weirdly similar to homelessness in that way. the version of the issue that is visible to people and the version that compromises the bulk of the problem are fairly tangentially related

having listened to the full version a couple times, I also think both the quality and the bowie-ness are enhanced in the cut-down version the movie runs with

as someone who first encountered Sign of the Times while watching Project Hail Mary, I'm kinda shocked it's not a David Bowie song

a friend really sold me on the Venture X card. I am still opposed to pre check on moral grounds, but I won't argue that it's useful pragmatically

wow I didn't know they had tinder in blood meridian

MCU F4 was a really effective setup for the team but apparently the plan is to just shit all over that

it's bizarre because having Doom not be the villain of the *first* fantastic four movie is obviously correct, but not having him be the villain of *a* fantastic four movie is insane

Doom/Namor movie about trying to negotiate Wakanda in to breaking the detente between their nations

*then* you do Secret Wars or whatever the hell. after you've established him as a character in the world, you let him go for all the marbles and get an infinity gauntlet or whatever the hell

then he shows up in an Avengers movie as a guy who is willing to kill Vision the second he hears that would stop Thanos. on-side, but still antagonistic with the proper heroes

then you do a fantastic four movie (not the first fantastic four movie, this was a good call) where he's the antagonist *to the fantastic four*. he's not an apocalyptic threat, he's a guy

first couple of movies he's a supporting character. he's negotiating a trade deal with Wakanda when Namor shows up. you do Doctor Strange: Triumph and Torment

I think you gotta do Doom over multiple phases to work properly

it's not great! it's real fucking weird! and if I remember correctly it's somehow even worse because the context is that it's some weird homophobic thought experiment

it's somehow unfair that you can be the Human Pet Guy and also have other stuff going on. it's just too much.

it is somehow weirder than you'd think from the phrase "human pet guy", but you really don't need to know

god I wish I was so innocent as to block the human pet guy without knowing he was the human pet guy

why are some of them greyscale?

"yes, yes, I know he hadn't done anything yet, but last time we let one of these slide. well, it wasn't pretty, I'll tell you that"

organization that follows the minions around and just shoots whoever they start working for

minions trying to find the person who would most increase their evil actions by having a bunch of tiny yellow henchmen

[digging a grave for one of Beria's victims] banana!

if you're going there the most evil person might be Oskar Dirlewanger or Lavrentiy Beria. high enough up in their regimes that they have real political power while also being personally sadistic

right before the events of a movie in 1920 they would've probably been working for the guys doing the Armenian Genocide

Stalin during the holodomor or someone in Japan during the sino-japanese war, probably?

some university should be brave enough to offer an Ethical Philosophy 101 course where all the examples are the minions deciding who they should work for

so that means the minions worked for Pol Pot, right?

do we think the minions stopped serving Napoleon while he was stuck on his island, or did they help to break him out? did they refuse to serve him at all because they considered him historically progressive?

board meeting where the minions are arguing about whether the escalating anti-Semitic legal framework of Nazi Germany is more or less evil than the rape of nanjing

eventually they'll have to decide the exact point where Hitler becomes the worst person in the world