Marvel was a bit sneaky—or clever, depending on your patience for Hollywood big dick contests—releasing an “extended” cut a few weeks back to trick ticket buyers into watching a not-fully-rendered Hulk. If Cameron was annoyed by the stunt, he isn’t showing it.

Reanimate T.S. Eliot’s corpse and ask him what he thinks of the trailer. I want to know what ol' Stearno has to say.

Yeah B Town was joking about Cameron bringing back Smell-O-Vision, and I just thought it was funny because in South Korea some screenings of Avatar already featured “more than 30 effects... including moving seats, smells of explosives, sprinkling water, laser lights and wind.”

Exactly--and Avatar made about $40 million in its second run, just like Endgame has. Avatar’s worldwide total during its initial run was $2,749,064,328; its total haul after the re-release was $2,789,700,000.

You joke, but South Korea already beat you to it:

It’s the post-Kinja AV Club. Most posts are about things that the writers half-remember reading about on other blogs last week.

Yep. I think that FF would be a perfect audience surrogate, too (à la Captain Marvel and Star-Lord), for humans gallivanting around in space and encountering some of the weirder shit in the Marvel cosmos (e.g. the Watcher, Galactus and his heralds, Eternity, Order/Chaos).

That they ultimately decided to cut the scene is probably for the best: There would have been a lot of theaters where audience members all turned to the nerdiest person in their entourage and whispered, “Uh, the fuck is that thing?”

Call it a tie?

I could see Bob—in one of his hallucinatory episodes—swimming in the Caribbean and talking to the little fish.  

In his “Random Roles” interview Benjamin was asked about how he differentiates different speaking roles, and he had this self-deprecating (of course) but also smart-ass (also of course) answer:

Archer is such a world-weary smartass for so much of the time that the contrast when he finds something he unabashedly loves is a huge burst of amazing energy, one that elevates just about any episode...

Ah,mondegreens. When I was a kid I thought that Terri Nunn was singing “Take off without a way” rather than “Take My Breathe Away” (Berlin’s big breakout hit from the Top Gun soundtrack), and I thought that the late Bonn Scott of AC/DC was singing “dirty deeds and the Thunder Chief” rather than “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt…

I can understand feeling that way. For me it was one of those things where the absurd length was part and parcel of the humor—like the Sideshow Bob rake sequence (which I’ve never found to be all that funny, myself, so I do empathize). Plus it gave us an opportunity to go back and forth between various other…

That was Rife, and it was in the pitch meeting. Lay off the boozing at work, at least until you build up a O’Nealian-level of tolerance first.

I loved it. People were bitching that first week after ST3 was released that it takes you out of the moment and deflates the tension—or alternately that if those two characters hadn’t spent so much time singing it together that a certain someone wouldn’t have died.

I would say almost certainly. This smells like HORMEL^® BLACK LABEL^® bacon and sounds like the “sweet” Laurel Canyon sound of Dawes from the days of pre-Kinja yore. Seven posts in as many days (so far!)—about a film most people haven’t given a single fucking thought to since it was released and revealed to be the…

To me “chair of the history of systems of thought” is one of the coolest job titles of all time. Not as cool as, say, raccoon wrangler, but still pretty cool.

I’ll see your Community reference and raise you a Home Movies reference: