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Welp, The Rise of Skywalker might have been a bitter disappointment, but at least Star Trek: Picard seems good.

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she weaponized her gag gift im crying

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you know what trope pisses me off the most? when the protag is pointing a gun at somebody and they’re like “you won’t do it. you’re too good” and the person holding the gun is like oh shit i am and they slowly lower the gun while the other person laughs. WHAT THE FUCK. if i were there, and somebody told me “you won’t do it” i would immediately shoot them dead without hesitating. who are you to tell me what i wont do. musty bitch

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*clears throat obnoxiously*

Kris on Superman Returns, briefly

For a would-be screenwriter I weirdly don’t have too many formative movies (maybe because I’m not much of a re-watcher in general) but Guest Reactor Justin tagged me in the “10 posters from movies that matter to you” thing that’s been going around Facebook, so here is at least one:

I grew up more or less familiar with Lois & Clark and the 90s animated series, but Superman Returns is the first Superman thing I loved. It was my gateway proper to picking up some Superman comics, two of which made their own significant impact on me (Birthright, of which there is a fair amount in the first half or so of Man of Steel, and which made me get why Clark falls for Lois Lane; and the acclaimed All-Star Superman, which MoS’s Jor-El quotes). There’s stuff in Returns that I don’t much care for, like Lex Luthor (I’ve never been that interested in any incarnation of him); and there’s a case to be made that Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth were a handful of years too young. But unlike its detractors, I never thought of this movie as boring.

Least controversially, the airplane rescue is very possibly my favorite superhero set piece ever. Part of the reason it works so well is that we’re in Lois’s point of view for a lot of it; we first see Superman as a blur outside her window, and we’re tossed around the cabin with her as Superman has trouble solving the problem. Superman’s struggle, less of strength and speed than of precision and even, surprisingly, delicacy, sets the sequence apart from most large-scale superhero action, in a way that in the last 12 years has only really been answered by the Air Force One rescue in Iron Man 3, which added the great flourish of having the crew participate in their own salvation. (Maybe this should go without saying, but the fact that these scenes are about saving people and not Kicking All of the Ass is a large part of why they stand out.)

Though Routh may have been too young (for continuity’s sake if nothing else), he still gave what might be my favorite onscreen interpretation of the Kal-El persona. He’s the rare deeply introverted superhero who (crucially) isn’t characterized as therefore brooding or broken. Routh’s Superman is alienated (no pun intended) but serene, distant but warm, an observer (to an admittedly creepy fault) as much as a doer, both apart from mortals and empathetic toward them nonetheless. He comes across as enlightened beyond his apparent years (a way in which Routh’s youth was perhaps a bonus), truly a superior man.

I think this commitment to Kal-El as not-of-humanity, in a moral and psychological sense as well as a physical one, is why some people reject this movie even if they don’t in general reject the concept of Superman as a Better Guy Than All of Us. I think people find this Superman on some level condescending, and some purists might say that even if condescension isn’t unwarranted, Superman wouldn’t feel it. But this is a Superman who explicitly hears everything all the time, and spends a lot of time as a stratospheric sentinel. He’s intimately familiar with all of the ways that people suck. If he didn’t find the species disappointing it wouldn’t be saintly but stupid. That he doesn’t give up on humanity anyway is what makes him something adjacent to divine. So is the fact that – as Christopher Orr pointed out in his reviews of both Superman Returns and Man of Steel – Singer and Routh’s Superman never throws a punch.

This is a superhero movie that can be described not only as “visually stunning” but as, specifically, beautiful. Unlike Batman v Superman (a movie I actually don’t hate, but that’s beside the point), which describes Superman as day to Batman’s night but never demonstrates this visually, Superman Returns is drenched in light. The visual effects really hold up, the music both honors John Williams’s themes and contributes some soaring new melodies that feel right at home, the flight sequences have a sense of spaciousness and therefore freedom that the (excellent) flight in Man of Steel doesn’t, and the choice to have Superman move like a swimmer – gracefully and in some ways oddly slowly – reinforces his characterization as a removed higher being.

Shockingly (for those who know me), I never had a problem with the kid.

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★ Important questions ★

Steve Rogers and James Rhodes | Deleted Scene | Avengers: Endgame

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The other day I went to McDonald’s with my family and the guy who took my order was really loud and was basically like “HAPPY HOLIDAYS WHAT CAN I GET YOU” and I was like wow I can’t let this guy outmatch me so I yelled “I’LL TAKE A HAPPY MEAL WITH THE NUG NUGS IF I MAY” you know, like a natural well-adjusted epitome of adulthood 19 year old and he was like “CERTAINLY WOULD YOU LIKE THE MIGHTY KIDS MEAL INSTEAD WITH EXTRA FRIES” and I was so sleep deprived I essentially blacked out and apparently leaned over the counter like I was robbing the place, raised my eyebrow like a suave robin hood and said “HECK YES I WOULD GOOD SIR” and then I sat down and he yelled from across the store “WOULD YOU LIKE THE PURPLE OR BLUE SPIDER-MAN” and since purple is the more superior color that’s how I answered and long story short my parents think college changed me and that I’m now the poster child for being social and I’ve only been asked once why I’m not in a relationship yet but I know it’s gonna be brought up again and how do i tell my parents it’s because whenever I eat in the dining hall I spend the entire time playing bumper cars with the wheeley chairs and all I eat is pixie sticks and the last time I was in the library (where I’m supposed to work next semester, deAr GoD) I ripped my leggings in the bathroom pulling up my pants and I walked the entire 20 mins back to my dorm with my neon underwear peeking out from the holes like a 17th century harlot with a cocaine addiction and I’ve essentially been living off jars of peanut butter and the soundtrack to the bee movie for the past year

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#this scene has such BME (Big Magneto Energy)

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“I just wanted to be like you..”

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It may be true that we don’t want a president who asks us to do homework. But we might want one who manages to see in us, somehow, potential.

Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy A lifelong teacher, she’s the most professorial presidential candidate ever. But does America want to be taught?

by Rebecca Traister

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“reblog this or your mom will die”

“seriously judging everyone who doesn’t reblog this post”

“if you don’t reblog this post you have no soul”

“you reblogged something from an OP who is bad”

“i don’t care what your blog is about, spread this like wildfire!”

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unexpected eye exam finding

60y/o man presents for adult well-visit. Me: All right, cover your right eye for me. Can you read the bottom row of letters? Patient: [reads them perfectly] Me: Awesome! Now cover the other eye, and let’s do the same thing. Patient: [covers other eye] I can’t see anything. Me: How about the top row? Patient: Nope. Me: Even the big E? Patient: What E?

Me: [worried but hiding it] All right. Let’s try something else then. [holds up index finger] Cover your right eye and follow my finger with your left eye. Patient: [follows instructions perfectly] Me: Excellent. Now let’s try the other one. Patient: [right eye does not move]

Me: [worrying even more but still trying to hide it] Okay. [picks up ophthalmoscope] I’m going to check your left eye first, okay? Patient: Okay. Me: [performs fundoscopic exam on left eye] All right. Everything looks good here! Let’s try the other one. Patient: Okay. Me: [attempts fundoscopic exam, but light bounces back at me] 

Me: I- [working hard to conceal panic] Your right eye is interesting. Patient: Yeah, it’s a glass eye. Me: …what? Patient: [clearly trying not to laugh] It’s a glass eye. Me: Were you planning on telling me at some point? Patient: [bursts into fit of giggles] I wanted to see you freak out first!

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Had you met each other before “Booksmart”?

DEVER We were always ships in the night.

FELDSTEIN I saw Kaitlyn at the Toronto Film Festival. She was in pink, and she walked out, and I was like, [gasps]. “Wait — oh — but ——. ” When Olivia told me she wanted me to be Molly, I was like, is Kaitlyn still playing Amy? I couldn’t believe it. Because Kaitlyn’s performance in “Short Term 12” will go down —

DEVER [mortified] Oh my God.

FELDSTEIN — as one of the best cinematic performances —

DEVER She brings this up all the time.

FELDSTEIN — of all time. I was such a fan of hers.

DEVER We met for the first time at a lunch with Olivia, at the Chateau [Marmont] in Los Angeles, as you do. And we agreed to living together within the first 15 minutes of knowing each other.

Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever interviewed by Dave Itzkoff

Click through above for the rest.

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When she looked back on these projects, Wilde was upbeat rather than heartbroken. “I somehow developed a solid core of confidence that has allowed me to weather the storms of almost everything not working out,” she said. She likened the experiences to dating, adding: “None of this is commitment. This is me learning, and then realizing, I know what I want to do with it.”

Yet, without quite pointing to specific instances or past collaborators, Wilde said she had faced enough examples of being categorized for her looks — and the expectation that she can play only certain types of sexualized or available characters because of them — that it had caused her to question her talents and accomplishments.

“Have I ever felt exploited?” she said, a tone of resignation slipping into her voice for the first time in the conversation. “Yeah. Do I realize that I’d become numb to that? Yes. I had become numb to the fact that every meeting I went on — with men and women, by the way — I was going to be judged on my physical appearance. Because that’s what actors deal with, and man, it’s exhausting.”

Olivia Wilde profiled by Dave Itzkoff

Wilde’s Booksmart, in theaters tonight and currently at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes with 117 reviews, might be my favorite thing I’ve seen this year.

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You just know when someone’s meant to tell a story, and when you’re part of something that is meant to be told. On ‘Lady Bird,’ I felt I was seeing someone create something that only they could tell. And then when I met Olivia, I was like, ‘There’s two of them?’

Beanie Feldstein, star of Booksmart

Olivia Wilde, Director: ‘Too Old to Play Dumb Anymore’

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(If you don’t want to see Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd argue for 100 minutes of screentime, I’m not sure we can be friends)

If you want to see Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd argue for 10 minutes at a time, for 10 episodes, you should get a free trial to Sundance Now and watch all of State of the Union in a week.

At 100 total minutes you could watch it all in one sitting, obviously, but I think Alan Sepinwall is right that it seems intended to stretch out; I watched two a day, and not back-to-back.

From the writer of Brooklyn, About a Boy (the book), and Juliet, Naked; and the director of Dangerous Liaisons, Philomena, and The Queen.