Thank you. I often cite X-Men as an example of not needing individual movies to have a team movie.

I think it’s partly because they’re pushed out of heroism for a long period, such that the Incredibles is their origin story in all ways that matter. Also, they exist in a world that considers superheroism normative, such that it doesn’t really need or vary by reason.

“The bit at the insurance company is pretty clearly about how Mr. Incredible is better than the slob scum who deserve to work a 9-to-5.”

Except that for the Victorian characters Moore treated the books as exactly what happened, and his stories either concurrently with them or after them.
Then he breaks his own rules and decides Harry Potter was totally different from the books, apparently because he wants to make a very Baby-boomer-esque statement about…

What I’m saying is, it is absolutely not “contrarian” to prefer Rushmore to Lebowski. It is something people have been doing for literally 20 years, not a bold/gimmicky hot take. I love both movies. A lot of people do. So there’s not really a “contrarian” option between the two of them. 

Didn’t even read this as of yet but the headline says it all. I lived in NY my whole life in 2001 lost my dog, my dad and then 40 days after my dad died 9/11 happened and we all lost people and a bit of ourselves.

they’re attempting to be ‘real’, which is still fake anyway

Hero is the least bad Nickelback song, for sure.

This movie was fucking huge when it came out. It was one of those rare ones that was an actual event. I was the sole comic fan in my class but after opening weekend suddenly everyone was talking about Spider-man. It was wild and so awesome to see my friends and others finally get what I loved so much about the…

As much as everyone praises Spiderman 2 I actually prefer the 1st one, the tone is more balanced. My biggest issue with the 1st movie is Toby Macguire. I never felt like he represented the Peter or Spiderman I grew up reading. He was too meek and his Spiderman just didn’t have that energy or humour.

I have the opposite problem - if the imaginative part of my childhood returned to me to take me on a journey, I’d abandon the real world so fast you’d think I never existed at all. That said, the whole growing up/schooling experience can stay where it belongs - in the past.

I think this analysis is inaccurate, because it’s not like Hollywood consciously decided “let’s solely focus on high risk, high reward blockbusters.” They were forced into it by technological changes. TVs got bigger, better, and cheaper, and streaming became a thing. Those two changes killed the theatrical prospects…

Didn’t she finally get the funding/script done for Americanah? That’s supposedly Lupita’s passion project and it is supposed to shot soon. I imagine between that, the new film by Jordan Peele, the film with Viola, and having to work around Marvel’s notoriously hardass scheduling for Black Panther 2 that a Charlie’s…

I still get chills at any of the Ian McKellan/Patrick Stewart scenes. Erik and Charles' battle of wills is more pronounced in this film than in any of the others. Fassbender is great, but how those new movies have softened Magneto is criminal.

You’re fucking dumb as shit. Consider therapy.

I would have loved that as well, but it just would have been too unwieldy to work into a movie. I mean, the origin of Rogue’s flight and super strength are just too comic-booky, even today.

I bagged pretty hard on the Toad line above but “you’re a dick” makes up for it. And sorry about your brother.

I know this is trite, nationalist sentiment, but I remember being so relieved that they kept Wolverine Canadian, or at least didn’t explicitly Americanize him. For a long while he was one of, like, three cool Canadian things (Kids in the Hall & Neil Young, I guess?), so losing him would’ve sucked.

Sigh.

It’s such a shame that Stan Lee divides comic book fans so much. He’ll always be a legend to me, regardless of if he gets too much credit for Marvel’s Silver Age characters.