I’m not going to try and get in The Rock’s head, so I’m not defending what he’s getting at here per se, but I — as someone that clearly identifies as a liberal and supports the progressive movement, who can’t stand the right as it exists today — believe he makes a very good point, in general about a segment, not all,…

Plus his sitting-on-a-chair technique is amazing.

That sounds exactly right. “Act your way around THIS, muhfucka!”

Oh I liked that scene and thought it was funny! Just don’t think it necessarily supports the “feminist droid” title when she could just be called a revolutionary droid or rebellious droid or something. She didn’t seem too concerned about sexism so much as just general rights.

I absolutely agree. In both those movies Marvel has an issue with finishing what they started. They begin with a very compelling ideas but don’t always know where to go with it. Personally, I would have liked to see Killmonger survive and T’Challa beginning to help and rehabilitate him. His death was completely…

You make good points. For me personally it just might be that Thanos’ CGI face alienates me, makes it hard to Connect with his motivation. With Killmonger, his issues all come from a world we know. But that’s a definitely a YMMV thing.

and yet this officer did no such thing. he didn’t search the car. he didn’t ask where or why the driver was going. he didn’t accuse him of any crime other than the very minor one he did commit. he didn’t harass him. he didn’t talk down to him. he pulled him over and did his job. it happens a million times a day to…

As much the intent for transparency in this statement is laudable, it’s not feasible, and not just for officers (who may be doing legitimate investigative work) but specifically for victims who have a right to not have every accusation or police encounter they have exposed to the world. Being able to livestream every…

No! No, you don’t! You do NOT get to “whatabout” this story in order to deliberately miss the point because you don’t like the point.

And even if he WAS stopped because he was black (ie a white dude wouldn’t have been pulled over there), that still doesn’t give him carte blanche to lie about questions that were never asked - all that does is actively hurt the cause he’s supposed to be working for.

No, he wasn’t.

A good number of cops want body cameras, both for their protection and for evidence when someone accuses them of some infraction.

Thanos was in Marvel’s plans long before Killmonger. I don’t know how you can say they already had that villain. It’s unequivocally false to say that no one died for real. Loki died for real. Heimdall died for real. The Vision died for real. Also, just because we’re getting GotG vol. 3 doesn’t mean that Gamorra has to…

The thing is this movie does have too many characters- most of them show up, say a couple of lines, then remain in the background and any emotional arcs basically reliant on the audiences knowledge of the other films to do the work.

Sure, but we all knew this was the deal going in. Anyone leaving the film mad that it was so loaded with content and characters clearly never even stopped to consider what the film they’re about to see might be like.

Great! That doesn’t mean it works to the film’s benefit.

Oh, I feel the same way. I consider the original Ant-Man to be the most underrated MCU entry, and the last time I was underwhelmed by one of them was...Avengers 2. I get it, this is a fan service movie. But with individual entries like Civil War and Ragnarok featuring crossovers now more than ever, the actual Avengers…

It’s the best written, but has the worst finale.

I feel like this is a very authentic AVClub “For Our Consideration”, in that it has a laudable goal and is generally right but unfortunately chooses a poor example and doesn’t let pesky details get in its way. I really do have to take issue with:

It’s revealed early in the film (which makes her and Thor’s sex scene, later in the movie, extremely cringeworthy; but I understand it’s a callback to Leia kissing Luke in TESB)