I was going to rewrite the Zack Snyder “you’re living in a f*****g dream world” quote for this, but now I’ve had to read it again and think combining it with this Sonic movie would create some sort of Bad Adaptation Singularity.

Well, I know pro poker players don’t shuffle the cards. If Phil Ivey didn’t mark the cards himself, is he really cheating?

This is why Arena is probably going to be the future of competitive Magic - nobody get accused of marking cards in e-sports.

Not knowing it is fine.  Just don’t advertise your ignorance.  

Doesn’t pancreatic cancer tend to become lethal pretty quickly? Isn’t it kind of impressive he’s doing as well as he is, just at the moment?

Also?  Cheaper too.

We’ll never know how much of that picture was just royal flattery, but Henry VIII was actually incredibly active and fit as a young man until an injury kept him largely sedentary.

“...the reality is that the world is better today than it ever has been before.”

This. I mean, I’m sure *someone* got all hot and bothered seeing Prince Fielder in the buff, but I was just intrigued to see a body designed to pound home runs given the full “tasteful nude” treatment.

Book Thanos was wildly different. I think that the MCU deciding not to replicate Thanos approaching Death like the universe’s mightiest incel was a good move.

Well, they used her fine in this movie. They’ve got a great excuse for holding her back - is the danger you’re facing literally the worst thing happening in the universe right now? If not, you need to face it without Captain Marvel.

Best argument I can think of against term limits is that, at the end of his term as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the longest-tenured politician in California state government.

Right, but this column is written by someone whose livelihood hinges on people following a rule (tipping) that isn’t a law.

Beyond anything else, if you didn’t see Infinity War...I mean, you have to expect to miss things if you come in for the second half of a two part movie, right?

“The wide shot of the Avengers, the Guardians, the other heroes, the Wakandan army, and the wizard reinforcements facing off against Alternate Timeline Thanos and his horde works because it’s so overwhelmingly grandiose. It’s a moment that was earned through a commitment as stringent as those made by the longest TV…

Also, I liked that 2014 Thanos saw that he would be killed shortly after The Snap, and didn’t hesitate for a moment.

That was my reaction too: 

Look, if some French auteur had a 22-film series with a conclusion one quarter as satisfying as Endgame, we all know it would be Mr. Dowd’s movie of the year.

Just know that neither of them is as good a movie as "Dragged Across Concrete"...apparently.

I think it was a bit gratuitously complicated, but I still enjoyed it.  I think season 2's biggest problem is that story is now less “Stranger Things/Twin Peaks” and more “Terminator”.