[The actors] were way too young to be the same characters from the original two films

Wait, someone writing these jokes is saying Jack Black can’t sing?

After the runaway (fly away?) success of 2022's Top Gun: Maverick

I’m not sure the old generation of writers had much idea of how to construct 20 episode seasons either. Very few seemed to have any shape beyond “let’s have a big/arc moment every 6-8 episodes” and “it’s the finale, we have to end on a frustrating cliffhanger, even though we’re not actually renewed yet and may never…

Citadel’s poor writing is one thing, but worse is that the sets look like sets, the action is poorly choreographed and full of mediocre CGI work, the cast is decent, but there are no superstars likely to command crazy fees. So where the hell did the money go? How could they spend $300m and have it look so cheap?

I will forever maintain that Broadchurch is massively overrated, and what it did have going for it was in spite of Chibnall, not because of him.

You are warned. They make a fuss about Maruki leaving the school on a certain date, which is the only one that has a meaningful effect on the endings.

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

So in the regards of any future plans, titles, and such being leaked, I say “you reap what you sow.”

The X-Men multiplayer mode is planned to precede the main game? Is that right?

[He] thinks Bowen Yang deserves an EGOT for his impression of him on SNL. In other news, Santos has no idea who either James Baldwin or Harvey Milk are...

The Rock is as badly directed as every other Bay film though. It works as much as it does largely on the strength of the innate screen presence of Connery and Cage.

Never did it before (this time).

“Creatively break even”? His second passes often get tons of credit for being notably less bad than his first passes, but that’s a very, very low bar and they’re all still fucking awful.

Precisely because it demonstrates how pointless “total hours viewed” is as a metric. TV shows can and do have radically different lengths to each other as well.

Oh shit, the Shadow and Bone fans are gonna be pissed.

The world building in John Wick started dumb and got worse with each entry, yeah. As for the action, while it’s well choreographed and executed, I find far too much of it falls into a pattern of “John walks into a room and takes out an army of goons in his usual style, then more goons show up and he does it again” on…

Plus “well he did already do this recently with Army of the Dead, but that overrides my thesis, so let’s pretend it was some kind of sequel to his Dawn of the Dead remake”.

I thought it was simply “John Wick, but our lead actor isn’t as physically capable so we can’t drag out every single action sequence two or three times longer than it needs to be”. A vast improvement, in other words.

Similarly, why on Earth would you make the Flash a villain, and then show off his boss fight in a trailer with nothing but him as a stationary bullet sponge? I mean, I assume/hope that in the full game you have to trigger something that freezes him temporarily and gives you a chance to get some damage in, but if the…