This looks very little like the Nolan faux-realism.  If there was a superhero film I’d say this calls back to, it would be The Crow.

Adam Warlock was the archenemy of Thanos. Of course the MCU is going to introduce not just after Thanos is dead, but after the entire major story arc of which Adam Warlock was arguably the main character has come and gone.

When the Thrawn trilogy was several levels in quality above what they did produce, you can certainly wonder why they chose to invest hundreds of millions in creating a story that was worse than what they did end up producing instead of just adapting one they already owned.

Invincible was created by and written by Robert Kirkman, the creator and writer of The Walking Dead. The comic book series by Vaughn that is currently being adapted into a television series is Y: The Last Man.

Having read the source material, Matt Smith seems like a poor fit for Daemon Targaeryan, who was the closest thing to an universe rock-star type figure in Westeros history, a badass who conquered islands and created his own kingdom out of nothing, then gave it up for no other reason than he was bored, slept with half…

No, this was the era of the last big dragons that people flew around and fought each other on.  The ‘Dance’ of the title refers to a brutal fight between the character Matt Smith is playing and Aemond on dragonback over a lake called the God’s Eye.

Is there any reason for the weirdly aggressive tone of your reply or are you just a jerk by nature?

I have no idea. It must have filled the cinema void in a lot of markets. Looking at the breakdown of where it made all its money, it’s not just in China, but if there are films that blow a hole in the notion that ‘films in theaters are dead’ this year, it’s that one and the other Chinese hit and F9, not necessarily…

In the comic books, for years, the original Venom was almost entirely defined by his connection to Spider-Man. The character literally didn’t exist outside of that connection. He came into existence as a synthesis of two distinct characters who both had significant grudges against Peter Parker himself and his costumed…

It also basically ruins the entire synthesis of Spider-Man as a character, the reality that Peter Parker sacrifices almost all happiness in his life because of the sense of guilt he has because he believes his inaction directly resulted in his uncle’s death and his determination that he would never be responsible for…

Fast 9 has outperformed every movie in 2021 except the Chinese comedy Hi, Mom, which has grossed $822 million worldwide, all of it outside the United States. The AV Club, (and most media opinion writers), routinely hunt and peck which particular type of revenue stream they are going to isolate to fit with their given…

The writer does realize that Maine is not in the midwest, right?

I guess the same could be argued of the entire original trilogy, which is one of the things that makes the sequel trilogy so loathsome.

When making these thinly veiled editorialized news pieces, why does Barsanti never account for the reality that Black Widow had a second revenue stream that Shang Chi doesn’t have and when the two revenue streams are combined, Black Widow has relatively comfortably outgrossed Shang Chi?

After years and years of hip, hyperaware about the tropes of horror stories media, watching a miniseries in which the basic premise was that no one in the story had apparently ever heard of a vampire was... strange and somehow kind of off-putting.

Back in the day, everything was, “SUDDENLY the <whatever it is this issue>!”

I was less irritated by Han Solo dying that I was the notion that 40 years after the fact, one of the heroes of the Rebellion was reduced to trying to pull off the same scams and heists he’d been doing before he ever became involved.  It was basically like the creators of the sequel trilogy decided that Han Solo never…

What If...? is kind of an interesting exercise in storytelling. It is by far the thing Marvel has produced that is completely and absolutely dependent on the viewers’ foreknowledge of the original movies to be narratively effective.  Because of that, none of the normal rules of storytelling apply and, in a vacuum, I…

I’m not sure how hopeful ‘the guy who wanted to start WWIII by proliferating vibranium weapons all over the globe became the Black Panther in this reality’ was.

It’s sort of impossible to mention David Goyer without referring to his absolutely repulsive take on She-Hulk.  Zack Snyder might rightfully get the blame for the DC movies that are so polarizing, but Goyer wrote the scripts for several of them.