Heh, I forgot about that bit of imagery. Now that you mention it, yeah it's a bit silly. But there are so many other images that make up for it. I also think that movie has one of the top 3 uses of voice-overs in a movie I think I've ever heard. I love when a movie like this one swings for the fences, and I was…

CIVIL WAR is definitely less a stand-alone flick and more of a nexus point for the other movies. You could argue that instead of introducing new characters (like Black Panther) and servicing their arcs (which I do think the directors/writers do admirably), they should have serviced preexisting characters and arcs…

I went into CIVIL WAR relatively cold, and I didn't know GiAnt-Man was gonna pop up. It was one of those rare moments when, as an adult, I actually feel a transcendent awe at a movie or artwork in general. Crazy, I know. But true.

Baron Zemo was the only person that gave me any empathy into Tony Stark's actions in CIVIL WAR. I'm Team Cap like crazy, and could not see how anybody could side with Tony during the film. It was only considering Zemo's background and tragic status that allowed me to see Stark's POV.

I hope so. He's a compelling "villain", in that he's not terribly villainous, and he's a tragic figure. I hope he goes on a recruiting spree after Thanos fucks the MCU up; hopefully villains will come out of the woodwork. We shall see.

Totally.

I think there's something to that; I think Marvel is definitely toeing the line on how much they can do without having many compelling villains. I would love to see a Thunderbolts-/Masters of Evil-esque film that sets up a bevy of villains, because they sorely need a better rogue's gallery. (Instead of killing off all…

Jeremy Irons would've been boss.

Yep, and it also reinforces the point that Whedon always made about big superhero teams: That the key ingredient is *internal conflict*. The two movies I rewatch most often (or put on when working, which is often) are ULTRON and CIVIL WAR, and that internal conflict is one of the reasons they both work so well for me.…

In retrospect, you're absolutely right, that would've been a far better idea. No way in hell Comedy Central would've turned down an extra 2-4 episodes.

I member! Member when they had Kenny die every week? I had the t-shirt!

"DIDN'T YOU LEARN ANYTHING THIS SEASON?"

God damn dude, I forgot about that bit. And I saw CHICAGO in the theater. (Why?!?! Probably a date.) But I now have rewatched that scene, and may God damn ye, for my life is now complete…ly awful, and thus I shall die a horrible death, with Dick Gere in my mind's eye.

…Extremely apt comparison, methinks.

It seems to me that in somewhat broad strokes, they have been. Last season was phenomenal, I think my favorite season of South Park. (And I fucking love so many seasons of South Park.) Their serialization worked extraordinarily well. The humor was not just sharp, edgy, hilarious, and extremely well-structured; it was w…

Exactly. Apparently the entire rest of the movie, which gave all the emotional stakes a viewer could ask for if you cared about the characters, didn't exist. If someone died during that sequence, it would have diminished the emotional stakes of the entire movie, because then it would become about a character's death,…

Seconded on I AM THE PRETTY THING THAT LIVES IN THE HOUSE. Holy shit that movie scratched a goth-y haunted house itch that I've wanted to be scratched for years. Exactly what I was looking for. It's as if David Lynch directed a NIGHT GALLERY segment: Perfect tone.

What a fucking bummer, I would've been all over this book like white on rice, but it sounds like this thing is a massive let-down. I would love to know more about how you create a sociopath like Miscavige.

Heh, "flop", "hard"… "third".

Ow.