We are one step away from the government telling us Trump has no anus and was born in a land of unicorns.

There was three previous Marvel movies—a trilogy called Blade—where Wesley Snipes kills 200 Asians each movie; nobody gives a shit, so don’t write about Nobu and Gao,’

“Oh, wow, that looks like straight-up Cthulhu in the video.”

The thing is, the guys demanding the Snyder cut LOVE MoS and BvS as if they were mana from heaven. I have seen too many people to count that follow Snyder say without a hint of sarcasm that his version of Superman in MoS is exactly the version they’ve wanted their entire lives. That he understood the character better…

I don’t believe that the fandom that criticised his prior films are the same fans pushing for this. The only people I personally know who have been lobbying hard for the Snyder Cut also think that BvS was fantastic.

There would have been no reason for “Superman fans” to have gone “crazy” other than “race”. Like what do you think the nature of the shit Smith would have taken have been? Completely unracial? 

I respect the fact that a lot of comic book fans — including myself— have canonical reasons for wanting superheroes in movies to look like they do in the comics. But there’s also a lot of bigotry fueling these debates, I’ve experienced enough online abuse about non traditional casting to see it as an issue.

Hancock is definitely a deeply flawed film, but the article is right that it swings for the fences in a way that Marvel movies rarely do. And I think that it’s worth pointing out that that’s almost surely because Marvel is now an international brand making billions of dollars per year in movies. They can’t afford to…

For a while now I pretty much associate with a good concept getting ruined, and Hancock is a good example. See also I Am Legend.

Great review, but the most fascinating anecdote was hidden in the Random Musings: Will Smith was offered, but turned down, the lead in Superman Returns. Smith sometimes gets criticized for bad project choices (rejecting The Matrix being the main one) but damn he made the right decision  there for the right reason:…

It would have been an amazing super hero film in like 1996.

Hilariously it’ll be even worse than what we got.

Isn't it likely that the trade that made the Morrison scoop just assumed he'd be playing Fett and he's actually playing Rex?

Aren’t they all aliens?

There’s also something to be said for the fact that he cast (at the time) relative unknowns in lead roles (I’m thinking Padme and Anakin), which, paired with his legendary status (which he didn’t have when he was doing ANH) and his hands-off, emotionless approach to directing, you get a bunch of kids who are in awe of…

That’s almost assuredly what happened.  I mean, you don’t even have to read between the lines just by watching the BTS stuff on the prequels DVD’s.  Even on their own backstage footage you can see everyone deferring to Lucas and his vision.  Like it or not...the prequels are the exact movies he wanted to make.

“I’ve always assumed”

He actually asked both Spielberg and Ron Howard to direct TPM but they turned it down so I don’t think it was simply a case of hubris on his part although I agree in general he seems to surround himself with too many yes men.

Another major plot hole and lack of common sense in the whole construct of the prequels: you have this massively Force-laden kid and you neglect him. The whole thing is ridiculous.

Maybe this is just me speaking for myself, but I think dating someone less than half your age is intrinsically creepy.