You could make the case that Wanda doesn’t consciously know what’s going on (or at least that she’s responsible) for a couple episodes. But I think when Vision finds out and confronts her, that’s the point where it’s undeniable that she’s intentionally torturing the townspeople for her own benefit.

Wanda enslaved an entire town. She has barely any control of her powers. She suffers ABSOLUTELY no consequences for enslaving the town other than being asked NOT to.

When asked at a recent show if she’d try Broadway or movies next, DeGeneres reportedly said, “Um, no,”

Okay, fair enough on the reshoots and strikes. But the movie was filmed in the middle of 2021. We’re not ‘after’ COVID now, let alone three years ago. Safety precautions for actors’ and crew’s safety are still slowing down movie productions (not just filming, but also post-production), and were almost certainly more…

I’ve literally never heard of these movies before, but this one comment has done more to sell me on it than anything in this article.

To be fair, it’s been 12+ years, and some peoples’ voices ‘age’ better than others. Also, there are a dozen other little factors that might be throwing their voices off a bit.

Wholeheartedly agree regarding Dina Meyer. Also, for the record, I don’t mean to come off as critical that most of the cast don’t seem to be in on the joke (after all, it’s not like they were all watching the propaganda commercials while they were filming). I’m just saying the movie’s better for NPH definitely knowing…

I think it comes down in part to how you define ‘subversive,’ but at that point we’re in a semantics argument when we could just be sitting back and cracking up at John Lithgow’s accent instead.

always a good sign when they let the movie sit for 2 years before doing reshoots with another director.

As much as I’ve got my doubts about the movie, I can legitimately respect being stir-crazy from the early days of the pandemic being a factor in taking on something like this.

I don’t think I’d call it ‘subversive’ as such, because it’s really trying to be an 80's sci-fi version of the Doc Savage pulps of the 1930's and 40's. It’s definitely different from other action flicks of the day, but I’m not sure I’d describe it as subversive.

To be fair, Sonny Landham (Billy) was reportedly so unstable they had to assign him a bodyguard to protect the rest of the cast from him. Maybe they actually were afraid.

Arnold plays those moments perfectly, and you can tell he’s having way too much fun doing it.

I was just talking to someone the other day about how underappreciated Last Action Hero is. It does a lot of fun things with genre tropes, both in terms of parody and subversion, and you can tell a bunch of the cast (Arnold and Charles Dance, in particular) are having a lot of fun making it. It also helps that…

To be fair, IIRC, most of the cast didn’t seem to realize it’s a satire, either. NPH definitely does, and you can see him loving every moment of it, but everyone else plays it pretty straight.

You might be thinking Miguel Ferrer (who played Bob Morton opposite Ronny’s Dick Jones in Robocop), who passed away about seven years ago.

Kevin Hart is going to be awful as Roland. He completely lacks any sort of physical screen presence, and he’s definitely going to get played up as more ‘butt monkey’ than ‘straight man.’ Sure, Claptrap’s gonna be given his share of abuse for the laughs, but if they want to do physical comedy with a practical effect…

I believe it. I was referring more to the outdated practice of taking crappy action-horror flicks and raunchy comedies that would have been officially given an R rating, dialing them back to PG-13 for theatrical release so they could make money, then giving them an ‘unrated cut’ on DVD. This was usually just the…

Speaking of X-Men ‘97, Blade would actually probably do much better in animated form. I don’t think the Snipes versions are necessarily definitive, but given the production issues here, I think Disney could avoid a whole lot of unfavorable comparisons by changing the medium. Besides, Ali’s voice is a large part of…

At the risk of dating myself, I still remember seeing this for the first time in theaters. I was 18, attending my first furry convention, it was the last day and everything was shutting down, and I was like “Great, so what do I do to kill time until catching my bus home tomorrow?” And then in the lobby of the hotel,…