i really enjoyed it. that tolkienesque optimism was so refreshing to just live in for a few months. it hasn’t quite hit the stride i need it to for me to fall in love with it, but i’m eager to see how season two will build on what they’ve laid out so far

nah, i love every single one of them. Looper might honestly be my least favorite, and i still think it’s a knockout. Johnson is just My Thing

saw this last week. it fucking owns. it might be my new favorite Johnson film

the JKR comparison is toothless and unwarranted, especially when by all reports

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ditto Florence Pugh

i won’t completely discount homophobia as a factor in the underperformance of Bros, but this also just seems like a weird time to drop it. a movie like that would probably do so much better around Valentine’s Day or in mid-spring. putting it up against a horror movie on the first weekend of spooky season was always…

i know freelancers are overtaxed and stretched to their limits, but...Queen Furiosa? really?

I was so viscerally disappointed that they just reused the original GoT theme music. It felt lazy and creatively bankrupt, an assessment that I’d already been harboring about the show-at-large.

good atmosphere and thematic ideas, but i hope you like long, loooooooong monologues delivered in one endless take several times per episode

i’ve been reluctant to engage for the same reason. the classic Showtime formula is:

an actor that makes you go “oh, good for them getting a show”
+
a one-season premise
+
eight more seasons

god do i wish it was Killmonger instead of Bucky on that team

i think the explanation is more mundane than garden variety sexism: Captain Marvel is, in my humble estimation, a mid-to-bad film that takes one of the most fun and live-wire actors of our age and wastes her by forcing her to play a flat amnesiac for three quarters of its runtime. when she finally gets a chance to…

it’s a shame Martin feels that way. IMO the original show was at its very best when it had a small budget and had to rely on character rather than spectacle to sell its drama

if you have progressive politics, imo The Good Fight was the only show that captured the slow, gnawing insanity of how it felt to live in Trump’s America. legal procedural trappings got it greenlit so it could reveal itself as a wonderful exercise in experimental prestige television absurdism, particularly season 3.

The…

he also discussed this last year on Blank Check

Shang-Chi actually represents the first time Cretton got to make a project about Asian-ness. maybe he could’ve made something sooner, maybe not. but when you set aside the potentials and what-ifs, the fact is that marvel was the first studio that let him do an Asian-centric project, and at a blockbuster budget no less

they’re not being made to do anything. they’re adults who took on jobs. and the work they were commissioned to make, while refracted through the Marvel house style, is still of a piece with their work outside it. the two latter Thors are absolutely of a piece with Waititi’s work. ditto Coogler, ditto Cretton. shit, i…

“made to sublimate their visions to the Marvel machine” is such pretentious dross

same girl same

also The Lego Movie