My take on Prometheus is that Scott saw an opportunity to gain at last control of the Alien franchise by promising to the producers some horror scif-fi R-rated 3D trilogy that had Avatar potential. Of course, Scott being Scott, he delivered something with terrific photography and production design, but a terrible…

“What a dick.”

Aw, thank you! Despite my comments-section addiction, just seeing this now and it means a lot. Delighted that AVC is under ownership where I can occasionally contribute again!

We start out following a chemist (James Franco, seemingly unsure of how to do much besides affect a look of consternation)

No one, absolutely no one, here is suggesting that you can simply choose to not feel bad emotions, when it come to things that are actually important. If your mom dies, I’m happy to trust that there’s nothing performative about your grief.

I think Yang is really funny, and I say that as someone who isn’t thrilled that he also seems to act as a self-appointed regulator of comedy.

It’s crazy how willing people like you are to lie about things/people to support your bizarre world view.

It’s still bizarre as hell to make a giant expensive movie about comic book characters that no one has ever given the tiniest shit about.

Mom and dad said they were wrestling.

Not that I’m totally disagreeing with Cavill here - there is such a thing as a gratuitous sex scene - but I dislike this idea that every element of a movie has to “serve the plot”. The plot is one part of a movie (or any story); a necessary one, but also a largely mechanical one. Stories are so much more than just the…

Viewed through the lens of Wandavision’s fascination with TV tropes I don’t think egregious stunt casting really crosses any lines here. 

Nonsense! Didn’t you ever watch The X-Files? Federal agents investigate whatever they want regardless of jurisdiction!

McMuffin? Is that an “eggcorn” for MacGuffin or is it intentional “for hysterical raisins”?

It was a nice touch that they had Emily Haines sing for Envy in the animated series (since in the movie, Brie Larsen covered Metric’s “Black Sheep” as Envy).

I admit, I kinda did want a straight adaptation, mainly because I always felt that the movie should’ve been animated in the first place, even though Edgar Wright did an admirable job bringing the feel into real life. But also since the movie was of course crunching down a lot of comic into 2 hours, I thought a series…

How dare you end this review with the word “truck” and not “truck (truck, truck, truck)“!

I’m two episodes in so far, and I’m glad I hadn’t read this review before watching them. This show works hard to zag when people expected it to zig, and it’s a fun surprise going in blind. I kinda think I see where it’s going in general, and I’m excited to see how it follows through.

Really enjoyed it. I was surprised that it wasn’t a full adaptation, but the twist worked and developed a satisfactory story. I read those books when I was a teen, and I still have the poster I scored from the cinema because I loved the film.

I watched the first episode and came to the ending and was pretty shocked, then checked out the synopsises of the rest of the episodes and realized just what a great twist it was. Because...yes, we’ve seen this story before — in fact, if you’ve read the comic and seen the movie, you’ve already got two versions, so why…