I think the way I stated it is pretty accurate. The screenplay format encourages writers to use lots of short, concise paragraphs. Character names get their own line every time they speak, and dialogue is surrounded by large margins on the left and right. All of this increases the page count relative to, say, a…

I’ve always thought of solo-Batman as basically being a different character from the Justice League Batman who hangs out with Superman and is always fighting alien and extra-dimensional threats.

A lot of great screenplays have been written in a few days or a few weeks. A 120 page script is like 30 pages of prose. Directing one of these movies, seeing it through post, and then promoting it is more work by several orders of magnitude. Gunn won’t be able to direct any movies while he’s doing the DC Kevin Feige…

Now I’m picturing one specific town in Mississippi where everyone sounds *exactly* like Daniel Craig in the Knives Out movies, and it turns out he’s doing the most startling impersonation of an accent in cinema history.

I think Craig’s ridiculous accent is part of the appeal of this franchise. We all know he doesn’t really sound like that, and in fact nobody really sounds like that, but he’s having so much fun in character that it makes everything around him more fun. It also establishes a kind of hyperreality that causes all the…

Exactly, it’s the kind of deal where there’s no graphic violence, language or sex — but it’s still very much a movie for adults. Not aimed at kids at all.

My kids are 7 and 4 and I watched this movie with just my wife last night. It’s a hard “hellz no” on showing this to young kids. There is disturbing imagery throughout, which isn’t surprising for del Toro, but the real issue is the handling of Geppetto’s dead son. The father/son relationship is shown in much more…

She’s got a ton of great TV credits working on all the most fun and interesting shows. And a lot of successful TV directors have struggled to make the transition to movies. Alan Taylor, who travels in the same circles as MacLaren, was the one who wound up directing Thor 2 and then followed it up with Terminator:…

WB brass was adamant that they find a woman director. And unfortunately there aren’t a lot of women directors in Hollywood. Michelle MacLaren, who has a lot of directing credits on prestige television like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, was originally supposed to direct the first Wonder Woman movie, but she dropped…

And the survivor of a genocide probably thinks a rape victim should shut the fuck up about their trauma, because it only lasted a few minutes and nobody died. There’s no end to your gatekeeping 

People are too fixated on the use of the word “traumatic,” I think it could be traumatizing to be publicly humiliated and rejected on such a large stage. The Batgirl cancellation will be mentioned in their obituaries, as that’s likely to be an all-time famous unreleased film along the lines of The Day the Clown Cried.…

If you’re such a major stockholder, you should probably raise your concerns to Iger rather than posting on the AV Club. I’m sure Iger would be happy to take a personal meeting to allay your concerns, given that you have a large ownership stake in the company.

Indy actually saved the Nazis in Raiders. If not for his actions, Belloq would have brought the Ark to Berlin, where Hitler would have opened it himself in the presence of the entire Third Reich leadership, turning them all to goo. WW2 and the Holocaust is all Indy’s fault!

They should have just set the whole movie in the 1940s with a de-aged Harrison Ford, and done like a bookend set in 1969 with Ford at his current age.

I don’t doubt that Shatner was difficult to work with in the 1960s. But at some point shouldn’t Takei just accept all that stuff happened 60 years ago and move on? He’s just relentless, never missing an opportunity to get his digs in.

They wanted a billion dollars! I think there is something to the suits’ conviction that Cavill’s Superman just never connected with audiences. A lot of it is Zack Snyder’s fault, but Cavill hasn’t really had a huge hit elsewhere either…

His tone comes across as a little disrespectful towards Cavill. Like, he praises him as Superman (and he’s a pretty good Superman), but he does it by way of basically saying, “Can you believe Cavill was just completely destitute and eating from the streaming breadline, and these suits hated the idea of ever working…

Yes that’s another good example of a legacy business model that was wildly successful in its time, but didn’t translate to the streaming revolution. The cable companies bundled all those channels together, so that you had to pay one base fee in order to access *any* of their content, even if you only ever watched five…

There’s that. It also makes it difficult for international audiences, because then you either have to translate the texts for each market, or subtitle them.

His last two movies were each the highest grossing film of all time upon release. He’s thinking he’ll make it three in a row. I think Avatar 2 will be profitable. The industry’s real issue is spending $1 billion on a Lord of the Rings show for a streaming platform that everyone basically gets for “free” in order…