What if every individual part of American life was fenced in and surrounded by guards with guns? What is every person had a gun and also an armed guard with them at all times? What if we could bio engineer small dogs to serve as adorable holsters?

None. All of it ultimately boils down to blank-eyed, grey-skinned sadsacks trying desperately to convince you that their writing says more than “making money is good for companies.”

Came down here to make this comment, pleased that someone already had.

I really dig IM3 a lot, but I can see where you’re coming from here. The original plan was for Rebecca Hall to be the real villain, but then I think the then-Powers That Be at Marvel (this was before Feige was pretty much left to run things alone) dictated a change with the idea that no one would buy a Rebecca Hall…

The Mandarin twist is unquestionably the most interesting thing anyone has ever done with the Mandarin, who went from being a cringey Chinese stereotype to being a guy who had a different motivation every time he showed up once they finally dropped the “yellow peril” bullshit. He’s only “Iron Man’s major nemesis!!”…

Seriously. I think (and hope, actually), that all the death talk is misdirection. As much as people bitch about “raising the stakes!” I don’t think they *really* want to lose great characters. I think if anything, at *least* Tony gets to walk off into the sunset so they can bring him back a few movies down the road…

he wasn’t a republican, not really, he was a rino cuck, #maga

Yeah, sure would’ve been nice to see this crossposted from The Root to Jezebel rather than vice versa, but I suppose the Jezzies were always going to be happier hosting the party at their house.

Thank you for this, you dear sweet man.

Nah, they’ll just find a way to scoff at whatever word or phrase you use to describe it. They’re good at that.

These Randian, Alpha Male Captain of Industry types sure do love being pushed around. Bet Rex had at least a half chub.

For posterity.

Co-sign on this — As a Lakers fan, I miss Joel Meyers. Now the team’s play-by-play is handled by something called Bill MacDonald, who looks sort of like Rod Roddy and says things like “CASH MONEY!!” (you can hear the extra exclamation point) when a player hits a ho-hum mid-range shot. He’s terrible!

Yeah, in general, though they may not all be as memorable as I’d like, I think the MCU villains have had pretty clear-cut motivations.

What could possible be “hot” about these takes? “Team that has won three straight Conference championships and two out of the last three Finals will probably beat team that hasn’t advanced to the finals since ‘95, coached by a guy whose stuff tends not to work as well in the playoffs, starring two players who have…

I’d love to, as well, but I also remember all those times that Thibodeau’s Bulls beat up on various LeBron teams in the regular season only to get pantsed in the playoffs. Let’s maybe see these Rockets in the playoffs or not fall behind 3-0 to the Warriors in a playoff series before giving them a chance against a team…

They’re definitely in “2002 Lakers” mode. They might get pushed to 7 by the Rockets, but they ain’t losing that series. But good for Chris Paul, he might make it out of the second round this time.

Agree here — Topher Grace gets shit on a lot, but I thought he was fine, I liked the concept (he’s also “evil” Peter Parker in addition to becoming evil Spider-Man), and I think he could’ve been great if he weren’t competing with two other villains and if Sam Raimi actually liked Venom/hadn’t had Venom forced on him.

ha

Seriously, the list of movies that *need* to be more than two hours is very short, and that particularly holds for this kind of stuff. If your Batman/Transformers/Ninja Turtles movie requires more than 100-120 minutes to tell, maybe try rethinking it because you went wrong somewhere.