# ![@Darren_Mooney Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::481216430.png) @Darren_Mooney Darren Mooney

Darren Mooney, a film critic, has been active on social media, sharing his thoughts on various movies and comics. He recently expressed his disappointment with James Gunn's Superman film, calling it a "mess" and stating it's Gunn's worst theatrically released film. Mooney also praised other films and comics, including All-Star Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, and Watchmen, highlighting their impact and storytelling.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The porn industry in "Boogie Nights." Urban disconnect in "Magnolia." Oil in "There Will Be Blood." Scientology in "The Master." The counterculture in "Inherent Vice." Anderson is one of the great filmmakers about California that strange place at the end on the American Dream"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1954189063138742376)  2025-08-09T14:32Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I don't care if a film adaptation doesn't stay faithful to its source material at all. I only care if its good. I don't care if a film adaptation doesn't stay faithful to every single point of its source material as long as the heart of the story is successfully delivered https://t.co/4RHYMRcVAg I don't care if a film adaptation doesn't stay faithful to every single point of its source material as long as the heart of the story is successfully delivered https://t.co/4RHYMRcVAg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1987090778179445163)  2025-11-08T09:32Z 13.3K followers, 59.5K engagements


"To be clear there were folks who whined about the casting of Avery Brooks in Deep Space Nine as done on ethnic grounds or politically correct while the show was on the air. They just didnt have an entire infrastructure dedicated to amplifying their bigotry. If DS9 came out today youd do exactly what Twitter told you to do and whine about a black guy in command. I guarantee it. If DS9 came out today youd do exactly what Twitter told you to do and whine about a black guy in command. I guarantee it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2015683051620102611)  2026-01-26T07:07Z 13.3K followers, 49.4K engagements


"This week for @SecondWindGroup @JanjoZone and I look at Starfleet Academy. And how the show has betrayed the next generation. And you know The Next Generation. https://youtu.be/BM6-1rD5i3Qsi=4Gh2pN7P5hiXtKtj https://youtu.be/BM6-1rD5i3Qsi=4Gh2pN7P5hiXtKtj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2016180524545397096)  2026-01-27T16:04Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"As an aside the fourth episode of "Wonder Man" heavily indebted to "Atlanta" is on the short list of the best things that Marvel has ever done. A story about fame about exploitation and about the way that the industry chews up talented people of colour and spits them out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2016459734614753305)  2026-01-28T10:33Z 13.3K followers, 115.1K engagements


"Thinking about the release of "Wonder Man" and "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" so close together. Both feel like attempts to tell smaller more cost-effective stories in frameworks better known for their blockbuster sensibilities reflecting the end of the streaming boom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2016990039587147995)  2026-01-29T21:41Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The second season of "Sugar" is arriving in June with Tony Dalton Sasha Calle and "special guest star Shea Whigham.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2018987151707295794)  2026-02-04T09:57Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"According to my Letterboxd I have watched [----] movies in just the last seven years and Free Guy and Deadpool and Wolverine are absolutely near the bottom of that list. person whos watched [--] movies: Free Guy is the worst dogshit Ive ever watched person whos watched [---] movies: have you ever heard of a niche disaster known as The Room Its soooo bad person whos watched [----] movies: Free Guy is the worst dogshit Ive ever watched person whos watched [--] movies: Free Guy is the worst dogshit Ive ever watched person whos watched [---] movies: have you ever heard of a niche disaster known as The Room Its"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019762887129014756)  2026-02-06T13:19Z 13.3K followers, 54.3K engagements


"Free Guy was a movie that began at 20th Century Fox was developed there and then - when Fox was bought by Disney primarily to harvest its intellectual property - the movie was stuffed with recognisable Disney intellectual property from other harvested brands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019804546655265063)  2026-02-06T16:05Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"So Free Guy is - like Deadpool and Wolverine also on the shortlist of worst films of the decade - a flagship for a virulent strain of cultural cancer. Its a human centipede of culture iconography and imagery regurgitated without meaning or purpose beyond familiarity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019805267660320858)  2026-02-06T16:07Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@offmodescarab Very fair. That said at least Spielberg had the dignity to seem somewhat embarrassed and ambivalent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019805586079240195)  2026-02-06T16:09Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Honestly one of the bigger issues with the modern shared universe synergy is that it makes it less likely that something as potentially ambitious as Red Son or Absolute Batman could be adapted to film. Method Man is a big fan of Absolute Batman https://t.co/uziqg3nDsx Method Man is a big fan of Absolute Batman https://t.co/uziqg3nDsx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019902434559099278)  2026-02-06T22:34Z 13.3K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Honestly its nice to remember a time when we as a culture recognised vacuous nostalgia for the intellectual property of our childhoods as just that instead of treating it as a sacred text. Bryan Singer made the most evil Superman movie Bryan Singer made the most evil Superman movie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020078581490041235)  2026-02-07T10:13Z 13.3K followers, 20.8K engagements


"Off the top of my head superhero movies I rated five stars: Batman [--] Mask of the Phantasm Batman Returns Spider-Man II The Dark Knight Logan Into the Spider-Verse The Suicide Squad. Comics in general add Road to Perdition and A History of Violence. @Darren_Mooney Do you have a lot of highly rated comic book movies. @Darren_Mooney Do you have a lot of highly rated comic book movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020081817085424085)  2026-02-07T10:26Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@adit_kazi22474 I could not believe that was him when I discovered it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020083835971793118)  2026-02-07T10:34Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements


"My issues with Tynion and Zdarskys Batman aside I quite like that Jimenez retains his own style across his three major collaborators while each collaboration has its own artistic vibe. Despite being from the same artist each of the three runs has a different feeling to it. Matt fractions batman is so peak https://t.co/wUZCIlnqzE Matt fractions batman is so peak https://t.co/wUZCIlnqzE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020209529749725382)  2026-02-07T18:54Z 13.3K followers, 19.2K engagements


"It is also the fact that it happens in the corpse of an original film from a studio bought by Disney to harvest its intellectual property. It really is quite crazy how Free Guy is for the most part a decent "machine becomes sentient" adventure/techbro satire in its own contained fictional world and then that single IP overload sequence consumes it and potentially the future of big budget movies like ravenous cancer It really is quite crazy how Free Guy is for the most part a decent "machine becomes sentient" adventure/techbro satire in its own contained fictional world and then that single IP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020211269861798130)  2026-02-07T19:01Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"It dropped on Netflix outside the US this week. I don't mind it becoming my second-most-liked Letterboxd review (not a stiff competition mind) but I do have to ask why in holy hell people are continuing to watch the [----] film ANNIVERSARY seemingly now more than ever You'd think it just popped on Hulu or something but no I don't mind it becoming my second-most-liked Letterboxd review (not a stiff competition mind) but I do have to ask why in holy hell people are continuing to watch the [----] film ANNIVERSARY seemingly now more than ever You'd think it just popped on Hulu or something but no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020285976799826147)  2026-02-07T23:58Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Hopecore baby Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remakes focus on finding hope even in the most challenging of times. That one phrase worried me he tells Empire. Hope is not part of nuclear war. Read more: https://t.co/mZbnO35CVW https://t.co/3kTFEyzqCa Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remakes focus on finding hope even in the most challenging of times. That one phrase worried me he tells Empire. Hope is not part of nuclear war. Read more: https://t.co/mZbnO35CVW https://t.co/3kTFEyzqCa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2020915065923277183)  2026-02-09T17:37Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"First date: Arriving so late to Casino Royale (we were *busy*) that we get in just in time for the ball-torture scene. Second date: They know I am a David Lynch fan discover that he has a new movie out so suggests we both see Inland Empire. We were together eight years. What else https://t.co/RRTt3oYwep What else https://t.co/RRTt3oYwep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021333452495401459)  2026-02-10T21:20Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I mean Dan Trachtenberg doesnt owe me anything and Id honestly kinda like to see a Trachtenberg project outside IP. But also he can continue making Predator movies as long as he damn well pleases. I was excited to see that Dan Trachtenberg signed a new deal at Paramount but was also like "Uhhhh what does that mean for Predator" Does it mean he won't be directing any new Predator movies It does not mean that Trachtenberg just told me. (1/2) https://t.co/jU1cmFgk94 I was excited to see that Dan Trachtenberg signed a new deal at Paramount but was also like "Uhhhh what does that mean for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021348372423360948)  2026-02-10T22:19Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"An insane take on the weekend another cinematic adaptation reimagines Wuthering Heights where the only remotely faithful adaptation was thirty years ago - and awful. And as a more-faithful-than-usual but still wildly different Frankenstein is nominated for Best Picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021508782799667440)  2026-02-11T08:57Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I liked #Crime101 I did not love it. Less Heat more Lukewarm. A tale of urban disconnect that is not quite sprawling enough to justify its runtime there is still some charm in this crime thriller. A solid cast some good beats underlined by an ending a little too neat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021706878712004682)  2026-02-11T22:04Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"One of the best long runs of the eighties. What do people think of Ostrander Suicide Squad https://t.co/eZ36N4e71v What do people think of Ostrander Suicide Squad https://t.co/eZ36N4e71v"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021707873114353897)  2026-02-11T22:08Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @ViewerAnon: How fucked are we as a country that an incredibly successful actor who worked into the last year of his life was left penni"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021725834742997050)  2026-02-11T23:19Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@SADDAY_EVERYDAY @karnesis68 I would suggest that America should maybe sort its stuff out before it starts concerning itself with the rest of the world. (I would also point out that at the climax of the film Superman *doesnt help the oppressed* in any countries. He outsources it to the corporate guys.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021751088983007735)  2026-02-12T00:59Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@captaintrainor They are a constant. Their [----] run is somehow part of the Golden Age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021865579683156178)  2026-02-12T08:34Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@haalasback @SADDAY_EVERYDAY Its also just either incredibly bad faith or deeply stupid (honestly could be both) to say that I want Lex Luthor to kill those (fictional) civilians of that (fictional) country. Theyre not real. They dont exist. Theyre only there because the screenplay says they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021968886581932370)  2026-02-12T15:25Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@haalasback @SADDAY_EVERYDAY This is real babys first movie. Oh so youd let those people who dont exist in that country that doesnt exist die eh you monster No. Id just avoid writing a script that uses the same justification of every disastrous American foreign intervention as a plot point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021969414342709328)  2026-02-12T15:27Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@haalasback @SADDAY_EVERYDAY Whereas you know the groups you actually mentioned - the people of Gaza Sudan El Salvador - actually do exist and are suffering and the solution to their suffering has nothing to do with your bad superhero movie and pretending that it does is not a great look"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021969886587900101)  2026-02-12T15:29Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@Buzz_32123 @BoostUnit13787 The script is deliberately written in such a way as to avoid showing either Supermans initial intervention or having Suoerman intervene again. And I credit Gunn with being a smart writer not a stupid one. So its not ineptitude. Its a choice and a calculated one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022323037840801890)  2026-02-13T14:52Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@Buzz_32123 @BoostUnit13787 If you dont want to write a script about Superman saving those people thats cool. There are plenty of Superman movies without international incidents as their starting points. But it was a choice to include it as exposition but not to show it. And a cowardly calculated one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022323720509857959)  2026-02-13T14:55Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@BoostUnit13787 @Buzz_32123 if I care about fictional characters who prioritise inspiring other fictional characters Or are you asking me why if I believe protagonists in these sorts of narratives should driven their own narratives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022327148988576043)  2026-02-13T15:08Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@BoostUnit13787 @Buzz_32123 When did I even imply that I stated it felt like a calculated pragmatic writing decision based on optics. That is less about how the writer feels than how fans react to things. And why are we calling him James"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022327558378074534)  2026-02-13T15:10Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@BoostUnit13787 @Buzz_32123 But we dont actually see him do it. Very tellingly at the end he outsources that to the comic relief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022042660496978028)  2026-02-12T20:18Z 13.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@talibaneur I find in a lot of cases its worse than the book plot is largely but I wanted the book plot. I think it is entirely reasonable for Stephen King to feel the way he does about Stanley Kubricks The Shining but that doesnt mean that Kubrick didnt make a masterpiece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021523598440346030)  2026-02-11T09:55Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Drop and Abigail both with two hundred to seven hundred metres of the cinema. What is your record for shortest distance between where you saw a movie and where it was shot What is your record for shortest distance between where you saw a movie and where it was shot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021708679272075726)  2026-02-11T22:11Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"It is also a counterpoint to the films emphasis on vampirism. Where Milton and Kay are both sucking the life and youth out of Marty. But Bela is using his body to nourish others. The point is that Belas selfless act only reads as gross entertainment to an oafish braggart like Marty The point is that Belas selfless act only reads as gross entertainment to an oafish braggart like Marty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021728567403720978)  2026-02-11T23:30Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"There is a broader conversation to be had about how Hollywood has spent the past twenty years basically conditioning audiences to want this sort of nonsense and devaluing actual craft and form in favour of content so of course theres an audience for this stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021736700838654113)  2026-02-12T00:02Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Grant Morrison famous Golden Age Superman author of course. People are allowed to have not actually read comics - life is short - but maybe dont act like you have and use that pretense to position yourself as an authority"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021752441654677970)  2026-02-12T01:05Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This is a reply to a post about the fictional superhero Superman by the way. @Darren_Mooney @karnesis68 Who cares about Sudan Gaza the brutal concentration prison camps in El Salvador What a pathetic person you are @Darren_Mooney @karnesis68 Who cares about Sudan Gaza the brutal concentration prison camps in El Salvador What a pathetic person you are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021755931365720176)  2026-02-12T01:19Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @_1os3r: Ive been reading through Siegel and Shusters Superman and it has been one of my favorite comic experiences. I love how he figh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021865910198276495)  2026-02-12T08:36Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @edwardbrgr: She lost to Holly Hunter who played a mute woman and delivered an exceptional deeply expressive performance and reducing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021872418592370960)  2026-02-12T09:02Z 13.4K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @conorsmurf: This is how AI will develop in the short term (if it isn't already that way now). Those streaming action movies those nos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021942952294330481)  2026-02-12T13:42Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @VK_HM: Not every criticism of House of the Dragon is this but Condals willingness to engage and interpret the material to make it abo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022045737459364047)  2026-02-12T20:30Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @UweBollocks: I love how AI people say shit like "I have stories to tell" and every single thing they create is just famous characters h"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022046655231783025)  2026-02-12T20:34Z 13.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Thinking about how "Send Help" feels in direct conversation with "Drag Me to Hell." Not *just* as Sam Raimi's last original feature but both are stories about the horror that from trying to get ahead at the office. "Drag Me to Hell" was one of the great Great Recession films"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2018714161845240014)  2026-02-03T15:52Z 13.3K followers, 150.4K engagements


"No help is coming. You have to save yourself. #SendHelp still rocks. I love Raimi so darn much. Between this and The Bone Temple this is handily one of the best Januaries in living memory. Really great genre offerings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019500966064562504)  2026-02-05T19:58Z 13.3K followers, 11.3K engagements


"New episode of #TheBackdrop up at @SecondWindGroup. This week @JanjoZone and I look at how #Fallout argues that in this post-apocalyptic hellscape were all just NPCs to the billionaires who think theyre going to live forever. WATCH: https://youtu.be/XeLpO9dGcqUsi=cvc53oUJfFbaHR9n https://youtu.be/XeLpO9dGcqUsi=cvc53oUJfFbaHR9n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021271900039606726)  2026-02-10T17:15Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"It is so funny that the key to make Superman work today is the same as it was in the thirties to make him a champion of the oppressed fighting a broken system for the marginalised or the dispossessed. But instead we get lazy platitudes like kindness is the new punk rock"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021711729177117135)  2026-02-11T22:23Z 13.4K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Some quick bus ride home thoughts on #WutheringHeights. https://boxd.it/d7fXz7 https://boxd.it/d7fXz7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022463075820114321)  2026-02-14T00:09Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Niklander3 It would be fine if its fans were willing to just accept it for what it is. I wasnt a fan of the movie to begin with but having to deal with this sort of nonsense at least weekly really hasnt helped. I love Gunn but Im kinda waiting for the axe to drop so this can be done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022968339224830365)  2026-02-15T09:36Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Niklander3 But also its European colonialism with no textual support from the film itself is the thing. None of the films shorthand is European. Bradley Cooper is of European descent sure but hes *not* European. Hes American Philly to the core. Hes not say Mads Mikkelsen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022971146090733858)  2026-02-15T09:48Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Assuming you are serious it represents the incredibly cynical push towards intellectual property for the sake of intellectual property where things do not have value because of anything the artist has to say with them but because the audience recognises them. @Darren_Mooney I think my problem with using Free guy is that I hardly see any futher laboration on WHY they are bad. To me "worst" movie is just vibes based BS. I respect the opinion but I don't ever take it seriously. @Darren_Mooney I think my problem with using Free guy is that I hardly see any futher laboration on WHY they are bad."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019803489875185966)  2026-02-06T16:00Z 13.4K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Free Guy is a movie about a character effectively becoming an individual or a person somebody with a unique perspective agency and taste. But the climax of the movie amounts to Look at how much you love the intellectual property of the Walt Disney corporation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019803954377306335)  2026-02-06T16:02Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Imagine thinking Superman shouldnt be a champion of the oppressed and trying to justify it with a nonsense argument to authority. Also the only way you think that characterisation applies to only three Golden Age stories *you* have only read three Superman stories. Ive discussed this before https://t.co/faF3qcT98M Ive discussed this before https://t.co/faF3qcT98M"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021751850332991900)  2026-02-12T01:02Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"We are the future Charles Not them Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve posing with a Corinthian helmet he found back in [----]. https://t.co/luC4gpcxuK Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve posing with a Corinthian helmet he found back in [----]. https://t.co/luC4gpcxuK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022691768286761306)  2026-02-14T15:17Z 13.4K followers, 691.6K engagements


"@allowableman2 You should watch the second season blu ray collection they discuss it there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022756201310630011)  2026-02-14T19:33Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements


"On a bit of a "Wuthering Heights" kick leading up to the new one and now wondering if the infamous "grave-humping" (which began as a "grave-kissing" before Keoghan elaborated) scene in "Saltburn" was in some way inspired by the end of the [----] "Wuthering Heights.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2019150036018319714)  2026-02-04T20:44Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Heres the thing. Superman is remarkably easy to figure out. Hes the champion of the oppressed who had sworn to devote his life to helping those in need. An immigrant outsider crusader. To paraphrase Grant Morrison Its not hope comics its Action Comics. Movies and TV have long tried to make Superman more than a Boy Scout. But he has always been difficult to figure out. https://t.co/1QiqwVo0wn Movies and TV have long tried to make Superman more than a Boy Scout. But he has always been difficult to figure out. https://t.co/1QiqwVo0wn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021710529765470349)  2026-02-11T22:18Z 13.4K followers, 43.1K engagements


"I mean if I were the writer of Deadpool and Wolverine I might feel threatened by this. But most of the rest Hollywood is okay. Deadpool & Wolverine writer Rhett Reese reacts to viral AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting: I hate to say it. Its likely over for us. https://t.co/zvj39vbLgf Deadpool & Wolverine writer Rhett Reese reacts to viral AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting: I hate to say it. Its likely over for us. https://t.co/zvj39vbLgf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021729226190467440)  2026-02-11T23:33Z 13.4K followers, 71.7K engagements


"No its better than that. Deep Space Nine wrote an entire subplot about how its more successful elder sibling series The Next Generation lost its Emmy. Delightful younger sibling stuff. Really funny of the star trek writers to create a whole subplot about how disappointed they were about losing an emmy https://t.co/qs4HXBCpXD Really funny of the star trek writers to create a whole subplot about how disappointed they were about losing an emmy https://t.co/qs4HXBCpXD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2021873775449452945)  2026-02-12T09:07Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Its Joseph right I remember that just reading it phonetically really helped. Which honestly I kinda like as it makes me feel more like an active reader. forgot what character but someone in wuthering heights has dialogue that just looks like keyboard smashing and i gotta act like ik what they're saying forgot what character but someone in wuthering heights has dialogue that just looks like keyboard smashing and i gotta act like ik what they're saying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022045288400400693)  2026-02-12T20:28Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Gene Roddenberry famously tried to stop them from making this episode because he believed - according to his no conflict rule - Data should have volunteered himself for vivisection. OTD the premiere of #StarTrekTNG's "The Measure of a Man" written by Melinda Snodgrass. It was her very first television credit. The episode was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama and has become a classic. #StarTrek https://t.co/zLguagOjoe OTD the premiere of #StarTrekTNG's "The Measure of a Man" written by Melinda Snodgrass. It was her very first television credit. The episode"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022745828746490215)  2026-02-14T18:52Z 13.4K followers, 18.1K engagements


"Sure. Angela Sarafyan who is from Armenia (an Asian Middle Eastern country) certainly and unambiguously reads as European as do terms like harem and the urge to take many wives seemingly simultaneously. Those are absolutely all shorthand in pop culture for European. @Palestin_Jew83 @Darren_Mooney @shin_kale_rider he also insists that a ruling class of advanced scientists resembling and played by europeans sending their son to earth to conquer it and spread his genes somehow echoes great replacement theory rather than more obviously european colonialism. @Palestin_Jew83 @Darren_Mooney"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022954321810256145)  2026-02-15T08:41Z 13.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Niklander3 Hes a rebel against the system Hes not beholden to the American government Who turns himself in to the US government hours after they issue a warrant for him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/2022971850855530942)  2026-02-15T09:50Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements


"#OneBattleAfterAnother is a delight Battle of Algiers as a neo-western the perpetual and unending American Revolution as a saga of peaks and valleys a struggle passed from one generation to the next. Propulsive thoughtful and - in that wry Andersonian way - very funny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968295276629930281)  2025-09-17T12:45Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"It isnt surprising that One Battle After Another is good. Whats surprising is how propulsive it is. It makes sense Warner Bros. see this as a potential commercial play. In the nineties thisd be a dad movie classic grossing $200m and being in steady rotation on cable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968341829897924857)  2025-09-17T15:50Z 13.1K followers, 15.5K engagements


"Its crass to talk about films in terms of commercial viability and I am not pretending that I hold any certainty that One Battle After Another will be a commercial hit. But films like this - well made accessible smart adult fun - used to be capable of being hits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968342473211879850)  2025-09-17T15:53Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"And in the (frankly likely) event that One Battle After Another doesnt become a populist breakout hit thats not a failure on the films part. Its a failure on the part of culture a reminder of what weve lost over the last few decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968343020501369172)  2025-09-17T15:55Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I will say that rewatching "Fargo" cements why Noah Hawley was a good choice for "Alien: Earth." One of the big recurring themes of Hawley's "Fargo" is that organised crime is particularly evil not because of the crime but because of the unchecked unregulated capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968398087535186077)  2025-09-17T19:34Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"An underrated part of the appeal of "Alien: Earth" is the fact that there are extended portions where - true to the [----] original - the xenomorph is very clearly a performer in a suit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968407201002721603)  2025-09-17T20:10Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Rocko_ndd @mikeisnt But the important thing is that they have funny lines in them so that viewers know that they're not taking the source material *too* seriously although any actual artistic flair will be proof they're not taking the material seriously enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968441187330596996)  2025-09-17T22:25Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"I had forgotten that "The Conjuring 2" establishes that it is set in London by literally playing "London Calling" and playing an establishing montage filled with this imagery. You know in case you can't tell they're in London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968441682354995346)  2025-09-17T22:27Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"To be fair I'd argue that "One Battle After Another" is comparable in scope to "Heat" which shot for $60m in [----]. Adjust that for inflation in [----] and it's about $127m which lines up close enough to the $130m budget I've seen floated around. One Battle After Another looks like the kind of thing they dont make any more. Just a solid entertaining thriller that costs about $30m. Now let me take a sip of my coffee and Google the budget for it https://t.co/QRVl7ZmZnk One Battle After Another looks like the kind of thing they dont make any more. Just a solid entertaining thriller that costs about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968597013773095254)  2025-09-18T08:44Z 13.1K followers, 72.1K engagements


"As ever it turns out so much of the right-wing panic - in this case concerning "cancel culture" - was really just a displacement of their own fears the worry that somebody might do to them what they had done and will do to their own enemies. Jimmy Kimmel Live has been suspended indefinitely following comments made by Kimmel regarding Charlie Kirks death. https://t.co/mjiGRd68X8 Jimmy Kimmel Live has been suspended indefinitely following comments made by Kimmel regarding Charlie Kirks death. https://t.co/mjiGRd68X8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968602438648127632)  2025-09-18T09:06Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Keeping in mind that I tend to rank the new film conservatively heres where Im at with Anderson right now. Share your PTA ranking before One Battle After Another comes out on September 26th https://t.co/EqnDumIzvz Share your PTA ranking before One Battle After Another comes out on September 26th https://t.co/EqnDumIzvz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968640282972365124)  2025-09-18T11:36Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The reason that the Miami Vice television show was set in the eighties is that it was well made in the eighties. I like Kosinski but this is depressing. Joseph Kosinskis MIAMI VICE remake will release on August [--] [----] in theaters. The remake will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-80s Miami and is inspired by the pilot episode & first season of the TV series https://t.co/Hr4ce2stXT Joseph Kosinskis MIAMI VICE remake will release on August [--] [----] in theaters. The remake will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-80s Miami and is inspired by the pilot episode & first season of the TV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968816850315141412)  2025-09-18T23:18Z 13.1K followers, 20.5K engagements


"Not going to pretend that Miami Vice didnt contain insanity like making Edward James Olmos a samurai or James Brown as an alien but thats less Miami Vice was camp culture and more Miami Vice was a television show producing twenty-odd episodes a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968817264397791382)  2025-09-18T23:19Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I dont know. As somebody who loved say the shows earnest but clumsy attempts to engage with serious contemporary issues like domestic violence homophobia and traumatised veterans I kinda hate that Miami Vice has been reduced to empty kitsch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968817748080751038)  2025-09-18T23:21Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"At its best the show was at the cutting edge of eighties television in terms of both form and content. The way to carry that forward as Mann realised in [----] was to produce a film that was at the cutting edge culture in that moment. Not empty nostalgia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1968818256547885179)  2025-09-18T23:23Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I was very charmed by A Big Bold Beautiful Journey which joins the canon of romances about magic doors that Darren likes more than most. Its an achingly sincere and perhaps a little overly literal metaphor for romance as a journey of self-(re)discovery. Won me over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1970197549505028450)  2025-09-22T18:44Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Stop making movies for adults. Stop making art engaging with the real world. Movies that do this arent provocative; theyre dangerous. Right now its abhorrent and irresponsible. Also my banner is a picture of myself at an Inside Out [--] junket. #OneBattleAfterAnother Stop glorifying guns. Stop sensationalizing extremism. Movies that do this arent provocative; theyre dangerous. And right now its nothing short of abhorrent and irresponsible. #OneBattleAfterAnother @warnerbros https://t.co/GtCoeZJbIL Stop glorifying guns. Stop sensationalizing extremism. Movies that do this arent provocative;"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1970422110615990435)  2025-09-23T09:36Z 13.1K followers, 89K engagements


"Having seen the film - which is a populist crowdpleaser in the mode of nineties cable classics delivered to the highest level of craft - this would be a very obvious case of audiences failed the movie. After a record breaking string of [--] movies opening to over $40M domestically @warnerbros will have this coming weekend its first flop of the year since Mickey [--]. Having cost $130M One Battle After Another is tracking to open to only $19M-$25M this weekend domestically. https://t.co/5KqWUcXrZF After a record breaking string of [--] movies opening to over $40M domestically @warnerbros will have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1970503459247124812)  2025-09-23T15:00Z 13.1K followers, 24.9K engagements


"@Afcpmg Literate I see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971204016551100734)  2025-09-25T13:23Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Its telling the two surviving classic heroes are Spidey and Hulk - the two not owned by Marvel Studios. Marvel Zombies is not a great show but it is a really interesting piece of metafiction for a franchise that increasingly feels like a zombie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971244708014981542)  2025-09-25T16:05Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@adit_kazi22474 It would work much better as a movie. Its paced as one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971302019886612867)  2025-09-25T19:53Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The answer is simply that Andor used practical props shot in physical locations and used actors in prosthetics rather than building gigantic sets and using large amounts of computer-generated imagery. The dirty little secret is that practical is often cheaper. You really have to wonder where the budget went here because with that cost per minute ratio thats $700000 per minute. Comparatively Andor cost $537000 per minute. And the production quality is just nowhere near that same standard. You really have to wonder where the budget went here because with that cost per minute ratio thats $700000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971308173236834666)  2025-09-25T20:17Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"When Andor goes into the wilderness it shoots in the Scottish Highlands. While The Acolyte builds a forest. When Andor goes to the Imperial Senate they shoot in the City of Arts and Sciences in Spain. The Acolyte builds a Senate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971309240418750713)  2025-09-25T20:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Like Andor was using locations from Doctor Who the show with a budget of [--] a roll of bubble wrap and some green paint. Of course it was more cost-effective"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971315244543959181)  2025-09-25T20:45Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Also a significant chance he utters the name Paul W.S. Anderson by mistake. Non zero chance trump utters the name Paul Thomas Anderson in the coming days Non zero chance trump utters the name Paul Thomas Anderson in the coming days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971350012006420738)  2025-09-25T23:04Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"There is something interesting in the 21st century arcs of the various Sundance Kids. Kevin Smith embraces nostalgia. Tarantino does pastiche. Soderbergh rushes into digital modernity. Jonze gets a bit lost. But Paul Thomas Anderson starts making modern New Hollywood films"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971356099526992139)  2025-09-25T23:28Z 13.1K followers, 34.6K engagements


"It is kinda insane how much better #Peacemaker is than most of the superhero media from Warners/Disney. Using the genre to actually engage with big ideas about the insanity of contemporary American life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971510097856823591)  2025-09-26T09:40Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Thinking about how between "House of Dynamite" "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" Sean Penn in "One Battle After Another" and the stage play with Steve Coogan it really does feel like "Doctor Strangelove" is having a moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971609266374193284)  2025-09-26T16:14Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"*whispers* Given how much of Gunns DCU is rooted in the eighties right down to Corto Maltese being Latin America during the Reagan era its very clearly Russia and Afghanistan. James Gunn says that he didn't write "Superman" to be a "stand in for Israel and Palestine": "Absolutely 100% of that movie was written and done before anything ever happened between Israel and Palestine and everyone continues to refuse to believe that thats not what its https://t.co/NYOI2mkSpm James Gunn says that he didn't write "Superman" to be a "stand in for Israel and Palestine": "Absolutely 100% of that movie was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971850071148057081)  2025-09-27T08:11Z 13.1K followers, 24.8K engagements


"@GoopLloyd To be fair the American intervention in Corto Maltese (and the Reagan administration's foreign policy) still has a fairly direct line to modernity. The problem with building a metaphor for Russian intervention in Afghanistan is that that legacy doesn't give you a happy ending"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971880503021392119)  2025-09-27T10:12Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Lim38878197 Boravia is Russia. But the reason to say Afghanistan is because it accounts for the fact that these are obviously two very different countries with two very different ethnicities so it can't be Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971886280830247276)  2025-09-27T10:34Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Lim38878197 Now you could argue that Gunn changed the ethnicity of the Ukranians. But. why It's very difficult - for me at least - to come up with an answer to that question that doesn't come down to a cynical calculation of "optics." But that feels like a bad faith reading"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971886756674060798)  2025-09-27T10:36Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Lim38878197 And despite what the crying nerds who pop up in my mentions seem to think I try to avoid reading creative decisions in bad faith. In that sense it's Afghanistan. By process of elimination it has to be Afghanistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971887203090346440)  2025-09-27T10:38Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"I feel like Oppenheimer having a 4x multiplier suggests that while it was an event it was also populist. Id also put Dunkirk up there as an example of Nolan having cracked auteurist adult-oriented populist film. But its great theres more than one guy doing it While the "event film" as auteurist refuge has been a thing (Ie Oppenheim er) I think PTA might have cracked the adult-oriented populist film which is something that auteurism in the mainstream may be dependent on in the future if not now While the "event film" as auteurist refuge has been a thing (Ie Oppenheim er) I think PTA might have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1971889689859969397)  2025-09-27T10:48Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Fun fact: for over a decade The Simpsons Movie was one of the ten highest grossing movies of all time at the Irish box office. Woohoo The Simpsons are coming to theaters with an all-new movie on July [--] [----] https://t.co/wVqxwn8rLc Woohoo The Simpsons are coming to theaters with an all-new movie on July [--] [----] https://t.co/wVqxwn8rLc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1972763125943590987)  2025-09-29T20:39Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Matan_Vilensky It's a quotation of Gil Scott Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." (Which is worth listening to. It's the hold music on the line that Bob calls.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1972806918654607502)  2025-09-29T23:33Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Rewatching the third season of "Fargo" and while I'm immediately reminded of how much that season infuriated some audience members it remains a beautiful distillation of the show's meditation on chaos and senselessness in a world of large and inhuman systems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1973428481896882303)  2025-10-01T16:43Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Great news coming this week for people who were completely chill about my opinion on James Gunn's "Superman.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975149043702747229)  2025-10-06T10:40Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Heres the thing. Slop is not about accuracy. Its about form and function intentionality and cohesiveness. Its about purpose. Its not slop because it looks bad. Its slop because its a bunch of things thrown in a blender and regurgitated based on pattern recognition. I think "slop" is a great term in the current moment but I also expect it will become dated within a few years as AI improves and its output generally gets to fewer inaccuracies than the human-created material it is compared against. I think "slop" is a great term in the current moment but I also expect it will become dated within"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975173381906428078)  2025-10-06T12:16Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@honeybunwife Nobody tells these teens what the consequences are. Nobody tells the kids what happens if they get water on a Gremlin or feed it after midnight. Theyre just told not to do it. And then when they do it they learn that theres a very unclear consequence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975183105058013413)  2025-10-06T12:55Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@honeybunwife Like nobody in a horror movie ever says say Dont bury your child in a pet cemetery because of you do theyll come back evil and murder you and your wife. They just say Dont bury your child in that pet cemetery over there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975183483447419357)  2025-10-06T12:56Z 13.1K followers, [--] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975310620670181384)  2025-10-06T21:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"There is a moment early in The Smashing Machine as Mark becomes addicted to opioids and the soundtrack blares they take me - you take me more and more over the sequence of him shooting up. And I almost admire the bluntness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975311001009725472)  2025-10-06T21:23Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"One of my abiding memories is staff in a cost of living crisis being told to look after their own financial hygiene by a guy who had populated his presentation on the companys financial health with yacht metaphors. This is how HR and finance guys arrive to tell you that there is no bonus this year https://t.co/IO0xlmd1q2 This is how HR and finance guys arrive to tell you that there is no bonus this year https://t.co/IO0xlmd1q2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975568218833232051)  2025-10-07T14:25Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Here's the video. It's a long one but there's a lot to talk about. We talk about Gunn as an auteur "Peacemaker" and "Superman" as movies about the modern internet and Gunn's willingness to engage with the subtext of the superhero genre. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=DieY8zGxWfs https://www.youtube.com/watchv=DieY8zGxWfs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975581325944869058)  2025-10-07T15:17Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"A few years back my dad ordered a dish from the local Indian. They called him back because the chef realised the name on the order was Irish. The restaurant clarified that the dish was really spicy and that its not for undeveloped palates. My dad orders it anyway. ordering from the indian restaurant and I just burst out laughing https://t.co/BBX7KKz3YY ordering from the indian restaurant and I just burst out laughing https://t.co/BBX7KKz3YY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975672272464810252)  2025-10-07T21:19Z 13.1K followers, 59.3K engagements


"It arrives. Dad takes a mouthful of the curry. His face goes beetroot red. Sweat starts rolling down his forehead. Dad are you okay we ask with my siblings being medical professionals. He takes a moment before wheezing fine. Just shy of smoke coming out his ears"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975673015301251398)  2025-10-07T21:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975932305551307037)  2025-10-08T14:32Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975955325602996614)  2025-10-08T16:03Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975956667998277718)  2025-10-08T16:09Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Cool. Im heading to TRON: Ares now. Ill let you know how much use the film gets out of Evan Peters eyes. that's actually what you normally do when you point a camera at someone that's actually what you normally do when you point a camera at someone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975968696482005378)  2025-10-08T16:57Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I did not care for #TronAres. A lot of nothing happening very loud and very quickly unfolding in a human world that somehow feels more like a digital wasteland than the Grid. A frustrating waste of a pretty great premise. Pretty good score though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976036157814341976)  2025-10-08T21:25Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@sharintaint Oh yeah it was clearly unworkable with "The Batman" which made more than any superhero film released this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976269256858673249)  2025-10-09T12:51Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"#NowWatching #Roofman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976350718471921752)  2025-10-09T18:15Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976397587713573154)  2025-10-09T21:21Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Honestly this sounds like the best way to watch TRON: Ares"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976403023795810624)  2025-10-09T21:42Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Told you. EXCLUSIVE: Disney is taking a fresh look at Tangled we hear which is resuming early development with Scarlett Johansson circling the role of Mother Gothel in the live-action take of the [----] animated feature. The Greatest Showmandirector Michael Gracey is still attached https://t.co/VK2oDu5w7j EXCLUSIVE: Disney is taking a fresh look at Tangled we hear which is resuming early development with Scarlett Johansson circling the role of Mother Gothel in the live-action take of the [----] animated feature. The Greatest Showmandirector Michael Gracey is still attached https://t.co/VK2oDu5w7j"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976414543992717742)  2025-10-09T22:28Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Richardtownrow Which is very much what The Conversation is; its this story of political corruption that is more fundamentally a story of a guy who just watches who just observes. Who is not part of the world in a meaningful way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976594680323158092)  2025-10-10T10:24Z 13.1K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976619420723061176)  2025-10-10T12:02Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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. Personally if I was making a TV season that slowly built up the reveal of an alternate Nazi-infested Earth I would have the finale revolve around said Nazi-infested Earth. But that's just me Personally if I was making a TV season that slowly built up the reveal of an alternate Nazi-infested Earth I would have the finale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976687433971286399)  2025-10-10T16:33Z 13.1K followers, 30.1K engagements


"#NowPlaying #GhostofYotei"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976730859660362063)  2025-10-10T19:25Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Very strong contender for the second best live action Superman. [--] years ago tonight we first met Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent/Superman. #SupermanandLois https://t.co/XSgXzGiaUz [--] years ago tonight we first met Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent/Superman. #SupermanandLois https://t.co/XSgXzGiaUz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976986763664162864)  2025-10-11T12:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Wild that Superman ended up being the worst of these and by such a wide margin. That's a wrap for the first year of the DCU. I'll give it a 8/10. https://t.co/I6YPQaWHbI That's a wrap for the first year of the DCU. I'll give it a 8/10. https://t.co/I6YPQaWHbI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976987840744730904)  2025-10-11T12:26Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Flicked on the television and found Kong: Skull Island. Easily the best thing that the MonsterVerse has produced. Ape-ocalypse Now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1976990595664302148)  2025-10-11T12:37Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Niklander3 I think Lanterns could be great. It has the hook and the pedigree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977005112481771842)  2025-10-11T13:35Z 13.1K followers, [---] 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 If TRON LEGACY came out today it would be deemed a science fiction masterpiece with an all-timer score from Daft Punk and an amazing father-son story at its core. https://t.co/6aiaVy9i6E If TRON LEGACY came out today it would be deemed a science fiction masterpiece with an all-timer score from Daft Punk and an amazing father-son story at its core. https://t.co/6aiaVy9i6E"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977026694369493448)  2025-10-11T15:01Z 13.1K followers, 33.5K engagements


"#NowWatching "Thunderbolts*" Easily the best superhero movie of the year. And it's not even especially close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977038096635211867)  2025-10-11T15:46Z 13.1K followers, 11.8K engagements


"It also serves a clear purpose beyond establishing continuity and character stakes. We open with a superhero throwing themselves off the top of a skyscraper. Which immediately cements "Thunderbolts*" as a movie in conversation with the genre's 9/11 fixation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977040563502563677)  2025-10-11T15:56Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


""I thought throwing myself into work was the answer. But Im not focused and Im not happy and I dont have purpose." Obviously a lot of the discussion of "Thunderbolts*" focuses it as an exploration of mental health but the film is more broadly about millennial ennui"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977040969296953644)  2025-10-11T15:57Z 13.1K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977047212036395296)  2025-10-11T16:22Z 13.1K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977047832223006836)  2025-10-11T16:25Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


""What happened to 'bulletproof'" "Bulletproof-ish." "Thunderbolts*" is in conversation with the history and the iconography of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. The attack on the vehicle in the desert - with exploding humvees - evokes the opening of "Iron Man.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977060223497257282)  2025-10-11T17:14Z 13.1K followers, [---] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977060755607638083)  2025-10-11T17:16Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@DesertofReelPod @Blazecap1203 To be fair it's not been a great couple of years for the genre. I think it's handily the best superhero film since "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977071029202960454)  2025-10-11T17:57Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


""Its Bucky" "The Winter Soldier. Thats what I talk about" It's wild that after a decade in the shared universe "Thunderbolts*" finally figures out that Sebastian Stan has movie star energy. I love Stan. I love Bucky in the comics. Never cared about him onscreen until now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977080365786493434)  2025-10-11T18:34Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


""Thunderbolts*" realises that Stan has a particular energy and gives Bucky a proper movie star entrance. Leather jacket. Flowing hair. Motorcycle. It's Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible II." It's Arnie in "Terminator 2." It's James Dean with a grenade launcher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977081284548805047)  2025-10-11T18:38Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Anyway Thunderbolts*. Its pretty good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977104005550760015)  2025-10-11T20:08Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Ah no. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. A true legend of the screen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977115384559055061)  2025-10-11T20:53Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Interesting. Netflix has removed their Netflix Original badge off everything https://t.co/XTnUXkocgh Netflix has removed their Netflix Original badge off everything https://t.co/XTnUXkocgh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977116228348264816)  2025-10-11T20:56Z 13.1K followers, 12K 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. I don't know man making half of its budget back the first weekend doesn't seem like a flop to me I don't know man making half of its budget back the first weekend doesn't seem like a flop to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977120814198931877)  2025-10-11T21:15Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977377198949404691)  2025-10-12T14:13Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Of course they are. The MCU is reportedly planning to have Hugh Jackman return for more Marvel projects after AVENGERS: SECRET WARS (via: @DanielRPK) https://t.co/tKqoJKtRsC The MCU is reportedly planning to have Hugh Jackman return for more Marvel projects after AVENGERS: SECRET WARS (via: @DanielRPK) https://t.co/tKqoJKtRsC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978134554687811769)  2025-10-14T16:23Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978359808131514566)  2025-10-15T07:18Z 13.1K followers, 45.1K engagements


"Literally every James Bond movie has its own brand new theme song. @Darren_Mooney @suite_kid Should every era of James Bond have a brand new theme @Darren_Mooney @suite_kid Should every era of James Bond have a brand new theme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978501884613730687)  2025-10-15T16:43Z 13.1K followers, 10.2K 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978527341685981204)  2025-10-15T18:24Z 13.1K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978869138702336278)  2025-10-16T17:02Z 13.1K followers, [---] 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. Saw Twin Peaks S3E8 again tonight and my question is besides that [----] stargate & The Tree of Life's creation sequence are there literally any other narrative works that suddenly dissolve into avant-garde works for extended periods of time in that way If so please share Saw Twin Peaks S3E8 again tonight and my question is besides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978878360173305910)  2025-10-16T17:39Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


""A field of empty holes." Our review of #StarTrek V: The Final Frontier. It's a bit Shat. http://t.co/3R3wrNhdeV http://wp.me/pvXCC-9vp http://wp.me/pvXCC-9vp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/368069698039984128)  2013-08-15T18:00Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Just out of Nightcrawler. Jake Gyllenhaal is great and the movie around him is not too shabby either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/522473338141437952)  2014-10-15T19:45Z 12.3K followers, [--] engagements


"The opening shot obvious homages Star Wars. Later on we get one to Close Encounters. #XFRewatchJoseChung http://t.co/C7JPzDdc6J"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/643046864712019968)  2015-09-13T13:01Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements


"The black oil really is one of the most iconic parts of the X-Files. It's a great visual. #XFRewatchVienen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/682886365139341312)  2016-01-01T11:29Z 12.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Virtually everything in IWTB is a symbol for a part of X-Files history. Christian is William; Bannon is Samantha. #XFRewatchIWTB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/691388262401835008)  2016-01-24T22:33Z 12.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Catching 2001: A Space Odyssey at @IFI_Dub last night inspired me to dig out this art from Jack Kirby's adaptation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/720958744134295552)  2016-04-15T12:55Z 12.3K followers, [--] engagements


""Bane says he's giving Gotham back to the people. They need to know where it could lead." - Gordon And more than half the voters in the 2016"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/801937389459566592)  2016-11-24T23:55Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Boy the Gotham media really overplayed that Commissioner Gordon leaked notes scandal. #DarkKnightRises"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/801937703046643712)  2016-11-24T23:57Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements


""Hey honey I think I see the chair from Clint Eastwood's RNC speech" #Inauguration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/822935599841759232)  2017-01-21T22:35Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements


"This is the best read I have on #Mute for now: Its as if somebody wedged an impression of Quentin Tarantino doing his best impression of a Woody Allen story into the middle of a weird Harrison-Ford-inspired homaging hybrid of Witness and Blade Runner. Its something to behold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/967008691709988864)  2018-02-23T12:10Z 12.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Looks like @ODEONcinemasIRE are doing an Ireland-exclusive #ODEONScreenUnseen next week. Hm. Could it be the very good Michael Inside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/978949967531401216)  2018-03-28T11:00Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Theres a lot of interesting stuff about Thanos in #InfinityWar. The most obvious is how damn thirsty Marvel Studios are for an anti-villain like Magneto or Doctor Doom to the point the film insists in pathos for the character even if it breaks the films internal logic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/989463955050557440)  2018-04-26T11:19Z 12.4K followers, [--] engagements

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