Disney does seem to get cold feet whenever they hire someone for a project with a release date years in advance (Trank, Trevorrow, Rian Johnson, D&D), and then they release something bad in the interim.

Pattinson is 33 years old. If anything he’s a little old for the role. Bruce Wayne usually becomes Batman at around age 25 in the comics. Pattinson will be pushing 40 if they ever get to a third film in this series.

Yeah the issue with prior Batman films isn’t that there are too many villains, it’s that every one of the Burton/Schumacher films spends a good 45 minutes of screen time explaining exactly why and how the villain came to be and why they don’t like Batman and how they first meet Batman. By the time we’re all caught up,…

I think it bothered Vince Gilligan that he meant to show Jesse finally escaping his past in the series finale, but due to the time and logistical constraints he really left Jesse in an ambiguous place. It was hard to believe he could escape to freedom with only the clothes on his back while he was wanted for murder…

I went to the Coachella show in 2004 when they had just gotten back together. That was so fun. Then they gradually became a county fair act. People were already shrugging ten full years ago. Nu-Pixies has been together longer than the original lineup. They keep cranking out new post-Deal albums, as if to say “Hey we…

I think they had to explain why Jesse would keep cooking meth at Heisenberg levels of purity while enslaved. Why wouldn’t he keep trying to escape, or find a way to kill himself, or contaminate every batch to make sure Jack’s crew couldn’t profit from him?

I actually think it makes a lot of sense. In order for the plot of the first movie to work, we have to buy that Sarah is a Helen of Troy-esque beauty who could motivate Kyle to travel through time for her based on a single Polaroid. The second movie leans heavily on Sarah as a Mary, Mother of Jesus archetype who is…

I feel bad for the people who worked really hard behind the scenes to stage the battle of Winterfell and the burning of King’s Landing. They put themselves through hell to accomplish something never seen before on television, but because the story didn’t work, when those episodes finally came out they just got shit…

I think they’re pulling that annoying Khan / Tahlia Al-Ghul trick where they cast a guy as “John Cartwright” and then in the third act they reveal he was really Scorpion the whole time.

My favorite part of ROTS is when Palpatine anoints Anakin as Darth Vader, and Anakin is thinking “Well now that I’ve committed murder, this evil disfigured guy is sure to tell me how to save Padme” and then Palpatine says “Hmm yeah about that, I’m sure we can figure it out eventually...”

And as with the original trilogy, it’s a serious issue that much of the dramatic conflict centers around the possibility that Luke/Rey will turn to the dark side, but this never feels remotely close to happening.

In retrospect it’s kind of weird that Chewie never mentioned to Luke that he’d met a Jedi once. He literally had years to bring it up!

Disney has always acknowledged that the prequels happened and are still canon, they just ignore the prequel aesthetic. There’s a reference to a clone army in TFA, Jimmy Smits appeared in Rogue One as Bail Organa (and Vader’s bachelor pad was on Mustafar), and Luke references Darth Sidious by name and recounts the…

Well, it hurts Marvel much more than Sony. Marvel’s stuck with having to explain away the fact that they spent half a dozen movies building up Spidey as Iron Man’s successor, only for him to just disappear from the storyline with no resolution. Whereas with Tony dead and the Tom Holland Spidey having little contact…

This is a horrible idea. There’s no way I won’t pay to see it.

Yes this was a show that, even if it had lasted 10 seasons, would have had a series finale involving Krypton blowing up while a lone spaceship carrying baby Superman escapes.

I agree with almost all of the prequel criticism, but I actually love the way Lucas revealed that the Jedi of our imagination never existed — that the noble, tragically defunct Jedi Order described by Obi-Wan and Yoda in the OT was a fiction they’d invented to spare themselves the pain of admitting that the Jedi were…

I feel like we don’t spend enough time debating whether Matt Salinger or Chris Evans made a better Captain America.

This definitely feels like a Frankie Pentangeli situation, where Epstein was assured there’d be no reprisal if he killed himself, and the guards on his suicide watch were paid off to look the other way.

The issue is that mortal film directors are not able to provide satisfying and definitive answers to the meaning of life and human existence, so any film that grapples with this theme is bound to disappoint if everything is spelled out.