This is the first MCU movie with a female star. That’s not a theory, it’s a fact. And modern MCU really defines the genre. Although there have been prior superhero movies with eponymous female leads, they are movies like Catwoman and Elektra, which were colossally bad. The only major superhero movie to break this…

Just to be clear, I don’t disagree. My point is more that it’s easier to get away with a lazily written male lead, because we’ve seen the same archetypes so many times that we can fill in the blanks on our own. Even if the character has a new name, we recognize them immediately from other movies, and don’t need the…

I wonder if it’s easier to write f0r male-leads in these action blockbusters, because there’s a such a well developed repository of short-hand for establishing male action hero characters. For example, we just need to see one hint of a strained relationship with a girlfriend, and it calls to mind dozens of action…

I watched this show over the weekend. I’m assuming there are some people, like me, who will dribble back into this review as they catch up with watching it.

“The” critique that she is is lazily written—unbelievably incompetent
just for the sake of being vulnerable and therefore sympathetic (which I disagree with, in any event)—is not Zack’s critique. He likens her to Wesley Crusher, who was never likable at any point in time.

I don’t need to be paraphrased. I said exactly what I meant.

If you watch enough TV, the signs of a backdoor pilot will eventually become really familiar. An unusually large and elaborate set, similar to the main set of the show, but brighter and more high tech (see e.g., the backdoor pilots for every CSI and NCIS spin-off), populated with an unusually large and impressive roste…

Bad news my friend, “Disco” is definitely a thing. They sell official T-shirts. They’ve worn them on the show.

A lot of Zack’s critiques have been mean spirited and cynical in a way that bothers me, but he does a reasonably good job articulating them, and I’ve respected and appreciated the skill and effort at critical review, even where I disagreed (and a lot of times I have agreed - this show is struggling right now, and…

Having now been subjected to his attempt at an English accent, it suddenly struck the Brits, “You know what, I can see this guy as a reviled villain upon whom we wish a violent death”.

Per IMDB, he has not. His lone directing credits are Get Out and Us. He’s EP’d a few TV series - The Last O.G., Weird City, Loreana - but I haven’t seen those, and don’t even remember hearing about them. He’s involved a couple other things that haven’t come out yet but have good buzz - including Candyman and Twilight…

A twitpreneur, if you will.

You’re arguing with a straw man. I never said what the movie’s message had to be. The thrust of my post was about a message it shouldn’t convey - a feel good pat-on-the-back to white people about racism having been conquered. If that’s your perspective, then you’re free to have it, but my perspective is that it’s…

I think it’s a bit more complicated than “popular = bad”. As it relates to race relations, this movie is popular because it is telling people what they want to hear, and in doing so is reinforcing a perception of racism as a dated relic. At a time when radical racism is on the rise, that’s not just lazy populism, it’s…

Verne Troyer! A bigger snub, with Mike Myers in the house.

Yeah, now that you point it out, “decades” is an odd choice of time frame. Depending on what you mean by it, it’s either something that has been pretty steadily improved upon over the last 20 years (i.e., the kind of x+z 3D movement I first remember seeing in Sonic Adventures on Dreamcast, which blew my mind, and…

Classic Poe.

That would seem to be something that TV writers in California *could* appreciate.

YES. Final Destination. He did look kind of familiar, and I couldn’t place why.

I guess there are no women who could have written this article.