I prefer the new Jungle Book to the old.

There, I said it.

I think a big part of why The Jungle Book succeeded was juxtaposing an actual human against the animals. It made it feel like the book is supposed to feel- the animals *aren’t* human and Mowgli is what’s weird so you expect that contrast.

I feel like my one quibble is maybe The First Avenger is too high? I love everything it did, but I feel like the whole is less than the sum of its parts. It’s great as a character piece for establishing who Steve Rogers is and everyone brought their A-game, but it isn’t as coherent as it could’ve been.

No, he's right. There's absolutely no previous instances of space explosions in Trek.

“died at the age of 70, The New York Times reports. A cause of death is currently unknown.”

Probably a skydiving accident

The Rise of Skywalker is like... the fourth clumsiest subtitle in this entire franchise.

Fuck you, Disney.

Fuck you and everything I’m absolutely going to watch the day it comes out.

My favorite part of the grenade scene is actually Infinity War highlighting how much Steve is a hypocrite in the best way possible. “We don’t trade a life for a life,” by which he actually means “Only my life is for trade for others.”

Red Skull is the only other one I can think of.

Three Watsons. John C. Reilly. And a fourth directed an episode of Luke Cage.

The last time I thought “This might be a flop” of a Marvel movie was the first Ant-Man. They dragged a great filmmaker through development hell until he dropped out (not all their fault but) and then tried to rebuild the movie from the pieces left behind with the help of a romcom director and the end result was...a…

Yeah, making Control the Borg work in canon would require some sort of dumb time travel macguffin...

Wait a minute...

He’s a Saurian.

Or the lack of budget to give him a time machine that can fly through space but we’ve got this police box that Z-Cars isn’t using right now.

Valid point!

Whedon really understood playing with the scale of what was going on. Turning a massive city-destroying fight into a series of smaller character driven action pieces set the tone of how to deal with these movies, which the Russos have largely perfected. There’s a bad tendency with superhero movies to keep ramping up…

I think calling it risk averse is underselling the risks they did take. There’s no good reason to leave their massive tentpole movie to a guy who made a few cult classic TV shows. It’s insane to try to make a completely unknown cosmic superhero team into a movie and give it to a guy whose previous credits are just…

The problem with those is that they petered out in their third outing. They were huge successes and everyone was excited to see their stories play out and then Fox took a big ol dump on them. They died ignominious deaths, only to wait for their reboots to keep the franchise alive, same as Superman, same as Batman,…

It’s definitely a problem that many people have. There should be a support group.

At least we’ve gotten a movie with two Sherlocks out of the deal.