One of the oddly unremarked things about Nobody is that Bob Odenkirk does go off on a rampage because he more or less misses killing people and wants to get back into it. The “humiliated family man” angle is a head fake that pretty quickly gets dropped.

It does. Unfortunately, it’s the news coverage of every mass shooting.

Surely the best way to subvert this formula is to make the John Wick type an absolute piece of shit who goes on a rampage because they want to, not as some kind of revenge. And all the ‘goons’ are actually the morally ‘correct’ assassins, who don’t deserve to get their heads stabbed or whatever. I’m sure someone can…

The whole “emotionally closed off badass assassin” shtick also feels like a waste of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Karen Gillan, who are both really awesome and aren’t well served by intentionally draining away their energy for 80 percent of the movie.

You know shits’ about to get real when they’re wearing a whimsical shirt and sunglasses, and are smoking a cigarette...indoors!

If anything, John Wick is even easier to rip off than Die Hard, since you don’t even have to think of a novel setting that doesn’t seem to pose a special challenge to the protagonist. (Something Die Hard itself gave up on after the second movie.)

You just need to take an actor with decent acting ability and then tell…

That story doesn’t track either because no one in Ireland is ever embarrassed about being too drunk

It’s not even deconstructing the genre, it’s just reiterating the genre’s tropes with cursing and gore. The core fantasy of a superhero movie is a morally righteous person using violence to solve an existential problem - it’s very much a product of the World War 2 / postwar era. “Logan” comes the closest to actually…

*Anttorneys-General

Oh my goodness. Everyone knows it’s Ants-Mans.

In the time it took them to get around to this, we got two Wonder Woman movies, and several femme fatale spy thrillers that read like Black Widow stories with the copyright material markered over.

“OK, we need some damn Soviet Avengers. Who we got?”

My wife kept asking why he didn’t just shoot himself with his own gun. My only answer is maybe he isn’t 100% sure what happens when someone gets shot with it? But clearly it’s been around 30+ years, surely he could have tested it on someone and then broken it to bring them back.

Honestly, the image of Chiwetel Ejiofor being waterboarded with gasoline through a silk handkerchief in order to achieve the unexplained secondary goal of “seeing the face of God” is the only thing in this entire film that I will remember in a year. Or, well, that and the fact that Chiwetel Ejiofor spends the film…

I thought he was amazing in Boogie Nights. Then I saw him in The Corrupter and thought, “Ohhh. I get it. The character in Boogie Nights is the only character he can play.”

He is the PRIME example of actors who depend 100% on their director. He’s performances have ranged from OK/Good Enough to God Awful.

You know what, let’s settle this; peacocks don’t fly.