Virtue signaling, on MY internet!?

Sam writes “there is something to be said” and then fails to actually say much of anything (other than he’s only just now coming around to understanding the premise of What If?).

Had the change not been made: “there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel refused to replace a man with a woman in its promotional materials, especially in light of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit and Disney’s tone-deaf media response.”

“there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel jumped at the chance to replace a Black man with a white woman in its promotional materials.”

So if I’m reading this correctly, the problem is that Marvel temporarily replaced the promotional Twitter account avatar of a character whose show dropped several months ago with a different character whose show dropped last night?

The absolute best What If from the original run, and I will not hear arguments about this, is the Invisible Woman dying in childbirth one. Yes, there’s a fridging back before we even knew the term, but hear me out.

The funeral scenes with Johnny, Ben and Reed breaking down and with Ben’s private thoughts about how he…

Maybe they should have you write these instead of Sam.

“But, unfortunately, there is that aforementioned stumble. Hold on while I get real nerdy with this: In Captain America: The First Avenger, the Tesseract that the Red Skull initially finds in the church is a fake, and the real one is hidden nearby. In this episode, (and maybe this is just me missing it) the sequence…

This review makes it sound just as bad or worse, which would really be a shame. I got more excited by the Respect trailer than by the entire Genius miniseries.

I’ve watched a lot of this show (at least 80 episodes) and EVERY SINGLE PERSON they buy from is a weird white guy who is at least 50 years old and who lives in a huge, junk-filled house in the middle of a country.

Aretha did add the “Re, Re, Re...” part but I haven’t seen the movie yet to see if they credit her with writing the entire song. If the did then Redding's estate should sue and receive a public apology!

Yeah I found this show insufferable. The show was 90% “Lets go find an old hoarder and offer him $50 for his most precocious crap”.    Its that reality TV genre of “Lets justify all the crap we have is actually worth something” which just enables people with mental issues to hoard crap.  

It’s the Discovery, Inc. media company. They’ve sucked the meaning out of nearly every educational show they can get their hands on: Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, TLC (The Learning Channel), Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel.

Oh yeah, this was pure boomer porn.  Like Antique Roadshow, it made them think all the crap they had in their basements and attics were secret treasures and not just water damaged homes for rodents

I never cared for either of these guys or their show. They both come off as arrogant vultures and it’s not surprising they’re both sniping at each other.

The takeaway line from this review, and the specific thing that makes any biopic a waste of time: “Part of the problem lies with Respect’s obsequious tone, with how the movie treats Franklin so regally that she feels more like an icon than a person.”

I think there’s enough of a difference between restaurants and (say) film that makes “only positives” a more reasonable approach to food than to film (aside from the critic’s “COVID did enough damage” justification).

I’m not going out on a limb to defend the guy who scripted X-Men: The Last Stand and Inspector Gadget, but I doubt even William Goldman could’ve made RP1 watchable.

Wanting a movie to be better does mean wanting it to be “different” in the sense of hitting what it’s aiming at, but not in the sense of aiming at something different.

“The script, co-written by Zak Penn (who helped usher to the screen the comparable video-game exploits of Ready Player One)“