I don’t mean that is some pearl clutching, “oh my God it must be toxic” kind of way. I just don’t have any previous connection to the material, so a loud cultish fan base is annoying when I don’t get the complaints and minutia talk. It doesn’t make me not watch something. It just makes me wonder if it’s going to be a…

Oh....whoa....this fool isn’t wearing a Wakanda Black Panther shirt. He’s wearing a fuckin’ Huey Newton Black Panther shirt. Nah. You can’t do that. You just....no.

That’s my worry about it. I’m completely ignorant to it. Never heard of the books, never got around to playing the game and am already slightly turned off by the rabid fan base and all of the bitching that led up to this show. I don’t know if I should even bother.

Unless he has created some sort of sci-fi level VR movie projector that inserts each member of the audience into the movie itself, he’s not going to be able to PT Barnum his way through another Avatar on technology alone. No one cares about 3D anymore and you can advance CGI all you want and it will still not be…

Have Taylor Swift dropkick the other cats and then get a cage of bees put over her head and I’m in.

Of course. Absolutism is dumb and you can view different things in different ways. But, the argument over The Last Jedi has turned into a lot of absolutism in order to prop up opinions and that’s sort of Johnson’s take that fan service and being safe is always a bad idea that doesn’t satisfy. I’m just saying someone…

I’m being facetious, mainly. I like Marvel films for the most part, I love a few of them, but they are safe and predictable. End Game didn’t really have much in surprises, to me. Smart Hulk happened in the comics and was spoiled by the production art. Fat Thor is an unimportant joke. We already knew who’s contracts…

Exactly. If they started with Johnson’s take, there probably wouldn’t be much anger towards it and it would be much easier to pick out the chud complaints from actual criticism. You just can’t go from full on nostalgia fan wank to blowing up the whole thing. You kind of have to pick one or the other or at least try to…

Let me see if I can get both fan bases angry at the same time to help with this -

I spent to many seconds trying to figure out a way to work in a Walking Dead insult and it cost me being first. Damn you, snark!

A few lines into describing the plot and I’m already exhausted with it. I don’t even want to finish reading the review, much less go see the movie. I’m done with all of it. I liked Rogue One a lot and the first few episodes on The Mandalorian, but I have nothing but fatigue left. You’re right. I’m not a kid anymore.…

Oh, cool. Now we get to see the “humans are the real monsters” spin on the apocalypse story. How original.

That’s my feeling, too. Execs like to paint creators as difficult, but someone is hired for their specific vision of a show and promised a particular budget to get it done, then the execs turn around and start sending endless notes on how to reel in that vision while telling them they need to cut costs. It’s hard to…

I wonder if Starz regrets fucking over Brian Fuller now? Going to cost them a whole lot more than that budget discrepancy. 

Hopefully it’s an alternate history tale in the same vein as as Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

This is Ayers. There won’t be anyone even remotely close to woke. They’ll all be unbelievably sleazy and mainly stereotypes.

After waiting to find out what drug had spiked the punch, it was pretty laughable to find out it was acid. I was around a guy who got violent on acid once, but even then I think it was more the heavy amount of alcohol he had consumed. He hit the vibe of the drug better in that dumb DMT movie he did, if not the effect.

The last 20-30 minutes are the only reason for the film to exist.

Wow. So many things. So, so many things.

I’d say, arguably, it is his best. It’s pretty singularly focused while touching on a lot of things to say, but it is also the most nihilistic and misanthropic, which is saying a lot for Noe. It’s a lot like Irreversible in that you’ll be glad you watched it once, but probably won’t want to watch it twice. You’ll be…