I didn't recognize it was him until that moment. The whole movie it was bugging me who he reminded me of, but that moment was perfectly Andy.

That's awesome.

Well according to Dowd, they're B-holes.

It's weird because this is twice he's attacked me for things I didn't believe. It's surreal to see someone snark about a problem with you that's non-existent.

Ditto. This might top it due to my love of space stuff, but Winter Soldier had a good amount going on under the surface, and that was a damn entertaining surface too.

So The Avengers and Thor 2 don't have MacGuffins then? Cause both the Tesseract and the Aether were big parts of the climax.

It's only not a MacGuffin for the final scene though, which describes some Marvel movies too. The MacGuffin drives the action, and once it's in the hands of the Rebels, they then go right to the final battle, so the action is pretty much already driven.

The tone and personalities are different, but the structure is always the same. Granted, most big budget movies have the same structure nowadays, but Marvel has it down to a pattern.

I'm super upfront elsewhere in the thread that they're all copies of each other structure wise. That's totally their biggest weakness, but not a relevant complaint to this topic.

Oh I know why that's in place. But since you could have a boy actor performing a professional role only one night the option was there for NBC to cast a boy and not risk alienating a confused subset of audience. I was honestly fearing that. But they didn't.

The top pick has always been meaningless though, basically whichever would make the most attention grabbing headline. Todd's top picks were just as bad.

Monday on the cable channel Disney XD.

I just said Dowd gave it a B out of love, how is that bitching? It's kind of the opposite. I even mention in another comment how grateful I was for a more negative, expectation tempering review.

I get the sense that Dowd loves movies the same way tough parents deep down love their kids.

What were we supposed to do, let the nudists win?

Ah yes, that mainstream, popcorn blockbuster that was Under the Skin. I'm guessing that's an obscure way of writing either "Edge of Tomorrow" or
"The Winter Soldier"?

Or at least photosynthesize them? That's how it works, right?

That joke's so old fashioned we had to put it in a home.

I'd argue they totally do. They bait the hook just enough to keep you coming for the next one, but every film not named Iron Man 2 has a clear beginning, middle, and end with a plot that is 95% tied up in the end. The villains are always defeated, the characters let the lessons they learned sink in, the world adjusts…

Oh man, we have to pay to stay in the theater and read the credits? And to think I've been dodging that fine all this time.