I don’t care if Station Eleven was about a viral pandemic. It was excellent and should be read.

“Hey HBO ... can you stop development — that you started two and half years ago — on this anticipated show based on a much beloved, award-winning novel, because Rob at io9 is tired of shows about a pandemic and can’t make heads or tales of the Wiki plot summary.  

A-fucking-men.

I’d highly recommend reading the article linked in this one. It’s a bit more thorough. This article is just a fucking hit piece that cherry picks the absolute worst takes on the whole situation.

I thought it was incredibly fun. Some of the best fight scenes in the MCU. Strong actors who elevate the okay script. Disagree that Shang-Chi doesn’t have much charisma. Disagree that the tone is inconsistent. It’s not flawless (as with most Marvel movies since, oh, 2014 or so, the last half of the third act is a…

Andy Dick though can go fuck himself.

Anything that forces Hollywood to pay more attention to plot and character, instead of big-screen visual spectacle backed up by cliché-laden lazy writing is a good thing in my book.

Ska doesn’t need to be rehabbed, it’s never stopped being awesome.

as much as I loved this scene--and I remember howling with laughter when I first saw it, and giggle every other time since then--the part that makes me laugh more went unanswered--did he actually serve it to everyone without telling them he used a manila folder to scoop it off the floor and back into the pot?  I can’t…

Counter point: Rogue One is the best Star Wars film since the original trilogy.

Hang on a sec, I think I see the problem... BvS needed an extra half hour on a theatrical cut that ran 152 minutes which would put it at, what, 3 hours? The recent Snyder cut is an excellent representation of the film they set out to make at a whopping 4 hours and 2 minutes?

Dude worked on Rise of Skywalker, BvS, and Justice League. Pretty sure he’s just piling on now that Whedon is a convenient scapegoat.

Gives privileged white man with poor storytelling ideas 70m, gives black woman and asian man with better film track records the boot. F you AT&T.

At this point, saying “Fan reaction to The Last Jedi was negative” is kind of like saying “fan reaction to Vader being Luke’s father was negative.” That’s technically true; some fans WERE negative about that. But they were a small minority who were dwarfed by the massive box office returns and positive critical…

Abrams called the scene from Revenge of the Sith where Palpatine tells Anakin about Darth Plagueis “the greatest set up of all-time” and was inspired by that to bring him back.

I know it’s derivative, but I enjoyed ‘The Force Awakens’, and I’m one of those people who liked ‘The Last Jedi’ a whole lot. But ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ will go down as one of the all-time cinematic bed-shittings in history.

Using a phrase commonly used to describe dogs is a bit reductive, dontcha think?

Pegleg!

I respect that take.

The avocado. It was the focal point of so many cultural flash points - generational antipathy against millennials, panics about shortages potentially caused by deportations ad tariffs, using peas as a substitute in guacamole, just to name a few.