It makes me wonder if there was a draft of the screenplay somewhere out there that did include Keaton, and/or introduced Kraven the Hunter. 

Ah well. Maybe in some other universe.

“John Lennon, the lankiest of the bunch, was decided to play Gollum; Paul McCartney, the pretty boy of The Beatles, would’ve played Frodo; George Harrison, who had the best beard of all four, would be Gandalf; and Ringo Starr would be Sam.”

Lord only knows what this project might have been like had it happened. But if…

I like to think that those people reappear on the boats or aircrafts, rather than in the middle of the air or above the ocean.

I mean, I’m sure a lot of extra people died due to the sudden disappearance of 50% of people (doctors mid-operation, caregivers leaving helpless people abandoned, pilots mid-flight, etc.) but…

Considering their career trajectories, I don’t think anyone would be super surprised that Florence Pugh and Hailee Steinfeld are working together on a project right now. But it speaks to the embarrassment of riches that is Marvel’s roster of talented actors that they’re both together in a goddamn superhero series on…

I’ll allow it. In fact, give me a whole Daughters of the Dragon Disney Plus series. Hell, call it Heroes for Hire, with or without Luke and Danny. 

Iron Fist was a total misfire in tone and concept, to say nothing of how the fights weren’t good, the plot muddy and the acting and dialogue uneven at best. It should have been a fun, Jackie Chan-style modern kung-fu adventure where a dorky, rap-loving, fish-out-of-water Buddhist peacenik takes over a Fortune 500…

All I want for Christmas is for Daredevil’s cast to make it to the MCU big screen/Disney Plus. (This includes John Bernthal’s Punisher since he was introduced in Daredevil. And Typhoid Mary from Iron Fist, she was great and is more of a Daredevil character anyway.)

Damn it, season 3 of Daredevil was so good. We’re…

Really great work, but I can tell you that before we even get to previews, the producers are going to be breathing down our necks to cut the show down to two and a half hours, max, including intermission.

Let’s look at combining Thor and Hulk’s songs into one big comedic number, “A Friend From Work,” about how they…

Enjoying this a whole lot so far. Clint in the movies never got nearly enough shine compared to Clint in the comics. So while I’m a little sad that this still won’t be the Fractions-specific flavor of “okay, this looks bad” Hawkeye, I’m also glad they’re leaning into the character as established.

Two quick chuckles I…

I largely agree with this. The Eternals seem fine whenever I’ve seen them in the comics (mostly Neil Gaiman’s version) but I’m always MORE interested in the fact that they’re pawns/heralds/envoys/our only hope against the Celestials. And the looming threat of the Celestials is a weird ticking time bomb for the entire…

Thanos being connected to the Skrulls makes a tiny bit of sense, as the Skrull Deviants won their genetic arms race centuries ago and the entire current-day Skrull species are Deviants.

I guess the Celestials decided that Deviants would be marked by wrinkly chins. Who are we to wonder at their grand designs?

I admire Sony’s attempts to salvage their past products by shoving them into a current successful product. But I’ll admire it even more if they give me Jake Johnson’s Peter B. Parker in live-action.

Also Charlie Cox as Daredevil, but that’s a Marvel call. Anyway, I’ve been very good this year, thank you in advance…

I never did catch the final season, but I remember the uproar at the ending, and I also remember thinking that anyone who was mad didn’t watch the same show I did. Every season built up to some spectacular “who’s gonna get whacked?” just for a perfectly suited anticlimax instead. It was always a grounded,…

Yep, and honestly that’s so much more satisfying an ending than hearing from David Chase that yes, he died in that moment.

Tony was a very bad person who, like Chase said, was also very sympathetic. But that’s the ending he earns: to never know when it’s coming, but always be fearful it’s any second now.

Oh I absolutely agree with you about The Mandalorian, particularly season one. There were familiar things - Jawas, stormtroopers, a tiny green Muppet with pointy ears. But the new things, and new spins on old things, were so good. Mando’s disintegration rifle, for instance, is a clear reference to Boba Fett’s initial…

“The Winter Soldier isn’t the funniest or the most extravagantly shot movie in this forever franchise, nor does it boast the scariest villain ... “

Unless we’re not counting him because he’s brainwashed, I think there’s a great argument to be made for the Winter Soldier being the scariest villain in the franchise.

It’s part of the franchise’s inability to let go of what came before and a refusal to create new things.

It’s a real shame that The Last Jedi was such a weird misfire of a movie, because at its core it held a very good an important idea: shedding the franchise’s tendency to endlessly rehash what and who we’ve already…

I’d be more excited about a new series about an aspiring gangster in the Star Wars universe played by Temuera Morrison if it didn’t have anything to do with Boba Fett.

I suppose it’s possible it wasn’t intentional (and I don’t think it was consciously malicious regardless). But considering how many other things in Firefly have a literal 1:1 corresponding trope in western media, I certainly don’t think it’s much of a leap for the Reavers to be a boogeyman that works exactly like…

No idea, but he doesn’t have to. The analogy is obvious. It’s a very literal western in space. There are space pioneers, space outlaws, space bounty hunters, space gunslingers, space cattle rustlers, space saloons, and it’s not long after the space Civil War. The frightening raiders that seem utterly foreign and alien …