There’s an element of “forcing it” that applies to this franchise. Disney basically develops and acquires these IP money-fountains, where they are designed to milk our collective psyche for devotion and revenue. Ghostbusters was big, but as a franchise, it’s like in between Star Wars, and The A-Team. Yes, it had some…

Your apology game needs work.

“The cast and crew were asked to film a sex scene.” I know what this sentence intends, and it’s not nearly as subversive as my initial reaction.

Personal vendetta against you, obviously.

Outside of outraged Christian fundamentalists, I don’t understand being motivated to write hate mail to any director about one of their movies.

Is it a little icky? I guess. But it’s better than seeing him try to make Han Solo happen for himself. His half-baked, self-impressed Harrison Ford impersonation was cringe-inducing, while accomplishing what I thought was impossible: make me somewhat appreciate Alden Ehrenreich’s more distanced take on the character.

I haven’t played it in a long time, and I’m guessing there’s an othering of African guerrilla soldiers that ages terribly, but I remember liking Far Cry 2 the best from a story perspective. I felt like it implicated the player and his cronies as meddlesome and just making the conflict zones worse (aside from getting…

In case anyone here hasn’t seen this, it soothes me when I get cranky about Bill Maher. In my memory palace, it’s a right hook that was intentional, not an accidental backhand.

Nothing against this article, but this is definitely a “for my consideration” and veers super-heavily into YMMV territory. The success of the Bond formula seems to be that each entry (or lead) refracts back the feelings of the movie-goers at that time, through the lens of spy derring-do. And the Bond actor aligns with…

While it’s true that it will probably be a long time until we get something like a Wolverine-type outing in that is almost completely self contained, it seems pretty straightforward, and really, I don’t see what the problem is. This inherent to the brand and formula, and if Disney has proven competent at anything,…

So we should all comport ourselves according to your personal preferences, or leave? Your feelings on the matter are reasonable and valid; opposing viewpoints lack the merit to even be present.

(Yes, we Googled “who directed that gun kata movie with Christian Bale.”) Could the Kinja-era version of the A.V.Club take a bigger dump on Nathan Rabin? For the sarcasm allergic portion of the Kinja-era version of the A.V.Club, the answer is no, no you could not.

I have two teens (18 and 16) and I haven’t checked in with them yet, but I’m guessing they give zero fucks about this movie. I think they’re just going to be be like “hey, it’s that guy from the Cyberpunk game that we hated.” I think part of it is that the Matrix became such a cultural touchstone, that to their…

Ninja Assassin? I think you just proved your point.

I think this article gets to the heart of its dominance in a more interesting way, and has the added benefit of covering the topic about 7 years earlier...

Crystal Skull

I guess this is the hill he wants to die on...

Holy shit this is the definition of a nothingburger.

Uneven. Sure. Wildly? Relax.

It really is a pretty great satire of the U.S. Olympic Men’s Sw~ oh whoops, misread that post. Sorry.