Yes. What we've consistently learned about science fiction and fantasy over the past few decades is that over-explaining components of the premise in pseudo-scientific ways retroactively improves and elevates all prior instances of its mention.

It is an absolutely perfect Friday Newswire story, and it (and the comments, ok, mostly the comments) has brought me much-needed joy.

Aren't all gods faces of the Many-Faced God?

His default is a McConaughey impression?

Honestly I have no idea. I've done zero digging around to see what the production of that movie was like and it's the only MCU movie I didn't see in the theaters (at least, I don't remember seeing it in the theaters).

<maui>You're welcome!</maui>

Followed by proving you can perform autofellatio.

I'm so glad we both went for the Leto joke together.

Look, how do you think we teach kids to send used condoms to people? Method acting has to be lived to be taught!

Are you really though? Isn't that just standard operating procedure these days?

Even with dreadful reviews and poor word of mouth, I'm not totally unconvinced that this movie might manage to become a series. The production budget is only listed at $60M, which I think it might be able to clear over the course of its run domestically. With a strong foreign box office, it might make enough to make…

What tanks Hulk is Norton, generally, his lack of chemistry with Tyler, and the utter disaster that is the finale fight. Conceptually it's a pretty solid movie, it just doesn't work well put together.

That's a pretty dim take on Roland.

Exactly. If Iron Man 2 had been the first MCU movie, the concept would've been dead in the water. IM2, despite Rockwell and Cheadle killing it, is easily in the bottom tier.

After Civil War we can't pretend The Incredible Hulk doesn't exist anymore, either, because now there's an explicit carryover.

Universal has failed twice now with its monster movie universe garbage. Sony's stumbled blindly around with not-MCU-Spider-Man and now this. The DCEU is a…let's call it a mixed bag, although it's more successful than most, and that's really only because Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are such pop culture behemoths…

King is wrong and his edits make the book worse. Find and read the original edition of the book. Even though it is incongruous with the rest of the series (in a variety of ways), I think it's one of the best things King's ever written.

You know that you can like a piece of art where someone, even the protagonist, does something despicable without it meaning you support what he does or having a total psychotic break with your personal ethos, right?

Here's an example that might help. The mantra Roland says in the trailer about what body parts he aims, shoots, and kills with isn't a rousing call to action. It's a constant reminder of the burden Roland carries and a recognition of the harm he does to protect what he believes is right.

"generic crap very loosely based on something much better." So basically Wolves, Susannah, and TDT?