There’s actually a really simple fix.

You get the same moment as before. Star-Lord realizes Thanos killed Gamora. He comes *thisclose* to ruining the plan...then stops himself. He made a promise to Gamora to do what was necessary to make sure this was done right. So he foregoes his revenge. The gauntlet is about to…

Black Panther tho

welcome to the internet, where nuance is for cowards

i agree with most of this, but most superhero movies are actually not anti-dictatorial at all. if anything, they advance the idea that what the world really needs is one superior person to singlehandedly determine right and wrong, and fix things for everyone else. not trying to be all freshman-year-dorm-room “rEaLlY…

i dunno. put yourself in that publicist’s shoes in 2016. a low-budget horror movie, directed by one of the cowriters of Keanu? it’s easy to say they’re a dickhead with the benefit of hindsight, but i think at that time, all those elements on paper do add up to a somewhat reasonable conclusion of “yeah okay girl”

you know, far be it from me to defend Sherlock, a show that was mostly stylish garbage, but in the original story Holmes noted scratches on a pocket watch from its winding key, and extrapolated the same conclusion. moffat and gatiss had a lot of bad ideas, but in their very mild defense that particular bad idea was…

yeah, but the Bit is abolished now

no appreciation for history. the interview wasn’t just with The Atlantic, it was specifically conducted with AV Club alum David “SIIIIIIIIIIMS!!” Sims

“Has there ever been a sequel with higher expectations that stuck the landing this hard?”

*coughs* uh, The Last Jedi

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