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I’m still fascinated that Riverdale was burning witches in 1890. Truly an alternate history?

It’s easy enough to bring a character back from the dead, but resurrecting dead audience goodwill for that character is somewhat trickier.

A dark-comedy series that lets the MCU explore the magic side of things (as we dive more into that with Blade, Strange 2, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting) does sound like a good idea. But I can’t shake this feeling that maybe this isn’t...the best idea? And I’m usually the first to think that scratching…

Right... due to current police/public tensions in the US, a film about the police abusing authority will still resonate with a US audience, despite being a film based in the UK.

For Wanda, Vision and Agatha, it wasn’t bad.

The biggest offender in movie series is when the movie spends too much time talking about the first 2 movies. Spectre, Dark Knight Rises, Spider-man 3 all stumble in this regard. You can have connective tissue to the past (such as Professor Crane) but you can wrap up a trilogy without perseverating on previous…

It doesn’t help (or maybe it does?) that Almaric shrieks through the entire fight for no discernible reason.

Upon rewatch, QoS is much better.  Good pacing and good action.  I think really the only thing that I really, really have a problem with is they decide the showdown at the end needs to be a fist fight between Bond & Greene.  Mathieu Amalric is just way smaller than Daniel Craig. It makes no sense at all that he’d give…

I like how they tried to give Arterton a typical dumb Bond girl name (Strawberry Fields), and it was awkward and weird and didn’t fit the new tone at all so they never tried it again.

Skyfall failed miserably for me because it almost immediately ditches the entire mission statement of Casino Royale. It goes from “here’s a new beginning for a new young Bond!” in Casino/Quantum (they’re pretty much one movie since Quantum starts seconds after Casino ends) to “Bond has been doing this too long and is…

No offense, but I've never really understood the people who get upset over Bond movie continuity. Star Wars or MCU, sure, but it's been long established that the only Bond continuity rule is that there are no Bond continuity rules. 

“Anybody interested in grabbin’ a couple burgers and hittin’ the cemetary?”

I don’t think any of Craig’s movies stand out as terrible. Quantam of Solace is not great but it’s short and has some decent action scenes. The script is almost non existent but doesn’t put Bond in a clown suit or anything. I don’t really get the hate for Spectre, to me Spectre could be fixed with a couple of post…

I’ve always felt that the action scenes in QoS and Spectre both hit far, far wide of the mark but in completely different ways. QoS has a few superbly choreographed action scenes (opening car chase, rooftop chase/fight, opera shootout) that are ruined by some terrible choppy editing and shaky-cam direction. Whereas…

As the single longest-running film series in history, I think it’s important to acknowledge that it’s also the one with the least critical consensus. You’ll hear From Russia with Love and Goldfinger widely cited as the best, but one has that awful gypsy camp scene and one has an infamously nonsensical plot (as well as…

I remember reading somewhere that it was made in the middle of the writers strike and Craig and Forster were basically piecing the movie together as they went. Which is a shame, but considering the context it was made in, it was surprisingly decent. Definitely took the wind out of Casino Royale’s sails though.

The “James Bond is just a code name” theory is just a bunch of hooey. While the George Lazenby film does reference “the other fellow” and Blofeld doesn’t recognize him, Roger Moore Bond mourns Lazenby’s wife on multiple occasions. Pierce Brosnan references the Dalton M. The same rough origin story - orphan whose…

Pretty much the only thing I like about The Dark Knight Rises is Tom Hardy. Although that counts for a lot, it’s just...strange. It goes full A Tale of Two Cities for no other reason than because it can. It’s ridiculously stupid but expects us to take it all deathly seriously (remember when Bruce gets a crucial story…

The opening scene of Spectre is pretty damn good, too. It’s a shame about the Into Darkness style twist midway through.