I know this is a bit off-topic, but…it's immediately what I thought about. The fucking DEADPOOL Oscar "controversy"….

Disney, I have your tagline…

I'd say "social media activism" is too.

Good on ya.

Of course they do, along with many, many people in the film industry who support worthy causes with time, money and effort.

I would say that giving a speech at the Oscars has at least as much, and probably more, impact than any "social media activism." Is the AV Club going to have an article debating the worth of that?

There are people who want a "Civil War" to be what the movie was, a rather pedestrian drama that played directly to audience expectations, with a big scene where CGI guys punch each other.

Also: the idea that creative expression should be curtailed…no matter how benignly you describe that curtailment…because it makes people uncomfortable isn't exactly an anti-nazi idea.

I can totally agree that Civil War II is and was a lazy idea born from the unholy Gods of Corporate Synergy…there's no denying it. It's also gone on WAY too long. The movie was almost a year ago!

*ahem*

It was awful. No need to see it.

I like RDJ too, loved his work for years, but the "Stark thing" is starting to overwhelm everything, IMHO.

Stark has been playing the same character arc for 6 movies and counting…..

Technically just new finishes, the guitar was introduced last year.

I think when you combine long-term alcoholism with being raised by a world-renowned anti-Semite, you have a formula for a person who regresses to an extremely ugly place when drunk out of his mind. Alcohol doesn't create ugly things inside of you, but it loosens your resolve to keep the worst parts of ourselves in…

Joan Jett played Magenta, if memory serves. The Frank was male.

"Given the special effects of the time, really, all the action scenes are
top shelf, and they’re more convincing and linear and coherent than
most of what we get today."

This is Eastwood's masterpiece. Hands down.

You win the internet today

Well, yeah…as I mentioned elsewhere here, Harry never seems to "enjoy" violence. He's just very, very good at it, and, it seems to me, just as happy to NOT kill someone if that resolves the current situation. The bank robbery sequence that opens the first film would probably be the best example.