Deontological Warfare

who delivers the Brady Punch

I worked really, really hard to assemble a career, and just shy of my 40th birthday I had gotten a good-paying full-time job in my field.

A year later I was hit by a layoff and basically everything in my life has spent two years going completely off the rails.

She definitely owns the look.

#ffxiv

I remain convinced that the whole “dirtbag left” and “Bernie bro” phenomenon was basically a way to sell right wing politics with a superficially left/alternative “vibe”

gotta admit this isn't really what i wanted from a more "mature" Pokemon title

As I have said elsewhere, Gaza is like Brigadoon, it only exists when it justifies something they want to do and then fades into the mist.

i would simply not be on an out of control trolley

The dumbest part of this poster being wrong is that they also acknowledge that it does not apply for the people on the right who were going to vote for El Monstro no matter what, so it's one of the many cases where only one side has actual agency.

Feel like @barleybap.bsky.social would either love this or viscerally hate it.

I'd say my controversial opinion would be that if you stacked them next to one another, The Rescuers Down Under pretty handily beats out Mulan as a film. (Pocahontas, Hercules, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame don't even stand a chance.)

From 1990 until 1999, Walt Disney Feature Animation produced 10 films. I don't think The Rescuers Down Under is the best of that batch (which includes Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King).

But I emphatically think it's in the top half of that batch, easily beating out most of them.

I love legitimate theater.

I just watched it a couple weeks ago and I was delighted by the volume of Slattery.

By contrast, the biggest bonus is introducing TREVOR SLATTERY.

Love that guy.

The Rescuers and its sequel are perfectly charming little movies.

I think 2 is a good movie that has some pacing issues and is clearly a bit rushed, but it is clearly having a lot of fun seemingly doing four or five Iron Man stories at once.

I actually have never been a huge fan of Iron Man 3 but rewatched it on a whim and it's better than I remember it, although I still think the ending is kind of jumbled.

I think they're worth watching if you're interested in film as a medium! Like, I don't think either of them are really great, but I think both of them have lots of good elements and they're not bad. It's interesting to see how Marvel approached these things when it wasn't a sure shot.

I can't speak for Figs, but I really liked Love and Thunder; I felt like it properly should be the end of the Thor movies, honestly, and a good capstone to the running theme of Thor trying to figure out who he actually is amidst everything.

Every time I rewatch Age of Ultron I remember that it has a bunch of scenes I like. It doesn't have a plot I like and those scenes never really coalesce into a movie, so that's a problem, but there are so many fun moments.

THE AGONY AND THE IRONY, IT'S KILLING ME

I hear the voices in my head - I swear to God, it sounds like they're snoring.

I've never understood why people lionize the original and dislike the sequel; the sequel is a bit less horrific, but the horror of the original feels a lot more forced and just weird compared to the more open comedy.

Multiverse of Madness is a lot of fun! I enjoyed it a lot.

There are a lot of other films that I don't think are better than the original but get unfairly maligned. Like, Pacific Rim: Uprising is not anywhere near as good as the original, but the fact is that the original was the outlier, not the sequel.

When it comes to sequels I like more than the original despite public consensus?

My feelings about the Matrix films are pretty controversial, The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars film since Empire (and might be better than it, there's room for debate), and Iron Man 2 is underrated.

I don't disagree on the first one, to be clear; I think that on paper Branagh is the right director for this project but in practice he isn't. I don't necessarily agree that TDW gets a lot of it right, but I can see the argument that it at least understands how all the pieces ought to work together.

I'm actually curious about your reasoning for Thor on this one, although I suppose it's also a question of "do you like The Dark World better than the original Thor" or "do you think The Dark World is a good movie."

Neither one is asked as a target of mockery, of course.

It's a DISTRACTION as Tom Paris STEALS A PRINTER

he doesn't even need it, it's an act of contempt