Yeah, I think Jenkins is generally great, and Wonder Woman was pretty awesome, 3rd-act CGI niggling aside. But. WW84 was just bad, and she really didn’t have the leverage required following that to take this stance.

I’ve long been cool on GOTG 2. Good enough film overall, but it suffered from the same thing as Love and Thunder - an unappreciated pseudo-auteur knocked it out of the park on the first go, and no one checked him on the second one.

I hate Cosmo.  The best counter to my Wong/White Tiger/Odin play.

It’s roughly as long as “2001: A Space Odyssey” while covering several million fewer years.

Way to long for a horror movie.

I haven’t had the pleasure yet, waiting for streaming, but after that clip? Yeah, I can actually buy the hype for once. I’m sure William Castle is rolling in his grave at the second embedded tweet, though.

This is some serious Fatal Frame erasure.

A couple of black characters was too few, but one Asian character was plenty.

Agreed 100%. Half of this article is shitting on the idea that we need to have a more visual element for some of these DND staples when we already have our minds eye and artwork.. well as someone with Aphantasia maybe think about other people’s experiences with media. I play a ton of DND. Seeing the mimic, the…

I mean a proper D&D-respecting movie would start with a spectacular action set piece with dragons and shit (aka the part where the DM reads from a prepared statement) and then shift its viewpoint to a small band of murder hobos that somehow manage to burn down half the town because the dry goods store wanted to charge…

I am confused why the movie looking Marvel like has anything to do with queerness too. This article is kinda a mess.

I actually think that is kinda a side effect of D&D huge rise to fame in the last decade. A lot of new people are playing and trying to “MAKE IT DEEP” and meaningful without realizing that a lot of table top players moved on to better games for that sorta thing. D&D is great, I love D&D but its rarely about deep…

To be fair, most D&D characters aren’t particularly interesting except to the person playing them.

Also, for those bitching about Black Panther being #1, you’re forgetting the golden rule of online writing:

Yes, it seems much more useful than the “nag the living as a ghost” trick.

These films could be the gateway to bringing back the ABC Friday Night Movie.

Yeah it’s kind of telling they think of a film about an interracial romance (based on a massively successful stage musical written 70 years ago when segregation was still rampant) as “woke”.

“it doesn’t seem to put the studio’s money where its mouth is in terms of supporting diverse and original stories equally with its more established fare.”

Both exactly. You read my mind. In fact D+ should throw together an in-universe doc just like you describe. It would be cameo nuts, but simply put together a “real” documentary crew to visit these actors in character. It would be like a two-hour compilation of One-Shots. Do it cheap. The cheaper the better. Not too…

He literally ordered a Stormtrooper to bring Obi-Wan to him seconds before Obi-Wan’s unlikely escape.