Yup, even in this one. I walked out of Black Widow and told my friend “this cinematographer really likes ScarJo’s ass.” (Followed by “I wonder if this was the same fight choreographer as Winter Soldier?”  And yep, the same guy has been primary or secondary on the fight scenes for all the Cap movies, and the action…

I’m not the original person who asked about foci, but on behalf of everyone who hasn’t taken a math course in over a decade, thank you for giving a concise helpful answer instead of being a smartass like some other commenters. 

Blanc was definitely my least favorite part of Knives Out. I’ve been assuming that Blanc is just going to end up being the common thread tying together a run of fun murder mysteries where the main draw is the mystery itself and the great cast, and I’m A-OK with that. I just hope that Rian Johnson / Daniel Craig are…

I generally agree that there’s more to a good movie than whether the hero will survive. But I also understand the feeling of just being done with a character / property once the story is complete, and having no interest in revisiting it. (I spent five years of my life obsessing over Lost, and five seconds after the…

Speaking of charismatic actors, I wish people would stop miscasting Lee Pace. There are roles I’ve loved him in - I miss the Piemaker, and he was great in The Fall - but he’s not very good at “emotionally distant pseudo-villain.” The gravitas just seems fake.* (Unlike Jared Harris, who seems to be great at…

Honestly, nowadays I’ll take a real libertarian over an extreme Right-Winger. At least when a libertarian says “the government should stay out of people’s business,” they mean it for everyone equally. The Right tends to mean “the government should stay out of how I run my business, should stop trying to teach my kids…

I think the word “hero” is somewhat unhelpful in this context, without a definition. Does the film portray him as a good guy doing good things? Can safely say no. But does it portray him as a martyr to a good cause - a man who did what needed to be done, and sure it messed him up, but we should appreciate those who…

I do really appreciate just how normal Cap and Nat are around each other, in an entertainment industry that usually seems incapable of admitting the existence of platonic friendships.

They somehow managed to have too much material and not enough, with deceptively simple overall themes but a ton of moving pieces and dropped ideas. They needed to go one direction or the other - streamline the overly convoluted mess into one movie, or take a modern HBO-style miniseries to work through everything in…

While I generally agree that the Wachowskis drastically overestimate their philosophical-ness, I like to pretend that at least in that one scene, it was on purpose. The Architect sounded like what you’d get if you told a highly advanced A.I. “script something that sounds like it was written by a philosophy professor.”

Please explain how “everyone should get vaccinated so that we don’t leave an infected pool of people that will allow the virus to mutate” is anti-vax?

On a Tony Leung note: Tokyo Raiders is currently streaming on Amazon Prime :^)

I guess we’ll see if it’s intentional, but the new design also evokes the magic design in Dr. Strange (the ‘time rings’ around his arm when he was looping).

How did I only just find out Tony Leung is in this!!!

I’d generally agree, as long as we leave a ‘panhandle’ of northernness* that covers all the government types and beach homes in DelMarVa. I live in Arlington VA, and it doesn’t start to feel overly southern until you get about an hour west or south.  But insofar as you are pointing out that western PA is totally the…

The only way voting would not represent a population’s majority values would be if a majority of that population didn’t vote, which... would say a lot about that population’s values.

Ha, that would be amazing. “...there’s two of you?!”

I did enjoy this version’s attempt at explaining, which was basically “we’ll take anyone who’s willing to work without health insurance.”

Now I’m imagining someone looking at Clark and Superman and going “yeah, Lois definitely has a type.”

Except, some people’s constant need to read sexual tension into everything can affect real life interactions, regardless of the genders involved.