Yeah I genuinely thought “man he just can’t help himself, can he?” when that came up on the screen.  I do appreciate it’s the same actor and it feels like it’s thematically relevant, but hard to say it’s necessary or enriched the material in any meaningful way....at least so far.

Well this is a terrifying bit of information that I feel like I already knew but never really acknowledged I knew, until reading it here.

I love this show, but holy shit the ‘no that was a hunting accident...” line just floored me.

I feel this way just knowing this show and all it’s ancestors are a thing, and are popular.  Why on earth you watched any of it when you seem pretty reasonable towards the end of your comment is beyond me.

It’s sort of okay, given they were stupid enough to sign up for it.  If they somehow, some way didn’t realize what they were getting themselves into then shame on them and they really deserve it--the information is out there and not hard to find.  Zero chance anyone goes into this or anything like it with blinders on.

It’s weird to me it takes old people for anyone to come to the realization that this show and the basic idea of it and all the fucking ‘spin off’s are morally corrupt utter shit.

I mean yeah, you’re probably right, should have let safe ol’ Mandolorian director helm them all honestly. Branagh was wasted and (like most of the bigger name directors) says he’ll never do another. Whedon truly seems to be the only one given freedom and Avengers was amazing for it....though he ‘over-Whedoned’ AoA,…

but riled up nerds are what the MCU thrives on!!!!

We were sort of discussing this same thing in the Marvels review (and I’m super annoyed I missed this when it was first posted a week ago....somehow getting relevant content alerts is almost as impossible as getting the comments to work reliably...sigh). They don’t trust filmmakers they are inspired by and it’s…

It was SUCH a weird choice, though I guess with the quantum stuff it made sense, but honestly Kang should have fucking destroyed Ant-Man. If Scott had lost—and especially if he’d died— it would have made sense, AND given Kang at least some sense of magnitude (especially compared to the guy that lost to ants) and would…

100%--the long version (which apparently is what I watched) had waaay too much of him, and some Batman too, and apparently that wasn’t the theatrical cut.  My only thinking, given that’s the only version I’ve seen, is less of this film has to be a good thing.

I don’t know--they hate me there. But based on my high school days...yes, probably.

Also, he got to play Han fucking Solo.   That’s not nothing to nerds like me.

haha fuck I forgot about him in Cocaine Bear--he is a funny dude.

Ehrenreich was pretty brilliant in Oppenheimer (and was not bad at all in Solo) and Routh was pretty much destined to be a TV star, if we’re being frank.  He’s enjoyable enough, but he aint Daniel-Day Lewis.

I mostly agree, though not sure you can blame the directors for much of anything, given Marvel pays them a ton of money, gives them huge exposure, then tells them the movie they will make and will still go edit it later without the director’s input.  There’s a reason some directors turn them down--Edgar Wright, of…

Captain Marvel definitely suffers from the Superman problem though to a lesser degree, I suppose.  There’s a point where a character is so powerful they’re a little boring, frankly.

lol what was she --15-16ish when she rated it? Because there’s definitely an ‘against the establishment’ age where I’d have posted negative reviews on shit I actually liked, just to be contrary....or you know, impress a chick or something. What I’m saying is any reviews by damn near any teenager should not be held…

Pretty spot-on, for the most part—though I think every Marvel contract has long-term options automatically written into it, at this point. She’s likeable for sure, so I am genuinely curious to see if she comes off that way in other projects.

100%, though her family is a close second.  And then the cats.  And then the other people in this movie. And then the villain, which apparently is how Marvel intends it to be.