It’s always interesting to me hearing people had these issues with Tenet, because other than the catamaran scene I didn’t really have much trouble with hearing the dialogue. Like it certainly wasn’t mixed well, but when I saw Tenet I could still pick up on most of the dialogue and followed what was going on.

‘Regular’ part of the experience isn’t the same as something being ‘inherent’ to the experience.
I feel it must be something that varies from country to country- because here in Australia issues in cinemas have been mild at best. (So far I’ve never had a film be interrupted by people going on their phones and while…

I feel radical is over stating- the films have gone through eras of following the books closely or throwing them out completely.
The first four films are fairly close adaptations, as is OHMSS. Then we get points later on when the films want to get a little more grounded and they tend to line-up with when they go back…

The climactic gun fight was set in a collapsing house in Venice, so I think you’re underselling it a bit. It’s bigger in scale than the climax of From Russia With Love for instance.
And if the argument is that the Dalton films are still globe-trotting adventures- Casino still has Bond jump from Madagascar to the…

Not disagreeing with your overall point- but that was basically the plot of Casino Royale the novel.
To me the Bourne influence was seen more in the visual style choices and action set-pieces (the Parkour chase and having Bond be increasingly bruised throughout the movie from each successive action scene.) The choice…

This news hurts. Charlie was always my favourite drummer. He had a tasteful elegance, and when every drummer in rock music seemed to go for bigger and bigger kits his was always low-key.

As funny as that is- I feel that detail was a slight embellishment on Keith’s part to build up the myth a little bit.

Yeah they definitely are involved in those decisions- and to be clear I’m not saying they are bad directors, they’re clearly very very capable directors, I just don’t think they’re ‘amazing.’
To use your example of Taika- Ragnarok being messy around the edges is part of the appeal of it to me, and shows that it was…

But that’s the thing. Should they be getting that much credit for the action in their Marvel films? From my understanding the action in their films is still mostly done by the second unit- and to me it still fits within the Marvel house style.

“but their super power is tying plot to character, and when it matters meaning subverting expectations and tropes.”

They didn’t write the scripts for their films though.
I’m sure they were involved in the scripting process for their films to an extent- but given they weren’t given scripting credits on any of their…

The problem with that comparison is that the Bond films were made over a sixty year period and the MCU was done over a ten year period.
So to talk about Bond films not holding up in the same way as the MCU films feels like an awkward comparison at this stage.
What action films from sixties do hold-up other than Bond?…

Hot take- I don’t think the Russo brothers are that amazing as directors, and feel why they worked for Marvel is they are good company men.
With their Marvel films I don’t see anything that distinct or interesting in their direction that really makes the films standout. The power of their Marvel films comes from the…

According to fan sites after the tour in the UK, Dylan went to Portugal with his fiance Sara for two weeks before returning to the UK and then doing some recording for the BBC on June 1st. He then flew back to the US on June 2nd and was (supposedly) not in the US for all of May 1965.

I’m not saying more evidence won’t…

It could’ve also included a pay-off to the reference to Bloodsport shooting Superman earlier in the film.
(Something like Superman saying ‘don’t I know you from somewhere.’) And it really would’ve worked with the idea that the Squad was this ragtag group that is in over their heads.

That’s not exactly how I heard it. Howard got substantially more than Downey for the first Iron Man, and had an option in place to get a bigger pay day in the event that he got brought on board for the sequel.

Which is why we the communication between Scarlett and Disney in which they agreed that if Black Widow didn’t get an exclusive theatrical window the terms of the contract would have to be renegotiated.

They were aware.

I agree with this completely, the more or less straight historical story was what made the episode work. But I don’t think the episode would be necessarily improved as just a pure historical story. The sci-fi framing, and having Yaz engage with her own family history do add something to the emotion of the story.

Oh I agree 100%, AI scores should be taken with a grain of salt. Just given the commenter I was replying to was suggesting that Capaldi’s era had good AI scores, I thought it worth asking good compared to what?
(They were better than the current eras, but still a noticeable step-down from the previous two Doctors.)
As…

And this is where things are all relative. I like S9, and feel it was a step-up after S8 but for me ‘as good as the show has ever been’ would be more like S1, S4 or S5.
The effects and visual style of S1 have noticeably aged because its over 15 years old at this point, but its the best written of any series of the…

What makes Demons of Punjab not Doctor Who?