Not even a little surprised that a movie with full cooperation from the subject essentially functions as a hagiography. There simply aren’t interesting movies made about complex people if the complex people are involved and don’t want to show the uglier sides of their story.

Frankly the most confusing part of the BLD KIT is the fact that it comes with a 183-page instruction manual. You can cover the basic steps of assembling a PC in one page - even padding with detail 183 pages seems like a lot of extra.

Just wanted to take the opportunity to ask why the fuck I have to be interrupted every 30 seconds by a pop up ad that covers half the screen of my PC while trying to read a Sam Barsanti bad review of a show I’ve been crossing my fingers about for months?

Don't worry, folks. There's a good chance Barsanti's take on this is just as wrong as his take on, well, everything.

Few counterpoints:

Interesting piece. So is the one linked below, which is one of several as I recall where Kotaku openly chastised ‘gamers’ for crying “But muh accuracy!” at Battlefield V including women soldiers during WWII, going so far as to imply they were sexist for calling out what they felt was clear corporate pandering. Times…

If they’re making this film without Chadwick Boseman and his character, they can make it without her and her character too.

Get a better actress, you say? I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Lupita is RIGHT THERE. They’ve got time to rewrite things now. God knows Disney and Marvel have the money to reshoot the shit out of this thing. Write her out. Make Lupita the new Black Panther instead. Problem solved.

If they’re making this film without Chadwick Boseman and his character, they can make it without her and her character too.

Replace her with a quickness. If she is a problem on this to the point where she has no issue demonstrating that she gives zero shits about the rest of the cast and crew, and holding up an entire film for her ignorant, wack-a-doo political beliefs? She is not somebody you want on your team at all. This would not be…

“Massive unemployment, income inequality, and more likely also play a role.”

On one hand, I tend to agree with you. On the other, though, you have Mayim “I’m not antivax, I just believe in my specific case that vaccinations are bad for nebulous hippie reasons” Bialik

So this is unrelated to her antivaxx dipshittery?

Yeah, I mean literally every conversation with Bobby — including rehashing that conversation in Tony’s head after Bobby was already killed — made it pretty clear what had happened in that final scene.

I never really understood how it was controversial to believe Tony died. The entire final season is suffused with death in both plot and imagery. There are multiple scenes (most prominently, Bobby saying “you probably don’t even hear it when it happens” and the one where a guy gets whacked right next to Silvio and…

Zhao may be an MCU fan, but based on her previous work isn’t she basically a broccoli salesperson who’s been hired to shill Big Macs? No shade on either food group, but I’m not sure the sales skills are entirely transferable.

Especially odd considering many of the criticisms involve the idea that Zhao’s style does indeed come through, but fits very poorly with the Marvel story being told. 

I think the MCU trusts their directors if they happen to fit in with the house style tonally already. James Gunn and Taika came in being known for fun and irreverent films. So those movies fit in with the directors’ filmographies, but they were also hardly doing anything that Marvel wouldn’t normally do.

Sir this is an Eternals article 

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