The truth is you just can’t think about it. It does not stand up under scrutiny, but then again, so very few of them do. Yes, I get that by staying in the past, Steve has effectively created a new timeline but here are sooooo many problems.

I am going to pass on sitting on those fuck couches

Y’know, I sometimes wonder if a change of model might make a difference. I don’t know if it would be profitable, but imagine a place that has soundproofed rooms of different sizes (one person, couples, families) and rents them on-demand, a 100-inch screen (or projector?) on each, comfy couches, a tablet that lets you…

This was a really thoughtful piece. I see just about zero chance of it happening, but now I want it more. Imagine the film with an actually designed act end and an act II lead in? (Hell, we can get old school corny and have a medley of past Marvel music.  Or maybe the “Man Was Not Meant to Meddle Medley”?)

Totally. I considered spelling out all of the logistical issues and how people would run the risk of being spoiled—both of which would be very real issues. But the piece is more focused on how intermissions change our relationships to the films we’re watching.

Could a theater unilaterally decide to pause the projection, or is there some kind of legal hurdle?  I think it may be impractical since adding intermissions reduces the number of times you can show the movie in a day, but assuming willingness, could it be done?

An intermission would be a good thing, for all the reasons you cited. The biggest pushback will probably come from the theatre companies themselves. Having to recheck everyone’s ticket, further stagger start times so another movie is not getting out at the same time as the intermission, and create issues at the…

Nonsense. If that were true, films with male heroes would always be successful, and that is definitely not the case. Take Man of Steel, for instance: it got generally negative reviews, and Batman vs Superman didn’t fare much better. Wonder Woman, on the other hand, was generally acclaimed as DC’s best superhero movie,…

It has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman, you didn’t see them review bombing Wonder Woman? It can’t be that the first couple of trailers were pretty bad, like Ghostbusters? And then the actress made some comments that angered some people?

Funny how Wonder Woman didn’t get this sort of backlash... Personally, I really loved that movie, watched many times over. And, believe me, Gal Gadot doesn’t look anything like me! LOL!

Gal Gadot is very personable and likable. Brie is....

‘ main character, gasp, doesn’t look like you’

Specifically because of something Brie Larson had said in an interview that some perceived as an attack on them.

I don’t remember a similar thing happening before Wonder Woman, why the review bombs for Captain Marvel?

Thanos is fundamentally a dumbass

Canada would be screwed simply with the loss of the supply chain. 80% of the population lives in urban areas and there are huge spaces between them. Even though our population is only 36 million, without trucking and shipping, people would starve quickly, not to mention the short growing season. I live in the north so…

Bruce: So, these various strains of intestinal flora...

now i dont know about all nuke plants, but most plants have crash conditions, where they just shut down, engineers learned from chernobyl

War first, famine and disease later. The thing that would happen if the US population dropped from 320 million to 160 million would be precisely that other countries whose populations only dropped from 60 to say 30 million would likely use it as an excuse to expand their borders - to take what the disintegrated left…

That’s not how it works. Thanos wiped out half of all of the intelligent life in the universe. It’s not like half of the grass on earth is gone now. His goal was to cull the population growth, so as to distribute resources better among the remaining population. Why would he then also wipe out half of the resources,…