That Joe Queenan quote makes me want to see the movie, because 1. that scene as he described it is something I’ve definitely never seen before, and that’s usually a good thing for me rather than a reason to go “wtf even is this - next!”... and 2. the intensity of Joe Queenan’s contempt, which is pretty much the only…

Yeah, I don’t have a problem imagining that people whose goal was a variation on “overturn the structure of human society as it’s existed during the entire modern era”, and whose plan for achieving this consisted of unilateral violent action, would also think that any drastic blow to the status quo was equally good.…

Not to be all “nuh-uh” but that’s incorrect. When Cap rescues Bucky from Hydra in the first movie, he’s already been experimented on, though he’s not sure what that was all about. In The Winter Soldier we find out that he survived falling off a cliff and being frozen after that, and he’s also clearly a match for Cap…

“And it won’t, unless some of us stuck-ups point it out. I’d be happy if this stuff got pointed out on every article here, by someone”

I love that the title of the REM album “Lifes Rich Pageant” is not just a general reference to that phrase, but specifically to the bit in this movie where, after Clouseau has fallen into a fountain like a dumbass and is trying to act like he meant to do that, Maria worries that he’ll die of pneumonia and Clouseau…

Btw, in my other reply I didn’t want to come across as agreeing with your blanket statement about AV Club writers. I think there used to be more editing and more substantive articles, but things like this series are still really well done and aren’t at all “content farm” stuff, and it’s a bit dickish to seize on one…

Not that armchair meta-editorializing about someone’s armchair-editor comment is super necessary either, but: it’d make more sense to just talk about editorial quality, rather than “writing and editorial”, because there’s no way for you or I to know how much of the (in someone’s opinion) higher quality of the articles…

Wow, I can understand Goldblum being insecure at that point in his career, but the problems with that movie aren’t about his performance and I don’t know what more he could have done with such a thinly written character. He barely says anything not directly plot-related throughout the movie besides variations on “I…

I hadn’t seen a Landis movie in forever, and then I recently saw Into the Night for the first time and... wow, yeah, everything you just said. Goldblum and Pfeiffer make it watchable, and the idea should work, but Landis just can’t stop piling more things on and whenever he’s got more than three people in a scene it’s…

I haven’t seen it but that sure is what it sounded like, which is frustrating because it’s loosely based on a Tim Powers historical fantasy that I like a lot. I think that could’ve made a good movie, and a pretty weird and distinctive one. But Disney pirate movies were where the pirate movie business was, so it had to…

I’d be down for a freakish horror version too but I understand that there’s a little broader appeal for SF comedy (which I also like) and MODOK had acquired a mini cult following that was already leaning that way. Marvel just knew how to read the room.

I watched all the way to the end credits for this one(*) and in the music section, that song is called “It Was ______ All Along”.

I just got around to watching SOLO, which is dumb but way more fun than I expected, and I had no idea how much I’d been wanting to see Paul Bettany play a horrible mafia boss attacking people with laser knives.

GREAT movie. Burnett and Glover manage to create menace out of little understated things and the guy’s general wrongness: when Harry shows a small knife, you don’t have to see any violence or know what exactly will happen with it, it’s just crystal clear that this is really bad. The movie’s also very funny in places,…

I’m guessing they meant “diverge”. The plot summary there doesn’t match either the movie or the novel— Allie Fox wasn’t “on the run from the U.S. government”; he was a crank with doomsday-prepper tendencies who one day just decided “the U.S. is fucked, and I’m the last rational man so everyone’s against me, so I’ll…

I get how The Darjeeling Limited would be a mixed bag for a lot of people, but the scene where Wilson takes off his bandages in the bathroom made me realize “OK, this is my kind of thing no matter what.” There’s an obvious expectation that maybe he’s been misleading us all along, and then... no actually this is very…

Oh boy, that takes me back unpleasantly. I used to transcribe interview footage - not for captioning, but the rush transcripts that they used for editing, meaning they wanted to know *everything* that was on that tape (within reason - they would get mad if you took them literally and transcribed random background…

I’ve heard the Audible adaptation of the first book and I can see how it’d come across that way. They basically took everything that’s conveyed non-verbally in the comics, either in drawings or what’s implied, and turned it into narration. So for instance when Burgess’s ex-employee gets cursed to death, which looks a…

Yes, they’ve said in the past that the first season would basically be the first book. But these things can change so who knows. Burgess isn’t in it at all past the very beginning, so I’m assuming that “main cast” here means “major characters plus the actors who are most famous” and that there may be some shuffling…

More than just “kind of” different, I’d say. Hellblazer and Constantine have more traditional devil figures who are super gross and evil and are out to get your soul. Gaiman’s Lucifer is more just an “I’m the only rational person” type of asshole who has no goal of hurting people, he just doesn’t care if they get hurt…