Also (and apologies if anyone else has also mentioned it here, but I can’t see it) earlier in the film Thanos totally fucked with Starlord’s head by misleading him into firing a gun at Gamora’s head. It’s already been established that Starlord’s love for Gamora is powerful enough for him to do the unthinkable, so it’s…

I cannot remember that part of Licence to Kill, but I have no doubt at all that it’s there – even great Bond, e.g. GoldenEye, has its faults. Bond is a morally repugnant character, after all.

I also suspect that, now that I’m probably about twice the age I was when I obsessively watched all of the Bond films, and…

Oh, indeed – I think that Mess is their masterwork, and while there’s some cool stuff on TFCF it’s a shame that the classic lineup broke up because imho they’d finally found their sound on Mess, not Liars.

I wondered about that – ‘how convenient that none of the characters from Ant Man and the Wasp has been finger-snapped away!’. However, I think you’re right that it’ll show us what Ant Man and pals (maybe Hawkeye too? They made a big song and dance about neither of them being in Infinity War...) have been up to in the…

I was about to lament this list failure to recognise None Shall Pass as Aesop Rock’s masterwork, but apparently the album made it to number 50. It was apparently a really good year for hip hop, with El-P’s I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead and Brother Ali’s The Undisputed Truth dropping too.

Oh shit! Sorry. I really enjoy Dalton as angry vengeful Bond in Licence, which seems to me a precursor to Craig’s run.

Admittedly I haven’t seen The Living Daylights in years, so my description of it as a ‘clanger’ is probably unfair. It has the plane fight, right? That’s pretty cool. My clearest memory, though, is of…

Shit, yeah, you’re right. It’s a shame she was in such an otherwise dull film!

In the letchy spirit of the film series – i.e. viewing the Bond girls purely in terms of personal ideals of physical beauty – my vote’s for Domino from Thunderball. Of course, Diana Rigg’s probably in that top five too.

THANK YOU. I get it, Connery was the first Bond and most of his films were at least pretty good (as you suggest, Diamonds is the worst Bond film, or at least was until it was essentially remade as Die Another Day).

The third and more pressing issue is the one that’s plagued Marvel from the beginning: The Villain Problem.

Failure, Fantastic Planet: The Nurse Who Loved Me > Another Space Song > Stuck On You. The following two tracks, ‘Heliotropic’ and ‘Daylight’, are also fucking mint.

Also Walk > Fucking Hostile > This Love on A Vulgar Display.

Working ‘feverishly’ on one’s mental health seems counterproductive.

Ah, fair enough. Personally, I’d prefer to keep Valkyrie and simply give her a bigger role and then bring Portman back as Jane Foster-Thor, but I’m also all over doubling down on white male tears like you suggested :)

As for Shuri, I can definitely see that. (There’s been a female POC Iron (Wo)Man in the comics…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Foster_(comics)#Becoming_Thor

Not that the films need to slavishly follow the comics, but... there’s precedent, which is probably why the OP mentioned the idea.

I’m pretty sure that the author’s objection to Corgan’s politics is based on several abhorrent elements, not simply on a small divergence of opinion as your trolly comment suggests.

So yes, let’s all have our moment of hatred for someone who is by all accounts also a trolling right-wing dickwad.

Yeah, I’m told also that Chuck Palahniuk is very nice in person (although I’m sure that someone here can tell me what a prick he was to them once!), so my favourite authors from that period of my life are doing well. That said, someone who also studied English in my year at college had a much stranger experience of…

Thanks! :)

I haven’t read it yet – admittedly, the only one of Fincher’s adaptees that I have read entirely is Fight Club. I started reading it (i.e. Gone Girl) and then got sidetracked – it’s still my ambition to read ‘em all, and I’m sure that it’s a good book, but I’m also pretty sure that I won’t like it as much as I liked…

You know what? I realise now that I’ve been entirely overlooking the title of this piece and commenting on the general idea of cinematic adaptations which are superior to the source material, not specifically bad books.

I don’t think that any of the books that I’ve mentioned in any of my comments, except perhaps for Gir…