Reading comprehension-wise, hadn’t doesn’t imply haven’t.

The first act is fair game. It’s the ending that’s discussed in the podcast. Actually, the ending of the sequel, but my friends don’t even agree with each others on whether it’s canon, so don’t ask for my opinion there.

Woah. You’ve already seen all the movies that came out more than 20 years ago ? That’s a lot. I’m impressed. I didn’t even know we were supposed to.

Ok. I really don’t want to see the first take of “Khaaaaan!”.

So, for the curious or the cautious. This podcast tiptoes around some spoilers (and there’s movies that are mentioned as “having a twist” or “having a surprising scene”). But beyond that, there’s only spoilers (more or less vague) for :

I’m making this assumption about here, due to the violent reactions to my obvious “this plot is less mainstream than this other plot” comment. I assume that, in order to deny it, one must be immersed in those stories to the point of losing sight of the mainstream. The false sense of normalcy of a local common sense.

I for one have no stake in this. I’m personally indifferent to these superheroes movies, they’re vaguely amusing and that’s it. I’m just mentioning a point about the general public. Something that has certainly been discussed and must have lead to deliberate decisions on the Marvel side. I doubt they’re as naive about…

Yeah. You 100% completely entirely miss the point of movies belonging to different genres, one having a broader, more conventional appeal than the other.

Sergio Leone’s strategy was to make him re-do a scene a trillion times to wear him down. Only when utterly exhausted he was performing a bit believably.

I don’t think Guardians of the Galaxy was any different from Star Wars (and its giant growling sentient carpet). It’s standard space opera adventures, that is, Indiana Jones with planets instead of countries. Even though it starts (inconsistently) touching omnipotent sentient planets near the end.

I don’t think it’s related to film qualities. DC movies are quite bad, but they’re still somewhat basic, a handful of superpowered superheroes superpunching supermonsters. It goes wham and it goes boom and it goes the end. What I expect is the multiverse plots of the MCU, as well as increasingly weird supergalactic…

I believe the universality of Marvel is coming to an end. Multiverses won’t appeal to the public that enjoyed Iron Man as the story of a rich dude buying a gadget to fight baddies. It’s now veering towards the ridiculousness of the comic’s overly bloated world.

Should be cancelled. it just cannot fulfill any function anymore. Between those who want it to evaluate movies, those who want it to evaluate the morality of artists’ pasts, those who want it to prove they are not evaluating the morality of artists’s past, whatever it does it will be doomed, suspect, and meaningless.…

Will it come out before or after the muppets special ?

That’s not reasonable.

Godzilla vs King Kong vs Jaegers ? That would be in danger of making much too sense. We need an EVA in there.

Asked the same question, Pierre Desproges mentioned a friend of his, whose pet parrot had memorized only the first five notes of the “river Kwai” theme.

Yeah, I’m just confused by Star Wars, of all things (with, you know, Leia, Lando, and even indifferent species diversity), becoming the hill on which white supremacists go die. I was wondering if there was something inherent to Star Wars, explaining it.

I think that “displaying a progressive ideology in a popular movie” and “not firing an actor even though they’re conservative” work at very different levels, and balancing one to the other is unfair. You wouldn’t have wanted the opposite. If the movie was clearly reactionary, but the studio didn’t fire an actor for…

Maybe the Pro Wrestling angle is a key to that. We really don’t have that in Europe, it’s really very strange, seen from here, this fake fight spectacle with recurring characters and blurred lines around make believes contour. So maybe, related to this, we separate actors from roles to a much bigger extent ?