On the other hand was Paramount really even being that dickish?

I know it’s easy to roll your eyes and think “why didn’t he just shave and wear a fake mustache” but Cavill had pretty much finished his contract with Justice League and was primarily employed by Paramount at that point.

Why should Paramount sacrifice the…

I started rewatching Farscape before this news dropped, courtesty of some gentle soul maintaining a variety of torrents for it, and thanks to the intense MadVR upscaling I’m putting my graphics card through, the 80Gb 1080p season actually manages to look worse than the 40Gb 720p cut.

At a certain point you’re pretty…

On the other hand, this novel does actually have a real concrete beginning-middle-end to follow along, as well as a sort of sequel-novel and two sort of sequel novellas to draw upon.

Which is more than you can really say for Sandman. Have you looked at the story of Sandman lately?

“Yeah it’s uhhh...about this guy…

You’re not giving enough credit to the book and the struggle to faithfully adapt it.

It’s a complete meandering clusterfuck of loosely connected set pieces more concerned with elaborate prose and powerful imagery than the kind of tight structured plot/pacing that can actually sustain a book that thick.

They can CGI a dead Robin Williams and then digitally de-age him.

They lean younger alright, but it's only the super-hip left-twitter crowd that thinks being called a liberal/centrist is the worst thing imaginable.

Tbh I have a serious love/hate thing with American Gods in that for all its numerous legitimate flaws, it really is quite the perfect book in terms of what Neil Gaiman actually wanted to write.

There isn’t a lot you can objectively fix or improve about the story that wouldn’t also end up significantly changing it.

I think it’s one of things that’s worse in hindsight once you realise almost every Neil Gaiman protagonist is that same kind of passive everyman observer, but for American Gods it really helps to contextualise Shadow as the kind of person who at that point has very little to live for and goes along with this seriously…

Oh I agree entirely. Can we just say Terminator Genisys was not a good film.

In fairness, Emilia Clarke can’t act for shit and was very much cast for that Game Of Thrones clout.

Ask yourself this: Is Tom Holland’s Peter Parker actually a well-developed character or do you just like the way Tom Holland plays him as this goofy overexcited superhero fanboy?

I think you’re overstating the impact of those two bits. At the end of the day, a comedian famous for being offensive maybe went a bit too far while working on some new stuff at some obscure show.

2010-2014 AV Club would have praised them for being “bold and audacious” or some other nonsense like that, it’s only that…

I like Mulaney, but his ‘darling’ status among certain circles definitely has a lot to do with him being perhaps the tamest and least controversial comedian working today.

I remember when Aziz Ansari was going to be the next face of modern American comedy. :)

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It’s more likely to be a legal dispute given the fact the rights to movies and TV series are owned by different entities.

Zachary Quinto isn’t busy enough not to jump at an opportunity for a regular gig, if asked.

Heavy mixed feelings.

I love what I actually see in terms of the visuals and designs, but the way this trailer is cut is so obviously made to appeal to the “normies” makes it really hard to determine if that’s what the whole film is going to be like or not.

“not being sure why that was ok but solo’s week’s worth of how he got all his stuff was not”

I mean that’s such an apples and oranges comparison between two basically unrelated films released thirty years apart.

And if he wasn’t a “professional”, would you expect him to just start beating the shit out of Viggo because all black people are clearly violent thugs who can’t help themselves and must be protected from their own unstoppable hulk-like rage whenever the forbidden word is uttered?

It’s not my right to make that…

Yes, Mortensen meant it to make a point, and apologized afterwards - still, and as I said elsewhere, I’m surprised Mahershali Ali didn’t punch him in the head soon as he said it.

I agree Guardians and Winter Soldier are better films and IM3 has objective flaws that aren’t to do with salty fanboys being butthurt about the Mandarin bait-and-switch (although that really didn’t help the film’s legacy), but it’s the one MCU film I am actually happy to rewatch at a drop of the hat.