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@Darren_Mooney "Always fascinated by how insecure in their opinions fans of "Superman (2025)" are and how they act like spoiled children throwing weird tantrums at the mildest criticism of the movie. "Not all fans" obviously but it's interesting. Gives the MCU fans a run for their money"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T08:54Z 13.1K followers, 18.8K engagements

"With #Peacemaker wrapping this week it's a good time to look at what makes James Gunn such a distinctive superhero filmmaker. How Gunn puts himself in his work how "Superman" & "Peacemaker" are about the internet and what Gunn gets about superheroes as a genre. Video below"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-07T15:16Z 13.1K followers, 11.5K engagements

"DISNEY EXECUTIVE: We cast that new TRON movie just like you said boss. BOB IGER: Thats not what I meant when I said find me a cult actor"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T16:09Z 13.1K followers, 4479 engagements

"If TRON: Legacy came out today half the internet would complain that the extended digital Nurumberg sequence was too heavy-handed that CLU had some good ideas and why are politics in everything now"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T15:01Z 13.1K followers, 33.5K engagements

"Really enjoyed the second season finale of #Peacemaker. But also - as somebody who thought Superman was overstuffed with superfluous characters who crowded the hero out of his own movie - extremely wary of what it potentially sets up"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-10T12:02Z 13.1K followers, 3771 engagements

"On my way to #TronAres and idly thinking about how the entire point of the ending of TRON: Legacy was that the older generation needs to let their children have the future rather than allowing those kids to be haunted by their monstrous computer-generated digital ghosts"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T16:03Z 13.1K followers, 8807 engagements

"Really enjoyed #Roofman. Helped by charismatic lead performances from Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst Roofman strikes an impressive tonal balance between absurdist comedy and earnest character drama. A sweet and sincere look at the art of trying to find a gap in a system"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-09T21:21Z 13.1K followers, 1991 engagements

"It might turn out to have incredible legs but due to the combination of splitting box office with cinemas and the fact that the budget doesnt include publicity (including advertising and a global promotional tour) the rule of thumb is a film needs to make 2.5x its budget"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T21:15Z 13.1K followers, 3552 engagements

""That doesnt sound like a shredder. Its an incinerator." On that ". do we even believe we're the good guys anymore" point it's telling that one of the early establishing beats for the director of the CIA in "Thunderbolts*" is loading a bunch of people into an incinerator"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T16:22Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"#NowPlaying #GhostofYotei"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-10T19:25Z 13.1K followers, 1676 engagements

"Interesting"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T20:56Z 13.1K followers, 12K engagements

"It does feel like we're about five years away from a "Halloween" sequel that involves a subplot about the US military trying to weaponise Michael Myers"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T18:24Z 13.1K followers, 2559 engagements

"It does feel like so much of modern pop culture was about priming the pump for this sort of ghoulishness. Dont think about this thing you like. Dont engage with it meaningfully or critically. Dont even imagine things outside the guardrails. Just push the content button"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T16:59Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Cineworld Dublin didnt screen this in their 4DX"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-07T21:11Z 13.1K followers, 1893 engagements

"#NowWatching "Thunderbolts*" Easily the best superhero movie of the year. And it's not even especially close"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T15:46Z 13.1K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Playing Ghosts of Yotei. Enjoying it. Memories of the Zelda games on the N64. But I got a strangely large kick out of the realisation the Kitsunes secret code is just a PlayStation controller mapping buttons to the d-pad. Triangle/up. Square/left. Circle/right. X/down"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-14T23:23Z 13.1K followers, 1424 engagements

"One day I hope to enjoy something half as much as Michael Sheen enjoys his five minutes of screentime in TRON: Legacy. Where he does David Bowie by way of Charlie Chaplin while ejaculating lasers to a DJ set from Daft Punk"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T14:32Z 13.1K followers, 5910 engagements

"I dont know. Despite what Tarantino says Billy Wilder will always be remembered as the guy who directed Some Like It Hot The Apartment Double Indemnity Sunset Boulevard and so on. Nobody cares about Fedora or Buddy Buddy"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T07:18Z 13.1K followers, 45K engagements

"I thought The Smashing Machine was solid. Johnson is great a reminder of how good he can be. Theres some interesting stuff here about the idea of a combat sport movies central romance being with the sport itself and combat being in the marriage. But its very on the nose"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-06T21:22Z 13.1K followers, 1479 engagements

""What is happening" "Youre not even my target. Youre mine." Small detail that I love about "Thunderbolts*." Every action sequence has its own game. The first one has its four leads each targetting another - a circular firing squad as it were"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T16:25Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Literally every James Bond movie has its own brand new theme song"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T16:43Z 13.1K followers, 10.1K engagements

"A goofy little bit we couldn't quite fit into this week's "The Backdrop" on the nostalgic fetishism of the "Jurassic Park" sequels"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-07-15T16:11Z 13.1K followers, 9681 engagements

"The second season finale of Millennium portrays the end of the world as a series of psychic flashes set to Patti Smiths Horses. Coupled with a set of act openers that look like commercials only to end in mass death. Its one of the best things ever put on television"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T17:39Z 13.1K followers, 3628 engagements

"#NowWatching #Roofman"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-09T18:15Z 13.1K followers, 1174 engagements

"My boring take is that these are both the weakest features from their respective directors and for largely the same reason - they feel the most impersonal of their films. That said at least Man of Steel has a take on the character beyond empty nostalgia and fan service"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T07:29Z 13.1K followers, 27.4K engagements

"Paul Thomas Anderson does something incredible with Hall in One Battle After Another an actor with one of the fastest mouths in Hollywood. He focuses on her eyes. Hall has these incredible expressive emotive eyes and so many of Deandras moments are just her watching"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-07T22:16Z 13.1K followers, 582.1K engagements

"Its worth noting that last week both altAuggie and Ads hit on the point maybe Nazi Earth isnt so different from our own. And the finale was about the US government effectively looking for a wide open space to which it could move undesirables on the basis of their genes"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-10T16:33Z 13.1K followers, 30.1K engagements

"Ah no. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. A true legend of the screen"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T20:53Z 13.1K followers, 1926 engagements

"I know there are bigger things to worry about like the destruction of the artistic class the environmental damage and the loss of a consensus shared reality. But it is so fascinating and depressing how much of this reflects the broader contentification of media"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T17:02Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Find a critic whose voice you trust and read their reviews. An aggregator cant tell you what a critic liked about a film. Rotten Tomatoes cant even tell you how much a critic liked a film. A critic might like a film for a reason youd hate it. Read reviews"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T19:56Z 13.1K followers, 15.8K engagements

"#AfterTheHunt is unfortunately Trrible"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-13T20:07Z 13.1K followers, 1897 engagements

"Wild that Superman ended up being the worst of these and by such a wide margin"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T12:26Z 13.1K followers, 7460 engagements

"The third season of "Fargo" is really great and it feels like a crystalisation of the themes seeded in the first two season about the dehumanising effects of the post-Cold-War globalisation. Systems and structures sapped of any humanity"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-12T14:13Z 13.1K followers, 2124 engagements

"Similarly the CIA's discovery of a god-like power source in a crater in the middle of the desert is evocative of Coulson's trip to Arizona in "Iron Man 2" and "Thor." "Thunderbolts*" is very overtly evoking the movies that led to the original "Avengers.""
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T17:16Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Flicked on the television and found Kong: Skull Island. Easily the best thing that the MonsterVerse has produced. Ape-ocalypse Now"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T12:37Z 13.1K followers, 3543 engagements

"Of course they are"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-14T16:23Z 13.1K followers, 4831 engagements

"Rewatched "Bring Her Back" with a friend and she noted that Sally Hawkins in "Aunt Gladys in a different font." And while both movies were produced independently I can't unsee it. (It is interesting that both movies are about abusive guardians.)"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-12T00:44Z 13.1K followers, 4909 engagements