Naomi Scott... I didn’t adore the new Aladdin but this lady’s got screen charisma to BURN.

Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense!

Is (good) Gamora hanging out in the Soul Stone with Black Widow?

YAY: New Gremlins!

“18 Again!” was a body-switch movie where George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bodies through some plot device. IIRC, the majority of the movie is young Charlie Schlatter doing an impersonation of George Burns all over the place, with occasional shots of George Burns quietly lying down in a hospital bed. Pretty…

I noticed that this time! In some previous viewing, I was thinking, “Hey, Thor just stole Mjolnir from himself — doesn’t that mess up that timeline?” But Cap’s there at the end for his big clean-up adventure that we don’t get to see, and he’s got the hammer with him.

YES — after watching it for the 4th (!) time this weekend (so I could watch some bluray extras on a big screen) — Bruce does say he tries to bring her back at the end, which feels like the perfect setup. But also, Tony does HIS snap that dusts all the baddies... and I don’t know what the “rules” are for the whole…

He doesn’t necessarily need a cape or skull mask in my opinion, he just has to be a super-competent dickhead who kicks ass.

Here’s an animation I made of a friend’s illustration (of Nic Cage as Superman)

YES. It’s pretty simple — make them look the way they were originally conceived.

Yep, they had similar gag scenes for Jessica Jones herself and Luke Cage.  The Hellcat costume scene was so obvious.

Yes, thank you. Emotionally grounded. I think modern movie development often focuses too hard on making things aesthetically grounded — but even there, they can err on getting rid of things. (Kevin Smith has his story about developing the unproduced Superman Lives script where one of the producers wanted to get rid of…

Agreed. When there was a Hellcat costume montage, I knew they’d do a version of her comic book design and shit on it.

It *is* kind of an interesting fantasy at a certain point. I mean, it starts with abject horror (everyone dying, a world of the dead), but this idea of “starting over” as a society can be really appealing. All the rules are wiped clean. You feel more bonded to fellow survivors. Trying to rebuild the world better.  I…

I love that it’s an end-of-the-world story that deals with the survivors trying to rebuild the world (after good prevails over evil) -- and they try to improve upon the things that were wrong, but problems still present themselves.

I hated that — IIRC — the first time we see his character is in a dream sequence where he can talk. They don’t even establish that he’s a mute yet and he’s talking. It steals the impact of the dream where he can talk.

Watched TOY STORY 4 over the weekend and it just raises more “rules” questions for this world. But the underlying thing is — it seems to be a CHOICE that toys make to not move while people are watching, but WHY? What are the consequences of people seeing them move? Because they seem to bend the rules all the time.

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I saw it opening weekend and hated it. But a friend (who often has contrary opinions) saw it weeks later and actually liked it.

Okay, just finished it and I’ll throw in my 2 bits for posterity: I didn’t care for it.