Apparently WB forced Gerwig to put in a reference to it, and didn’t pay attention to what the reference was.

Especially in the second film, where he makes absolutely no attempt to match the kid’s performance, so it feels more like Freakazoid where Billy gets taken over by a completely different person rather than just turning into an adult.

I’m surprised he was able to refrain from screaming that it’s all the fault of those dirty transgender people.

He’s also literally said multiple times that anyone who doesn’t hate Quantumania is mentally ill.

The evidence for it being pre-Endgame seems to be mostly that he’s in a hospital gown, which would indicate he was replaced shortly after Civil War. But I did notice that the episode clearly sets up an answer for when it happened when Ross asks that very thing, but then weirdly doesn’t give any answer. So what I…

What these writers really need to understand is that this will stick to them forever. Everyone in the WGA is going to know their names, and will never let them get any work once the strike is over.

What’s up with the implication that there was never anything in the text between the two, and anyone shipping them is just desperate and crazy? Even the original book has the nightingale bit at the end.

There’s also word that $5 million of Oppenheimer’s box office was from people who found that Barbie was sold out and switched to it.

The show became kind of trainwreck in its last few episodes because one of the major cast members just straight up abandoned them and forced those episodes to go through serious rewrites. Don’t ask me how this was legally possible.

Very interesting that he made a point to call them “tolerant.”

“Speaking of useless technological developments, Fury escapes Russia using a fake face mask. Sonya looks at it and goes, “A billion dollars of research and development, and all the widow’s veil can do is cloak your face?” Even in the MCU, spending all that money for this shit seems dumb.”

On the same note, The Babe Ruth Story from 1948. It was made as he was dying, and clearly no one was in the mind to make anything other than an utterly cheesy, fawning movie that damn near just says he was Jesus, most notoriously with a scene of a child cancer patient who’s miraculously cured after Ruth says “Hello”…

This is far from a new thing, too. Ralph Bakshi wanted to make clear in all the marketing for his Lord of the Rings film that it was only the first half of the story, but the studio insisted on leaving it off, and what do you know, people hated not getting the whole story they were expecting. It’s kind of amusing to…

“In Solo: A Star Wars Story, we see in a hologram message that Darth Maul somehow survived being cut in half in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. OK, great, so ... how? What did he do after that? We just have to rely on fan-fiction stories unless Darth Maul gets his own movie or Disney+ series.”

I actually wouldn’t really call the end of Dead Reckoning a cliffhanger. No one’s in any immediate danger, and Ethan even already has a leg up on the bad guys. It just happens that this time it takes more than one movie to beat them.

Also, he spells out to basically no one that he’s not a CIA agent and is just there for money, because god forbid the movie make any indication that the CIA would work with Nazis.

Nanny fricking boo boo.

Well, yeah, that’s the entire point of the scene. The heroes of this universe are a bunch of smug assholes convinced everything they do is automatically justified for “the greater good,” and they get their just desserts for arrogantly going up against an omnipotent reality warper who can take them all down in seconds.

The movie actually utilizes for the first time in the film series the show’s conceit that the IMF are all criminals who were forced onto the team to avoid prison time.