Hey, cut Cavill some slack.
He’s still better than Dean ‘I’d Knock the Eggboy Out’ Cain in terms of Superman actors who turned into disappointments.

My favorite thing about this and the ‘Your mother chose life’ argument is that when they say it, there’s an easy, wide opening to then ask ‘Are you saying you think I was an accident?’

I’m...gonna overall agree here, honestly.

Like, technically it’s great. But in terms of the overall film, it feels like a scene that’s purely there for the sake of delivering on the Civil War title card promise.

Also to add to this - that scene is prettymuch the only reason Peter and Scott are even in the movie. Take…

Ford arguably has a hand in the mess we’re in now thanks to his decision to pardon Nixon.

On the one hand, I see your case.

On the other, for the average person on the street, and in particular for marginalized groups, this is like saying “Good news, we’ve found the cure for your diabetes and shingles - IT’S FULL BLOWN AIDS!”

I’m still holding on to the small hope this will culminate in his demented and/or syphillitic brain causing him to have a Macbeth-esque breakdown at one of his rallies, going off script to scream at the ghost of John McCain that nobody else can see and at first no one is even sure what he’s talking about.

Mostly just…

Given how carefully they’ve tried to word things (Trump aside) the impression seems to be ‘We couldn’t find enough dirt for this one charge. ... But in turn, we found a whole shitload of other dirt that may be relevant to people’s interests.’

The good news with the McCains is Meghan is pretty unlikely to get the rehab her father is getting.

Doubly so if she keeps doubling down the way she has been and we finally get that day when Joy Behar just cold cocks her on The View.

If you REALLY want to get down to it, these trial lines started long before either family had been considered for ‘Dynasty’ status.

Arguably the first major shot in the fracturing could be chalked up to the fallout from the Nixon resignation and how many in the GOP ignored the ‘We should be better than this’ in favor…

The Republican Party - We make the future worse so you’ll look at our previous fuck ups and think ‘That wasn’t SO bad...’

That’s...wow...

I mean, I want to give Snyder points for having explanations...but at the same time, this is the level of moving parts that ultimately turns into wondering WHY you’d commit to all of that in a single film.

Like, if your plot relies on THIS many ‘that’s because’ reveals, you have to stop and ask yourself…

Tough to say - I’d actually have to do some digging to say with any certainty on that one - but if we’re looking at the score now, particularly given the uptick in Snyder’s defenders post-Justice League, I’m not ruling out the possibility of numbers being massaged down the line.

I can no longer take the idea of a movie version of The Fountainhead seriously after learning that was the project that Michael Cimino tried to pursue before making Heaven’s Gate.

That may be one of the greatest conceptual hoistings by one’s own petard in the history of cinema.

RT audience scores have sort of lost all meaning by this point, given the now pretty established pattern of focused efforts to beef up or bring down scores by dedicated fandoms (and given the general demographics suggested by the movies that got review-bombed...)

‘It’s an intergalactic fucking war’ -Is THAT the excuse he was telling himself when he was branding human traffickers with a mark BvS established was basically a death sentence in prison (and no, I don’t buy that he didn’t know that, since that then makes his decision to NOT brand an already incarcerated Luthor at the…

That is the part that always struck me as weird about his getting the MoS gig.
You look at how the character is framed, and it’s hard not to get the sense that Snyder just genuinely hates Superman.
To the point where I’m actually a little surprised he didn’t craft a better Lex Luthor, cause his attitude to the character…

I’m still not calling the Mueller investigation a complete wash.

If it was, I don’t imagine we’d see so many GOP people calling so urgently for it to be shuttered (or, in Nunes’s case, burned.)

I don’t see this ending in mass perp walks (to be honest, I never did - about the most explosive finale I saw of this was it…

Sort of like how Frank Miller made Holy Terror as “It’s Batman for people who hate Muslims” ?

I REALLY want to see what a Joe Johnston directed Superman could be like, but sadly, I don’t think it’s ever going to happen, since it appears he’s going to be packing it in as a director after this next project finishes.

“Save Olaf...”
“What? Olaf?! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!”