The lesson here is to never listen to "fans."

Theyre doing the TFA shit all over again. All the hits are here! Just an endless collection of nostalgia pandering red flag phrases in this paragraph. It’s remarkable how efficient it is at putting me off.

You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐

Masters of the Universe Movie? Already seen it, mate. Got the original UK quad poster for it too

"good superheroes don't kill people" is one of the most impressively accidentally revealing statements one can make about one's own personal moral arrogance in the act of mistaking it for an axiomatic truth and halfway to being as much a CIA-endorsed anticommunist psyop as "show don't tell". why not

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

Bsky is awesome for this cos it’s such a nerd popculture c. 2010 bubble. Under every “no cultural impact” post you’ll find the same three idiot post genres: “dances with wolves” “I haven’t seen it and never will!” And “blue cat people”

Sometimes I forget there are Star Wars fans who will go on about how much they disliked TLJ (which I have no problem with) and their first criticism is “the turbolaser bolts had an arc”

"Maduro was bad, but" shut the fuck up, you people will never learn.

So many people are so ideologically captured - mentally - that when presented with naked aggression - that they preemptively libwash aggression by the most nakedly fascist US administration yet. They don’t even need the media to do it for them (which the media has been doing for months!)

Cis """allies""" when a trans person doesn't like a marvel movie

And I do dearly wish more people would flat out make this argument. Because then I could say they are "wrong," have "bad taste" & are "perpetually trapped in 2010" & that would be that.

As with Lucas, a brand of nerd absolutely loathes Avatar because it’s a story from an artist with a singular vision who doesn’t act like he owes some annoying ass fandom a damn thing. Hugely irritating for people raised on over a decade of hacks saying “we made this [piece of shit] For the Fans”

Is there any question that is more annoying to read close to 20 years after they started making these damn movies?

A good thing about getting older is not having to exclusively listen to tedious aging millennials(ie my cohort) talk endlessly about their culturally irrelevant, obscure Nickolodeon cartoon from their teens whenever Avatar comes up

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

Fire and Ash was incredible. Impossible to overstate how inane the “it’s the same movie as Way of water” criticism of Fire and Ash is. Totally embarrassing argument for any critic to make

I am once again telling you that democrats support the fascist project

I don’t blame some people for responding to this with observations that some 20 year olds like listening to almost 50 year old music on antiques but I absolutely do blame dipshits making an argument out of it like it’s some sort of devastating rebuttal and not missing the critique entirely

Incredibly lame that Supergirl has a Walkman and the teaser is already blasting 80s music. At least Starlord was fucking born in the 1980s. Now we’ve got a contemporary 20-something woman with nostalgia for something more appropriate for - say - a 59-year old man. Gen X shit forever lol

James Gunn has made more movies where a superhero imprints on a particular era of music than Scorsese has made mob movies at this point.

Centrists: you leftists idiots. you [slur]s. you don't even really care about helping people. you're basically maga Centrists: we couldn't say genocide was bad because our friend meghan mccain might have gotten upset :(

MCU stans say shit like 'Oh you film snobs want the MCU to fail? You want thousands of people to be jobless do you?' and besides betraying a complete ignorance of how the film industry works stories like this show big corporations aren't your friend and aren't creative's friends either.

It rules that the realistic choices here were that the next installment in the “Casablanca franchise” is either on Netflix or released by Paramount except it’s all about how much Rick Blaine loves Israel and the IDF specifically

Hope everyone is ready for HBO to start taking orders from Netflix execs to make their prestige dramas second screen friendly, so people can follow along while they’re scrolling their phone while cooking

Star Trek is when one guy has a bumpy forehead.

3 years ago the Willow series premiered, a beloved TV show by both critics and audiences. It is now lost media.

Palpatine is sitting around being dead after falling down a pit and exploding, just seething and malding at being dead, and then he decided to return from the dead, because he couldn’t cope. Incredible take

They can spend $489.9 million on Rise of Skywalker, but can't afford to pay someone a livable wage

They’re such miserable cheapskates man. It’s so embarrassing

Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.

That awful contrapoints meme is actually true but not of the left but of liberals, liberal 'left', and centrists. They are the ones who don't want (*to use* their) power but always want to endlessly critique their critics. Bourgeois parliamentarians don't give a fuck about you.

What a dunce argument. Doesn’t engage with what Gilroy is actually saying about this decision and why they didnt make it in Rebels even *tangentially*

People who have watched movies at Reading Auburn, anyone else wonder what the hell is going on with the vibe in this local ad

Imagine being this much of a corporate lickspittle. *who* is harmed by fans fighting for art they want to get made? The feelings of fucking Bob Iger and Alan Bergman? Absolutely deranged Disney corporation fanboys

Reading an interview (spoilers are noted) with the new Naked Gun's director, Akiva Schaffer, and I LOVE this paragraph calling out the problem with the repetitive nature of "legacy sequels" (*COUGH*theforceawakens*COUGH*): www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Don’t make them watch RLMs Avatar review where they piss and shit themselves about the anti-US military messaging and go on about how the U.S. doesn’t owe Indigenous Americans reparations

Fans extend every excuse they can for this and all the other racist humor and rape jokes that is used in these and their other videos in order to avoid admitting that they the points they recite are from somebody who thinks Samuel Jackson should only be cast as an angry black man.

The Plinkett reviews contain an extended sequence where Mike Stoklassa argues that black people don't watch Star Wars, Billy Dee Williams and Samuel Jackson were basically diversity hires, and has some real classy jokes about black people stealing his TV.

People who keep saying THE PHANTOM MENACE sucks will go to such insane lengths without analyzing further to the point where they've gotten to complaining about a simple shot of Liam Neeson swimming.

Say what you want about that mass murderer, at least he put effort into justifying mass murder. The Orange Guy isnt even giving us a compelling lie!

i am surprised disney is not running a counter narrative in the trades, but perhaps this is the perk of building a package around mr. movies himself steven soderbergh. run attacks on him and you'll look like even more of a laughing stock.

It's not enough that leftists who refused to be complicit in a genocide are to blame for Trump's second win -- it's also because people thought Ant-Man 3 was a bad movie

That's the wild part is I don't think anyone has actually blamed this on Jon Favreau. Nobody reasonable thinks Disney and LucasFilm were somehow in an either/or situation that Jon Favreau somehow influenced? We just think the one that was actually greenlit looks like shit

It was a TV season that got turned into a movie at the last moment by Bob Iger. The first trailer released makes it visually indistinguishable from the streaming show. It is for all intents and purposes a TV movie that happens to get a theatrical release. It’s a slight because we have standards.

Me when I demand Mandalorian & Grogu be cancelled and The Hunt for Ben Solo be greenlit

Remember when they said Mandalorian & Grogu - the worst movie name in the history of franchise filmmaking - was just a placeholder