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Joss Whedon Changed Justice League So Much, Its Screenwriter Wanted His Name Off of It
Oscar-winning writer Chris Terrio was working on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when he saw, for the first and only time, a film he was credited with writing: 2017’s Justice League, directed by Joss Whedon. “I drove to the studio and I sat down and watched it a couple of weeks before release,” Terrio…
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When Fandom Is The Problem
“Fandom” – the participatory community that grows out of a piece of media – has come to dominate pop culture. Fandom is not simply being a fan of something. Fandom is performing being a fan by creating transformative works, collecting knowledge, cosplaying, attending conventions, and, ever-increasingly, being vocal online. Some of this has been really…
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Batman V Superman Fails In All The Ways That Man Of Steel Succeeded
Three years ago, Superman got his own Christopher Nolan-influenced movie reboot, full of brooding portents and Kryptonian politics. Man of Steel was a pretty good movie, albeit one with serious flaws. Now the sequel is out, and it deals with a lot of the same ideas and themes. And fumbles them completely. Minor spoilers ahead.…
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The Failed Gaming Projects Of This Year’s Hottest Filmmakers
Zack Snyder. Guillermo Del Toro. Gore Verbinski. Michael Bay. Peter Jackson. These are just some of the top filmmakers in the world who have tried to make video games — who have said that they’ve got ideas that’d be great to play — yet who’ve mostly failed in the realm of PC, PlayStation, Xbox and…