Looks great! 

Reminds me of Black Panther with how the cast is almost entirely not-white save for a token second-tier villain.

That feels right. Iron Man was B or C tier. Shang Chi is definitely below that. Shang Chi and Eternals feels more Scott Lang Ant-Man/GotG level.

Iron Man was more well known than Shang-Chi before the release of his first movie. He had a cartoon, was in several video games and was an Avenger in the comics. I would say he was a B level character where Shang-Chi is a tier or two below him.

So the MCU has become like the comic books. It was unavoidable. The multiverse is all purpose and good for what ails you.

A quarter of a century in insurance, rather than personal injury law. Much the same effect on how you look at things.

“But while there’s no question that Fox clumsily imposed I, Robot onto an unrelated original screenplay (written by Jeff Vintar), the film nonetheless honors the spirit of Asimov’s stories, even as it substitutes eye-popping action for what’s essentially a series of logic puzzles rooted in language’s ambiguity.”

I’m sorry but I’m gonna have to disagree with this take.

Despite many aspects seeming campy or clunky in retrospect, I would love to see non-ironic, faithful  adaptations of  Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun.

Your example hits at the weird, often contradictory values they have. Representation vs. “Male Intimate Relationships Are Gay”-mindset that’s patriarchal AF.

they just type out their thoughts, don’t proofread, and then submit it.

I feel like the writer, and quite frankly, most of the writers on G/O do exactly what I do when I write a comment, in that they just type out their thoughts, don’t proofread, and then submit it. Only instead of it being a lame comment among a sea of lame comments, its a fucking published article. That’s how we end up…

Audiences looking for more queer representation from Marvel’s cinematic and televisual output have more than a right to be annoyed at Mackie’s response

I agree with Mackie’s larger point that fans should stop trying to read queer subtext into every close male relationship in film. People have been doing the shipping thing for a long time now in fandom circles, and it’s really not great. When there’s this push to say “oh, Frodo and Sam are definitely gay,” it degrades…

Soul is a real mixed bag, the movie actually started out being all about the afterlife world place. Focusing on a Black musician was a very late addition and it really shows with the weird body swap story that takes away from his identity. It also kind of feels like reheated concepts Pixar has done before with their…

That was well reasoned and fair. It’s literally covering what she says in the documentary with a mild parenthetical aside about her recent comments.

None of the criticisms in this article (save for the mild ones about her recent comments) are actually about her. They are all about the film itself and therefore the people who made it. No one is going after her. You’re conflating this review with other pieces out right now about her inarguably dumb comments. (Though…

If you haven’t seen it or if it’s been a while, do yourself a favor and watch her appearance on The Muppet Show on Disney +. There’s and incredible five minute dance routine where Rita beats the hell out of her Muppet dance partner and then downs a shot at the bar. The best in children’s programming. 

The theory I like is that the timekeepers are a myth created by Kang and the sacred timeline is the one that results in him being created/allows him to take over the timestream.

Hard pass.