I agree. It’s nice to have a story about a jerk just being a jerk and be able to go “wow that guy sucks” at the end instead of “well now I feel retroactively bad for enjoying their work and I can never watch those movies again without feeling a level of discomfort”

I agree.  I think it’s the one MCU movie, though, that could have benefited from being a Disney+ show instead.  So much of the movie is just backstory and exposition that could have been better handled with a longer run-time.  

Dakota Johnson, who has beautiful, white girl privilege, bad mouths/doesn’t speak glowingly of her current project. Public: “Aw hell yes, what a fucking QUEEN!”

“What’s going to happen if you do something brave?”

I contend that if The Eternals had not been a Marvel movie with all the “Marvel tropes” shoehorned in it would have been great. A movie about a family of amnesiac immortals having to deciding if they want to participate in the world or destroy it could have been really good

I didn’t ultimately enjoy ‘Eternals’, but I do appreciate that it was trying something new and something a bit grander for the MCU. I think if anything, it maybe didn’t go weird enough. The Eternals should feel deeply otherworldly, but they just seemed like another group of superfolk.

I’m often reminded after I see a bad movie that just as much work went into it as went into a good movie. Usually the problem stems from a poorly concieved concept from the start. With Eternals, it’s not even that Marvel tried something different, it’s that they didn’t even learn from the whole Inhumans mess. It just…

I can’t argue that Eternals is a good movie. It’s just too sprawling and oddly structured. But it’s one of the few recent superhero movies I can see developing the cult that not good but weirdly ambitious movies develop.

I feel you are right.

Sure, but I can understand someone underestimating what that level of scrutiny actually feels like. Especially someone like Kumail Nanjiani: a man in his 40's whose career was mostly comedy prior to this point.

One strange, frustrating feature of the politics around the Iraq War is that a broad consensus has emerged that the war was a colossal mistake, without any corresponding acknowledgement that the people saying that in 2003 were right. I suspect that many of the people who were eager to vilify the Dixie Chicks in 2003…

 Yeah, for a road tested comic he sure got sweaty and made some bad choices when his jokes weren't landing.

Everyone can deliver a bad performance. So, yes, - up until the point where he went: “Oh, it not my fault, MY jokes are funny, the other writers suck”.

Jo Koy? More like Joke? Oy!

Earlier this year, as a response to their years-long track record of racism, corruption, and general popular disfavor, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association dissolved and rebranded as a new, for-profit organization owned by Penske Media.

Doctor Strange actually saw two outcomes where they beat Thanos, but he likes Scott so he didn’t want to mention the second unless he really had to.

No mention of how Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo?  Seems like a far bigger recasting than the other two mentioned. 

There’s got to be a way they can rework it so Gugu Mbatha-Raw can become the new Kang. She’s a great actress, and the end of Loki 2 was 95% of the way there.

I would’ve gone for William Jackson Harper, personally. 

Unlike a lot of commentators, I love the character of Kang. I hope they replace him rather than ditch the character.