The more the MCU explores the Snap, the more I’m concerned that it was such a HUGE in-universe event that the overarching story will never be able to move past it. Like, pre-Snap they could tell a lighthearted heist story about a guy who can shrink himself. Now they’re kind of stuck in a position where, even when they…

I have complicated feelings about all that! As a kid, the Batman vs. Superman fight blew my mind. But re-reading it as an adult, there are some serious issues with the characterization and Miller’s broader fascist messaging. It somehow didn’t annoy me that Miller turned Superman into Reagan’s lapdog when I originally…

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the Snyder Cut, after years of hating on this project and Snyder in general. The annoying Snyderisms are all over the place, but it’s really not a bad Justice League movie, and seeing only Snyder footage just illustrates what a hack job the Whedon version really is.

There’s a basic limitation in any story that wants to treat Superman as a threat — namely, we know that he’s such a living embodiment of moral virtue that we take sides against anyone who worries he might abuse his powers for immoral reasons. This is why Batman v Superman doesn’t work: while Batman’s concerns are…

Good points! The husband kind of didn’t lay out all the rules up front and behaved somewhat unethically himself. There’s definitely some consent issues with the husband, at least the first time he just started jerking off on the phone.

What LW1 doesn’t want to accept is that by entering into this arrangement, he was, in fact, entering into a sexual relationship with the friend — one which has its own separate rules of consent. He went into this *thinking* he was only having sex with the wife, because the husband’s not in the room, but the couple is…

Yeah I hadn’t thought about this, but Sigourney Weaver is likely to be the final surviving member of the Alien cast, just like Ripley. Tom Skerritt is 16 years older than her, and Veronica Cartwright is the only other living actor.

Zack Snyder has a thing where he clearly intends for every frame of every movie to be taken as deadly serious art, but when his work is inevitably received as the goofy excess it is, he smiles and tries to play it off as though that were his intention.

If they had just cast some random guy who kind of looked like Taylor-Johnson, it wouldn’t have been clear whether they just had to recast Pietro due to the original actor’s availability, or if the recasting itself was a plot point. (I don’t think we would have thought Wanda was an idiot). Bringing in Evan Peters fixes…

One underappreciated aspect of this movie is that it validates the silliest part of the original premise — after an entire movie where the joke is that there appears to be no way in which these two guys with no musical talent could possibly change the world with their band, the sequel actually provides a plausible…

I am relieved that I’m not the only person who has been seriously upset about this since the 90's.

Particularly because Wanda was snapped! She failed to protect the Mind Stone from Thanos, leading directly to the Snap itself, and then didn’t do anything to reverse the Snap on account of having turned to dust five years earlier. Her contribution to the Battle of Earth was mostly irrelevant since Thanos avoided her…

I think what Tony was saying was that his condition for reversing the Snap was that they had to do it in their own timeline, so that he could spend the rest of his life in a timeline that included the Morgan he had already raised.

Had he merely found a way to travel back in time and reversed the Snap in 2018, he would…

I think an apology from Wanda would have gone over as well as a postbellum plantation owner apologizing to his former slaves.

I think the point is that the Hex has much less value for Wanda if she’s aware of the deception. Hex-Vision and the Hex-kids are just extensions of herself, so she couldn’t be happy in that bubble reality on a long-term basis if she’s consciously aware that it’s all a Chaos Magic spell. For the first few episodes, at…

Monica didn’t really do much in this series when it came down to it. You can almost remove the entire character from the series and it doesn’t change much, at least when viewing WandaVision as a standalone limited series — this was basically an origin story for Spectrum so that she can do stuff in other properties. I…

The tone of this article is all wrong. Live events take a long time to plan and they’ve been shut down entirely for a full year. There needs to be some advance notice of when events can resume, and these restrictions are arguably too strict for anyone to turn a profit. In April, nearly all vulnerable people in NYC…

Heroes was a total mess from a writing standpoint, but I think it imploded primarily because it became clear early on that the show would never have the budget to serve up superhero action in line with the then-recent Spider-Man and X-Men movies. The show was always written in a way that promised if you kept tuning…

I would argue Christopher Lee also “got it” and turns in fun Hammer-influenced villainy that’s right in line with his old friend Peter Cushing’s performance in ANH. Lee somehow makes a duel with a leaping green Muppet ball seem dignified.

The shooting script addresses this even more explicitly: