It’s not a bad film - it’s actually quite entertaining for most of its run - but Marvel has flaws it can’t seem to be able to fix. Or maybe, the movies have been so successful that they don’t care enough to try?

We see a slightly different version of her because that’s who the character is. She’s a former SHIELD spy who is what she needed to be for every installment, most of the time for Nick Fury. Without a true family background, I’m not sure what you were expecting. The movie was everything it needed to be to tell a story…

I feel like this review gets so close to addressing the fundamental problems of this film:

I enjoyed it last night, but I had the unfounded expectation that we’d see at least one cameo from another Avenger. When she receives the jump jet at the end, I half expected Steve Rodgers to lower the ramp and walk out, with the movie fading to black immediately after.

TLJ didn’t undo TFA’s threads or paint the trilogy into a corner. It advanced the plot, developed the characters and left a broad possibility space that ROS entirely squandered.

Yeah, there was a lot of “and then this happened”. Something Abrams’ Star Trek had in spades too, in retrospect.

“the sequel trilogy was a poor story told well”

gotta fully agree, and you didn’t really say anything controversial enough for such a salty thread, lmao.

Been playing Mario Golf a lot and while it’s entertaining, there are some lazy LAZY bugs / quirks that you’d expect to find in budget golf games, rather than top-tier brand-name games.

We’re in the Farenheit 451 future, where noone can be negative or critical about anything.

Welcome to the new AV Club commentariat, where if the article is about Indian people being uncomfortable about a white man doing a pisstake of their accent then they’re over-sensitive crybabies who need to shut up, but if the article jokingly suggests that golf is maybe a stupid game, the writer is worse than Hitler…

Golf is horrendous for the environment. It needs to be banned. There should be zero public funded golf courses. Turn the land into parks or areas that don’t suck up all the water. Death to golf and the fascists who play it. Don’t dare consider yourself a leftist or friend of the environment if you do. Golf accelerates…

Recreation is a socially-beneficial use

Should we turn the Louvre into modestly-priced housing?

I think the water usage required is a more valid criticism, particularly in drought-prone places like California or South Africa.

Real golf is best described by Mark Twain: “A good walk spoiled”.

I can appreciate your point of view if it’s your thing, and you are unable to enjoy it, then that’s sad. But the sheer acreage that golf courses take up, that could be put to more socially beneficial use, limits my sympathy a little. I’m also slightly biased having done some work for a couple of golf clubs, which…

I realize this is all in service of spectacular CGI action and explosions with slick-looking aliens but I’ll say it again.

The blogger was probably not even born or a small child in 1993 and can’t grasp the concept of what entertainment choices were back then.

Conan absolutely needed late night. As much as the staid formula of the format was never a perfect fit, it also provided him the flexibility to be as weird and wonderful as he wanted to be.