“but it’s hard to get past what seems like a lack of consideration—or perhaps concern— for what motivates Diana Prince” - And here’s where we remember that the movie is a prequel to Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, where she’d given up on humanity for generations...

“a solid contender for the title of Best Hollywood Chris” - Crikey, enough with this tired gag, please. Even if it’s technically punching up, it’s still a form of cyber-bullying, implies objective truths where there are none, and rests entirely upon a lame observation of actors sharing a first name as if that’s some…

“Zack Snyder, who is currently working on completing his painfully-hyped cut of the DC superhero film.” - You mean the one this site posts about at every possible opportunity, and then some? :P

This reminds me that Seeking a Friend for the End of the World was a horrible flick, with Steve Carrell and Keira Knightley making for one of cinema’s worst-ever romantic pairings, and California shooting locations laughably “doubling” for the East Coast, but it did have *one* nifty idea in that the government told…

A single tear runs up Christopher Nolan’s cheek...

Counterpoint: Chris Brown.

Eh, but that was a straightforward case of the studio panicking and wanting something more generic, whereas Episode 9 started with a whole other filmmaker and script, brought back Abrams to presumably be more generic, and then reportedly there were troubles with him, too. Sounds much more tangled. :P

Those stills look like shots from an LL Bean catalog.

Well, if Whedon’s exit from his HBO series was a direct consequence of impropriety on his part, that would be a remedy, I guess...

I’d be fascinated to hear about the actual behind-the-scenes details and around Episode 9/The Rise of Skywalker. But Justice League? That’s about as “meh” as prospects come.

I hate that movie as much as anyone, and find her performance in it excruciating, but that’s what was asked of her, so it wasn’t her fault.

His subsequent behavior notwithstanding, Spielberg saw his talent and potential over a course of years, and so did I. With all due respect, you’re not a better judge of screen acting talent than Spielberg.

I didn’t see it, but would the Angelina Jolie movie Salt qualify/be in the ballpark? And by “everything else staying the same,” do you include the love interest being a woman? (Please say yes.)

Prior to the first Hunger Games movie in 2012, there simply weren’t genre/action/fantasy movies fronted by young women that were big hits in the US. (Okay, the first Twilight did well enough in ‘08, if we must count that, but both the Hunger Games and Twilight series had the home field advantage of being American…

Most of us humans experienced corona-setbacks this year, so Nolan’s objections, whether fairly or unfairly, sound a lot like whining, particularly when he was pushing theaters to re-open before a vaccine was widely available, and when his artistic output so far has been... not the most interested in questioning the…

“Getting lightning to strike twice is not as easy as latching onto intellectual property in the same genre and thinking the same strategies will play out the same way.” 

Highly paid mega-corporation employee is shocked to learn that mega-corporation is more powerful than him, will do what it pleases.

Yes, but that was a year in which other actual blockbusters also came out.

Well, it wasn’t howlingly egregious, like when Holdo made a face at Poe after verbally dressing him down in TLJ. But that’s a low bar. :P