Who?

Now that I know how thoroughly corporations have bought and corrupted American politics, including on the Democratic side, the way The West Wing concealed and utterly ignored all that for my naive teenage self makes me reluctant to ever revisit the show, lest I end up kind of despising it. :(

Reminder: The Last Ship is still an excellent, action-packed show with entirely decent writing and real narrative propulsion. Just throwing that out there…

The actors don't look Slavic: a flaw so nice Iggy noted it twice.

Fanatical Idris Elba for Bondism: being woke is more important than knowing what they hell you're talking about, or even bothering to look it up.

There seems to be an implicit argument that if you're against a black Bond, even if you're totally open to a different 00 agent who happens to be black (or other), you're flirting with racism. It's the aggravating groupthink response to a group that's never read a single Ian Fleming book, but feels entitled to have a…

I want the next Bond to be a 20-something Royal Navy commando during said WW2. Make it a traditional WW2 group mission movie that only hints at his lone wolf future, then transition to his post-military MI5 days in the early Cold War for the sequels.

Asking for a woman or Steve Buscemi Bond: why liberals lost the White House.

Didn't Adele release "Hello" in 2015?!

You're perfectly entitled to your wrong opinion, but that doesn't make it any more faithful to Doyle's works.

They'd probably have to Captain Ersatz things for a for-profit venture.

No, but they did have him punching Holmes over a verbal slight, which is every bit as divorced from Doyle's characters, talking points bullshit from the Ritchie gang notwithstanding.

No West Wing West Wing, no deal.

Looks, Messrs. Shatner and Schwarzenegger, you two aren't going to live forever. So will you please give me my buddy-cop action flick already?!

^ TheX-Men movie franchise didn't have a clear path from Singer's departure from X3 until they decided to do Apocalypse while making Days of Future Past, and yet they managed to make two great movies in First Class and DoFP and one okay one in The Wolverine in between.

^ That may have been the idea for MoS, but if so, it was massively undercut by the 20-minute prologue in which Jor-El tells us Clark will be a beacon and a guiding light, and then when his hologram repeats the same throughout the movie.

He's presented far more as likable than as having an arc (which he gains more of in the sequels, when he rejects the SHIELD authority he initially wholeheartedly embraced). Whereas Snyder's Supes is neither likable nor arc-possessing.

You mean an AV Club post referring to such a video essay made by a third party? Because TV and movie reviews aside, original content doesn't seem to be a high priority these days…

Indiana Jones is not the same guy all the time - he undergoes an arc from skeptic to believer in each movie. Granted, it gets old, and his forced conversion to believer via mind molestation halfway through Crystal Skull sucked big time, but he's not static. Indeed, in ToD, he's after "fortune and glory", and by Crusade…

If you want a movie about a charismatic flying hero with a red cape, both of Thor's solo outings, including the severely underrated The Dark World, are far better picks. (And Ragnarok is going to spank the first Justice League this November - you heard it here first!)