Yeah, I don’t think I’ve heard of a movie going this kind of turmoil and turning out as a decent or even break even movie. Just give up the ghost everyone, shut it down and go home. 

They should have built off What If and introduced a Killmonger variant from a timeline where he was raised in Wakanda and became the Black Panther after T’Challa died in childhood. And then had the variant get stranded in the prime MCU timeline, where he recognizes his cousin Shuri and auntie Ramonda.

Plus, his act of burning all the heart-shaped herb so there could be none after him just showed that his own ego was a higher priority than the cause he espoused or the oppressed people he claimed to stand for.

Yeah. Part of me thinks it would have been cool to have one “hero” who was a murdering weirdo (sorry, but they never should have uttered the word “Killmonger” on screen.) but the effect it would have on everything else related to Wakanda is just hard to rectify. 

Jordan was an excellent villain in Black Panther, and part of that is that his view of the world was at least a tempting one. But I’ve never bought into the whole “Killmonger was right” discourse that happened when the movie came out. And I think it would be harder to turn the guy who killed Forrest Whitaker’s…

It’s a stupid theory, but also, why are reporters asking about it? The Duffer Brothers wouldn’t give away their ending even if it were true. Why is a dumb fan theory, possibly not even seriously considered by the people who put it out there, worth talking about to the creators? Just because something is on the…

I always ask the question of this type of fan theory: what would it add to the story? What would be the significance of it being a dream? For example, I remember reading somewhere that some people thought that Phoebe in ‘Friends’ was daydreaming about being friends with five other people she saw through a coffee shop…

I think it’s interesting that much of the discourse we see now about overreliance on CGI and “we’ll fix it in post,” (often they don’t) actually started with RotK: Jackson and his team were learning on the job that they could go much, much further with CG and reshoots and greenscreen then they thought they could…

The whole cat and mouse improv of contraptions in the showdowns [like the guy on TV, MacGuyver I think it was] and the claustrophobic complexity of walls and doors and aisles, was very reminiscent of the showdowns in Blood Simple.  Not Coen, but there was a smidge of Home Alone as well.

I just loved the whole kidnapping sequence.  It does this amazing thing, by not feeling like a ripoff or a blatant homage, but really like an alternate reality take on the movie kidnapping.  It was really fascinating to watch it diverge from the film (opening the sliding door instead of breaking it) and converge…

Respectfully, I disagree. Not that Hollywood isn’t afraid of superhero stories - it is. But as someone else has already pointed out, what works in the comic books won’t necessarily work in the movies. They’re inherently different mediums. I still think that TV is probably the best place to adapt superhero stories,…

Oklahoma is considered the “vernacular south” and this is exactly what a chuffed up southern tool would say to another man a few years younger, if just to remind him the significance of those few years. It’s also a social insult and, absolutely a racist one when whites want to insult Black men (of any age).

Lots of the early edgelord fans burned themselves to a crisp during the “Joel vs. Mike” flamewars.

The thing I remember most about Van Helsing is that it was exhausting. It’s one of the most drawn out, straight-up relentless movies I’d ever seen. At a certain point in the climax, I just got numb and started wondering when the damn thing would end already. And the script falls apart if you think about it for more…

I was looking forward to the Dark Universe because I like monsters, but there were going to be some significant hurdles, which clearly Universal couldn’t clear:

I’m going to preface this by stating Jonathan Majors’s seems like an awful person at best and every defense he’s put out there for his behavior has only made him look worse.

It’s quite clear what Renslayer’s motives are: to stabilize the TVA with herself back in charge, and presumably with an HWR variant back with her. I think the confusion is largely a result of the show playing coy with what exactly she remembers. She obviously doesn’t remember everything, especially with Miss Minutes…

We watched it with our kids and love it. Any Trek fans we have we tell to watch the episode with the crashed TOS shuttle and it hooks them as well.

“Antennas, you’re in charge!”

There’s a difference between a film fudging some facts, which I agree isn’t that big of a deal, and reshaping the moral and metaphor of a historical event and literary interpretation to mean the complete opposite.