very excited to watch this movie for the plot

the omission of stanley zbornak here is pretty nuts imo

this is actually a pretty good list, its rudeness to dragon tattoo notwithstanding

pretty good movie, but i thought it was a misstep when the camera pulled back to reveal marty in the director’s chair and he turned all the way around and said “i’m depicting all of this because i endorse it and think it’s good” straight into the lens

i’m actually something of an amateur Doyle scholar, and you’re right! he absolutely had a life outside of Holmes. but within the bounds of the stories, his narrative function was to set the ball so Holmes could spike it. it’s a structure Doyle himself borrowed from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin stories, and which was itself…

in fairness, “just an expository device to have [Thrawn] explain things to the reader” IS Watson to a tee

these nominations were for season one. she’ll be eligible next year and almost certainly a lock, especially if season 3 comes out just before the nomination season to remind everyone The Bear exists

you can talk about the job you do without highlighting the ways your colleagues fell short. “i crossed out whole pages of dialogue” could so easily be reframed as “i was given a lot of freedom to add my own thoughts to the character.” same underlying truth, but presented in a way that doesn’t step on any toes. a…

she talked shit about her colleagues in a public forum. whether her frustrations were warranted or not, it doesn’t exactly fall under the realm of professional courtesy. if the positions were reversed and it was, say, Burton complaining about Ortega improv-ing awful replacement dialogue or whatever, i’d say it was…

i’m not nitpicking, and this isn’t just a semantic thing. there is absolutely a difference between a child getting mocked by adults, and an adult getting mocked by other adults.

“20 years old” and “girl” are not compatible concepts. she’s an adult woman who ran her mouth, and whose punishment is...some pretty mild ribbing that will be instantly forgotten

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