Everyone’s talking about Darryl, and at first I confused him with Doug. I was thinking, but Doug’s dead, right? But not Doug, Darryl.

I think that Cats could be a lot of fun in computer-animated Zootopia stylization. Of course, it probably doesn’t have enough of a story to qualify for an animated feature.

I feel like this calls for Dr. McCoy taking a long look and then saying, “It’s life, Jim, just not as we know it.”

As a Cats fan, I don’t think it’s quite fair to suggest that the reaction to the trailer is just people finally getting a closer look at what’s always been there. There’s performers in weird feline costumes dancing and singing on stage, and then there’s performers caught in an unsettling, partly-digitized,…

1000 years? I might need to actually read news and updates about Discovery, if that’s the case. I lost interest at some point and haven’t felt inclined to check in for a long while.

I agree that the movies have failed in that regard, but this show seems like a good opportunity to finally develop these characters.

Probably just as much info, yes, but with Vader it was gradually undoing the simple belief that he was just an ex-pupil of Kenobi who had turned evil. That was the foundation, and it didn’t beg many questions to start with. And if you’ve watched ROTS, Vader makes sense in ANH.

Not knowing how the Empire came to be wasn’t quite the sort of standing head-scratcher that the lack of insight into what happened with Ben Solo’s fall has been, at least not for me.

I was under the impression that Cavill had transcended the DC films’ shortcomings, by virtue of Mission Impossible: Fallout if nothing else (such as Man from U.N.C.L.E.). I guess that the early photo from this was kind of laughable.

Yeah, the kids in that film were keepers, and it’s a bummer that a superhero film that took time to make the normal alter egos of the characters endearing without—and for me, largely in spite of—the high concept trappings would be abandoned and left as a dead end.

Maybe this is a prequel to Red Dwarf?

There has to be some sort of commentary to be made in comparing this approach to that of The Lion King. Photorealism is great, except for the limits it puts on emoting; anthropomorphicism is great, except for being uniquely creepy, from the looks of this trailer.

I watched a Disney documentary of some sort last year, and it’s really interesting to learn how some of those older films were animated with a level of effort (and cost) that was later set aside, with Cinderella kind of saving the company by demonstrating that they could have big hits with…

I thoroughly solute the wordplay; in addition, I love that I’m now thinking of Thor in an astronaut suit, even though he has no apparent need of one.

I don’t think that The Dark World has many critics for expanding things beyond single franchises; the multiple realms are a Thor/Asgard-specific bit, right? Anyway, I found the film disappointing not for what it was trying to do, but for how it did it (troubled production, etc).

Yeah, it was logical as a progression, although unexpected in just how wild and wacky. That’s thematic progression, anyway. I still think that it was a big leap to a different sort of feel, particularly on/in Asgard.

I’m a huge fan of Ragnarok, yet I’d agree that it ‘didn’t feel like a Thor movie,’ at least not in the sense of the tonality established by two Thor films and all of the appearances by Thor and Loki in other MCU movies up to that point.

Will Korg finally take up his Triton?

For a second as the header image loaded, I found myself thinking that Jason Isaacs had been cast as Thrawn, to appear in some upcoming live action Star Wars film or show. Alas, no.

With the MCU, all that I know about the release schedule is that Black Widow is coming, as well as the obvious sequels (Black Panther, GOTG3, etc) and whatever the Eternals is.