Always makes me chuckle that Raimi thought part of the joke was "lost" because J. K Simmons is in really good shape for his age instead of the intended "heavy set guy spilling out of a Spider-Man costume" gag
I don't hate Justice Smith and I'm sure he has some good credits under his belt but everytime they put his face on like a big movie, I know it's gonna be ass.
I think DnD might be the only exception to this
People will (correctly) praise Everything Everywhere All At Once for it's originality/creativity but then turn around and be like "Ke Huy Quan should be Shortround in Indiana Jones 6. The Daniels should direct Avengers 5. Stephanie Hsu should make a Breakfast at Tiffany's remake"
Columbo wins by virtue of the fact that he wouldn't have written off Ozymandias well in advance because he thought he was too Gay to be capable of murder
It's so cool that porn is normalized but never in a way that actually benefits anyone. Like for all the memes & over exposure are adult actresses treated any better by the industry than they were 20, 30 years ago? Have the practices shifted from just blatant exploitation?
I know I've said this before but it's so fucking bleak that movies that were otherwise just straightforward dramas that were huge hits among general audiences 20, 25 years ago are now considered pretentious, inaccessible Oscar bait by today's standards
A comic that doesn't exist and a YA comic from years ago that isn't canon means that political extremists are writing Superman? Do you have lead poisoning man?
A thing I've finally just been able to articulate as to why this meme is so stupid is that going "I wanna get into Batman but don't know where to start" is just as stupid as saying the same about Bond or Godzilla or any other ubiquitous character with multiple iterations.
It's kind of amazing how RedLetterMedia accurately skewered these exact types of guys but then TikTok blew up and like a million of these podcasts started flooding the algorithm like mosquitoes
This guy's "breakdown" of The Last Jedi would've probably worked better if his resume wasn't chock full of stuff like Black Adam or Red Notice or Renfield or dozens of other forgettable movies with action sequences not even a quarter as cool as what happens here
Justice Smith is pushing 30 and he managed to perfectly encapsulate a child's panic and alienation in the face of an overwhelming and indifferent world so no praising his performance in I Saw The TV Glow isn't that strange.
@dougstevenson88
@SimuLiu
Because one of these films is being used as the cudgel to push the other films out, monopolize the industry and homogenize the way films are made and distributed.
I like how Sentry has one of the most iconic and minimalist designs and every MCU-brained dullard on here is like "what if we made it the ugliest looking thing instead"
Jeremy Renner was accused of doing just about everything Jonathan Majors did and they buried it because they didn’t want to fuck up the Endgame marketing push for him.
@GwenPoptimism
Eh, it's understandable why he's in movies like Detective Pikachu or Jurrasic World, the theatrical market is too shitty for gems like I Saw The TV Glow to be a consistent fixture, bro's gotta eat sometime
Don't fuck with Palestinians, they can kill people with more bullets that their guns can carry and from behind when they're standing directly in front of you
REMINDER: Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by 24 yo PALESTINIAN TERRORIST Sirhan Sirhan when he was running for President in 1968.
The Palestinian Terrorist allegedly targeted RFK in retaliation for his support of Israel.
Much has been said about Denise being played by a cis man (say nothing of the fact that this is inadvertently pinkwashing the literal FBI lmfao, again unintentional, but lmfao) but it's really cool that the author of a huge, popular series is telling transphobes to fuck off
Finally realized what bugs me about "Superman is just a Nice Guy™ who wants to Do The Right Thing™" descriptors is that it's so corny & broad (EVERY superhero is a person trying to do the right thing) and it also overlooks Superman's actual perspective and "lived experiences"
seeing a post from someone who is freaking out over surprise sex scenes in movies/tv and calling them exploitative and unnecessary while admitting they feel quite comfortable consuming porn because at least they've sat down and consented to watching a sex scene..........HUH???
lol Chip Zdarsky & Leo Romero beat Max Landis to the "what if the Batman of Zur-en-arrh was a pastiche of Silver Age™/Adam West Batman™" but actually made it compelling and emotionally engaging
The fact that people talk about, idk, The Fabelmans, or Licorice Pizza, or The Northman or whatever like they're somehow art house, new wave French films is insane.
Also says a lot that Cooper, when becoming aware of Denise, just goes with it, no fuss. Coop really is a better depiction of Superman in media than actual adaptations of Superman
@LibrarianPoster
@NebsGoodTakes
Seeing someone go "it's from Kong Skull Island! I had to do a little digging to find it" is also so funny
Like it was the most recent solo King Kong movie why are you talking about it like it's obscure
Every piece of limp-dick, watered down splatterpunk that's been churned out over the past decade reminds me of that Apocalypse Now quote about how "we train young men to drop fire on people but their commanders won't let them write 'fuck' on their planes bc its obscene"
#TheBoys
adds a warning to the start of its season finale following Donald Trump’s assassination attempt
The episode was originally titled ‘Assassination Run’ and has since been retitled to 'Season 4 Finale'
Cumtown isn't for everybody and you're entitled to not like and criticize it but I'm not gonna suddently pretend that popstar stans who haven't even graduated hs yet are some sort of accurate litmus test for what would qualify as "good comedy" to "normal people"
@Overlyntusiatic
@D4hz4hn
No because Waititi has proven on multiple occasions that outside of the Disney system he can create actual films (regardless of what you think of their quality, like Hunt for the Wilderpeople feels like an actual movie unlike Love & Thunder)
Can't even muster up mild bemusement over the whole Kanye-Fuentes-Milo thing, it's just exhausting/sad seeing an artist of that caliber being scammed by the biggest losers around.
Fucking Cool as Ice, the Vanilla Ice movie from the 90's that otherwise sucked ass, looks better than most movies in theaters today, and it's contemporary equivalents that would otherwise be shunted off to Hulu or Netflix. That's how bad it's gotten.
Still kind of insane that during the War on Terror there was a massively popular manga and 2 anime adaptations that depicted a genocidal war against a vaguely Middle Eastern/Muslim-coded race* as unambiguously evil and directly compared it to the crimes of Imperial & Nazi Germany
@Srirachachau
I just found out that when he was like a toddler, Paxton saw Kennedy the day of the assassination, so this stuff is probably no sweat for him
@bornposting
Usually that's supposed to work against looking old because Czerny was going gray in the first Mission Impossible and Kittridge looks fine in Dead Reckoning, Voight just always was an Old Man™ and next to Cruise the contrast is funnier
"How can you be an X-Men fan and racist" idk man it seems pretty easy for racists to latch on to an iteration of the team that's predominantly White and whose minority status almost comes off as self-victimization when they're surrounded by people with powers
@Seamus_Malek
Israelis have the same racist views about Japan that Ameriburger weebs do of them being just as reactionary as they are so to see Japanese people have autonomy and have actual politics and values incenses them to no end
Superman preventing suicide discourse is on the TL again so I think it's worth remembering that the girl Superman helps in All-Star isn't just a "feel good" vignette disconnected from everything else but one of Superman's 12 Labors which leads directly back into the main plot
@postingwhilegay
Really love the "sit at the counter" part too, Ameriburgers in general have completely internalized racism and discrimination as being restricted from participating in the market as consumers
Ian Miles Cheong is not "normal" by any metric and his absence would be a generational net positive not only for the human race but of the planet as a whole.
twitter is the only website where people cheer for the deaths of normal citizens because of opinions. we need to bring the gladiator fights and public executions back because we have people quietly walking around waiting to watch someone die and parade about it.