A good post overall, but a minor correction: at least two directors left Marvel over creative differences. Patty Jenkins (it’s really weird that her name keeps popping up here for completely unrelated reasons) was originally hired to direct Thor: The Dark World, but left when she was unsatisfied with the script that…

One of the film that still gets me to this day is The Good Earth, which is set in China and yet all of the lead actors are white actors in yellowface. Actual Chinese people were only used as background extras.

Supposedly, Anna May Wong (considered by many to be the first Chinese-American Hollywood star) was up for the…

Appreciate this extensive timeline!

I would also mention John Carter was based on an Edgar Rice Burrows novel.  Its literally one of the earliest scifi stories.  Also Burrows wrote Tarzan so of course it aged poorly.  I agree with the overall consensus but there is a little more nuance to some of these choices.  Some, key word.

Fuck. No. And Fuck No.

If these even exists, and a few editors on the film have already slapped it down as being false, then given the plot of the movie, this will not be a fun time.

Most likely, it would be trans jokes and imagery that would make Buffalo Bill’s tuck and dance look harmless.

Robin Williams is dead. We…

Thank you. I was hoping someone would point that out. The *whole point* plok t-point that triggers “Civil War” was that nations felt The Avengers were operating without any oversight and quick to cross any international borders without consequence. That was why the Sokovia Accords were drafted - because The Avengers…

He’s talking in reference to the Flag Smashers, saying that their lives got worse when everyone else’s got better. He’s definitely not intended to be speaking about them sympathetically. And white people are often “hurt” by affirmative action/other practices, in that their positions of superiority and higher quality…

Bartleby the Scrivener? Anybody? Not a big Melville crowd here, huh? Well, it’s not an easy read!

Weird thing: So far, they’ve all died in the same order their characters do in the Director’s Cut (where Dallas is still alive until Ripley finds him in a cocoon):

I hope he got the bonus situation straightened out.

Because Riz Ahmed isn’t American, he’s British.

My one hope for all of this: I never have to hear about the fucking Snyder Cut again. I generally try not to yuck other people’s yum. I get that Snyder’s style is not appealing to me and that’s fine. Enjoy what you enjoy.

But damnit I am tired of hearing about this fucking thing.

That’s why he was thrilled to be the curator of Sears’s art department--that is, picking out the prints Sears sold in its furniture showrooms. He genuinely cared about art and wanted “regular” people to have access to the classics.

I dearly love Vincent Price, and as a young man?

Another fun thing you could do with that Bacon Mousse Baby is KILL IT. Cut it’s head off and set it on fire then bury the ashes in the shadow of a church, because that is the spawn of the Devil.

ranging from Tour d’Argent in Paris to Sizzler. (They were enthusiastic fans of both.)

Okay that bacon mousse baby made me legitimately yell “NO” and recoil from the screen. Truly one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen.

Hey, folks, if you’re running a story about someone coming under fire for offensive tweets...maybe mention, at some point, what is supposedly in those tweets? It’s kind of important information. Don’t even need to quote the tweets directly, but you do need to actually describe their content—just a couple of sentences,…

The couplet about playing bad guys - “He’s got a point of view / He’s got a job to do” - needs to have a song written around it.

Oh shit, I agree with a Daily Mail comment.