Henry Golding would make an awesome Bond.

Having actually seen this, I can confirm that Ben Platt’s age hits early and often.

I don’t think Idris Elba would be very good at playing a woman as James Bond. 

Dev Patel.

Based on his last three movies that have actually been released, I can’t imagine how bad the scripts are that he couldn’t get made.

That’s basically my take on the “why can’t a woman be Bond?” discourse. Why would a woman want to be Bond? He’s kind of a sad Cold War relic whose (toxic? depends on the interpretation) masculinity is pretty central to the character.

Wow, it’s pretty rare to find a guy in Los Angeles who wrote 20 scripts that were never filmed!

I don’t know what that means, if anything, but I maintain my stance that some of these stories only work if you have the movie actors involved.

I’m curious what you mean? 

This. And I love me some Cap, but Bucky cutting zombie Steve in half with the shield and a “Sorry Pal. I guess this is the end of the line” got a laugh out of me

I was mainly sticking to live action, but that one is a gem. Here’s hoping the sequel isn’t awful. 

We can’t all be El Camino.

Forgive me.  I’ll be more precise next time for all the pedants out there.

This episode is not what a bottle episode is.

That’s just fandom. People turn the things they like into part of their identity, and so they take criticism of the things they like personally. The MCU is nothing special in this regard.

Yeah, but you can react against snobs without sounding like you’ve been personally attacked by them. It’s the fury of some of the reactions that puzzles me, I guess.

I got the controversy around Scorsese’s comment in a “how do we define ‘art’ and ‘cinema’ anyway” sort of way, along with the general gatekeeper-y tone some people saw in it. But “the MCU is formulaic” is just about the most milquetoast criticism someone could possibly levy against it.

Probably not the most timely or astute observation, but this sounds like yet more evidence that the writers put everything that had into season one, never expecting they would have to write more. There are moments in every episode this season where I feel like a PA is standing just barely out of the frame and making …

I’m going to recycle my post from the previous time Bad Boys for Life was mentioned here if that’s OK:

Oh, absolutely. The Friday columns (“When Romance Met Comedy” is really equally great, even though its subject speaks a little less to me) have been one of best, if not the best thing on the AV Club for a while. Also one of the rare places left with consistently interesting and active comment threads.
I really hope…