There’s a real goldmine out there for the propmaker who can create a more realistic non-functioning gun to pacify all the authenticity weirdos

Yeah. Setting aside all the absolutely horrid stuff Rowling has subsequently said, she at least was on the money when she said, “You can’t make him a saint; he was vindictive and bullying. You can’t make him a devil; he died to save the wizarding world.”

HARRY: Time to name my sons after all my important male role models. You’ll be James Sirius, and you’ll be Albus–

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t think I agree. I don’t really think power factors into it at all. It’s not a problem of narrative scope; it’s a problem of character. Case in point: neither the squad from Suicide Squad (2016) nor The Suicide Squad (2021) was powerful relative to their opposition. But the latter…

Cats (2019) was a better film than The Rise of Skywalker

I feel that this viewpoint completely ignores the very important addition to the canon that they fly now

I think the caveats you list here all fall under the umbrella of the term “if handled properly”

But Guardians of the Galaxy proves that that isn’t necessarily a fatal mistake if handled properly.

The casting decisions have all been good so far, but unfortunately this series still seems like a really, really, really bad idea

Yeah. Maybe they can call it something cool and modern, like Meta

LOCK IT DOWN. NOBODY IS LEAVING UNTIL WE FIND OUT WHO TOOK MY PANTS OFF, SHAT IN THEM, AND THEN PUT THEM BACK ON ME

The thing about “I just want to enjoy some wizard shit” is that there’s SO MUCH non-Rowling wizard shit out there to be enjoyed. Hell, Potter isn’t even the only famous literary wizard named Harry. There’s absolutely no reason for folks to keep on with this shit except that They Just Want To. While I can’t agree with…

Cold take: we should leave the books in the past. No coffin for them, just wet, wet mud.

Hot take: even before enriching Rowling made the movies a toxic proposition, they were never good

The absolute worst part of the series. I get that Gaiman wanted to cram in as many lines from the book at possible, but his use of it felt fundamentally at odds with how the medium of TV works

Once upon a time, I read Good Omens and I thought, “Wow. Neil Gaiman is a great novelist”

A few years later, I read American Gods and I thought, “Wow. Terry Pratchett is a great novelist”

Imagine deciding one day that you were finally gonna strap on an apron and man the counter at your family shop

except the family shop is the Ghostbusters franchise

My thoughts, to be immediately buried by Kinja:

-Ragnarok already doesn’t hold up. Its themes don’t work for me. Great moments that add up to a curiously empty experience, like eating an entire bag of chips in one sitting.

-Shang-Chi is top tier for me. I think it has just as much to say about the Asian-American…

He could’ve sided with Kendall’s coup. He could’ve incited one of his own at some point down the line. I have to imagine he’s not totally without his own level of influence.

Takes the money, AND sits on the board. He’s not just getting rich off it; he could actually exert some level of control if he really wanted to, and actively chooses not to

I think the thing that’s kept Roman from being utterly intolerable, at least to me, is that he’s the one Roy who has no illusions about who he is. Shiv and Kendall both think they’re good people. Connor thinks he’s important. Tom and Greg, in their own ways, front so hard to look like they belong with the rest. Even…