#FOUR LIGHTS

They really had no idea what to do after the college related storylines wrapped up

The editors better cut as fast they can

Somehow, Shameless returned

Season 3 it'll just be Red vs Blue machinma

Well, he did do several Game of Thrones and Succession episodes

now we can go back to complaining about other parts of the Oscars

The show's fine, it's the dumb culture war articles about it that are annoying

The Russo Brothers suck

The B movie system as it was for westerns in their hay day doesn't exist anymore. They were theatrical films with low to modest budgets but had access to studio resources and up and coming talent that weren't ready for A pictures.

Jesse Van Johnson makes DTV films, and he's actually pretty good at directing even if he rarely gets a good script. He's never gonna get the next Chris Evans or whatever who needs to cut his teeth before becoming Captain America. It's actually the opposite, Johnson gets stars at the end of their careers.

I'm lamenting that superhero films don't have a true B movie system.

Samaritan has a $100 million budget, you think that's a B movie?

They don't really get made anymore. No one's making Super or Chronicle these days.

I mean you say that but mainstream comic films are largely just hero's journey action films. Sure you can change the aesthetics of the setting but the actual story beats will be largely the same. No one's pumping out adaptations of more character driven comics like Ghost World or anything along those lines.

You think DC or Marvel would ever make a film like the original 3:10 to Yuma, which is mostly just Glenn Ford and Van Heflin exchanging superb dialogue in a room?

Yeah I agree on pretty much all counts. Watchmen was certainly much more ambitious.

I think it'd do the genre a lot of good if it had a B movie division much like westerns did in their golden age - a good B western could just be a mostly dialogue driven two hander with a couple of locations. I'd love to see a comic book movie like that - God knows actual comic books have done great issues like that.

I mean if we're gonna talk about flexibility of western vs comic book cinema how can we not talk about the heights of the western?

I love Legion, it's a shame that something like that will never be made in Marvel's foreseeable future because there's no room for something that idiosyncratic in the MCU.

Eh I don't think you're giving westerns enough credit on how broad the genre was stretched, for one thing, it's a genre that has regularly had more artistic ambitions than any movie Marvel and DC has produced.

There's no John Ford of the MCU

The accent game in that show is Fargo levels fun

You haven't lived life until you've mainlined several Marvista trailers in an one sitting.

I'm begging you to watch a movie that isn't a franchise

Does that mean the cast will suffer a shocking amount of concussions?

https://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville-knockout

I don't think the WGA would allow that

Just record some pick ups in the studio and cheat them under stock footage of fish, it's fine.