Not that he needs me to say it, but @SiddhantAdlakha is a gentleman and a scholar, and one of the finest critics to write about the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a place of knowledge and insight.
Also, it is frankly terrifying that @ign would consider replacing him as a reviewer on #Loki because he gave an opinion on the show that rabid Marvel fans didn’t like.

It’s a potentially chilling critical precedent. “Validate fans’ opinions, or else…!”
It’s weird how insecure fans get about these things.

There are plenty of my peers and people I respect who hold different opinions than I do.

However, I am secure enough in my opinion to know in my heart that “Demolition Man” is a true masterpiece of American cinema.
Even ignoring its potentially chilling implications for the industry and the profession, what does this whole panic say about fandom?

Fans claim they want the things they love to be taken seriously, and then start issuing death threats the moment someone takes them seriously.
Anyway, this is a travesty.

And it doesn’t bode well.

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8 Jul
“You’re running out of time.”

#NowWatching “Minority Report”

Apparently I’m on an accidental Steven Spielberg binge.

This is my first time rewatching this in decades. I last saw it as a teenager, and I didn’t love it.

I thought it was too cynical. I was so young.
“Most of our scrambIes are fIash events. We rareIy see premeditation anymore.”
“PeopIe have gotten the message.”
“Uh-huh.”

It’s hard to believe, but “Minority Report” was written and shot before 9/11.

Which odd, because it feels like a quintessential War on Terror film.
It’s a film about state overreach and the erosion of civil liberties in the name of a more secure and seemingly stable society.

Naturally, “Minority Report” suggests that there’s something very cynical and horrific lurking beneath the surface.
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26 Mar
#NowWatching "Suicide Squad" (2016)

I have a reason, I promise.
"Floyd, step up to the door."

One of the most interesting things about "Suicide Squad" is the weird middle-ground that it occupies in terms of production.

It's a Marvel-style IP-driven project, but it was clearly designed as a Warner Bros. talent-drive production.
In that it's notable for re-teaming the talent that worked together on the quirky (and largely forgotten) con artist movie "Focus" from the previous year, Margot Robbie and Will Smith.

The idea is to put them both in a comic book movie, and hope that it'll work.
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19 Mar
Just following on from that discussion of Zack Snyder’s “Justice League”, some thoughts that were too nerdy and esoteric for the article.

In terms of positioning “Justice League” as a reconstruction, it’s obvious even looking at the comics from which it draws. Image
“Batman v. Superman” drew very heavily from two of the biggest “dark age of comics” stories, and hinted at a third.

A lot of the Old Batman Versus Institutionally Challenged Superman stuff comes from Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns”, which ushered in “the dark age.” Image
The climax of the film is lifted directly from the mid-nineties event “The Death of Superman”, which involved - you guessed it - the death of Superman and the introduction of Doomsday.

It was the peak of the nineties “darker and edgier” era, and the height of comics speculation. Image
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19 Mar
Okay, so the big movie release of the week is #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague.

It’s... fine. Big, messy, sprawling, sweeping, exposition-laden, indulgent, mythic. I reviewed it here for @EscapistMag.

WATCH:
As #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague is a four-hour film, and because I am somebody who has lots of thoughts about regular-length movies anyway, I wrote more about it.

Notably, however you feel about Snyder, the restoration of his vision should be celebrated.

escapistmagazine.com/v2/the-whedon-…
What’s interesting about Snyder’s work on the DCEU, from “Man of Steel” to The #SnyderCut, is that it exists in conversation with the characters’ history.

In particular, Richard Donner and Richard Lester’s “Superman II” is a cornerstone of the DCEU.

escapistmagazine.com/v2/from-man-of…
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19 Mar
Great
1. WONDER WOMAN
2. JOKER
3. BATMAN V. SUPERMAN

Good
4. BIRDS OF PREY
5. JUSTICE LEAGUE (Snyder)
6. SHAZAM

Interesting
7. WONDER WOMAN 1984
8. MAN OF STEEL

Bad
9. SUICIDE SQUAD
10. AQUAMAN
11. JUSTICE LEAGUE (Whedon)
Still, none of the modern wave of DC movies are as good as the “Dark Knight” trilogy, “Mask of the Phantasm”, “Batman Returns” or even “Batman ‘66.”

But who knows, I freely admit that they might when given time to settle. I’m a firm believer in the idea of letting things settle.
Indeed, I suspect “Birds of Prey” might get bumped up from “good” to “great” with another rewatch or two.

Having seen it a couple of times now, it is immensely rewatchable.
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15 Mar
#NowWatching “Batman v. Superman.”

Which is a film I’ve always admired in its complete and unequivocal commitment to what it’s doing.
As with a lot of Snyder’s films, “Batman v. Superman” is surprisingly nuanced in its study of fragile and dangerous masculinity.

Notably, in Snyder’s movies, whenever men try to solve anything, it inevitably gets bloodier and messier than it needs to be.
Thomas Wayne gets a single line in “Batman v. Superman”, but consider how much Snyder tells us about Thomas and what happened.

A mugger tried to rob the Waynes. Instead of surrendering his money and valuables, Thomas stands his ground. He acts “like a man.”
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