Any related bets on whether Jolie’s character is a villain vs. whether they’ll use her inherent air of villainy as a red herring?

I recently saw the first trailer for this in IMAX, and turns out it the visuals do really pop when it’s on a massive screen - that opening shot of the ship was spectacular, and the Bollywood shot was great too. It seems like a sense of massive physical scope could sub in for Kirby-ness in capturing an otherwordly…

Plus, for the vast majority of moviegoing history people have been going to see movies about characters they’ve never heard of before, simply because the trailer looked good / the idea appealed / they just wanted to go to the movies.  

(Look at the far side of the lake. There’s a trunk and branches where the bright light is. And if you squint *really hard* just to the right of that one, there’s something that might be another tree that looks like it’s made out of light).

I’d argue that in this particular instance (‘inspired by’ fictionalized version, as opposed to true crime retelling), there is a helpful fix. All it would have taken is a “has no relation to real life events” disclaimer. The fact that they apparently didn’t even both with that is shocking from a legal perspective,…

Just seconding your anecdotal data - I also saw the trailer, thought “oh, is this about that American tourist who got locked up for maybe-murdering her friend?’, and assumed that certain aspects (such as her family background, the implied relationship between the two girls, and ultimately the movie’s take on guilty/not…

In terms of the specific language being important, I wouldn’t be surprised if it included the dreaded “best efforts” clause...

...except once they lose all their money, the rest of us will have to support them (while they insist it’s not welfare because welfare’s only for ‘those lazy people’).

This week’s shout-out to sensitive/non-toxic masculinity - I loved Lois giving Clark that protective back-hug at the kitchen table. It was such a small thing, but every other time I’ve seen that type of pose in a show, it’s a man being protective/possessive of a woman. Here, Lois isn’t letting Clark out of sight after…

I also quite liked the first one. I have a soft spot for PG13 horror in general - when horror movies can’t rely on gore, they have to put more effort into being clever and/or funny.  I loved Happy Death Day(s) and that movie with the hide and seek game in the big mansion that I can never remember the name of. 

Why do you think these movies aren’t worth a short review? Personally, I thought the first one was a clever, fun little outing with likable characters, and a review (of a new movie on a website that reviews movies) discussing whether the sequel lived up to its potential was indeed worth a few paragraphs. What would…

...which would leave Rocket and Groot free to permanently team up with Thor, so works for me. 

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…

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.”

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).