Genuinely shocked this wasn’t the top, the bottom, and entire middle of the list

Yup. Comics fans have a misconception that they’re Marvel’s target audience. The fact is, they’re too small a demographic to build a strategy around. Movies definitely get every comics fan into the theaters, but comics rarely get more than a couple movie fans to wander into their LCS after. Money-wise, it’s a one-way…

Tasky is fine. It’d be one thing if the movie said, “This is Tony Masters, THE Taskmaster” the way Origins did with Wade/Deadpool. But instead, they gave a different character the Taskmaster codename and left it at that. It would be so easy in a future installment to introduce Masters as having assumed the codename.…

I yearn for the day when a thing’s audience becomes sophisticated enough to distinguish between “I want more of the thing” and “I want more things that make me feel like the thing made me feel”

I was very much in camp wait-and-see on this show, and even got cautiously optimistic when the trailers hit. But the actual thing is low-energy in a way that tries for cool and mostly just ends up as “slow.” The cast does a really good job, but they can’t save the forced banter. It’s quite cheap in that distinctly…

Google the name of our professional rugby team, and you’ll see that this is still only the second-most embarrassing sports thing we have

Disappointed that this movie will apparently not showcase the villains’ plan to kill Spider-Man by writing a musical about his life and then persuading him to star in it

A few days ago my friends and I were discussing the question of Iroh’s casting, and I threw Lee’s name out there. So I guess what I’m saying is, you’re welcome

Caught a screening of this over the weekend. It’s definitely true that the film uses our foreknowledge of a happy ending to elide most of the stickier questions about Richard Williams. And while it does go through the motions of asking “Is Richard Williams wrong?” it never seriously holds the viewer’s feet to the…

Ah, that comment makes much more sense. I don’t personally think we needed to see it (and Disney sure as hell wasn’t about to depict a child murdering someone, no matter how much they deserved it), but I can respect your POV on that

I’m mildly curious how HP will fare over the next twenty years. There was a time I would’ve cited it as our generation’s Star Wars, the unifying story that everyone knew by heart. But in recent years unsatisfactory follow-ups, tie-in oversaturation, and problematic creators have all severely diluted the brand.

so in…

Mad I gave this a click. Forget a nothingburger; there’s barely enough here to scrape into a nothingmeatball

The fans I was facetiously invoking were of the opinion that we shouldn’t have had a younger new cast, and instead featured a trio of septuagenarians hobbling through space

Shang-Chi was a movie about Asian immigrant parents and their Americanized children learning how to understand each other. How does killing said parent speak to that theme at all?

oh also, just before anyone else does it:

all the discourse around the Space Wizard Movies has taught me that if you don’t want to see the exact thing you loved at age 8 except older and more tired and moving slowly, you’re not a true fan

Even in the best circumstances, this would already be the joyless exhumation of an old property with the shovel of nostalgia.

We do not live in the best circumstances

I’ve generally had a lot of difficulty connecting to Ridley Scott’s work over the years, so for me this really is that Clickhole piece “Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point”

Detective stories?

In the past two years, I feel I’ve come to know too much about Dwayne Johnson to enjoy him as a performer anymore