Even without the cash cow mentality of the comics industry to ruin things, does the Dark Phoenix storyline even really hold up all these years later?

Sounds like this movie has 100% less Vinnie Jones than it should be allowed to have.

Paying attention to the nuances in the characters instead of just spewing visual effects. I would submit that the Dark Phoenix story worked so well in the comics because of the intimate relationship between Jean and Scott.

It doesn’t help that the actress playing Anathema is terrible.

Jesus. That’s why I read critics AFTER I’ve seen the thing. Basically I enjoyed every minute of it, marathoning the thing painlessly.

Every adaptation of Pratchett I have seen has made the same mistake, and I suspect it’s insurmountable. Basically, the bulk of the good gags live in the narration. You end up shoehorning them into the mouths of the characters or just investing an omniscient narrator (as they’ve done here) and either way it comes off…

JON PET GHOST 10,000 A PLUSES

But seriously, some thoughts:

I do like the idea of Sansa and Tyrion ruling over Westeros.

Coincidentally, the phrase “he felt it move when he tugged” is found in over 90% of Cap Thor slashfic. At the risk of ruining the innuendo with a relevant Joss Whedon reference, the hammer is his penis.

Sadly the likelier situation is that none of this even happened, so we’re reading some loser’s loser fantasy.

I wish I was so good at making friends I could afford to weaponize it.  

So that guy dedicated a year of his life forming a fake friendship in order to get back at the guy who . . . spoiled a movie?

The scene was silly and seemingly made for future gifs or memes, but the teenage girl sitting near me in the theater cheered her head off.  So that’s kinda cool at least.  The similar scene in the last movie definitely worked better.

I think the purpose of Bran warging into the ravens was to lead the Night King back to him.

I dunno. I think there was a little respect shown, if for no other reason than they showed her heroically dead and totally still intact on the dais, rather than the rubber-skinsuit-surrounded-by-unidentifiable-clumps-of-bloody-viscera horror that normally would have resulted from a fall from that height.

God what a horrible episode. For me, it ruins the entire series and makes me question whether I should even finish it (I know I fucking will). What a fucking shame, one of the best TV shows ever made has become...this. I’m too fucking tired and pissed off to really give a full breakdown, but just off the top of my…

It was such a waste of build-up to never have Bran warg into a Dragon, if only to give us the same birds-eye view.

Oh yah, winter’s coming, dontchaknow. Heckuva deal for us white walkers.

“I stabbed a giant right in the goddamned eye with every rib broken! Now fuck off and sit in the corner!”

So it seems pretty clear that Thor Lebowski is going to be a huge Halloween costume this year, right?