I get where you’re coming from, but when you need to cut a work from 4 hours to 2 (or even 2.5), it is almost never about the quality of the individual scenes themselves, but whether or not any given scene is needed to tell the story. That’s what the expression “kill your darlings” is about. Sometimes the best thing…

If they gave a damn about anyone commenting, Kinja would actually work. They’re fine with just the clicks. You’re not hurting anything by commenting—just by being in this article in the first place.

Hard disagree. That particular Flash scene should’ve been cut because even in the four hour cut the time travel wasn’t set up very well, and because using it in (basically) the Flash’s first appearance is a very poor decision, one that cuts off a number of options for the narrative with not a lot of gain. If Flash can…

True enough, and sorry for making light of it. It didn’t, however, seem like a “smack you across the face” kind of offense. It was a bog-standard not-terribly-harsh roast joke.

...And sometimes when you’re a bald woman, people say you look like GI Jane. 

You’d be wrong, on Cosby and Gibson, at least. I bet this hasn’t even reached a .5 on the Snyder scale, yet.

I think you’ve got it right, plus he obviously wouldn’t be invited to attend the ceremony (although you don’t have to be an academy member to be invited).

Technically, yes. The police could file a complaint, and/or the DA could pursue an indictment, even if the victim doesn’t file a complaint. IIRC, this sometimes happens in domestic violence cases, where by the time the cops have arrived the abusive spouse has talked(/threatened) the victim out of filing charges, but…

He prepped because he thought Smith was going to fake assault him, because that’s the kind of thing you’d do impromptu at an awards show (and happens fairly often at a roast). Looked more like he was expecting to be mock-choked, the way he put his head forward. Fairly certain he didn’t know Smith was actually angry, ac…

But, a Will Smith slap can’t melt steel beams! It’s physically impossible!

To be fair, that’s how everyone looks when waiting in a line to use a public restroom.

It’s a great quote if you’re trying to calm your friend down and try to get him back in emotional shape to make the biggest speech of his career. It only becomes a bad quote when the friend blows it, doesn’t apologize during his speech, and then uses that quote as a “Devil made me do it” kind of excuse.

It’s kinda 99% of Oscars presenter schtick. 

Supposedly, Smith ran a perfect Oscar campaign, doing all the press availabilities possible, saying all the right things. I’ve heard speculation that even the very personal information dump about his marriage was calculated to get his name in the news as the Oscars voting deadline approached (the timing seems to match…

Sadly, the only bit that would’ve worked is impossible. I mean, you could do an Avengers: Endgame bit with a Dr. Strange circle showing up over Rock’s shoulder after Smith smacks him. Then, as in the movie, Chadwick Boseman walks out of the Dr. Strange circle, which would be such great news for all of us that we’d…

It’s a crazy pills moment. Everyone that saw the Oscars witnessed a crime being committed. And some folks are falling over themselves to try to justify that crime rather than simply say that it’s a crime and it’s fucked up.

That Avengers Assemble moment is one of those things that people dismiss because it looks easy and obvious (90% of it is just groups of people showing up and assuming a combat pose) but then you see JJ Abrams try to do something similar in Rise of Skywalker and it falls pretty flat.

I heartily agree with all of this, aside from two points: 1) I hold Snyder blameless for Wonder Woman’s portrayal, because by the time Patti Jenkins made WW84 she could’ve done anything she wanted, and Snyder no longer had the reins over the DCEU; and 2) I like Adams’s portrayal of Lois, at least in Man of Steel. I…

It’s a great scene...that was wisely cut from the theatrical version of the movie.

It’s the simple difference between a scene that’s earned and one that isn’t. Snyder’s whole approach was cart-before-the-horse and weirdly destructive, rushing to make sure no part of the DC universe was untouched by him, even if the end result made no sense. That’s why the Death of Superman takes place in the last 30…