegg’s original post was not wrong: there’s something sad about that.

Can a Spider “Sing”?

Hey, hey, The Phantom was great.

Sorry dude..but no.

Waiting for Thanos

Agreed!

This list is totally invalid without the deadliest living weapon of them all:

Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic remind me of the first season of The Simpsons — it’s very funny and clever, but in both cases, it’s clear that the work is more defined by the thing the creators are making fun of — “heroic” fantasy in Pratchett, saccharine ‘80s sitcoms in Groening, et al. — than being its own…

Sin City is kinda hard to reread not only because it’s incredibly mysogynistic, but you realize Frank Miller has never really stopped writing Sin City.

Iron Man 2: A fleet of drones is taken over by a mavolent criminal who then uses them to terrorize New York. The creator of the drones is sent to prison.

As a huge comic fan and a current Avengers fanatic (oh Hickman (swoon)) and as a previously moderate enjoyer of Marvel movies, I gotta say: this was one of the worst movies I’ve seen all year. Not just comic book movies, but movies general.

One thing that bugged me about AoU is WHY did it have to be Stark who made him? It basically meant the whole movie was The Avengers cleaning up a major mess.....THAT THE AVENGERS CREATED! If they didn’t want to connect Pym to the Avengers fine, then how about making Ultron be a project developed by Hydra as a weapon…

I especially loved the big F.U. to Man of Steel as the Avengers kept rescuing civilians over and over again, although they went overboard with them.