No, no. Obviously this is some kind of remark about how superhero films aren’t real cinema, and we should take that dichotomy to its most extreme discourse. 

Reminds me of William H Macy saying long ago that he liked to go back and forth between indies and bigger budget films. The indies gave him artistic fulfillment while the big budget movies gave him a nice paycheck and better catering.

Sure, DC and Marvel movies pay better than A24 films. But I think what he is really saying is “know what kind of movie you are in.” Like when a movie gets panned and the review says “Only Jeremy Irons seems to know what kind of movie he is in here.”

I mean, isn’t Batman mostly just CSI: Gotham City?

“catering to the older audience”

I thought so much of the Feige lore is that he taught himself all of the deep comic stuff as an adult?

He understood how to find the appeal of Lego as a toy and what the franchise makes people feel and helped build a successful movie around that.

That’s literally all anyone wants for DC Comics. Get someone who understands what’s appealing about each of these characters, instead of treating them like it’s a new IP that…

I wonder how far into production Dune Part 2 is going to get before Zaslav decides the first one didn’t make enough money to justify a sequel after all.

That’s because half the country is embracing Asshole-ish-ness as an ethos.

“I don’t know why society got so obsessed with never quitting things that make you miserable”

As someone who remembers what it was like to enjoy a show, watch it get shoved onto a sports-heavy time slot, then unceremoniously dumped to Friday nights, before the network finally stops airing the show, and maybe they’ll dump the final six episodes unannounced on some weird Sunday afternoon block eight months…

He makes his own reality with the power of Magic! But not the same magic that cunt Grant Morrison uses!!!

Critics everywhere but here, I seem to recall the AVClub review being “Meh, its okay”

I commend you for admitting you read the Daily Beast.

“She-Hulk is big, but she doesn’t look particularly strong, especially compared with Bruce’s Hulk.”

I think there’s a difference between having a slightly different interpretation of a thing’s meaning and getting it 100% wrong. Snyder really couldn’t let go of the idea that you’re supposed in at least some sense to admire these vigilantes, which is the opposite of any concievable point Watchmen was trying to make.…

Absolutely agree with the larger point about people not “getting” art as weak criticism, and with the idea that Barsanti’s day job as Newswire scold has damaged his reputation as a critic (weirdly, I don’t think that same stink has adhered to Hughes’ critical pieces).

Also with Watchmen the idea of Dr Manhattan being the one blamed for the attacks doesn’t make sense. The whole idea of the squid is that it gives the world an outside enemy to unit against. An alien threat of unknown origin we have to be ready for. Dr Manhattan is an American man who is transformed and is lauded as…

This is a big failing of the reviews here and has been for a long time. They all can’t help comparing whatever they are watching to “the source material” when usually less than 10% of the people watching the show have read it.