This movie is certainly going to be an interesting addition to exactly what does and doesn’t count as fridging, further complicated by how the character could well be revealed to not actually be dead in the second part.

The introduction’s take on the Mission Impossible movie is way off. Fans of the show were FURIOUS that it killed off the team and made Phelps the villain, and if social media had been around back then it absolutely would be talked about the same way that people talk about The Last Jedi. As it was, by the time that…

On the DVD commentary, Moore and Braga make a full mea culpa that they were way too obsessed with doing things that would be unexpected, not considering that sometimes there’s a good reason stories typically play out a certain way. Kirk getting such a blah death was just one they happened to partly come to their…

On the note of the Duras sisters, why even bother to bring them into the story if you’re just going to treat them as generic henchmen and then kill them?

Sidenote: up until now, the greatest performance as Napoleon was by Herbert Lom (yes, the guy from Pink Panther) in King Vidor’s epic adaptation of War and Peace. Not much screentime, but he fully embodies everything you’d imagine Napoleon would be like.

I’m getting really reminded of Oliver Sava’s Daredevil reviews, where he’d go off his nut every time the most minor female character got so much as a paper cut and say it was insulting to women.

The first Jack Reacher movie kicked ass, even with as obviously miscast as Cruise was. Shame about the second.

I’m desperately trying to convince myself that there’s some kind of twist coming and they wouldn’t do a shameless, straight-faced fridging of THREE female characters in such quick succession. Giah seems to have the most wiggle room as she could have injected herself with Extremis after finding the lab, like this same…

I’m pretty sure that only letting him have a cameo rather than going on the adventure is entirely because they were averse to shoving a white actor playing an Arab in our faces for the whole movie. With him only having a few minutes of screentime, it’s easier to accept that they’re just stuck with a decades-old…

She was a good person being duped by the villains, and as soon as she figures it out, they kill her with zero chance of redeeming herself. That would be bad enough without her also being black.

So, Boyd Holbrook called her the N-word, right? That’s literally the only thing that can reasonably be read out of this, no matter how vague she’s trying to be, just based on how the scene is still a pretty textbook fridging that clearly only happens because they had no idea what to do with the character after that…

Movie economics used to be that you made ten movies, and some of them would inevitably flop, but the rest would make enough to pay for everything. Then someone had the bright idea to only make the ones that make money, which works great until it doesn’t.

The movie’s actually quite bizarrely unwoke in how it goes out of its way to make clear all the CIA people helping the Nazis are just mercenaries rather than actual agents, and the one true agent (who also happens to be the movie’s only black person) gets fridged as soon as she learns the truth without any chance of…

On a related note, man was it a genius marketing move to set up Oppenheimer as “the anti-Barbie.” So many more people are talking about that movie than if it was just standing on its own, even with Nolan involved.

If only someone had told him at some point, “You don’t open your mouth until you know where you are in the story.”

We’re entering Bill Cosby territory, where no matter how much you believe in innocent until proven guilty, the alternatative is believing that dozens of people are all conspiring to falsely destroy his life for...what purpose, exactly?

I’m surprised there’s no mention that mermaids are actually evil in this film, since the ads make absolutely no secret of it. Or is this a Charlies Angels Full Throttle situation, where the marketing guys just went rogue and openly spoiled the final reveal?

After seeing the movie, one thing that really stood out is that it feels like the studio stepped in to make the movie less accusatory toward the US government, given how the dialogue in Boyd Holbrook’s introduction goes so far out of its way to make clear he’s an independent contractor with no connection to the CIA.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 seems like a big family.

So this is basically an Illuminaughti situation.