It seems like A LOT of the narrative being written, in the wake of the Carpenter tweets, is that Whedon was the primary issue with Justice League and Snyder is going to be the savior here.

Age of Ultron really isn’t that bad - flawed, yes, but not bad - and the blame for its flaws is not entirely Whedon’s fault - there is a reason Feigue moved to get rid of Perlmutter and the story comittee after AoU.

Some general thoughts:

I saw that; to hold up “viking” as though it’s some universally accepted delineation of excellence is the most bizarre joke misreading I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

But “hole” has much cruder connotation that makes sense with the joke. “Car hold” sounds more archaically fancy than garage. You’d never tell someone to shut their pie hold.

Look at it this way:

It is funnier for Homer to be referring to what he just saw happen with nostalgia, possibly in an attempt to bond with his new boss. He does something like this later with the whole “Yes, sir. Very casual, sir. I will notice that.” To pretend like the time Hank Scorpio threw his shoes was a fond memory is hilarious.

I totally agree that Wakanda’s response—building a charter school in Oakland—isn’t exactly earth-shattering, but it’s really worth pointing out that Killmonger’s plan was explicitly fascist and implicitly genocidal. He was not advocating “black liberation,” but military expansion, civil war, and mass-murder of…

Yeah, the main takeaway here is that a lot of people are bad at comedy. Most of these are people assuming that an absurdist punchline has to “mean something” or be a reference. Because you know what’s always hilarious? References to things people recognize.

The amount of people on the internet with Asperger’s, trying to tell us what is and what isn’t funny, is one of life’s miseries.

a buddy just sent me the ‘oh boy sleep! that’s where i’m a viking!’ thread and i was shocked to learn it’s widely thought that ralph was saying ‘i’m a viking at sleeping’, not ‘when i sleep i dream i’m a viking’, which to me is the only possible interpretation.

That explanation is reasonable, but it’s internally inconsistent if the movie is supposed to be a period piece filled with easily recognizable 80s signifiers. It’s also a genuinely interesting point, that we’re so accustomed to universal connectivity that we can’t really conceptualize a recent past when billboards and…

I’ll pin and lasso it where I please.

On an ideological level, superhero movies are all about maintaining the status quo, arguing that power can only be responsibly held by an elite few who are “capable” of handling it. And while Wonder Woman 1984’s message is partially a warning about greed—a suitable theme for a movie set in the Wall Street decade—it…

The person who hunts them?

That would be the hunter hunter hunter.

who hunts the hunter hunter?

“There’s a vast desert called The Astral Plane, where the spiritually enlightened or creatively invigorated can project their consciousness”

Well, I’m sure there’ll be some uproar gainst Riz once they hear of it.