I have mixed feelings. Honestly, I think what is really not working for me is the compression of time and how it sort of makes everything less weighty? Celebrimbor doesn’t have a years’ long relationship with an evil Maia who tricks him … it happens over a few days. Numenor doesn’t rise to immense imperial power over…

I imagine the actual way Ryan Reynolds was a dick to him was telling him that he doesn’t want to work with rapists, and since that’s not a very compelling argument for Miller, he pulled up this anecdote as the closest thing to Reynolds being rude to him that he could manage.

The article’s implication that Armor Wars being changed from a tv show to a theatrical release is a sign of trouble with the project is . . . strange.

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

Your argument barely supports your premise.  Nobody’s denying the technical impact it had on filmmaking or the number of 3d TVs that it sold, but it definitely didn’t have the same kind of pop culture impact as Cameron’s previous movies.  Nobody’s quoting any of the blue people a decade later while ‘Game over man!’,…

Oh no, we missed five seasons of Constantine investigating a mysterious giant red ball. 

Love & Thunder kinda sucked.

I’d really have preferred this show to be animated like everything that led to it. But I guess that expensive live action is the name of the game, nowadays...

Please stop paying attention to this attention-whore racist labor-stealing pile of shit.

What a weird and overly aggressive take

The movie’s not perfect, but it was literally breathtaking for me since, for the first time since Empire Strikes Back, I had no idea where any individual scene or the overall movie was going. After decades of predictable storytelling, Johnson flipped over the table and did new and exciting stuff.

It’s imperfect, but by FAR the best of the Sequel Trilogy. It was unexpected, beautiful, frustrating, thrilling, and, you know, we’re still talking about it. When was the last time anyone mentioned Rise of the Skywalker or whatever the fuck?

I came here for this comment, and the bittersweet nostalgia it would trigger for the AV Club that once was.

I got a Community notification for this!

“Janet(s)“ provided the best example of her range to date - it’s basically a one-episode resume.

Ironically, “Janet(s)“ provided the best example of her range to date - it’s basically a one-episode resume.

...but to pretend for even a second like directors get more or less control within competing billion-dollar franchises is a fool’s errand.

Is Marvel perfect? No. Is it cohesive? Well, it’s all in one universe, so pretty much. But to say it’s all the same and there’s no real distinction between MCU movies is disingenuous. Shang-Chi was totally different from anything the MCU had done to that point. On the other hand, Black Widow was a standard action…

“If you watch a Star Wars, you’re pretty much going to get the same version of Star Wars each time… You’re always, really, in that same kind of world. But with Marvel you can have a whole different feeling even within the Marvel Universe.”

He wrote the pilot for Battle Creek before he wrote Breaking Bad and it sat in a metaphorical desk drawer for years before CBS decided to pick it up. He wasn’t involved with the show except for the pilot script. Since he wrote the pilot, he was listed as an executive producer.