Gonna put a vote to split the difference here - Prior to Winter Soldier, MCU part 2s were meh to garbage prettymuch across the board.

That said, the more I look back at it, the more I feel like Civil War could have benefited from tightening up its story and cast and mainly didn’t because of the expectation from the…

I really, really, really, really don’t get what it is about him as a director that seems to inspire the level of devotion his fans have for him.

I mean, yeah, I get having favorite directors you want to support. I’ve been there. But not to the point where I feel the need to go out of the way to challenge anyone who…

Sam Neill as an insurance investigator trapped in a warped reality is also acceptable.

I know it’s improbable, but there’s a part of me that, on remembering his wife, kind of wants to imagine there were times when he went on the anti-semitic track where she beat Blazing Saddles to the punch:
“Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard!”

Yeah, I know it wouldn’t actually happen, but the situation just makes such a…

Red Hook also has the curious distinction of being the one time in all of his work where Lovecraft looked back and went “Holy shit, maybe I went a bit too far.”

Granted, that was more about the anger than the bigotry, buuuuut...

This...could actually be interesting.

Interestingly, last year did give us probably one of the most overtly Lovecraft-styled horror films in quite some time with The Endless, though that did kind of get buried mid-year.

Please, no meat touching.

Thing is - you can listen to Lennon’s music and not find casual lyrical references to how he abused his wife.

Lovecraft’s views of race, race-mixing, and other cultures in general are a pretty big part of the DNA in his stories (and I say this as someone who has some collections he still dusts off in October. Taken at…

This is one of the big reasons that Superman: The Animated Series worked. It pretty effortlessly straddled the line between doing the darker, serious stories as well as having the light, silly goofy adventures (and to that latter end, Goddamn, Gilbert Gottfried as Mr. Mxyzptlk is still spot-on voice casting.)

Honestly, I feel like if Snyder made anyone in the DCEU into his masturbatory vision of Rorschach, it was Batman, who even goes so far as to have his own prison execution system and everything because...reasons...

Tangentially related to this, I feel like that’s part of why we get the totally unnecessary scene of Dreiburg getting the last word with Veidt.

“Great powers, the best powers. Believe me, Peter...”

If his saga ends with him on the receiving end of an eel or trained attack hogs, I think I can accept that outcome.

You know, during the Obama years I could roll with the turtle comparison. Seeing how much he’s willing to toady to get what he wants during this administration, and his total willingness to sit on his hands as the allegations pile up and become increasingly more criminal, I almost feel like it’s an insult to the…

They also gave Ennio Morricone a worst score nomination for The Thing.

Some of their takes have NOT aged well.

Whenever this scene comes up in conversations now, I’ve taken to describing it as ‘the moment when aspiring young criminal Kevin McCallister meets the Devil at a crossroads and ultimately decides to turn his life around’

One of these days we’ll finally just accept that Brazil is the Christmas movie we deserve and it’s the one we’re living anyway, so might as well embrace the horror.

Let’s give credit where it’s due - Mark Burnett did a LOT to help him out there.
Yes, on the campaign trail his blathering and bigotry built the momentum, but he had Burnett’s team from the Apprentice to thank for their part in editing together 14 seasons that gave a large chunk of America the mistaken impression that…

Pinky and the Brain put one in my brain I didn’t connect until years later.
The Brainy the Pooh episode. I got the base level joke of Christopher Walken as Christopher Robin. But for years I had no idea his scene was basically a kid spoof of Walken’s monologue from Annie Hall until watching it in a film studies course…