Blade was much more of an vampire action movie than a superhero movie. I mean, sure, I guess it’s about people with powers fighting over the fate of humanity—but its vampire powers. Blade as superhero feels like a take made in retrospect now that superheroes are more popular than vampires, which wasn’t the case at the…

I think this plot would work better if Syd turning on David had more motivation than the most obvious Shadow King manipulation of all time. More buildup, and have the smoking gun be something more solid than a freeze-frame of David possibly smiling while torturing somebody (to rescue Syd, no less!) and Syd’s…

Is chef to martial arts instructor really an “update”? Are martial arts instructors modern day chefs?

A man is forced to stab himself in the ass with a sword, and is then blown up in this movie.

I know “that’s the joke” but really, that is the exact same level of qualification as the current head of NASA. Maybe more qualified even, since he’s read at least a wikipeida article.

re: Melanie knocking out Clarke. That did delay him. They were almost ready to activate the dampner as it was, so without the delay David’s plan might’ve worked.

Just came down to say I was really hoping that there would be a mention of Gerald Bull. The guy was basically a real-life mad scientist—he was a convicted international arms dealer that was building a device literally called a “supergun” for Saddam Hussein, before being murdered under mysterious circumstances.

The way most of these reboots are going, they’d probably have the entire cast in graduate school together.

I don’t know what the AV Club house style is, but in general, it’s because series are ongoing, while a movie is singular.

SPOILER: Yes, a kid dies. What really puts it over isn’t that the kid dies, but how mundane yet violent it is. Not ripped apart by a monster, or even some kind of Rube Goldbergian contrivance. The kind of thing you’d hear about the evening new.

I get why somebody might feel responsible, but the dinosaurs themselves are an ecological disaster. This was actually a plot point in the book—dinosaurs getting to the mainland would throw the ecology of that environment into disarray.

Yeah, there is no real reason for people to go out of the way to preserve man-made animals that have no natural habitat.

InGen was a US-based company, but in Jurassic World the island/dinosaurs have been sold to Masrani, a conglomerate that I think was based in India. So, yeah, the US really doesn’t have skin in this game.

Even on release, the reviews weren’t amazing. There was the thing about Claire running in high heels or whatever. Personally, the main things I remember from seeing it in theaters: 1.) George RR Martin complaining about his seat in the row in front of me, and 2.) The T-Rex and velociraptor nodding at each other.…

The AV Club tends to have a blindspot when it comes to the actual business or logistics of the entertainment industry, which has undercut their coverage before—not reviews necessarily, but many of the newswires speculating on cancellations and such are often little more than empty snark or hope.

Drake should just take the loss. No way he can comeback on Pusha T.

Porochista Khakpour was a professor at the college I went to my freshman year. It had recently been bought and turned into a for-profit university, and she left the next year. I met her in passing at a poetry reading, and didn’t have any classes with her, but the people I know who did really liked her.

I think Guardians of the Galaxy only gets counted because it’s Marvel. If it wasn’t in the MCU, I doubt anybody would call it a superhero movie.

Blade is a relatively obscure comic book character, and the movie was framed as an action/horror movie about vampires. I guess it is technically accurate to call Blade a “superhero” but it feels like a designation being retrofitted on because superheros are more popular than vampires now.

People forget that 60's Batman was intentionally funny. Trying to do it as an actual action movie isn’t going to work—either commit to doing a full comedy, or don’t.