This is a great movie and a good write-up, but fails to mention one of the most amazing aspects of the film, which is that they are able to wring genuine suspense out of the landing when we all knew going in that they survived!

It was good that they gave John a little backstory. I thought they making him out to be too much of a bad guy before. Being Captain America would be a tough assignment without superpowers.

Okay, he’s a military contractor, but for what company? He can’t have his own private military contracting company, with access to military resources and paid staff, if he can’t get a business loan for a shrimp boat!

I still don’t get who Sam is working for. He’s clearly got access to military equipment, personnel, and intelligence, and apparently gets assignments from someone, but he’s a free agent?

A lot of the changes were indulgent, but I did like the ending much better. I barely remember Whedon’s Justice League, but what I do remember was endless talk about how Superman was the greatest and they couldn’t live without him, then he shows up at the end and beats the bad guy easily and single-handedly.…

I love this movie, but the fact that they mixed up “Heinous,” turning it from bad to good, still grates way beyond what it should and always takes me out of the movie.

I mean, clearly it should have been P-faketro.

I remember one time somehow seeing the alternate ending to The Abyss, a movie I really love, when instead of the aliens just coming up from the deep opening new possibility to humanity, they instead threatened to destroy humanity with giant tidal waves if we weren’t nicer to each other, like some crazed imperialists.…

If this happens, I think Edgar Wright should definitely go with Wayne Brady, not Steve Harvey. Brady’s squeaky-clean image, even if parodied once by Dave Chappelle, would be great for parody and deconstruction here. 

Snipes was also very funny in Major League, one of his first big roles.

John Wick is clearly an urban-variant ranger with the two-blade fighting style.

Well, he definitely spoiled it for me, watching it on Sunday, as did the email from AV Club teasing this story today

I will never forget what Abed said about Depp in an otherwise pretty lame subplot of Community: “Robert Downey Jr.? Good. Jim Belushi? Bad. Jean-Claude Van Damme? The good kind of bad. Johnny Depp? The bad kind of good.”

They did this Kanchō thing in an episode of Kim’s Convenience and I couldn’t believe it was real. Certainly not objectively weirder than a wet willing or tea-bagging, but still weird.

We should probably recognize that at this point, Charlize Theron is the top female action start in American film. And in addition to the ones mentioned here, she was also in what was pretty brutal superhero with Will Smith, Hancock, which hit many of the same ideas as Old Guard of a kind of cursed immortality and…

Finally got around to the finally. It was a nice ending and an interesting choice to end by stepping out of character to thank the fans. I don’t think I have seen that before and it is a nice thing to for, at least based on what I read on Timothy Omundson's twitter feed, is a very active and dedicated fan community.

I don’t know how the politics of Wakanda operate in the comic, but from a story/actor standpoint you’ve really got three options:

I wish the AV Club would put the network or site airing the show in the information about the show, preferably in a standard spot like the box that says show and episode, for us cord-cutters who don’t see commercials.

Mandy Patinkin was great, as was everyone, but the best performance was Wallace Shawn, who managed to bring all of Vizzini’s energy despite the weird setting.

I strongly disagree with the take about Hammond. I forgot about him being a villain in the book, but I am glad Spielberg chose not to just make him another corporate villain.