“Alien3 is actually good” is the pop culture argument hill I will die on, over and over. Grim, brutal, nihilistic, and the perfect ending to Ripleys story. The “Assembly Cut” reintegrates a sequence that solves illogical plotting in the theatrical cut. The opening sequence is amazing. The film contains the best single…

Back, and to the left.

Tony & Howard, Tony & Peter, Tony & his actual daughter, Odin & Thor/Loki/Hela, Peter & Ego, Peter & Yondu, Thanos & Gamora/Nebula, Scott & Cassie, Hank & Hope, Clint & his family, Tchalla & Killmonger and their respective fathers... MCU loves it’s dad issues. 

Don’t get me wrong - I’m enjoying the show, largely based on my overriding love of Loki/Hiddleston. It’s better than F&WS, not as good as WV. I’m just keeping a slightly suspicious eye on the ongoing dilution of narrative stakes.

Also: I loves me some MCU, but I’m getting a little flummoxed by the near-constant shifting of the narrative goalposts. I get that having a whole bunch of “escape routes” is great for maintaining the coherence of a shared universe, but since Captain Marvel, we’ve seen shapeshifting Skrulls, time-travel based…

I totally hear this headline in the melody of “What Can You Do With A General” from White Christmas.

2002 was the last time he made a truly great movie. Two of ‘em, actually.  

I don’t know the comics lore at all regarding Kang or his overarching storyline. The only reason I know of any connection between Kang and Ravonna is a video game, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, wherein Kang pulls chunks of multiple realms from multiple times together (Asgard, New York, Noir NY, Future NY, Hydra NY,…

Predicting the direction of the MCU based on comic lore is a fool’s errand. That said: isn’t Ravonna in cahoots with Kang The Conqueror, who has already been confirmed as the villain of Ant-Man 3, which sits right at the end of this current phase?

Was going to say this. His delivery of the falling line is just perfect.

Agreed. More long form pieces like this, or Tom B’s genre-by-year columns, less breathless recapping of what somebody wrote on Twitter. What ever happened to Run The Series? My World Of Flops? AV Club Inventory? 

This is obviously waaaayyyyy down the list of Bad Things Caused By The Pandemic, but it is a shame that the inevitable drop in box-office for this (because of closed/half capacity theatres, audience hesitancy, and the simultaneous D+ release) will be used by intellectual knuckledraggers as evidence of Marvel having…

Probably way too stunt-casty, but imagine the glory of Judi Dench going full mystery villain. 

The Dark Knife

Knives Out For Harambe

Any time a numbered sequel comes out with a 2 NOT immediately followed by “: Electric Boogaloo” is, in my opinion, a travesty.

1 - Giger’s Face-hugger & Xenomorph, taken as a given...

Is there any other actor with more big name franchises on their resume? So far he’s done Bond, Lecter, Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, and both Indy and Fantastic Beasts coming up.

I don’t care, truly, if a fictional world features illogical elements. The only thing that rankles me, personally, is when a work of fiction establishes facts or rules, and is then internally inconsistent with those rules. 

Some characters have variable relations to scientific laws. Gamora, for instance, can survive the crash of Ronin’s ship, a space-pod explosion, literally floating unprotected in space, and the second crash in GOTG2... but Thanos drops her off a cliff and it’s game over!