makes fans want to get the knives out

I never said the chase wasn’t relevant. I said it’s not the only thing that happens in the movie. In fact, it’s only a small part of the film despite being the framework on which its laid.

Well that is outright insulting to the art of filmmaking, as it is a profoundly lazy movie.

I don’t totally agree. I think there were plenty of good places that the third director could have taken the franchise afterwards while not totally negating everything that Johnson had done. While Colin Trevorrow may not be the best director, his Duel of the Fates script should serve as a clear example that The Last…

To be fair, I originally just responded to his dickish quip with a dickish quip of my own. I only wrote an essay-length treatise after he responded with more specifics. Not to say that I don’t agree with your overall point that I have spent too many minutes of my life defending this one specific film than I rightly…

Don’t worry. Cool and stylish or not, you can still be the pompous dipshit with a college freshman’s understanding of dramatic structure and tension.

This sounds like projection.

I don’t care about the beach ball. She was right to call out the women taking photos.

I’ve been to concerts with this behavior.

You’re right, and if I paid $100 to go, I’m going to take a photo.

Probably. But I’ve wasted time online on more pointless arguments.

How come nobody noticed that The White Widow’s eyes changed color?

Yep. That’s my main complaint about the movie. I really enjoyed it for the most part, but the constant exposition of stuff I already understood perfectly well made the three hour runtime really noticeable.

Yeah. She was definitely in that spot when the group photo was taken too. You can tell from the TikTok video. Probably did some heavier songs where she wanted to interact with the band on the big stage and then came forward on the thrust stage for the ballad(s) and to interact with the crowd.

No doubt. Five people turned away from the stage arranging themselves for however long right in the artist’s face essentially, with lots of people behind them. Completely inappropriate behavior.

Nah... If you look at this one, she is right next to the stage.

Yeah. It’s really simple. There’s a rogue AI that is wreaking havoc with the world’s computers. It can theoretically be stopped or controlled with a key. A bunch of rival factions are all trying to get the key. One of the factions includes a guy who seems to be intentionally working for the AI. That’s pretty much it.…

The one this article links to absolutely is given the context and where/how they were standing.

It would have been a lesser film if we’d gotten a bunch of big hero moments from the fanservice characters. Taking them out like he did made the film much better. I didn’t take it as contempt for the film at all, but rather a fun joke to play on the audience.

I loved it. I find it hilarious that Raimi introduced a bunch of fan-service characters only to kill them off in brutal ways immediately. Why even watch a Raimi film if you’re not looking for stuff like that?