“boring as hell” - well, that is the aim of the io9 House Style...

Well, that animation looks awful...

I’ve been pretty sniffy toward a lot of the writing on this site this year, but I quite enjoyed the conceit and execution of this review. Thank you! :)

So... did Will not actually lose those two fingers? He just got a particularly nasty cut? If so, disappointing, but understandable from a production standpoint, I guess.

“Bad Guy will definitely stand the test of time.” - Yeah... no. It makes “Boom Boom Pow” sound like a tuneful experience.

“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

So? I spent all my time in the Navy pushing paper, and didn’t go anywhere near combat, but I sure as hell learned to be mindful of rules and regulations after a two-month Boot Camp in which I was addressed by my name. The moment FN-28whatever escapes the First Order, he just waltzes around doing whatever the heck he…

“the studio’s decision to film within Xinjiang was patently bad on its face.”

Not only did they do nothing with it, they gave him completely incoherent characterization - a literal lifelong military guy who never once spoke, acted, or thought in any kind of trained, tactical manner. (A nice beach on a rich person’s planet! Sure, let’s park our spaceship there; veterans have no concept of rules!)

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...

“It’s abut chess...that’s a geekey enough passion to put it into a io9 list.”

The writing on Crisis was horrible. People stood around in control rooms and made speeches about how entire versions of Earth were being 70% - no, now up to 80% - evacuated on spaceships. Excuse me? 7.5 billion people, loaded onto spaceships, in a matter of hours? What?

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.