I understand this sentiment but nearly all of Zuckerberg’s net worth is tied up in Meta stock, and his personal wealth really has plummeted over the last year. Even if he were to liquidate large amounts of his stock and personally pay the 11,000 employees for a few months, that would lower the stock price even…

The Khan reveal was a disaster, it let all the air out of the entire reboot franchise. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard an entire audience groan at a plot twist like that the way they did at Cumberbatch’s “my name is Khan!” line reading.

I just disagree. Boseman was a screen icon possessed of unusual charisma and grace, and this was widely recognized before his passing. There’s a reason Boseman is the first unsnapped face we see walking through the portal in Endgame. People aren’t just grading him up as a performer because he died young. With respect…

Seems like he would have been all wrong for the role, he’s 5’10” with an average build. The guy they went with is tiny and Sebastian Stan towered over him.

I think this ties closely into the reason the show lost its audience — any character death could effectively be undone by 3D-printing a new body that looked exactly like Tessa Thompson or Ed Harris or whomever. The rules of the world established that the hosts were oddly tied to their shells, and no actor could ever…

For every series HBO has killed prior to a planned conclusion, they’ve greenlit several more seasons of expensive shows whose low ratings didn’t really justify the order, provided they were generating awards and buzz. HBO basically invented the planned series finale. Network shows used to just run until they were…

Leto isn’t a Method actor, he’s just an abusive asshole who mistreats nearly everyone he works with and then claims it’s part of his process. An actor friend once told me this story where supposedly he invited an actress over to work on a scene (this was for the movie where Leto played Mark David Chapman), and then…

The trick with the MCU is that there is very little overlap in cast and crew across projects, which allows them to crank out content more quickly. Thor 1 was technically a sequel to Iron Man 2, but aside from a couple brief cameos there’s almost nothing connecting the two. The MCU’s innovation was that if you…

I’m not hating on TNG, but most of that show took place on one set with almost no location filming. Whenever they leave the bridge and beam down somewhere, it’s all smoke and mirrors on a soundstage. Anything too expensive happens offscreen and is mentioned in passing dialogue. The limited space scenes were done with…

It’s always taken a minimum of 2-3 years to turnaround a blockbuster theatrical sequel, and those never run more than 3 hours. With the move towards treating a season of serialized television more like a 10 hour movie, it makes sense that the turnaround time would increase to be more in line with theatrical standards.…

I’m sure the TV writers will come up with something well structured and on brand. The problem isn’t really with the writing, it’s with the way Disney Star Wars has used the original trilogy (which was wildly imaginative on release) as a corporate style guide. When in doubt, they pore over every frame of George Lucas’…

But Game of Thrones *did* often stop dead for graphic depictions of violence against men. I will concede that Theon’s actual castration occurred offscreen and they didn’t subject the audience to a closeup of pruning shears slicing off a prosthetic cock. But I suspect GRRM was really disappointed about that. The…

As Viserys said early in the season, the Targaryens’ control over the dragons is an illusion. They have minds of their own.

Hasn’t this world always kind of dwelled on body horror? The Boltons are obsessed with flaying people alive. The grayscale disease is horrifying, and the cure involved ripping off all the diseased flesh without anesthetics. There was whatever happened to keep the Mountain alive. Viserys was eaten alive by…

The thing that’s been lost to time with Batman 89 is that young filmmakers are now never handed the keys to such well known IP and allowed to do something weird and personal with it. Reeves had to map out exactly where he wanted to go — Batman meets Se7en — and he wasn’t allowed to deviate from that pitch. Later…

I feel exhausted on behalf of the people who get really worked up about whether a celebrity stranger was sufficiently polite in a restaurant. If you got really angry reading the original report, how can you ever rest?

Eh, this guy was hired *after* the Justice League debacle. How was he supposed to build anything on that rotten foundation? The solution he came up with was probably the best case scenario. 

The MCU had a weird problem around the AoU and Civil War era where they wanted to talk about “enhanced” people or whatever, but then sitting at the table we had Stark, Rhodes, Natasha and Clint including themselves in the conversation around enhanced people, when they were just good at wearing metal suits and spying…

Also, maybe the nurse monitoring all five ECMO patients was a Friends fan.

The Rock missed out on a lot of superhero roles over the last 20 years. He wanted to fight Superman. Who can blame him?