The official “word of God” on the subject is that, no, everything necessary to guarantee continuity of consciousness and make you you - up to and including a soul if such things exist - goes along for the ride, and the transports aren’t just basically fax machines that auto-shred the original.* But boy do I wish the…

Saw Antman and the Wasp, and liked it very much. I’ve seen a lot of people saying basically the same thing: that if you go in expecting a comedy instead of a superhero movie you won’t be disappointed. I’ll challenge that only in that I think it holds up perfectly well as a superhero movie too, just more of an old…

I so agree with you about the pop culture fetishization of “family.” The worst offenders, in my opinion, are things like the recent Godzilla or World War Z movies, where they go out of their way to make sure we know that the hero is trying to stop the monsters from destroying everything because (gasp) his wife and…

I thought he was fantastic at conveying Shades as a character with a lot more depth than your average TV gangster. Glad he’s back for this season. (On an unrelated note, I swear he reminds me so much like Clark Gregg that I suspect that if they’d cast him as a young Agent Coulson in Captain Marvel, people who didn’t…

Utter speculation on my part, but I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the Blade of the movies was changed so much from the one in the comics. They had very little in common aside from being black guys who fought vampires (and wearing outfits based on what teenagers thought was cool when they first…

I like superhero movies more than most people and don’t think I, personally, could ever get sick of them, but to be entirely fair (1) film critics’ jobs require them to see movies they don’t want to (2) if I had to watch three or four Pureflix films or torture porn films or found footage horror movies per year, I’d…

The more worlds we see, the harder I find it to believe there isn’t one with at least some supernatural or sci-fi elements.

I think the idea is that they’ve crammed every last Old West trope they could think of into Westworld, including gold mining and possibly Oregon Trail-style man vs. nature stuff.

Good call. But looking that scene up online, when he starts the portal moving, it just zooms forward and fades away after a few feet instead of irising out, so if I were the movie’s screenwriter I’d feel safe saying that he doesn’t have much control over the portal once he launches it (like most projectiles, if you…

I think you’re right. I’m surprised how many people I’ve seen pointing out that all the characters we know have sequels coming up died and that all the characters everyone was 100 percent sure were going to die survived, but I’ve seen surprisingly few people put those points together to speculate that we’re going to…

RE: Using Dr. Strange’s portals to cut off Thanos’s head or arm:

There’s comics precedent for a movie starring Jaimie Alexander as Loki. I’d like to see them explore that possibility.

There’s stuff I agree with in this review and stuff I don’t, but at the end of the day, my big takeaway is this: someone who thinks that the capstone to a 10-year run of superhero movies being all the heroes introduced over those 10 years coming together for a “final battle of good and evil” epic finale is a BAD thing…

To me, the first time through. it sounded like he said either “I ... He killed them” (as if he started to say “I don’t know” then remembered something) or “Ah ... He killed them” (“ah” presumably just being a sound to indicate that he was thinking). But going back and listening to it again, I can hear it as “I ... I…

Here’s a picture of the entrance to the Scavengers’ dump:

That monologue made me really want to see a Bladerunner parody sketch with a captcha-based Voight-Kampff test.

Yeah, I have a pretty high tolerance for stupidity on this show - honestly, three years or so into a zombie apocalypse, I figure most people realistically would be so frayed around the edges and sick of struggling to survive that it’d be rare to find someone who DOESN’T have at least enough of a death wish to take…

I wonder if - assuming it’s intentional - the idea isn’t to make it clear that they’re prejudiced against people with powers and not just all-purpose bigots. The writers could figure: show a white person being anti-super, people will think he just hates anyone different from himself, but show a black person being…

I have no idea whether they couldn’t get Dawson or didn’t try or what, but I think the problem with bringing Claire in would have been that she would have been TOO helpful. Their goal isn’t to get Jessica information as efficiently as possible, it’s the exact opposite of that: make her jump through enough hoops to…

I finished Jessica Jones season 2 too. Not quite as good as season one, but I liked it. There were a couple of things I think might be plot holes if you think to much about them, though (mostly of the “how did that clue lead to that person?” variety).