Birthright is twice as long as Secret Origin, so it has far more time to tell its story which is quite purposely trying to tell a modern Superman story.

Which is a great respite from the usual Hollywood neolib cliche of the self-made billionaire wunderkind.

I think this has been a pretty bad year for Margot Robbie. Amsterdam was a bomb, and Babylon is currently bombing. Two movies with a lot going for them, starring Margot Robbie, with lots of marketing starring Margot Robbie, tons of money being lost. Not that she’s box office poison, but it’s a lot of evidence that she…

Comparing this movie (which was GREAT) to Ocean’s 12 (which is the worst in the franchise, by a lot) is a grave disservice.

I love that at the same time AV Club published this PR piece going to bat for Avatar 2, Gizmodo was publishing an analysis that tears down pretty much every argument in the article above.

“Unobtainium is mentioned nowhere during the entire run time of Avatar: The Way Of Water”

Always and universally a bad idea for any piece of entertainment to try to do. There are two appropriate responses to criticism:
1) recognize that it is an invalid criticism (if it is) and ignore it
2) accept it as a valid criticism (if it is) and learn from it

I would really like to know cleanly and clearly one way or another if any money exchanged hands to lead to these articles as my goodness this reads like a shill piece.

Yeah arguing that it’s not a white savior movie because it’s not based on a 30 year old white savior movie but even older white savior material is not the winning argument that Luke seems to think it is.

the problem with the first avatar being dances with wolves wasn’t necessarily just about the political undertones, but rather being a hackjob of cliches from movies such as dances with wolves 

James Cameron taking criticism of any kind to heart? HA

Sure. Keep running these PR-vetted, bottom-feeding attempts at criticism, AVClub. Watch what happens to your visitation metrics.  You think they can’t get any lower?  Ha.

Short-term thinking also explains the most tedious criticism of the first film: that it’s just Dances With Wolves in space, complete with all the problematic “going native” and “white savior” aspects of the narrative. Put aside for a moment the fact that Cameron’s actual credited inspiration is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jo…

Lazy ass script writing is lazy ass script writing.

fyi that drafts folder thing is valid tradecraft.  i believe the 9/11 hijackers communicated using gmail drafts.

Smallville was largely cheeseball corn, but it got a few things very right and one of them was Jonathan Kent.

A lot of great screenplays have been written in a few days or a few weeks. A 120 page script is like 30 pages of prose. Directing one of these movies, seeing it through post, and then promoting it is more work by several orders of magnitude. Gunn won’t be able to direct any movies while he’s doing the DC Kevin Feige…

I can forgive a good bit about Man of Steel, but that really was the worst take on Jonathan Kent ever.

Let’s do it even more centered on Kit Harrington! Seeing as his acting skills are top notch!

Considering how the first Wonder Woman flick was a plot-point-for-plot-point EXACTLY the same movie as the first Captain America movie and how the second WW flick blew; it’s no loss.