The Half Blood Prince material was weird, because it really is kind of peripheral to the plot, but they couldn’t excise it entirely because “Half Blood Prince” is the title of the damn movie/book. So instead you have stuff like Shape randomly blurting out that he’s the “Half Blood Prince!” before running away at the…

Much as I enjoy the Rob Zombie musical catalogue, the song title you refer to was *itself* a reference to Blade Runner. Tyrell Corporation: More Human Than Human.

Hey now, only 40% of the DADA teachers Dumbledore hired were wizard Nazis.

It’s really interesting because the average audience member of The Eternals wouldn’t know or care about Chloe Zhao because they haven’t watched, nor intend to watch, Nomadland (or any of her other films).

Sure, she won an Oscar, but for the MCU, that Oscar isn’t causing a flurry of additional ticket sales because…

I don’t think the problem is that Zhao and DuVernay are directors capable of only one good film. Directors have individual sensibilities and talents that often lend themselves to particular genres. Christopher Nolan is not likely to make a great slapstick comedy. Experience is also a factor — just like athletes and…

This.

People often don’t grasp the sheer immensity of a $150m+ studio production. You’re talking about 500+ individual cast and crew members, excluding executives from the studio(s), production companies, distributors, etc.

While it’s not the director’s job to corral all of those varied entities, often times they end…

“ The idea that A Wrinkle in Time didn’t work because the director used up all her storytelling ideas making (in this case) her third film, a historical/biographical drama, just seems a bit one-size-fits-all.”

Jordan Peele being anointed the king-of-all-horror based on a single movie is another great example.  

I think a lot of it has to do with the very modern trend of crowning a given director after they’ve directed 1 film of note.

I’m not making any claims about either of those movies except that they were feature films that were both released theatrically. I haven’t seen I Will Follow and I liked Middle of Nowhere pretty well. My point is that there’s a kind of pervasive cornball emphasis on storytelling and storytellers that reduces movies to…

Part of the problem is as the market for “smaller” films has collapsed there’s a huge gulf between your awesome indie or your “independent” $4 mil feature, and a $200-million tentpole. I feel bad for the DuVernays or Josh Tranks of the world because they don’t really exist in a world that will allow them minor…

I dunno...would you call Mickey Cimino modern?

Some directors work better with a smaller scale. Once they ascend to blockbuster levels, they can’t manage the larger production, especially when the visual effects become a larger part of that. Christopher Nolan was able to do it, and studios just hope the next one will be able to as well.

Sure, but these fools are strictly talking about the percentages. They literally don’t understand what the percentage means, expecting them to know that there’s a separate average score is... like expecting Kevin Feige to show up without a hat.

Sir this is an Eternals article 

That’s the exact reason why I suspect - not seen it or anything - that a large number of them might not survive past this movie.  Future ensemble movies would be a whole hell of a lot easier to manage if there are only 2 or 3 Eternals sticking around.

I’m always going to be sad that the MCU did the whole Thanos/Infinity Saga thing without Warlock.

Adam Warlock is the best character Brian K. Vaughan ever created.

Oh, right. I never read Fire and Blood, so I was just judging off of what I remember from the main continuity, and Dunk and Egg. I think the last ones were already dead before Aemon, so I just assumed two hundred years before they were already diminishing.

I don't know what about standing on a cold beach frowning at a woman who is also frowning doesn't just ooze charisma for you.