I don’t know, I think Ragnarok’s significantly more charming—it has a clear stamp of one filmmaker, it’s tone is funny (even when the topic is death or Valkeryie is a slaver, etc.) Other than the Guardians movies, I think it’s the franchise with the most distinct flair—maybe you mean the other Waititi Thor movie? I…

I think that’s a wording thing, since he’s going to be regularily evaluated and could be released. Like Norway has a maximum sentence of I think 14 years, and here and the US that was used in headlines to make them light on crime, but what their system is that certain criminals get that sentence and then get an…

Considering she has work, no? It’s just less pay and less work for her but not the lack of a living.

She entered a salary negotiation where we don’t know what they offered, and at best her opening offer--I don’t know if it comes off as anything. Hell, we don’t even know who the news comes from. Maybe nothing needs to be bashed?

Not so randomly adding, in my older nerd way of thinking of this series—this is like a second OVA series—it’s a riff. Like how Zelda repeats but changes each story.

Scott Pilgrim is an interesting, odd hit from my vantage point—I’m not much of a fan, but adjacent to it culturally. I’m the same age as O’Malley, and we’re a little younger than Edgar Wright. I bring this up because it’s always been this mix of cultural reference points with an evolving creator doing the work to me.…

That’s fair. Like the Eternals, I think of Captain Marvel as one of their indy director failures, though the skrulls as refugees reminded me of Sugar, one of Boden and Fleck’s underrated movies.

Fair enough, your experience is different than mine, though trailers in front of movies isn’t the kind of marketing I mean. A funny exchange on some morning show between the actors is going to make the rounds of youtube algorithms much more than any trailer--that sort of thing.

I think underremarked is that the movie came out right at the end of the WGA-SAG strike—I don’t think Marvel’s marketing is particularily good to begin with, but all the little pops of promo that didn’t happen feel unaccounted for. Personally, I liked it better Captain Marvel as a movie, but more concretely, if…

I see he’s credited with a hand in the screenplay, so maybe, but in general I don’t think get the impression he’s that thoughtful about cultural things like that. I thought maybe with Sicario and Arrival first, but I think those were actor led. Blade Runner 2049 is a pretty male-story, and ran from dealing with all the…

Out of all its various TV and cinematic tributaries, the Marvel Cinematic Universe can only truly cut loose, canon-wise, in one place

I don’t think it’s the material but too much material?

The worst part of his is that because his character exists and knows what he knows, the plot is mostly rendered moot. Which is weird that they wen’t through it--either characters or Scorcese.

Eh, the legal side is very straightforward. You have to present it as is, and even a pause is an edit.

I haven’t seen it yet, but by all accounts--and more importantly, enough accounts, the movie doesn’t push aside the Osage people. I mean, it was his first instinct and he had to rewrite the it, but it’s not the FBI who are the leads at all...

Why does the Natural History Museum have an Egyptian exhibition going on?

As long as the chase as an icon on the map style is dominant, Spider-Man will have an advantage on other games for successfully making “commuting” as fun as possible.

“come[s] off as superficial”

Done.

Seems right to me, though I’m a stan for the HK original. I know Scorcese had to make it different, and really, the HK one is very HK, but Scorcese made what had been the most shocking scene nothing in his version, and also SPOILER—if more than one person knows who the mole is, then a lot of the movie is a nonissue?…

These we all like Daniel Day-Lewis so Gangs must’ve been good takes strike me as weirdly supported by the new paradigm of fandom, where everyone can watch clips of their favorite bits with none of the drag of the movies they might be attached to.