That's not sentiment, necessarily, though. It's certainly a callback to the first movie, but it also plays fine without that knowledge (presuming one really like "Sabotage"). I mean, it is played for laughs, so it's hard for me to see it as future self-parody a la Woo's doves.

Ha, thank YOU! I am here for all of your Praising X-Men: Apocalypse needs.

I don't think that scene is sentimental.

To be clear, I felt no pressure whatsoever to include the scene from Civil War! I liked it a lot and it stood out for me even in a movie that I didn't love as much as the other two Cap pictures. I just thought it was interesting that I remember people inexplicably being shocked that Guardians wasn't best-of-the-year…

That's true. And that adds in some more serious conflict in a scene that's largely superheroes showing off their fun powers. (I think the scene also sold me on, OK, they don't want to hurt each other, but many superheroes must wonder sometimes, what WOULD it be like if I fought my teammate?)

In a way, using people who are pretty successful to make Don't Think Twice keeps a kind of purity, because if they did use some UCB washouts (or scene lifers who never went to the next level), then they'd make those people successful! So if it makes you feel any better, I'm sure the folks who made the movie know…

Please know that as SOON as DC makes another movie as good as, or even nearly as good as, any of the Nolan Batman movies, I will be ON IT for scenes of the year.

I sort of agree with you but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love the description of Reynolds as "God's perfect idiot." I'm not as big on Deadpool as some but I would say it very accurately reproduces a certain type of dorky, faux-outrageous comic-book humor.

Yeah, she would make an aces Lois in a better movie. She's even actually good in that movie, and I even like their general conception of Lois, but to no avail.

I love the Quicksilver scene from Apocalypse but I wrote about the Quicksilver scene from DOFP in 2014 so it seemed a little redundant for me to pitch the sequel scene (but to be clear, it does rule).

If I were doing a scene from The Shallows, I might actually pick Lively talking to herself as she stitches up her leg. GOOD ACTING.

I'm kinda shocked about the "eh" reactions to the Civil War scene here! I feel like I'm usually Mr. Guys These MCU Movies Aren't the Best of the Year while the comments sections freak out about some Marvel thingy being left off the list of the best movies of the year. HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY? Or was it just…

As someone who doesn't feel that the MCU movies always achieve the thematic depth they seem to be aiming for, I didn't mind the bash-em-up of the airport scene (clearly, since I suggested it and wrote about it!). The key, to me, is that the characters are (as at least some of them point out) pulling their punches. No…

I get what you're saying but you're in for a treat when you find out just how fucking sad Manchester is.

I'd go with the offscreen bee attack depicted in audio + transcript, myself.

I mean, by that logic no one can ever make a movie about failure because the people making the movie got to make a movie and aren't failures.

Not to be Mr. Pedant, but that was not a Pixar short! It was just regular Disney. (I love Pixar, but Disney has been doing some great shorts these last few years to go along with their generally excellent in-house features.)

Also, much more a moment than a scene, but Hemsworth getting his sandwich back ("little help?") slayed me.

I like everything about Haywire.

As a pretty solidly Not Attractive One myself, at least in that high school realm, I didn't think this movie was especially egregious there. It's not as if Nadine shuns Erwin — they hang out a bunch of times! Pretty easily! It just seems possible, early on, that she's either not interested in him…