Latter day Lucas would have us believe that he basically wanted the OT to look like the prequels when he originally made them, but the special effects technology of the 1970s/80s wouldn’t allow it. So for example, one limitation of the spaceship design was that the practical models couldn’t include any reflective…

Yeah I saw Iron Man 3 once in theaters while stoned out of my mind and completely forgot about the president being in it.

Yeah I didn’t make it past Episode 2 of Secret Invasion. That one takes my vote for worst Disney+ series.

So here’s the thing I find weird about making Thunderbolt Ross the president — has it ever been previously acknowledged that the U.S. even *has* a president in the MCU? Aside from the late great Garry Shandling’s Senate hearings way back in Iron Man 2, the role of elected officials in the MCU has gone almost entirely…

I ran the numbers a while back and average ticket prices in 2004 were about $10 (in 2024 dollars), and they’re $10.71 today.

At some point they’re going to have to raise the price of streaming subscriptions to show a profit. So the result will be paying $30-40 each for multiple services, and it’ll basically be a wash compared to visiting the theaters a few times per month.

Broadway requires a steady stream of customers flying from Albuquerque to NYC to see the latest shows.

I know, it’s not like Marvel has been in any hurry to crank out Black Panther sequels and Avengers team-up movies so that Letitia Wright could have a stable income. She clocked in to this movie. Then she clocked out.

Yes that’s another example of like, it’s funny for a 13 year old, who could plausibly think that when the woman is on top, the man just lays there and therefore she wouldn’t be able to tell that the cold motionless body wasn’t alive.

I first saw this movie around age 9, when I was aware of the general idea of sex but didn’t know exactly what it entailed.

It’s best understood as a fantasy-comedy film which takes place in a world where dead bodies don’t begin to decompose until a week or two after death.

At this point I hope Biden bombs the (pre-recorded and edited) friendly interview.

They’re only collaborative when the director is mediocre.

You’ve described my plans for this weekend so accurately, down to the edible, that I’m forced to wonder if you are actually a time traveling me from next Monday.

I mean Team Black did have a little boy’s head chopped off two episodes ago…

Tennant wasn’t even talking or thinking about her!

I think BTAS is one of those cases where the many creative limitations on the show, while frustrating for the writers, actually made it better.

Hoult is now Lex Luthor, so he’s probably already signed a contract saying DC gets to slaughter his first-born child if he ever plays Beast again.

The highlights of FWWM are among the finest moments of Lynch’s career, and contain some of the most singularly disturbing imagery ever filmed, so it doesn’t really bother me that it doesn’t work as a movie. Those Black Lodge scenes…

With Fantastic Four it feels like they just want to scratch the itch of doing another period piece like The First Avenger, and then they can just send the main cast through a wormhole into the sacred timeline going forwards.