The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

It would make transitions, and in-between moments, difficult.

Yeah. It’s a good example. In practice, I tend to forget who is or isn’t bulletproof, for instance. Because the line gets blurred.

All the former does is push them away, reinforce their “everyone to my political left is out to get me” mentality. Reaching out to an extremist is like staging an intervention for substance abuse but handled more carefully, it needs to take some form of “I care about you and I’m on your side, but these nasty things…

Die Hard isn’t either. But there’s no point in introducing magical superpowers if, in practice, it makes no distinction between a Superman and a John McClane.

I’m confused. Is his costume cool ?

It’s not Russian Doll, but I’ll take it.

It’s a problem the MCU also has with Black Widow, Hawkeye, etc. They all are superpowered with no true reason. Not to mention that all official superpowers themselves are very undefined (the supersoldier serum makes Captain America impervious to an odd and inconsistent array of physical traumas).

Flag-hating antipatriots. Cool. That’s basically Falcon and The Winter Soldier versus me. Bring it on.

Hot warm take : both are mediocre and very watchable, unlike the Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, Justice League movies, which are mediocre and unwatchable.

Yes.

I never heard of that story, but I would need very solid proofs to start believing that Robert Mitchum didn’t have christ-like revivification powers.

Rewatched Winter Soldier yesterday (as always with the MCU, felt like watching for the first time, superhero things just do not stick on my memory), and was pleasantly surprised. It really felt like a movie, as opposed to a nice collection of youtube clips. It’s also fun how many devious details are set up in advance.…

It was sharon all along.

I’m just glad the deer ran away before the homeowner inevitably proceeded to shoot them.

Well, I did that, but pretty radically. Stating that her right-wing views were ending our relationship. No idea what long term effects it had on her. Probably radicalized her further.

Maybe we’ll get a fan-edit that tries to take the best of both worlds and force it into one version?

Ungreying it without really agreeing with the second point. I think that derision is an important (although delicate) tool - especially against all the arbitrary conservative sanctifications/fetishisms (religious, national, ethnic, etc) that are based on taking the meaningless extremely seriously.

-Which version of Apocalypse Now is definitive?

I predict one of the following: