Happy Marvel Weekend. If you’d like to know how we got here you can read MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS by
@jowrotethis
@mrgavinedwards
and myself wherever fine books are sold AND you can pre-order the paperback with a new chapter at right now!
Loved Matrix Resurrections. It's a movie that genuinely doesn't seem to care if you like it while it shoots shots across the bow of the current state of pop culture hijacked by franchise filmmaking.
The Penguin and Mr. Freeze joking with Keaton Batman then giving a VFX Oscar to GODZILLA: MINUS ONE is the most directly-at-me the Oscars have ever been
Blackthorne: I kept telling him that She-Hulk is actually the better fourth-wall breaking character, but all the edge lords who like katana violence insist a Deadpool pegging joke is somehow a higher form of humor-
Mariko: The Anjin is mad about the MCU
Spider-Man movie fan: "Are they just going to ignore Tony Stark and Endgame?"
Spider-Man Comic Fan: "They could just have the devil delete that from everyone's memory. It's worked before under more extreme circumstances"
Just so you don't have to parse my tweets:
1) Last night's Game of Thrones was good television
2) It very was poorly written
3) Maybe the guys who poorly wrote one TV series and haven't made other good movies shouldn't blindly get a Star Wars trilogy
JJ: The fans want less Rose Tico, better give the fans what they want.
Filoni/Favreau: We're going to make a series that everyone thinks is a Boba Fett series, but it's a Western about a cute puppet. The fans don't know what they want.
UPDATED: “These anonymous people are not speaking on behalf of the AMPTP or member companies, who are committed to reaching a deal and getting our industry back to work,” a spokesperson for the organization says
We're about halfway through the episode and the show stepped right into that "minorities and women are unreasonable war criminals while the white men talk reason" pothole already.
#GameofThrones
You hate AI art for the same reason others do: art is viewed as unique to humanity, but if human art can be duplicated and improved by AI, humanity is no longer unique. AI art makes you question your place and human nature on a subconscious level.
As with any final season of a dramatic and violent television show, I'm now afraid the "Characters I Love" and "Doomed to die horribly" Venn Diagram is just a circle.
HOLY HELL PART 2, here's what I heard from those of you who actually engaged. Because when I don't understand, I try asking. (Twitter might not be good for this anymore, but let's see)
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I feel like I've been personally building towards this for awhile, and
@jowrotethis
and I have been building towards this as long as we've known each other. Very excited.
1) *ICONIC JOKER PERFORMANCE*
2) Snyder's DCEU Starts
3) Bad movie with Batman in it.
4) Movie with bad Joker mostly cut out of it.
5) Wonder Woman!
6) AAAAAHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH! AAAAHHHHH!
7) Is anything salvageable?
5) Fantastic Joker reveal for non DCEU movie
3. Personally, I have experienced hearing damage from firearm noise, and I believe easier access to suppressors may have prevented much of this damage from early on in my life.
It’s so clear after rewatching The Avengers that this saga was planned from the beginning and it was planned beautifully from start to finish. I only pray they regain that spark.
Beware, this thread is about TERMINATOR: DARK FATE - Yeah, that new Terminator movie. Specifically, why we should call it THE MACKENZIE DAVIS TERMINATOR MOVIE
Here's a friendly guide:
TPM - Death Star? No.
AotC - Death Star? Yes, plans.
RotS - Death Star? Yes.
R1 - You better believe it.
ANH - Famously so.
ESB - Death Star? No!
RotJ- Death Star? DS-II!
TFA - Death Star? Basically.
TLJ - Death Star? Nope!
RISE - Death Star? Wreckage
CAPTAIN MARVEL is good, light, and fun. It delivers cinematic superhero moments with an ease that makes you wonder why Man Of Steel and Superman Returns couldn’t, just, have fun with it. Also, the Sam Jackson effect is amazing.
This is funny: Mark Ruffalo basically gave the ending of
#InfinityWar
away in an interview last summer, then recovered and turned it into a joke before anyone noticed.
No one is saying give James Gunn his job back, we're just a little freaked out that a business (who does not care about you) fired a director off his trilogy capper (GotG grossed almost $2B) because a handful of conservatives were mad about Roseanne (a racist)
Hi. Hello. "Fan-service" is not a bad thing if there's 68 other episodes building to moments that fit into the character's headspace. It's knowing your audience.
Hello friends.
Had to be hospitalized with acute diverticulitis, and they had to take part of my sigmoid colon. I’m returning home to begin the healing process today, but if I disappeared on you, I apologize, that’s what happened. Please enjoy this image my friend made
SONY: Time for a Venom movie.
AUDIENCE: That's a pretty exciting cast.
SONY: Tom Hardy is gonna do a mumbly Brooklyn Rain Man and Jenny Slate is a scientist who says SYMBIOTE out loud a lot.
AUDIENCE: Wait-
SONY: Fuck you, you wait, now a motorcycle chase.
Been talking a lot about how Marvel gets over their current slump, which I have ideas about, but WISH’s Box Office performance really makes me wonder if Disney Plus caused a company wide brand problem.
I mean, we're going to do it, but I cannot stress how TIRING it is to have to spend a portion of each week's Game of Thrones discussion defending a character who is being attacked seemingly just because it's a woman.
So I went to
@strandbookstore
to buy my own book. Was going to do it quietly but the clerk mentioned he listened to our podcasts and was looking forward to reading. I avoided breaking down in happiness but did smile foolishly and said “I’m Dave Gonzales” jeeeeeeez.
I'm sad they aren't making more Acolyte. Statistically it performed about as well per dollar as Andor, and that also makes me sad because my favorite Star Wars TV is the least popular Star Wars TV.
Scott Wampler was incredibly gracious to me, even when he would rightly roast me for a bad take. I'll regret never getting to meet him in the flesh and talk Nine Inch Nails and horror movies. I treasured all our interactions, public and private. RIP, Scott.
BREAKING BAD: We're going to make the good guy the bad guy over 62 episodes of character development.
GAME OF THRONES: 72 hours of Game, then the dragon burns everything, but we're going to spend about 65 of those episodes making the dragons look better.
My Grandpa Gonzales - first legal American Citizen of my Gonzales family line, just passed away in California. I'll never forget him attending my NYU graduation when I got to show him my company that had our last name on it. He picked cotton for years so I could do that.
I hoped someone at Condé Nast would come to their senses before Katey made this public. If you have the capability of hiring one of the best in the biz, now's the time. Smart, kind, thoughtful, one of my favorite people ever.
#GetRichOrDieTrying
As you can hear on the latest episode, today’s Little Gold Men is my last, and I am no longer working for Vanity Fair. This was not my decision and I am heartbroken, as I have been since November, when I was first added to Condé Nast management’s proposed layoff list.
New Yorker on Skyfall: "The main characters shows up in this movie and says his own name with a wry look in his eye implying we're supposed to know who this "BOND" is.
In "Avengers: Infinity War," characters aren’t introduced; they just show up, and their behavior is entirely defined by the template set for them in other movies.
It’s finally cover reveal day! Very happy to finally be able to share what
@jowrotethis
@mrgavinedwards
and I have been working on since Endgame’s opening weekend. From the mid-90s up through Quantumania reaction!
This week, David stopped podcasting
@FITWR
and immediately began writing his Dumbo review. He forgot to turn off his recording. I have at least 3 hours of David typing and occasionally groaning to himself.
I DID IT MOM, I'M ON THE
@VanityFair
!
Instead of a twitter thread this time, enjoy this real post about what
#AvengersEndgame
trailer shots were altered. That's right - Black Widow hair games.
After losing my Dad's father in January, very sad to let you know my Mom's dad passed away this week. Both men worked their entire lives to make a world where I had agency and the freedom to make my own choices. May they rest in peace and power.
The rest of the DC slate is in flux, but there are several possible scenarios to consider ahead of next week’s WB meeting. The first is the closing curtain of the Snyderverse, and the heroes cast by filmmaker Zack Snyder for his
#JusticeLeague
It is time for your yearly reminder about KID NATION. The reality series where they put 40 kids alone in a ghost town with survivor-like rules where the winners each week got to call their parents.
Love that the timeline is back on lost.
I think some of my best work was doing a re-watch podcast from 2019-2021. It will remain probably my best memory from the pandemic times.
If you want to check it out, it lives at:
if you've never seen LOST, do yourself a favor and watch the opening of the pilot. after 20 years it's just as intense and brutal as ever. an exhilarating, dizzying 8 mins of rushing through a plane crash from the POV of a doctor. love or hate the show, but this sequence holds up