No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative! It gets the people GOING!

I’ve grown pretty tired of the “Let’s breakdown every frame of this trailer and what it all means” form of video these days. They tend to lead to rampant speculation and theories/predictions based on (sometimes purposely) misleading scenes and edits. Then people get attached to those things and bitch and moan when…

One of the many things I love about BP is that Killmonger feels like such a real character. Specifically, he seems very much like many real world revolutionaries turned dictators (think Castro, Mugabe, etc.). He has a good point based on a just cause, but he s also a narcissist who conflates his cause with his own…

There’s missing scene where his mom was jailed by cops for a crime she didn’t commit, which is why his dad got pissed at the t’chaka for not helping out due to non-intervention, then his dad orchestrated the weapons theft as part of a strategy to undermine the system. If the boy was raised to believe that systems were…

Of course...a CIA agent is also the bad guy in this movie about Africa.

Isn’t Nakia also expressing discontent with the system? And her approach is basically the one he actually goes with. 

My issue with the Deadpool movies: It mocks virtually every superhero convention except for the damsel in distress and fridging love interest. I enjoyed both, but it feels odd to have Vanessa getting kidnapped in 1 and then killed at the start of 2 without commenting on the tropes being used.

T’Challa basically is a US-approved right wing dictator by the end, isn’t he? He’s helping the US, he seems to be an absolute monarch, and religious combat-based monarchy sounds pretty right-wing to me.

I think what he means is that Killmonger wants to end Wakanda’s isolationism and “help” the rest of the world, or more specifically the African diaspora.

Since it’s on a streaming platform, is there any reason why all the episodes need to have roughly the same runtime? Like, if one story would work better as just twenty minutes, while another would work better as a solid hour, or even more, then why not make the episodes that long? It’s not like they’ve gotta worry…

Not to mention that the original went to hour long episodes for a season, a change that most everyone agreed was a change for the worse. This version being an hour was my biggest worry as to its quality; it would be nice if maybe someone had the courage to change to half hour episodes if this gets another “season”…

I think early seasons Felicity was very likable. Now late seasons Felicity on the other hand...

happy to see a finale/season review for the other two! it has no right to be as good as it is in its first season, but it’s really good.

Aside from Snyder exhibiting a certain amount of contempt for the vision of superheroes that, uh, lots of fans of superheroes have, what strikes me about it is how much seems like bad storytelling from the standpoint that it only works by trading on that same prior relationship the part of his audience he’s smug about…

Yeah, for that plotline to have any dramatic weight you would need to care deeply about Clark and Lois and paint the pre-Darkseid Earth as less of a cold hellscape to begin with. Though it does make that Flash scene make more sense.

I actually like the idea of Green Lantern turning up late in the day - not necessarily to stop an evil Superman, which I think is a dumb idea, but more as a way to suggest the League as it is now doesn’t know enough about the wider universe to stop what’s coming and needs the help of the GL Corps.

The best thing about Gadot’s performance is that it’s unrelentingly earnest. Sometimes, that leads to her lines landing with a clunk, but it’s worth it because the entire movie depends on her earnest belief that ending WWI is as simple as killing Ares. Later that earnestness manifests itself in the sharp contrast…

I go back and forth on Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman. I think it’s one of those rare cases where the casting works, even though the actor isn’t that good, if that makes sense?

Diana was such a badass in the movie, but still took the time to marvel at the first baby she had ever seen on a London street, and to tell the vendor of the first ice cream she ever tasted how proud he should be (my favorite scene in the movie). Her childlike wonder at the modern world was just as important as her…

I think the Just a Girl scene had all the elements of a great action scene, but the direction and editing fell short of it being one. More faith in the action and less desire to jump cut to make it seem more kinetic would’ve done a lot.