First of all, anyone - including Charles Martinet - who would try to redo Mario’s accent in anything that’s not a video game would be immediately canceled. It’s an offensive caricature. Yes, the character is beloved and we’re used to it, but so was Apu and that didn’t stop the shitstorm.

Yes, the show made jokes at Smithers’ expense but it made jokes at everyone’s expense, and The Simpsons has a small city’s worth of characters. And I never took the jokes as being about his homosexuality; they were about Smithers having an idealized (and sexualized) vision of an awful, awful man. It was an extension…

This kind of characters also breaks the fourth wall in a way that breaks the film’s universe. Watching a horror comedy where ghosts exist is fun; ghosts existing in your actual life is a lot less fun, and if Stay Puft had attacked New York the way he did at the end of the first film, a lot of people would be…

What happened to Britney is very sad and I’m happy she finally took back some control on her life. That being said, she is wrong here. Aguilera did not have any obligation to say anything more than what she said. The two were not close friends and had no relation to each other other than that made-up rivalry.

However, things between Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and the actor seem to be resolved.

I think it’s actually one of the rare MCU films that improves on re-watch because the main issue is that there’s so much stuff happening, the different threads lose their impact. Watching the movie again while knowing what happens softens that issue somewhat.

Using the expression “Hollywood” as if it was one big family that took every decision together is an annoyingly common - and lazy - mistake. It’s an industry like every other, with some people good and some people bad. No, I don’t think everyone in Hollywood has forgiven Mel Gibson but I don’t think the people who…

I’m not talking about cultural imprint - or not just that anyway. There are a lot of people out there who like superhero movies but never read comics. A situation like Iron Man, i.e. the character was popular among comic readers but otherwise unknown by the mainstream audience, is easy to get. Marvel made the bet that…

True (and I was among the people who didn’t know them) but the film had better reviews and I think GOTG was an easier sell. The film is really just a fun space adventure for the whole family, and having a raccoon and a talking tree among your main characters is going to generate curiosity. I don’t really hear about…

The difference with Thor is that the character is relatively famous among comic book fan. The Eternals, on the other hand, are not, so the film’s success is based almost uniquely on the strength of the Marvel brand. I am absolutely shocked that the MCU has become so powerful that they can release an Eternals movie and…

Sorry to disappoint everyone but I read the article and he doesn’t confirm anything at all.

Damn! I guess that means his fiancée is crazy too?

The fact that it was Harry Styles that was dragged into this doesn’t help matter either. Today, any nobody can attack Chris Pratt on twitter and it becomes an article on Jezebel the next day. So, an actual famous person attacking Harry Styles? Yes, that will get some coverage.

1- Unless Zhao actually confirms that Marvel did not treat her movie the way she wanted to, it’s a little early to absolve her of any blame. She’s never made a film like this before so we can’t assume she would be good at it. Her willingness at trying to be something new should be commended but it does come with the…

Meh. It’s not bad but it has a “the hell with it, let’s release the demo” energy. Unlike Lift and Big Boots, who sounded like they were finished but didn’t really fit on the record, Follow Me Around feels like a version the band settled with after too many years working on it. It was never more than a b-side butI was…

This twitter thread is very illuminating about how much incompetence there was on that set:

Except for Norse gods, which are sort of described as being aliens, but still... Kirby went from Thor & Asgard to New Gods with DC to this. The Eternals didn’t catch on because it was hardly revolutionary by the time it was published. And frankly, the comic just wasn’t that good.

She is. I meant gay in the large sense of the word.

It makes for a very good headline but “very good film” is setting the bar high. For example, Panic Room and Zathura aren’t in the list, and they’re both very decent films. Considering that we can’t have any conversation about her anywhere on the internet without anyone asking to “please explain her because they just…

I liked the film but I didn’t love it. The cast was good, it was well directed, but I never truly connected with the material - something which also happened when I tried reading the book. Paul Atreides just doesn’t do it for me as a main character. I found the character of Lady Jessica a bit more interesting.