Creativity-wise -- agree.

Frankly reality has become so much scarier to me than any imagined shark or whatever. I suppose a shark movie can push some jump-scare buttons in my nerve center but what keeps me up at night is the news. 

This would be hilarious if rape wasn’t part of the narrative.

This would be hilarious if rape wasn’t part of the narrative.

Perhaps not as dramatic, but Jonah Hill? Supposedly there were rumors about him and of course Jay Baruchel’s prescience but I think for the most part he had a solid reputation.

I think the important thing is to not get sucked into the cult of personality.

Well that interpretation just further entertains me, to think she rolls into Endgame to waste some aliens but in the back of her head she’s focused on like an interoffice memo she needs to send about following procurement guidelines and the new product roadmap presentation she needs to review and approve.

It is funny to compare/contrast this approach vs, say, Gwyneth Paltrow, who clearly does not know what the fuck is going on in her MCU scenes, nor does she care. Can’t say one is right/wrong, it’s just funny.

I’m not a prude by any means but do movies really need explicit sex in them these days? The internet exists. “We have the technology.” If I want porn I’ll watch porn. Films like this exist for something else.

THERE ARE NO BELLS IN THIS TACO 

I too was always confused when articles framed the Avengers as ‘B-List’. Like, are you fucking kidding me? Like your average joe walking down the street had never heard of Captain America? Or Hulk? GTFO.

I too was always confused when articles framed the Avengers as ‘B-List’. Like, are you fucking kidding me? Like your average joe walking down the street had never heard of Captain America? Or Hulk? GTFO.

I actually did venture out to see V3 and it was a great, emotional ride. Back to back needle drops and probably the best MCU fight scene I can remember. But it genuinely felt like an ending for me, not just of the Guardians trilogy but a chapter in my pop culture life where I actually cared enough about the MCU to go…

Agree on all counts. And rebooting in a couple years would have turned bringing something like X-Men or F4 into a real event.

Agree on all counts. And rebooting in a couple years would have turned bringing something like X-Men or F4 into a real event.

I feel like it was the opposite. I remember the theater stuff as major news when it really shouldn’t have been; I remember the child porn/vintage erotica stuff as a footnote when it was the thing that personally disturbed me far more because “child porn”. Obviously without actually seeing the stuff I have no idea if…

I feel like it was the opposite. I remember the theater stuff as major news when it really shouldn’t have been; I remember the child porn/vintage erotica stuff as a footnote when it was the thing that personally disturbed me far more because “child porn”. Obviously without actually seeing the stuff I have no idea if…

The whole MCU indeed feels like it’s in placeholder mode until either X-Men or F4 show up.

Whatever you say, Dunning Kruger

I think the thing that might possibly pull me back in would be X-Men? But even there it’s like — I saw the Fox movies already. We already have an X-Men narrative. Do I need to see it again? Logan is a perfect end to that universe. No one will top Patrick Stewart as Professor X, at least not in my mind. First…