And cut off back in the pan-and-scan days! When I noticed it on a recent rewatch, I laughed and laughed. . .

We don’t know exactly what Carol’s public profile was like during the “Five Years Later” gap, but given that she’s attending the Avengers’ conference call in ENDGAME and making a point of telling them she’ll be out of range for a while, the implication is that (a) she’s been working with them regularly and (b) she’s…

Be as leery of Sorkin as you like, but film directors typically don’t control billing on their films, to my understanding. That’d most often be agents/managers negotiating with the producer/studio (with the latter balancing competing demands from the representatives of Actor X versus Actor Y).

Kidman is such a bigger…

I like Bardem, but how in the heck did he get top billing over Kidman? 

Except the blending was almost never mentioned, IIRC. Once you got past the first 2-3 episodes or so, the fact that the kids were step-siblings was never discussed.

Yeah, that’s how I understood it - MCU characters can only appear in the Feige-produced Tom Holland films, other characters under the Spider-license (Vulture, Venom, Morbius) will only appear in Sony-produced films, and Holland’s Spidey can (theoretically so far) appear in both. (And, presumably, if Marvel and Sony…

I found McAdams and Tilda a little “off” - enough that I assumed their characters were voiced by other actors until the credits rolled. Not as off as Del Toro, but I did think (as I did with Michael Douglas) that it was someone else doing a really solid impression.

THANK YOU. I thought I was the only one. . . I was very distracted waiting (incorrectly, it seems) for that shoe to drop.

My favorite not-villainous JJJ was in DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN (Miller-Mazzuchelli):

It would not astonish me if THIS is Murdock (with the reveal saved for the film): 

. . . the dread soaked garbled distress signal of the opening. . .

(This is why I really liked Rocket’s line about Thor in ENDGAME: “He’s pissed. He thinks he failed. Which, of course he did, but you know, there’s a lot of that going around, ain’t there?”)

I always think Quill gets a bum rap. Yeah, he fucked up, but so did Thor by not going for the head. Heck, I’d pin as much or more blame on Gamora - she was only “saving” Nebula from a 50% chance of being eventually killed by the Snap. If she’d have kept mum about Vormir, Thanos’s plan grinds to a halt long before…

Surely she used her real accent most recently here? (Never saw it, so maybe I’m wrong. . .)

III is fine, and has it’s strong points (Lloyd and Steenburgen’s performances). But it’s also mostly pretty much. . . just a Western. Fox as his own ancestor was pretty weak sauce. And I, at least, was pretty bored with the latest incarnations of the crane shot of Stunned Marty walking into downtown and Marty waking…

THIS is harsh. But it cracked me the hell up:

Wow. I’ve been under the impression for decades that Richard Dreyfuss was the voice of Howard. Someone told me (waaaay pre-internet) that he did it as a favor to Lucas. . .

Let’s take it a step further and have Smits play Gordon!

I always forget that line, but it’s cleverer than you give it credit for. The Banner medicine isn’t magic that saved Fury’s life, it’s a depressant that slowed his heart down enough to fake his death. And, really, why wouldn’t a scientist whose transformation into a monster is caused by an increased heartrate look for…