♪ ♫ I don’t want to wait... for our liiiiiiiives to be overrrrrr... ♬ ♩

I’d like to shout out the scene in Lincoln where the Congressmen pass the Thirteenth Amendment, and start singing “The Battle Cry of Freedom” right then and there. Historical? I have no idea. Awesome? Indubitably.

This is such an obviously inadvisable move I’m actually intrigued. Maybe it’ll just be a gag of some sort? In any case, I trust Feige and Co. to know what they’re doing at this point...

To be fair, “Sorkin takes an overly rosy and corny view of the most famous 60s counterculture figures” is just about the most plausible criticism imaginable. ;)

Great, one of the actual anticipated movies coming out (more or less) this year apparently isn’t great. Classic 2020!

Dear Amazon,

Given that Peter is still in high school in NYC and Venom (urgh) takes place in San Francisco, I’m not sure what reason there’d be for Spider-Man to show up in this flick. Sure, he could appear on a news report or something, but maybe Sony figured having a faux cameo like that would just annoy people, and lead to…

Monotheism propaganda? No, thanks. Churches already steal enough from me with their tax exemptions. ;)

“this may just be untenable.” I think you mean... it may just be un-Tenet-able!

I know it’s been several years, but take this star. You earned it.

Oh, I caught up with Vol. 2 on Netflix before Infinity War and enjoyed it very much. Much more, in fact, than Vol. 1, which I thought was decent enough, but not brain-blastingly great. :)

“Not all stories are created equal.” Sure. But when a story is set, or whether a fictional protagonist is “still alive” in other stories, does not determine a given story’s quality.

Eh, a story’s a story.

Not I - at least, not $30 in addition to $7 (a month’s Disney+). $20 in addition to that $7, and I’ll be tempted. And I’ve seen every single MCU flick in theaters except GotG 2.

I mean, Hamlet is also dead, but I see theater crowds lining up to see his story every damn year after year...

Indeed. “Vaguely fondly remembered by some genre fans” ≠ cult classic.

The ultimate irony being that Chinese state media has issued a blackout on covering the movie, due to people complaining online about Disney having sucked up to the Chinese government by shooting there in the first place. When it comes to tyrannical governments, it’s truly damned if you do, damned if you do.

Counterpoint: if, in my dinosaur movie, no one’s getting eaten alive, there’d better be screen legends Winslet and Ronan practicing social non-distancing.

Can io9 really not go a single day without a Star Wars post? Like, even one? Say, maybe once a year?

The sole redeeming feature of that awful song must be just how forgettable the rest of it apart from that one line is. :P