Taron Egerton sang an Elton John song as an animated gorilla and then played a live action Elton in the bio-pic.

I’m not sure what this adds to the discussion, but I find it so incredibly bizarre I’m shoehorning it in.

“That would be the Sing series, which tries to turn the studio’s basic-ass music taste into some kind of guiding principle of insincere uplift, all while inching them closer to the platonic ideal of that 100-minute dance-party ending.”

I’m not convinced Johnson is a decent actor. If anything, people seem to have been amused by the fact that Johnson is visibly checked out of the Fifty Shades movies and Madame Web, the two most prominent roles she’s ever had.  These movies themselves aren’t good, and I get the sense that Johnson has turned in better…

“I just wasn’t proud of my work”

Contrast all of that to the boost that Dakota Johnson gets for similar plays--though she seems to get credit for seeming not to care. Caring about things differently is probably the worst sin.

What’s wild to me is that they’ve been sifting through these C- and D-level characters to headline a movie when the Black Cat is right there! Yes, she’s a shameless Catwoman ripoff, but you can give her luck powers or vibranium claws or something, and that’s at least a protagonist you can build a heist plot around. Is…

Its a genuinely an act of god no actor died on set. 

I don’t see how you can mention Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith without mentioning ROAR: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made, where Tippi, Melanie, and the rest of the extended family live and film with lions and other big cats.

Idiots: Madame Web is a bad movie.

Johnson’s wonderfully independent-minded publicity tour for Madame Web made it clear that the finished project was not what she had signed on for.

Counterpoint: she’s just not a good actress and is uncharismatic, monotone, and dead-eyed in pretty much all of her roles. She’s at her best in talk show appearances when she’s just being a version of herself.

see, i don’t get the whole “prickly intelligence and iron will” bit at all. Honestly, she appears vapid and remarkably uncharismatic - or have i just missed the movies where she displays this intelligence and will thing? Any suggestions?

It’s Rabin! Now bring back Sean O’Neil, Tasha Robinson, and Zodiac Motherfucker!

For the budget they had, it looks pretty great. The Torch was never going to work, and the Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman effects are trash, but the Thing and Doom look way better than they have in films that spent like 100x as much money.

still better than Fant4stic.

Do the math. Once it’s released, the story ends.

Mr. Fantastic’s stretchy arms waving out of the ‘Just Married’ cars roof is classic.

I know, he likes to nap.  They shouldn’t have done that 🤔

I would, but I’m so tired. Tired of bad TV being admired. Tired of TV uninspired. Let’s face it, I’m tired!

I thought the “live” aspect was the big draw.