For a substantial segment of the population, the drawbacks of seeing a movie in the theater outweighed the advantages, pre-pandemic. First of all about 10 years ago I stopped going to any theater at all where I couldn’t reserve seats. Then there’s travel, cost, the random chance that someone sitting near me is some…

It stopped me for a second too, but I finally decided that this universe had Christine dying as an Absolute Point.

The “main” universe probably had Strange losing the use of his hands at that point. Imagine Main Strange doing the same thing, only signaling, taking different route, paying attention to road instead of…

Because a comprehensive listing of Kanye’s bullshit every time he does something new would bloat every article to an unreadable length, and because it was covered thoroughly when his support was active and vocal, to the point where it was all any Kanye article would talk about for around three years.

It wasn’t a fucking joke and his apologies were obviously total bullshit.

This has to be a bit.

I still don’t get the need for directors to keep giving this incredibly lukewarm take. Yeah it sucks that the movie you made, a labor of love, didn’t get a full theatrical run. But also...cope. It’s not personal. It’s the result of a global pandemic that has killed ~4.5 million people (so far).

The Hulk thing isn’t a retcon. In Iron Man 2 the phone video of the fight at Culver U is on one of the screens when Fury is talking to Tony at the end and tells him the evaluation found him unfit for The Avengers. So at least part of Iron Man 2 takes place between the final ‘main’ scene of Incredible Hulk and the ‘not…

Well, if the Avengers didn’t work, Fury literally had no other plan in place. The only other major hero who existed at that point would be Captain Marvel, and with her not appearing until after the invasion, there would be no heavy resistance against the Asgardians. Despite them being ineffective chumps when going up…

Yup, “Fury’s Big Week” has been an established thing since before The Avengers, albeit not a highly mentioned or publicized thing, when they were first figuring out the timeline.

The Hulk sequence is where the episode starts to get sweaty for me, since I can maybe buy that Iron Man 2 and Thor happen within one day of each other, but the Edward Norton Hulk movie? It all happens in the same week?

NBC doesn’t want to reboot The Office. They want 2005 broadcast ratings back, and somehow they’re stupid enough to think the first thing would give them the second thing.

Them whacky Nigerian bros are at it again!

I wanted to yell at you and say you’re wrong, but you nailed it SO much on the head. As someone who grew up in the 70's and 80's with a Dad who had a huge mid-life crisis and became one of those fitness nuts back then, I was legit scared to be fat. And I wasn’t THAT big but I felt it. My Dad would make fat comments…

Oh, don’t do that. Homophobia doesn’t literally mean scared of gay people. The phrasing is also used to refer to dislike or prejudice. This isn’t new, and you’re being disingenuous.

That’s what Feige’s saying. I don’t think there’s any racial animus to Chapek’s comment (and I don’t interpret Liu’s comment as attributing any to him). Pretty hard, however, not to see Chapek’s comment as minimizing the movie a bit and trying to cover his ass for the decision his company made, back when it looked…

I seriously am tired of “What if Superman were Evil?”. It’s been so overused at this point for the past decade that the idea of Superman played straight seems more like a genuine subversion.

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Is that 3 out of 5 characters who are “aspiring” to be something at 35?

It would be fun to go back a couple years and tell a past me that one day in the future I’d be telling my wife, “We have to hurry up and finish dinner, Perry Mason is on tonight!”

“No one confesses on the stand,”