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I... what.... no. Just no.

I know that Hollywood has stopped giving a shit about making good posters, but wasting the chance to make a great one for a Tarantino movie seems particularly egregious. Anyway, looking forward to this a lot. Feels like a lifetime since Tarantino had a down-to-earth setting.

Ok, I'll bite: why?

Don't worry, no-one's going to die in Endgame.

Please be good. Bond is maybe the only franchise I've not burnt out on because it still feels so infrequent, and they need to make amends for Spectre.

A mid-budget, non animated or SH movie getting a sequel feels almost surreal these days.

I won't see this but good for Wilde. She was box office poison as an actress but seems to have found her feet here.

I like that 'it's not a typical Tim Burton movie' is instinctively taken as a massive plus.

Nope. See: every Cannes film festival round-up.

Civil War is a hot mess. It's the TDKR of the MCU.

Is there every any point in doing this? Media almost always reports the estimate and by the time the actuals come out it's old news...

Damn, he did it again. The Tarantino one-two punch.

*whispers* I actually thought Guardians was the tamest MCU offering of the ones I've seen. For a space fantasy with supposedly zany characters it felt bland as fuck and could have been directed by just about anyone. I imagine the source material was really out-there so credit to Gunn for reigning it in, I guess. But generally I sit somewhere in the middle of the 'MCU movies are all the same/No they're all wildly different' conversation. Some lean funny, some lean serious, but the meat is always slick, solid action adventure. And that's fine!

Credit where it's due, WB seems to be aware of how spectacularly it fucked things up and is now making amends. I know nothing whatsoever about this character but the premise and reactions have me intrigued.

Dude, it's kind of strange to accuse someone of hyperbole and then within the same sentence go on to indulge in hyperbole.

Unless Nolan has had a personality transplant I suspect the 'romance' aspect isn't really the focus, but the North By Northwest comparison sounds very believable. Hard to remember the last big movie in that vein, but I welcome the prospect.

Sorry, meant Vesper was sympathetic - to the point where it's really a stretch to call her the villain at all. Haven't seen the film for years but as I recall all her actions were under duress?

I would - bring it on! 😈

It's the same as World Is Not Enough though - a Bond girl who's revealed to be bad in a final act twist (and even then her motives were sympathetic). An all-out female villain would be a nice change. For a series that is hyper responsive to current trends I'm surprised it's taken so long.

Well, Malek might be alright. He does have a certain bug-eyed intensity. Without wanting to sound all woke maybe this would have been a good film to have female primary villain for the first time? (No, the World is Not Enough doesn't count.)

I know, I'm in a minority. But I did find that aspect was pretty underwhelming given how much people went on about it. I look forward to the sequel exploring it further.

I liked Black Panther but it must have been a rather weak year for it to win Production Design. Wakanda wouldn't have felt out of place in a Star Wars prequel.

Dat Roma effect...

Dude went from Movie 43 to this.