To me, Daredevil is one really good movie and another silly-but-decent movie crammed together to create a crappy movie.

It’s not that someone isn’t “allowed” to enjoy a character for the “wrong” reasons, it’s that the real-world damage done by the people who venerate the character can make it damn hard to enjoy the fiction of the anti-hero vigilante.

What felt off to me about GotG2 is that they lost some character consistency while also going to the same rhetorical wells a few times too often. Like, Quill doesn’t trust Ego until he does, Gamora DOES trust Ego for no particular reason and then they trade opinions without a lot of purpose aside from giving them…

I’ll be honest, when I heard she was playing Marilyn I thought, “what the hell is THAT gonna look like?” But holy crap, it’s the smile that sold me. It’s dead-on. 

Just a guess, but I’m assuming they were expanded after the Sokovia accords to investigate non-registered powered people. 

Yup. There are laborious workarounds for all of it in order to kinda make sense, but to get worked up about how maybe Obi-Wan met Leia as a kid or maybe encountered Vader in between Ep3 and 4 is kinda odd considering the mental gymnastics necessary to square the prequels with literally EVERYTHING WE KNEW about that…

Let’s be honest, George Lucas pretty much tossed continuity and canon into a blender in the prequels. The guy contradicted damn near every line uttered about the past in one way or another. 

I largely agree. If someone acts like an asshole or is abusive and is excused or even celebrated for it, chances are they’re going to keep acting like an asshole and escalate that behavior. Especially if it gets them what they want. If, however, they were called out on it EARLY and told in no uncertain terms that that…

Well, ya know, marketing, but it also calls back to a tradition oddly specific to mystery (and mystery adjacent) stories of “nonsensical sequel titles to connect it to the first one”. See also The Pink Panther (which is the name of the diamond in the first movie) and The Thin Man (which refers to the murder victim in…

As we all should know by now, based on a true account is REALLY flexible. Also Frakes’ “a similar account took place . . .” bit, which could mean a LOT of things.

Funny you say that, for YEARS before Captain America Chris Evans’ sweet spot was playing arrogant fuckwads. At the time, playing the ultra-sincere Steve Rogers was a huge departure.

Agreed. I like Chris Pratt, but his charm is wrapped up in his whole “human-shaped labrador” energy. When he tries to go all “smoldering action-man” he comes off as kind of a dick.

The problem with Chris Pratt is that his charisma is entirely wrapped up in him being a “labrador in the shape of a human” goofball. When he tries to do “serious action star” he comes off as a dick. 

I prefer THIS where the actors speak English in their natural accent (with the understanding they aren’t actually speaking English) rather than everybody speaking in vaguely Native American-y accented English to each other like English is their second language. 

Yeah, I get the idea of the forest chase. She spends a LOT of time running around in the woods and she’s little and squirrely so can squeak through gaps and escape through places where the adults can’t follow, but man it just didn’t work. They needed to sub in a director who’s done a bunch of “little kid makes the…

I still find it funny that Coors Light’s slogan was “Coldest Tasting Beer in the World”.

It’s weird for people to complain about canon after Lucas put all established canon in a blender and hit “puree” for the prequel trilogy.

The thing that killed me with Waterworld is the bit where a whole-ass oil tanker somehow goes AROUND Costner’s boat without being seen and kills that whole settlement in order to set up an ambush . . . again . . . without the HUGE-ASS tanker ever being seen.

I don’t know, I think they did a pretty good job on the “vague” part. It was always, “God, or fate, or time, or whatever . . .” And it’s not like any of Sam’s missions were Christian-specific.