The problems with the movie are mostly at the screenplay level. I have no issue with the cast at all — they are almost uniformly good — just the things the script made them say and do.

I actually watched Beverly Hills Cop recently, having not seen it since (I saw it 18 gazillion times before) probably 1995. It did not hold up. All of the funny lines I remembered are still funny, to be sure, but they are surrounded by a pretty terrible movie. The movie just coasts on Eddie Murphy's comic persona. The…

Roseanne is a darn good example but I'd still argue that was a conscious decision to defy the normal sitcom reality of "they can afford whatever the plot dictates."

I have nothing of substance to add. This show is awesome fun and everything I could have hoped for in a Marvel franchise series.

I'm no fan of Friends, but the "they can't afford their lifestyle" argument always seemed a little unfair to me. The number of sitcoms that treat money realistically are few and far between. Uh… Good Times, maybe? And… uh… Taxi?

I was very surprised this one didn't make the list.

Either way, the message is, "Don't be true to yourself; allow peer pressure to determine who you want to be perceived as."

I don't believe for a second that the gazillion people who bought that song paid that much attention to the lyrics. Most people thought (and probably still think) it was a simple love lyric, just like most people thought "Born In The U.S.A." was a pro-America anthem. The folks who determine what tops the Billboard…

If there's anybody left on the planet unaware of Spider-Man's origin, they are not going to go see a Spider-Man movie anyway. How filmmakers can keep making the same mistake (which has been happening since Superman in 1978) that origin stories are less risky/more enjoyable than actual stories about superheroes doing…

Personal tale of the Grand Romantic Gesture:
My freshman year of college, I attended a party where I met a beautiful woman who I instantly felt a very strong attraction to. We talked a bit; just casual small-talk. Though there was no indication from her that anything romantic was happening, I was sure that not only was…

There is no God.

I think they thought it sounded more science-y. A tesseract is a "real" thing, after all — in geometry, it's the four-dimensional analog of a cube — but giving the MCU Cube that name is not really illuminating in any way and carries extra baggage for anyone who has read A Wrinkle In Time.

Dear God that looks unwatchable.

He's on another later episode too, and (spoiler) let's just say the apple didn't fall too far from the tree.

Yep. Although why anyone thought Tesseract sounded cooler than Cosmic Cube has always baffled me.

It does look particularly bad in that pic but it didn't seem distracting actually watching the episode.

Was anyone else as confused by the near-complete emptiness of the Russian facility where SSR had pretty clearly been lured? I mean, Leviathan did send that message knowing their machine was in the hands of SSR, right? It was a trap, right? Or am I supposed to believe that Leviathan doesn't care that they're no longer…

Are you having trouble with the concept of someone disliking a film? Or are you just confused by the double post? (Not sure why that happened, I deleted the original because I'd replied to the wrong person, but it magically reappeared as a Guest post after I reposted it in the correct place.)

"Peggy’s casual reference to mermaids in the Pacific: potential Atlantis reference?"

Ugh. Yes. Those two movies guaranteed that I would never again pay to see a Tim Burton movie. Absolutely terrible.