On the up side, the latter sets up the case that Detective Pikachu is working.

I was wondering if we’d get some extra tension set up by hearing something like “There was one path out of 15 million, and this wasn’t it.”

Just because we didn’t see The Other here, or Ebony Maw then, doesn’t mean they weren’t around.

The reason Tony taking the stones is low-key is so that we’re misdirected into thinking Thanos still has the stones when he tries the Snap.

Five years probably also leaves a stronger impression that the post-Snap world became the status quo than six months would’ve.

“I know it was funny to watch the result, but force-feeding that cat a Tesseract was just cruel....”

Yes, he seemed to be using a strict definition of allegory, in which pretty much everything maps to something (think Pilgrim’s Progress or Animal Farm), rather than just having influences and parallels. He was a medievalist, after all, and that was an era when there was a lot of it.

Don’t think the original comic’s version of this ever implied he was at risk, but the film version has enough of a twisted sense of fairness about it that he might not have taken himself out of the pool.

When Dr. Strange 2 comes out, you can watch a Marvel film about conjuring.

Alternatively, they could buy a ticket for a different movie and sneak into this one. Which will be really good for its box office, if my calculations are incorrect.

That’s 1660s and 1670s period pieces.

Think the idea in some versions might be that he can access those things, they aren’t imposed on his personality. The film doesn’t pursue it much, though.

Ken Burns is probably a bit too obvious/been done elsewhere for a wishlist?

I think Wing shows it’s a product of the post-Cold War pre-9/11 period by treating war as rather abstract, which is why it gets so philosophically silly. Most of the better series have a grounding in the possibility of war.

The cheques belong to Britain’s Chris Evans, and the less money that bloke has the better.

DC Comics has often used imaginary US cities as homebases for its characters, which exist alongside all the real ones. It used to be Fawcett City for Captain Marvel/Shazam.

The current predictions are for a $45-50 million opening weekend, which would be the lowest DCEU opening by a fair bit (but it was a lower-budget film that they’re clearly treating as an offbeat one). That’s not necessarily going to be correct, of course, and good reviews could help lift it.

It’d have to play a bit differently, since the comic version is about an unsympathetic character making one big mistake.

This is just a way for parents to justify throwing out half their kid’s toys, isn’t it?

The psychiatrist who appears near the end of The Stepford Wives, who responds to Joanna’s apparent paranoia about what’s going on with much more sympathetic and useful advice than you’d expect in that sort of scene (though it still comes too late).