The fact that Cara Delevingne is considered an astonishingly beautiful woman makes me think the world is playing a practical joke on me.

“Dang it, guys. This was gonna be the day we watched and wrote a thoughtful piece about a movie or TV show. We promise. But the universe forced us to cover nonsense celebrity bullshit. Drat!”

Careful everyone. Almost all the pieces are in place. If Bowen Yang offers his thoughts about this story, the site will collapse like a neutron star!

So much of the site’s coverage of news seems to be based on the idea that there are people we should like and people we should hate. People we should like can do no wrong, and all criticism of them is unfair. People who we should hate are always blameworthy in all circumstances.

Right, there are a lot of lessons here.  But we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the primary thing that went wrong was that there was live ammunition on set, and that ammunition wound up in a gun that was to be used in a scene.  

We have a lot of different mechanisms to punish people for wrongdoing, all of which seem to be being employed here. There are the criminal cases targeting the people most responsible (and Baldwin). There are the civil cases, the most prominent of which (by the victim’s husband) has resulted in a financial settlement.…

In what way does “the finger of blame point solely at Gutierrez-Reed?” As the article discusses, Dave Halls already pleaded guilty for his role in the shooting. Baldwin is charged. So that’s at least three people who the “finger of blame” has pointed to.

Wakanda Forever did not have the problem of expecting knowledge of previous Marvel properties. It did have the corresponding problem, however — elements shoehorned into the movie to set up the next Marvel properties. Riri Williams served no purpose in the movie, but she was in there anyway in the hope that it would…

I’m not sure it’s quite a matter of understanding the movies. It’s a question of whether it’s realistic to expect us to be excited about the 4th most important character in WandaVision appearing in a movie.

I also think Marvel has to avoid the problem of using the entire movie as a tool to promote a future, more desirable movie.

Most of the people who are seeing these movies a not comic book readers, let alone readers who read comics enough to care about things like the Council of Reeds. These people don’t get any thrill from things that are “F4 things.”

This site gave it a C.  Was that sexism or racism?

That seems like a recipe for what’s turning people off with these movies — too much bloat, too much space nonsense, too many MacGuffins, too many characters and too little attention to giving those characters story arcs and distinct personalities.

Also, when Idle complains that Spamalot only made money 20 years ago, that would have been when Idle was 60, a perfectly reasonable time for an adult’s income-earning days to start winding down.  Doesn’t Idle have, like, mutual funds?

I don’ know what you’re talking about.  Harry attended the coronation. 

Look, you can complain about having to dub all of Tahar Rahim’s lines. But what were they gonna do? Not cast Tahar Rahim, just because he lacked one of the foundational requirements to appear in a movie with English dialogue? The public demanded Tahar Rahim!

Particularly now that many fans are not watching every Marvel TV show and movie, I think you’re in the minority in being committed to in-universe explanations for how everything fits together. And look, we’re still in a universe where there are Norse Gods, a group of female super assassins trained in a sky base, a…

Like the giant Celestial head sticking out of the water in Eternals, I think Marvel would honestly be better leaving stuff from Secret Wars as a loose end. Why let the dumb shit from your prior, unsuccessful TV show infect what could be a successful movie?

I’m excited to see the kickass action set pieces that appear in this movie about a gay man returning to his hometown to deal with his deceased father’s junk-filled house.

Which one did the ponderous, half-baked philosophy parts?