While I also enjoyed Justice League, Age of Ultron was still a far better movie. Better action, better charactization, better villains, etc. So far, Wonder Woman is the only DCEU movie to somewhat exceed even the least MCU movies. But JL did at least make it where I finally wanted to see more of the characters again.

I’m 47 and at work. . . I did little jumps too.

Think of how many people enjoy Harry Potter. Now consider how well the movies would have done if director Chris Columbus had moved it so Harry was from Philadelphia and Hogwarts was in Miami.

I was referring to the color pallette, Ragnarok was bright, BvS was darker than the inside of a cave worm’s butthole. Even the trailers for AWIT show the CGI looking like the rainbow vomit of some kid who ate a deluxe box of crayons.

Well, she’s willing to let the CGI and costuming departments run wild without direction, maybe WB wants this to make Thor Ragnarok look like Batman v. Superman.

Oh, no, that’s your shtick and has been for years. I have no interest in infringing on your iconic role of “Stubbornly wrong all the time!” You do it soo well.

Good description of Narcissist’s review. As others have noted, the review was likely written far in advance of actually seeing the movie, and is filled with nothing but hot-take edge and banal attempts at shock writing (ooh, he referenced orgies, how. . . juvenile) without seeing the irony in it. RP1 is supposed to be…

Thinking about it, io9 has become a sort of Armond White.

First one was entertaining but not good per se, rest stink on ice. But no, it’s io9s tendency to focus on some of the most shallow parts of filmmaking as the end-all and be-all of a movie.

Considering how many absolute stinkers io9 has endorsed, this is one more good reason to see RP1.

Everything about that sounds great.

The audience score is even lower than the critics score. Looks as bad as I feared it would be after all the terrible trailers. Which is a shame, they had a top notch director, excellent acting talent, and an amazing story to tell, but it appears to have been overwhelmed by story changes and terrible CGI and costuming.

Opportunity to introduce himself to some classics then. “What’s that robot?” “Here, let’s watch Gundam!” Etc.

I want to know when the personal version comes out. Lots of people would want some kind of canine home protection system.

Songs of Distant Earth is my nom for best Clarke novel. He was often weak on characterization, but Songs showed he could also excel at it.

Also a good “Black Widow origin” style unrelated movie:

Huh, I liked Contact and Arrival, but not as pleased by Interstellar. There’s probably an interesting Venn diagram out of people who liked any combination of those three.

Not my taste either, but sounds like it will be good as part of the movie at least.

Turns out they hit the snooze button for the apocalypse rather than cancelling it entirely.

Imagine if Chris Columbus when he was releasing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone did an interview about how much he loved the books, which is why he relocated Hogwarts to Miami to better tell the story of Harry, the most powerful wizard ever.