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/shrug Plenty of movies do that. Battles for Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields in LoTR are barely a handful of pages. Maybe 1-2% of the page count of their respective books at best. In the movies, they take up huge chunks of the run-time, being elaborated out.

Dunno. It's gonna be a Bond movie. Cool stunts, nonsensical one-liners and product placements, would be my guess.

Smith interrogating Morpheus, taking off his glasses and earpiece, "humanity is a virus" and "I wanna get out of here, cause you disgust me" definitely wasn't regular Agent-stuff. None of the other Agents even remotely behaved that way. Hell, the other agents were pretty perplexed at seeing...

What fucking difference does it make which actor plays a character? The story is good, or it isn't.

/shrug Spiderman 3 (or anything with Spiderman in the title) performing better than random origin-story-movie for a virtually unknown character isn't really a high bar. I mean, Thor 4 or Guardians 3 will probably outperform the Morbius introduction-movie too. Shocking, really, how that works...

Hard to compete with RDJ, Evans, Rudd, Hemsworth, etc.. falling over themselves to suck Feige-cock day in and day out ;)

Saw this today. All pretty try-hard edgelord-stuff with no soul.

Looks like pretty desperate nostalgia-bait. Sad how these types of movies immediately fall off a cliff outside the Marvel Studio.

Not the reviews I read, which highlighted + Very solid Martial Arts action (not quite the highest Hong Kong level, but apparently very good for Hollywood with surprisingly few jump cuts/edits to hide sub-par stuntwork). + Very solid supporting cast managing the marvel-mix of humour/drama...

The muslim and christian cults hadn't yet split from the jews at the time of pyramid-building. All still the same at the time.

Current China-movie embargo is all movies, not just Shang Chi or even just Disney. They pulled out all US production to preserve their delta-variant depressed box office for Chinese productions. The last US movie to open in China was Peter Rabbit 2. China is blocking Shang Chi the same as they...

Lol. Well. It's Marvel. It might be the "final trailer", but there's a million more "featurettes" coming. gotta love the magic of adding slightly different letters to the clips they churn out.

Star Wars going Anime

Title: Star Wars: Visions Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2021-09-22 Overview: An anthology series of animated short films celebrating Star Wars through the lens of the world's best anime creators.

As long as they get that naming petition through, I'm fine ;)

Ridley Scott working overtime, it seems

Young sailors learn to sail on old ships, as they say in France or some such ⛵

So shift in tone, unnecessary additional actors cast against type, nonsensical plot with bad, clichee dialogue and villain? So basically it fits right into the tradition of Aliens, T2, Empire Strikes Back, etc..

Original Blade Runner also tanked at the box office (as did all previous attempts to do Dune). This stuff just isn't 4-quadrant block buster material, generally speaking, even in non-Covid times. In definitely makes sense on that end to give Dune trailers (the movie?) a spin towards...

There is no specific skin colour mentioned in the book regarding Fremen, except leathery and tanned from the sun. For all we know, they could be bright pink. But going with something vaguely middle eastern, jesus-coloured would seem to fit some other themes Herbert uses with them.

/shrug Ridley Scott is what (quick google) 83 years old now? Not expecting another Gladiator out of him, but if his octogenarian encore is giving us a few more Ridley-Scott-style medieval sword fight and battle scenes in a fun-enough movie or two, instead of another self-indulgent not-Alien...

And quips. Gotta have quips. An occasional skybeam. More quips.

Title: The Last Duel Genre: Drama, History Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Ben Affleck, Harriet Walter, Nathaniel Parker, Michael McElhatton, Alex Lawther, Zoé Bruneau, Ian Pirie, Sam Hazeldine, Brian F. Mulvey, Caoimhe O'Malley, Zeljko Ivanek...

Sure. Nice ending. But one that would've implied that there is no big multivers-ing of the MCU, but instead Sylvie took over and, for the rest of the MCU, the status quo from before the Loki show aired was repaired. Maybe some changes to the timeline, but in essence still a single time line...

Because they would prune any competing TVA (if the TVA is even "inside" any given timeline ... I thought it kinda sat outside like the Citadel). Of course, assuming there'd be multitudes of variant multiverses full of TVAs full of variants that think they pruned all the multverse down to a...

Maybe. But if there're 2 or more branches / TVAs, they (and the Kang behind it) would know about it (and one would've pruned the other one). 2 TVAs on two (or more) branches contradicts the existence of the TVA in the first place. The TVA is created by the victorious Kang after eliminating all...

Not really. If there's a TVA, it'd be working to preserve one sacred timeline. Nu-Moebius and co. are clearly stressed out about the fact that things just started to branch, so it seems only logical that the day before they were happily working away on preserving one single sacred timeline as...

Because there are so many Loki-visuals and "variants" (not in the Disney+ sense) in the comics, and this was an opportunity as good as any to show them off. Also, they showed at least the Frog-variant of Thor, so the possibility isn't restricted to Loki necessarily (even if they didn't make...

Well, the way this seems to go in the Disney+ logic is that his death and the return/rerun of the multiverse(-war) would bring back many of his less friendly variants. Kang the Antman-movie-villain will be a particularly villainous variant to this "He who remains" as Sylvie or Richard E. Grant...

Sure. But in Black Widow, it's wisely an after-credits tease, not 95% of the final-act showdown.

The great exposition dump at the end of time.

Nah. I "liked" Bautista (as an actor) because he was doing both Drax and roles with a (slightly) different pitch as in Blade Runner, James Bond, whatever. And because he is himself NOT Drax. If the Rock isn't literally playing himself, Fighting with my Family-style, he's breaking immersion and...

Dunno. I kinda liked Bautista before he shit the bed with that Zombie movie. He's no Daniel Day Lewis, but at least he tries to play different characters, etc.. in ways the Rock or so just fucking don't.

Title: Val Tagline: The life you live is the story you tell. Genre: Documentary Director: Leo Scott, Ting Poo Cast: Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn Release: 2021-07-23 Runtime: 109 Plot: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or...

Vengeance for Nick Fury not being played by the Hoff?

Which honestly wouldn’t be nearly as much of a problem for the people jumping forward as they made it out to be. If only some 50.000 out of perhaps 8 billion, end of 2022, are alive, chances to actually send somebody meeting him or herself are slim. That entire you-die-in-7-years plot point...

/shrug Honestly not sure why it needed to be a time travel movie to begin with? Just do Aliens show up and start killing people. Do some first act action scenes. Time-jump 6 months. Things are so desperate that we start recruiting civilians. Do some second act action scenes. Time-jump 6...