As a side note, one of the many, many wonderful things about The Winter Soldier was that Robert Redford’s character in that film was basically everything I actually wanted out of an onscreen depiction of Ozymandias.  He was even charming and friendly as he was trying to kill his oldest friend!

This is one of those films where the default take — visually amazing, but completely free of the subtext and subtlety that made the source material work — is pretty much completely correct and there’s just not that much more to say.

Supreme: The Story of the Year is the single best thing Moore ever wrote in his entire career and I will fucking die on this hill.  It’s a pity it’s basically unknown outside of (and if we’re being honest, pretty inaccessible to anyone who’s not a) comic book nerds.

It’s a latter-day Robert Rodriguez film and it’s being dumped in February.  You can safely assume that it’s unwatchably awful. :(

Yeah, there’s a good case to be made that Dassey got railroaded, but Avery? LOLnope.

God, there’s obviously no way that Marvel/Sony will ever let Netflix ever get anywhere near the Spider-Man property at this point, but “Superior Foes” would be a perfect candidate for a one-shot Netflix adaptation.

Hopefully they just cancel all of them an pour the saved budget money into making a single 12-episode adaption of NEXTWAVE.

Thank you. Wasting once-a-generation talents at Q is practically Philadelphia’s core value proposition over the last 40 years. Before McNabb it was Randall Cunningham.

RIGHT?????

That entire cast is supernova-hot, but it’s a testimony to how good Jacinto is at playing an utter and complete dipshit that he is not right now a Brad-Pitt-Circa-1989 universally recognized sex symbol.

Also, honestly, the actual framing plot of the movie (the Bowie-analogue turning into a quasi-fascist new-wave singer) was both unbearably clunky on its own merits and displayed a frankly disturbing over-investment in Bowie’s sexuality and artistic choices by Haynes.  I don’t blame Bowie at all for not consenting to…

Between the near-silent dialogue scenes and the loud action, good luck watching this movie in a house where people are sleeping. You need to be a ninja with that volume button.

(Spoiler the all-caps thing wasn’t a stylistic choice, he’s just very cheap and refuses to replace a keyboard with a busted capslock key.)

For whatever it’s worth, Infinity War is a pretty different beast than the first two Avengers films, and honestly feels more like “Captain America 4" by way of “Spider-Man 1.5".

Hot take: IM3 was pretty good, but could have been better. Adapting the Extremis story was a good starting point, and Shane Black is exactly the writer/director you want for quippy one-one-one violence.  But the ending is a blurry CGI mess and Black is not the man to make that kind of thing work.

It’s such a pity that, ah, exigent circumstance forced that trailer to be buried, because that is a fucking killer trailer, and a master class in how to sell a movie without giving anything away about its actual plot.  I’d actually love to know if it was Raimi who shot/cut that or if it was some entirely separate team.

You’ve just given me not only a reason to run for president, but my entire campaign platform.

“Someone missed the point big time” is a pretty apt summation of the whole movie.  And they spent such incredible effort doing it. :(

Johnny Brasco?

Replacing the squid-monster with Manhattan was actually one of the few things about the movie that I liked. For one brief moment, Snyder clearly was actually thinking about the differences in the medium he was working in (even if it was only the length limit) and actually had to engage his brain and think of a…