You cannot engineer the pop, you can only pray for it.

I fully admit that I’m an unabashed comic book and comic book movie fan, and I’m only cautiously optimistic about The Eternals movie. Shang-Chi, on the other hand, I want that right now, although I very much want it to be stand alone, with minimal MCU references. After Endgame, now’s the time to broaden the playing…

“Best ‘It Doesn’t Matter Because You’re Going To Be Cheering/Crying At That One Part, You Know The One, Okay, Yes, And That Part Too’: Avengers:Endgame!”

Seriously, what part of “the rich white man has spoken, therefore it is fact” is everyone not getting? Has no one been paying attention in America for the last two yearsfour hundred years? Besides, until the Sesame Street/American Horror Story/Community crossover, this is small potatoes.

Organized women with “mastery of body” who interfere in politics? That’s not going play in the Red States. Can I subscribe twice?

With another attempt at the Dark Phoenix story line? Yes.

You leave Doug Ramsey alone! He showed up, he suited up, he deserves some respect! (Didn’t he die? Once or twice? Did anyone care? He was useless without Warlock, and ‘Douglock’ was damn stupid.)

In pre-fight smack talk, Biebs insults Suri; Cruise kills Bieber in first five seconds of fight; referee looks the other way; pay-per-view sets new record; Ewoks sing celebration song; Joe Rogan does boiler plate post-match interview; Cruise announces new MI:# movie. We are all entertained.

I loved the original Longshot miniseries, and seeing this brand-new character interact with the Marvel universe (She-Hulk! Spider-Man!), but when they pulled all the concepts into the orbit of the must-consume-all X-franchise, it didn’t really work.

Ooooh, we could get the Starjammers! Like the Guardians of the Galaxy, only they’re crap.

1) if there’s no Force Ghost Luke in Rise there will be nerd rioting in the streets (separate from the rioting when Rey turns out to be a clone of Leia)

Um, be vastly jealous of him?

That white jumpsuit the Beyonder wore was... was... I can’t find the words.

The dark times before Blade really did suck.

It’s out of print, but you should be able to find a cheap copy. ‘60s and ‘70s cartoon nostalgia via ‘90s alt-rock; highly recommend.

I love that album muchly, mostly for the Juliana Hatfield/Tanya Donelly “Josie and the Pussycats”, but the whole thing is awesome.

Terminator: I have detailed files on human profanity. I can say ‘dickwad.’

I was kind of onboard until the escape-from-an-airplane-on-an-airdrop-cargo-pallet nonsense; did these people not see that BS in the A-Team movie? It was bad.

So Alyssa Milano will be in this? Sold.

When I was enlisted, we used to tell our (uptight, jackass) lieutenant that Kelly’s Heroes was our favorite movie, because it was a bunch of soldiers who, in the middle of combat, decide to rob a bank, and that that resonated with us on a personal level.