Am I the only one who thought Apocalypse was actually worse than X3, which I didn’t know was possible? (yes I did, I’ve seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine)

For starters, it tried to go all-in with its own version of the iconic Phoenix saga from the comics, but did so while shunting aside Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey to supporting-role status. Now that the next generation of X-films has gotten around to the saga (because of course they have), it wants to do a better job.

The disaster also killed his wife and, it’s implied, his daughter.

And for that matter, why can’t San Angeles’ resident rebels (led by a surprisingly well-cast Denis Leary) pack up and, like, move to San Francisco or Portland? How much damage did that great quake do, anyway?

Exactly! A good horror/monster movie works when you have characters that the audience care about, and then those characters are placed in mortal danger. It’s scarier to have a monster in your basement than one toppling office buildings in some big city, so to speak. Except for the absurd ‘he’s the only person who can…

I didn’t read it as them trying to be smart about it, if anything he’s disappointed at the general viewpoint from modern studios that feel classic monsters like the mummy and dracula are “too old fashioned” or “not scary enough these days”.

Yeah, I think the sentence makes more sense if you substitute “ironic” with “cynical,” but he probably wants to be able to ask Universal for money later on, so he chose a less damning word.

The sad part is this is so obvious, while at the same time so much of Hollywood continually falls into its trap. Sometimes its better to just embrace what you’re doing and go with it. For example the Power Rangers movie was like two different films, the first half was all dark and gritty while the second half was like…

I don’t know making a movie titled ‘The Mummy’ and then having the Mummy be neither the main character, the focus, and barely equivalent to an extra is kinda ironic.

Monster movies need to be small and confined and scary.... NOT GIANT ACTION PACKED TRANSFORMERS MOVIES!!!!

I think that he’s putting too much thought into it ( or overly kind to people in his industry that he needs to be careful disagreeing with ). The reboots we’ve seen so far are hardly intellectually inspired enough to think that someone is bothering to try to “dissect a genre,” or are viewing monsters through a…

I mean.... it’s not like he’s not making anything. In fact, his latest film looks to be one of the best of the year. He’s just an ambitious artist with eyes bigger than his stomach and more ideas than he could ever reasonably achieve. I don’t see how that’s such a terrible sin. As long as he keeps making movies,…

I don’t think that was the case with The Mummy though. That wasn’t being ironic, it was Universal’s transparently cynical cash-grab. That was the worst film I’ve seen in theaters this year because it’s so in-your-face about having nothing to say or bring to the genre. No artistic qualities because the whole thing felt…

I really like his mention of Get Out because reading this, that was the first example I could think of that wasn’t trying to be ironic.

The main argument against casting a female doctor during the Moffat era was that if they had done that then Moffat would have written for her & it would for sure have been a disaster & probably never repeated.

Moffat has to leave for the show to regain any sense of solid ground. He’s overstayed his welcome after the dismal and honestly ego-centric season 6. The man should have realized that he was inherently destroying fifty years of other people’s work so he could feel good about himself.

I really hope her tenure is a Golden Age for DW, if for no other reason than it’ll be a giant “fuck you” to DW-watching misogynists. And I say that as someone who’s majorly sad Capaldi is leaving.

Looking at Moffat’s writing and all of the behind-the-scenes rumors that have come out about his tenure as showrunner it seems fairly clear that he has some issues with women.

Answer, she doesn’t give a fuck. Pretty simple. You can think that’s good or bad, but pretty clear she cares not.

As the actor in the film, you just have to step away and say, I don’t know anything...