Ummmmmm. Tentative pass. Part of what makes Clue work so well is that all of the actors are characters actors—there are no “movie stars” like Reynolds. So it’s either tonally going to be radically different from the first film and therefore fail to be a good remake, or its going to hew closely to the original with the…

It’s slightly gross that the Bat/Supes issue is about how much they respect/love one another and the Bat/Wondy issue is about a sex triangle.

Ugggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh. This physically hurts me. As somebody who studies horror fiction, this is a terrible loss to our culture.

No, but “bloated passion project with an audience of one” is still pretty accurate. Not that I’m complaining about it—I loved Crimson Peak and want to see that version of Frankenstein. But it didn’t exactly set the box office on fire.

I mean, you’ve just described nearly all of GdT’s output.

Actually since the Universal Monsters are based on some of the greatest literature ever produced, I expect it to be like Shakespeare

This joke is 15 days late, but I saw the film with a 6 dollar beer, so.

Also fine. Then Del Toro can make the Frankenstein film he’s been talking about forever and on his own terms. Nothing’s stopping him from making the important Universal monsters if that what he wants.

Well, based on what I’ve heard about The Mummy (I refuse to see it), they might also need reminding that they’re making horror films, not action movies.

There has to be a way for The Shape of Water to be labelled retroactively the beginning of a Universal Monster reboot. Just give it to GdT (now that he realizes he wants it) and don’t get in his way.

This is a bad take.

Tru facts.

I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I’ve decided that Bucky would just be distracting in a BW movie. He belongs to Cap. I mean, his timeline basically precludes anything that isn’t Cap-related. (MCU, duh)

BUT ALSO it might not be taut/a thriller. And that would suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I would also really very much like some actual facts grown-up sexuality (not necessarily sex) that isn’t “Oh we used to be together but we’re both workaholic misanthropes,” but I’ll settle for lots of ScarJo scheming in Russian to take down the CEO of AIM before he poisons the world with alien tech. Or what have you.

I can’t decide if I want a taut spy thriller a la Casino Royale, or a taut action thriller a la Atomic Blonde, or a taut heist thriller a la The Thomas Crowne Affair, or a taut political thriller a la The Manchurian Candidate.

I think you’ve seriously misread this movie.

Honestly one of my favorite films ever. It’s so, so good.

No, I think that Homecoming is “good” as well as fun. I don’t think a film’s quality depends on where it falls between fun and serious. A “good” film would deploy seriousness and fun as it benefits the story being told. Homecoming moves from fun to serious exactly when and where it ought to to tell the story, while…

See, I found a lot of the comedy slightly off tone. I otherwise don’t disagree, but it’s still not different enough in terms of quality to make it stand out to me.