There’s this theory I heard that multiple timelines do exist, and they branch out of decisions that we make. I apologize, I don’t know the name of it. Anyway, this theory goes that billions upon billions of timelines existed until the nuclear bomb was invented. Because the most likely outcome of a nuclear bomb is the…

I’ve got a theory that it’s a demon, a dancing demon no something isn’t right there...

Fair enough. 

They should just go ahead an make Mark Strong the main villain in all movies now. Because you’re right, he was thin, but he also played him so well. 

When your main character punches a kid in the dick in the first 10 minutes of the movie, you pretty much know what you’re getting with him. I get that he was unlikeable, i thought that was kind of the point. At one point, he literally has a stink on him. 

I studied to be a teacher. I get uncomfortable when a teacher has sex with a student, even if there is a joke where the student was held back a few years. It’s a power dynamic thing. And i wouldn’t say problematic, it just made me slightly uncomfortable. Not enough to write off the movie. 

Ithink what I loved about the Shazam movie (beyond the fact that the movie even existed) is the way that it worked on it’s own as kind of a response to a lot of other superhero movies.

Absolutely! They’re more fun to talk about.

YES! Mandy was awesome.

I don’t know why they don’t call her show, “Oh, I don’t watch TV: The Show.”

I want to make it clear: Sorry to Bother you was a masterpiece and the whole debate around the Oscars last year shouldn’t have been “Why did the Green Book win?” it should have been, “Why didn’t Sorry To Bother You” get nominated.

No enough mention of Ned. WHERE IS NED! NED IS MY HERO. 

Back when Avengers: Infinity War ended with that snap, there was a bit of cynicism because a majority of the people snapped had just signed on for multiple movies while the OG Avengers (and Rocket) hung around. “They’ll come back!” everyone said, “Look at the contracts!”

Charles: I agree with you on this, but you need to stop posting it. It seems like every time you do, they relegate the show to a Steven Universe-esque schedule of “we’ll drop a few episodes when we feel like then never play an episode again.” You also mentioned OK KO and Craig of the Creek, but epic shows that…

YES! Thank you! That’s who I was thinking about: Jodie Comer. I couldn’t think of the name.

Us was an incredible movie. It’s logic doesn’t hold out at all (there’s also something called rabbit starvation, where you die if you eat nothing but rabbits because they’re too lean.) But hey, it also doesn’t make sense that there’s a dude in a hockey mask with mommy issues killing teenagers having sex, so....

Shazam was one of those rare superhero movies that looked at the source material said, “This is pretty silly” then rather than doing something like have him hold up a few old versions of his costume and frown, or address the fact that he once had a talking tiger as if it was an embarassment, they embraced those…

Oh, I completely agree that it needed a good editor. But it really went for it, and I can really respect that.

Really solid list overall. Some great movies on here, including Under the Silver Lake which I watched last weekend and I’m still deciding if I like or not. I think it was good? Maybe that’s the point.

Others have said this but to reiterate: they wanted to be a gritty street drama what actively hated superheroes. Even Luke Cage, who’s costume is a yellow shirt, seemed to be unable to do the bare minimum to show things being... well, superheroic. They wanted to be the cool kids that embraced something, but like, so…