This really encompasses another problem I have with media literacy these days, in that people are so unwilling to engage with these stories as a whole. In the first place, Fury was absolutely not “back on track” after failing to prevent a huge terror attack that was meant to kickstart nuclear armageddon. But that…

One big benefit Agent Carter had going for it was the setting it was placed in. Spycraft in the 50s is so much easier to work with than spycraft in the modern era, let alone the modern era with Skrulls and Stark Tech. In the same way that cell phones “ruined” movies, modern surveillance pretty much ended the spy…

For his crimes against cinema, Snyder will be sentenced to the Pit of Colour.

Can’t wait for the apology spam

Yeah, the wording makes me think of all the headlines that breathlessly exclaim an asteroid is passing with 10,000 miles of Earth.

Look, we all agree that glowing swords look awesome, but can we as a society just admit that even if the future (or any random space setting somehow always designed to be both futuristic and feudal) had any vested interest in maintaining melee weapons instead of ranged weapons or drones, there would be no point to maki…

All I can think of when people float this idea is that I sincerely thought for years that Eric Cartman’s ridiculous anti-semitism was not a problem because anti-semitism was long gone. It seemed as ludicrous to me as his irrational response to hippies. Needless to say, I didn’t run in very Jewish circles.

Also, whatever happened to “We just want to enjoy [media] without having to bring politics into it”?

I wonder if we could get away with just sending James McAvoy.

Last year this was an absolute madhouse, not made any better by a No Way Home re-release occurring at the same time. I tend to avoid weekend shows anyway, because there are usually more people around, but that day was genuinely at 99% occupancy. Even bad movies were sold out. If the day results in substantial…

Jurassic Park and American Graffiti are both in re-release that weekend as well, although the latter is probably not very wide.

I’ve tried the traditional way, but most fathers react poorly when I offer them three goats and an acre of land for their daughters.

The whole “animation is for kids” thing is even weirder because shows like The Flintstones and The Jetsons were made for families, and earlier stuff like Looney Tunes were clearly geared more toward adults, even if it later it all became more standard kid fare. I’d bet that people from previous generations didn’t pick…

It never ceases to thrill that one of the world’s largest social media platforms responds to critics like a middle schooler on the playground.

I’m sure all the American right wingers that you talk with are a lot more hospitable to your shitty fucking views, and so maybe don’t seem violent to you, but if you direct your attention to the article posted literally right after this one, you might find that describing “American left wingers” as crazy and violent…

Should have gone with Blue Beetle Lacks Juice.

I would watch another Jaime Reyes movie, but I thought this was just ok. The family interaction is great, though I don’t really like George Lopez, and definitely didn’t buy him as “the Mexican Doc Brown”. Honestly, a lot of the characterization felt only partially filled in, but it’s hard to say that they should have…

These movies are inherently jokes. It’s fine that most of them take themselves seriously, but it’s not a huge deal that a single property out of dozens decided to define itself as a one long silly gag, especially when the previous iteration of that character wasn’t working so well. Buff himbo demigod gets into scrapes…