I don’t know about this, anymore. Twenty years ago, sure, but now?

What it really confirms is that bad movies are box office poison and good films aren’t (although even that isn’t always true ... coughTransformerscough). But anyway ...

Man is this ever some disingenuous trash. Cherry picking examples and all. I think my favorite part is this:

Funny how they don’t mention Loki, which many regard as the best Marvel TV show, and embraced the multiverse more than anything else they’ve done. It seems like the Doctor Strange and Ant-Man movies just weren’t very good regardless of their multiverse content.

This article seems to be bending over backwards to explain why its premise isn’t totally undermined by the massive success of Spiderverse. But then the MCU examples given don’t make much sense either. Ant Man 3 has very little multiverse shenanigans, and Eternals had none. On the other hand, Spider-Man No Way Home and…

Because what GOTG3 really confirms is that the multiverse—the whole organizing principle behind the still-emergent Marvel Phase Four multi-film story arc—is box office poison.

I am genuinely interested in how TF they are spending that money. R&D is expensive AF, but did they really have that big a budget on hardware? Or are they just dicking around with software that we aren’t seeing, at an enormous scale? This goes back to Carmack’s departing note, where he criticized the lack of…

The first powered flight occurred in 1903 and it took 11 years for the first commercial passenger flight to happen. That passenger flight in all it’s glory is that they could fly a single person 20 miles, twice a day. It cost the equivalent of $150 one way. It’s not until 30 years later in the 1930's that commercial…

The thing with this “VR is just a fad! It was around in the 90s, and it failed then, so it’ll fail now too!” argument, is it asserts the reason it didn’t succeed in the 90s is because VR as a concept is unworkable. As opposed to the real reason: bulky, heavy, low refresh CRTs, laggy tracking and 2D sprite-based…

I think 6 is really the key.

I think by now, Disney has a pretty good idea that the weekly drops are better for them. Part of the strategy of them making so much content with Star Wars and Marvel is very much to make it so the average fan will never have a reason to leave. It seems to really work for them.

Then I’m surprised Ms. Marvel isn’t doing better. Even the “same night as Obi-Wan Kenobi” reasoning seems a tad weird to me. It’s not like they’re on a different channel at the same time. It’s streamin’!

What is this article. I don’t understand this complaint.

Please watch the Black Mirror episode starring Mackie, about two men who explore their attraction via virtual reality videogames, before making assumptions about what he is, and is not, comfortable with.

One of my takeaways is that people sometimes expect too much out of how people talk, or communicate. YES - it’s phrased poorly. That’s how thoughts work sometimes. He wasn’t writing an essay. The words are jumbled, and I think he was searching for how to get across his feelings while still formulating that.

Except...that’s not really a gay thing. That’s a standard cop-buddy movie trope, ala Lethal Weapon or Running Scared. 

It’s even more disturbing that people are blaming gay men for this, when it’s more likely to be straight women doing the shipping - that’s the vast, vast, VAST majority of the fanfiction circuit.

This is on track for me; giving Mackie the benefit of the doubt he wasn’t in any way trying to be negative, I think he is saying he can’t show a normal, loving, non-sexual relationship with another man on screen, having to be restrictively cautious of his choices because of those fans who take every wink or smile or…

I personally enjoy seeing platonic straight male friendships that don’t have toxic masculinity energy. I'm not a fan of shipping these characters and I think that's where Mackie's frustration comes from. But of course he can't share an opinion on his own work without being told to shut up. 

It’s fucking weird to interpret every male relationship as being homosexual or trans or whatever the hell else. That's rather obvious. Or it used to be.