cferejohn
cferejohn
cferejohn

Right, people kept seeing MCU movies because they found them to be good, enjoyable movies, and they trusted that the next one would be too (Thor 2 notwithstanding). The interconnectedness wasn’t a selling point, being well made superhero movies was.

I dunno, I can imagine a lot.

What’s really mystifying is that they seemed to think they had to rush this to “keep up” with Marvel. It’s not a race to see who can culminate their shared universe first. Marvel was 4 or 5 movies in (depending on whether or not you feel the Ed Norton Hulk “counts”) before they had any hints of crossover other than a

Frasier and Weiss were charming enough that I found the second one pretty tolerable, though speaking of wrenchingly bad CGI, the Rock’s “cameo” as the Scorpion King was embarrassingly shoddy looking. The first one was legit good though.

And what does Logan Paul say?

This. The intro to Watchmen was literally the first I had ever heard of this (white man who grew up in the SF Bay Area high school class of ‘91 for context), and while I am certainly well aware of the terrible history of racial violence in the US, and certainly did learn about the horrors of the post-reconstruction

Yeah, I don’t get it either. I mean, there were some funny things to say about (I liked “one woman’s brave journey of going from 126 pounds to 122 pounds”), but I don’t really see why it’s any more worthy of scorn than any of hundreds of luxury items ads (e.g. anything with diamonds or a car with a bow on it).

Exactly. It’s just to throw enough nonsense around and people who aren’t paying close attention will just think “oh, well, I guess there are people who believe either thing, so who knows what’s *really* true.”

Lol it’s ok. LA Confidential was goddam great. I remember seeing that not long after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and being absolutely floored that both of those people were Guy Pierce.

Lol it’s ok. LA Confidential was goddam great. I remember seeing that not long after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and being absolutely floored that both of those people were Guy Pierce.

Lol. I’ve literally never seen it. I just get irritated by performative “oh *I* hated popular thing X” with no attached reasoning in a context where it doesn’t matter.

Corey Haim was, in fact, super talented and his downward spiral is a pretty good example of the waste of exactly the sort of potential you are talking about (see Lindsey Lohan). It’s pretty easy to be shitty about it after the fact after we can see who succeeded/kept their shit together and who didn’t, but people

Could you find more ways to let us know about your hot take about Titanic’s shittyness? That’d be great.

That’s the thing though. If it was bad in the way the trailer promised I’d definitely be in. I kind of suspect that there will be one goofy/kind of entertaining fight scene with Arnold and Jackie and then 90 minutes of a confusing boring slog. Maybe that fight scene is worth it though?

This is an R-rated movie. It is not marketed to teens. Maybe it *should* have aimed itself towards teens more, but that is decidedly not what it did...

Yeah, it did feel like they could have cut out about 2-dozen fucks and a couple of graphic leg breaks and gotten it to PG-13.

Totally valid to not care for comic book movies, but you’re just being myopic if you don’t think that people who *do* like comic book movies are able to perceive a wide range in quality. I don’t care for romantic comedies, but I don’t go into discussions of people who do and say “pfft, how can you even tell a bad

I could call Deadpool “whimsical”. I don’t think I’d use that term for Pan’s Labyrinth though. While it is famed through a child’s fairy tale, it’s about genocide and horror.

Oh fuck off. I loved the shit out of this. I am a casual comic fan at best, and a straight male. This movie was super fun and awesome, and it’s a shame that more people aren’t seeing it. The idea that the only way a female led superhero movie can sell is by sexualizing itself is bullshit (and pretty well debunked

Yeah, there’s a couple awkward “gay panic” moments that definitely feel dated, but on the whole it is great.